Shall we take off the newbie permissions?
 

Right now I'm viewing the current activity page, and there are three users trying to create or reply to threads, getting the no permissions message. Should we remove it? Even gravedigging from newbies is activity right now, and if they reply and we help them out, they may stick around, become part of the community and whatnot. Hell, they may even reply with the solution to a problem one of us had years ago and never got an answer for.

I vote do it. As long as we can all agree to be nice to the newbies and not jump all over them like a pack of wild dogs should they spell something wrong. Lets go for polite encouragement :)

I suspect we'll see a jump in spam, but I'm willing to endure that for the chance for new, active members.

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Yeah, we can risk the spambots for a few extra members. It won't hurt.

If nothing else, it might give the admins another reason to stop by more often: spam shoveling.

Edit: On a side note, have any of you rednames considered sending out a mass e-mail to the userbase announcing this forum revival? Assuming the server could even handle that... Little over 44,000 members (less the accounts that have "receive e-mails from administrators" off).

I've thought of doing it, and may do so once we get a little bit of actual activity going...

Anyone know how to take off the restrictions? I've literally looked everywhere I can think and it doesn't seem to be there.

Sure it wasn't hardcoded in or something by Irid or someone else? I'm not at all familiar with vB's settings.

I'm thinking it might be, cause there's no usergroup I can see with posting restrictions apart from the obvious banned groups and stuff. Hmmmm.

Irid?

Nexodyne is like a 90-year-old on life-support with a serious death wish. We've tried to revive this place numerous times, but the fact is that we've lost our purpose and gone separate ways. I highly doubt another revival scheme or an email will really help this place out. Our neopet programs lured in new members, as they saw it as an aide to becoming neo-millionaires. I'm not trying to sound like a pessimist, but that seems to be the fact of the matter.

I think this attempt is doing better. No massive burst of activity, but still relatively consistent, albeit low, level of activity.

I do agree that we need a new hook, though. All of the activity we have now is coming from old members; I don't I've seen a post from a new (human) member in months.

Which is where this idea comes in. Members are coming, registering, then trying to reply to an old-ass thread, finding they can't, and leaving again. If they could reply to anything they wanted we'd get a lot more activity.

I think I have a copy of vB somewhere, I'll install it on my local server tomorrow and see if I can hunt down any related settings.

Yes, removing the newbie stuff would be nice :)

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