Rules for creating a thread in Projects subforum

[MH-LABEEB]

ha ?? some of these posts are useless

[Ariel]

ha ?? some of these posts are useless

Congratulations, you figured it out by yourself.

[YinYin]

Though I read somewhere in here that waiting for your thread to appear is not tolerable and that's pretty dumb. Like firstly how often do we create threads in there? If your topic appears a day later but makes sure that every stupid and spam content is filtered out, its still pretty good.

Nobody will be keeping that up. Or else this wouldn't be a thing:

That's a problem with the authors refusing to report their threads asking mods to move them to releases. Well, whatever, that's not the point of this thread and I don't want to discuss it anyways.

And that doesn't even touch upon (unintentional) abuse of power. I wouldn't want to be in charge of that.

[Silverthorn]

Working on the template-new-thread-thing right now. Upon hitting the New Thread-button in Projects, the following portion will be put into the textfield (mainly based on Divisor's "[READ!]Posting a thread in Projects - The right way"-thread):

Code:

[size=x-large][b]Introduction[/b][/size]
Write something like what inspired you to work on your creation, some points why people should download it, maybe even a small background story.



[size=x-large][b]Description[/b][/size]
What does your work include?
Examples:
- Mod: What are the characters like, new gameplay tweaks, movelist, ...
- Char: Movelist, moves description, gameplay description, ...
- Background: Background attributes (animations, parallax scrolling, size), ...



[size=x-large][b]Screenshots[/b][/size]
Probably the most important part in the thread. A picture tells you more than 1000 words!

When making screenshots, consider these:
- Make them appealing.
- Post at least 5 (even more for a mod. For a BG, one is enough)
- Make sure they are clean: PNG, only LF2 screen (showing the desktop is unnecessary),...
- Don't give links, post them directly in the thread (spoilered).
Upload your screenshots to an image host (for example imgur.com and copy the BB-code into the spoiler)

Example:
[spoiler=Screenshot]
[img]your_image_url_goes_here[/img]
[/spoiler]



[size=x-large][b]Download[/b][/size]
Upload your work on a hosting site, don't use attachments if it isn't necessary. Also make sure the hosting site is English. A couple of hosting sites can be found here: http://www.lf-empire.de/forum/showthread.php?tid=2119



[size=x-large][b]Credits[/b][/size]
If you got any help, just note their names and what they did for you.

I haven't made it public yet, so don't be afraid in case you don't see anything.

So, here's my question to all of you: would you agree with the template above or would you like anything added / changed / removed?

[A-Man]

I like this. Except that people might not understand that they're supposed to replace the text with what they want. A plan would be to change those statements into questions and hide them with with the [invisible][-/invisible] tags. Only problem is that these do not completely hide anymore.

Edit: Regarding the [invisible] tags: Possible to make an exception for the project forum's thread's first posts?

[Memento]

What A-man suggested ^

And "make screenshots appealing" could be translated in something like "make a screenshots of his best looking/unique moves in battle". I think the word appealing doens't mean much to some newbies

It is good now, implementing A-man's suggestion and perhaps mine would probably make it perfect.

[Silverthorn]

I like this. Except that people might not understand that they're supposed to replace the text with what they want. A plan would be to change those statements into questions and hide them with with the [invisible][-/invisible] tags. Only problem is that these do not completely hide anymore.

Edit: Regarding the [invisible] tags: Possible to make an exception for the project forum's thread's first posts?

Made the exception. First post of threads in the Projects as well as Releases-section have completely hidden [inv]-tags
Right now it's probably quite a clustermug of questions and instructions but I feel like it's easier to read this way instead of purely question-based things. Feel free to discuss it, though.

What A-man suggested ^

And "make screenshots appealing" could be translated in something like "make a screenshots of his best looking/unique moves in battle". I think the word appealing doens't mean much to some newbies

It is good now, implementing A-man's suggestion and perhaps mine would probably make it perfect.

Valid points, I put them in.


The thing is now live. I have made the invisibility-parts in a way that they still get displayed on the preview-post (as you are used to, barely visible) but are entirely hidden in the actual post.

So, any further suggestions?

[A-Man]

Works great! Should hopefully do the job. Now let's see if it's going to work.
How much time is left till LABEEB's ban is up?

Silverthorn edited this post 01-25-2015 12:16 PM because:

3d, 8h, 5m

[Rhino.Freak]

Great! This seems perfect!

I love how we have almost all members agreeing for the additional of some rule/format yet most people voted no.

Yinyin: "Nobody will be keeping that up..."
False. I have seen bigass forums with the thread approval system working perfectly. Even places where they simply trash the topics as garbage if the thread doesn't follow the pattern.
People are just resistant to any change at al.
Anyway.

A-man: whyyyyyyy the name change!?

[YinYin]

Yinyin: "Nobody will be keeping that up..."
False. I have seen bigass forums with the thread approval system working perfectly. Even places where they simply trash the topics as garbage if the thread doesn't follow the pattern.

Obviously I'm talking about this place in particular. "bigass" is the keyword that makes the difference. If there is something to do frequently and you are dedicated it's not too hard to keep up; especially since it'll also be a necessity to keep things usable and running. If activity only comes by every once in a while it's much more likely the ball will be dropped. Feel free to prove me wrong.