A moment of your time

Hello all. I wanted to take a moment and explain the site to you a little bit for those who may be a little confused by some of the things you see. One feature I know you've seen is the scrolling announcement. It shows on
EVERY page. Why is that you ask? Simple, if myself or the other Administrators need to let you all know something important, I want it to be on every page you go to so I can make sure that you saw it. That way there is no "I didn't know" discussions later on down the road.


Now, on with the other features:

1 - Log-in pop-up
Can display in a pop-up for log-in, to provide a fast connection for members or rapid registration for the guests.

The admin can add a personal message to the pop-up.

This is pretty self explanatory.

2 - Multi-quote
This
option allows you to display or not, a multi-quote button. Now it will
be easier to quote several posts at the same time. This button operates
on the principle of selection / deselection.

This is for quoting more then one post at a time. Again, self explanatory.
The next two features are more of what I want to give some explanation
about. (This button is hidden until WC makes one)

3 - Points System (similar to cash mod)
The points system is a system based on different criteria and allowing users to evaluate themselves or even to compete.

How are points calculated?
- Points generated by the number of posts
- Points generated by the number of topics created
- Reputation points
- Points generated by the registration date of the member
- Points generated by the number of message on his profile

The board administrator can change many settings for this feature.
For the creation of messages and topics, he can change the gain of points for each forum.
To make the points system even more attractive, they can create levels of
points from which they have a "rank" that the admin can define.
The field points can be displayed either on the profile, either in messages or both. The name of the field can also be changed.

4 - Reputation system :Evaluation + "Thanks" Button (similar to karma mod)
The reputation system, as you have noticed, is a sub part of the points system. It also works with points.

In each posts, if the feature is activated, small buttons to rate the post
will be apparent. Each positive or negative rate can make you win or
lose reputation points.
The number of points won or lost can be modified and can be customized for each categories.
The button "Thanks" allows a member who created a topic to thank the user
who wrote the message that it considers most appropriate. The post then
appears highlighted.

The field points can be displayed either on the profile, either in messages or both. The name of the field can also be changed.
In addition, several options related to reputation are intended to limit
the use of this feature according to certain criteria (see the admin panel).


As you can see, there is some fun stuff there. New Titles will be made for
these point systems. I won't go into detail right now about the amounts
awarded that I have already set, but rest assured that I think they are
fair numbers. To rate any posts you'll see a + and - sign separated by
a line in the upper right hand corner of the post. Obviously the "+" is
for positive feedback, while the "-" is for negative feedback. There
will be a thanks button so the author of the post can thank those who
gave positive feedback(this button is currently hidden until WC gets one made). All of these things get you reputation points. YOU CANNOT RATE YOUR OWN POSTS! Also, you get regular points
when you make posts or start new threads. I'm hoping this will
encourage people to get more posting done. Especially for those of you
OCD folks who have to have everything you can.

5 - Advanced Profile
The advanced profile is a "remake" of the vBulletin profile.

There are different tab such as:
- The user messages: You can write a message on the profile of a member.
- The friends list.
- Statistics.
- Contact information: You can contact the member.
- The fields of the profile

As you can see, you can now leave messages on people's profiles. These things too gain points!

And lastly:

6 - Avatars in members list

You can now see all your users avatars while browsing the members list

HOOZAH!

Also I'd like to let everyone know that we have an active chat box at the bottom of the main forum page too in case they were not aware of this.

Thanks again Molecular for giving us this opportunity to make a site that helps us make COH or whatever game we decide to go with here a reality. This is really a nice place we can work to make a real please to log into if we put some effort into it.

I really liked the avatar section. Is there a way we can add pics of other celebrities or stuff into general. We may not want pics of stuff like what Sister sends to ppl but pics like dogs and cats and other people doing odd stuff may be nice to have there.