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I don't know since when we are waiting for some changes or answers... but the more we use this forum (and the wiki), the more we get accustomed to problems. And that isn't normal at all.
Forced password changes, spambots, hellish questions instead of a strong captcha, groups loaded with random and/or inactive leaders... all of this is time-consuming and useless.
[Edit] Thanks to the admins' intervention and cloud's advice, an IRC discussion was planned for the 30/03. To improve the subjects' discussion, the issues and suggestions are sorted in order of priority, feasibility and time taken to discuss them.
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Wrong link leading to the wiki's Copyrights page.
Replace "http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/www.b ... Copyrights" with "http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index ... Copyrights".
When disapproving posts, cases are moved to the right because of an excessively long justification. Remove 4 of its five sentences.
Purge of all members created before 2014 and without a single message.You have been tested positive as a 100% whole-grain-fed-free-roaming organic Baka or have been diagnosed as a confirmed 100% off-the-charts lunatic.
We are only certified to handle 50% Stupidity and 50% Lunacy, therefore it is with sad regret that you will be placed upon the waiting list to be euthanized.
Fortunately, repeated reports of your condition will bump you up the list, so if you have received this message twice already, Congratulations!
You are now No.1 on the list!
Good bye bye and happy birthday!
Some spam accounts are left unbanned.
Changes in the Protect function, the "supervisors/administrators only" option disappeared, and it's impossible for supervisors to edit pages with that setting.
This happened since the wiki update, and nothing at all was said regarding this matter.
Registration issues
- We need a captcha like reCaptcha (not necessarily it), not hellish questions nor banned IP ranges (which affects real users).
- For the forum, the captcha is needed for registration and guest posting. The pink users system and the periodical password change should be removed as a consequence, as they are too restrictive.
- For the wiki, it is only needed for registration.
Groups' reorganization
For the forum:
- Reorganize all of the groups' leaderships with the assistance of trustful members. Among them, remove the inactive ones, put active users and remove illogical choices.
- We especially need people able to unban users (Global Moderators).
- Additionally, we can create new Translator and Editor groups for Alternative Languages Contributors while cleaning up the lists. Leaving the current ones for English members.
For the wiki :
- Just removing inactive users from the Translator and Editor groups.
Sub-forums
- We could use rectangular thumbnails to shorten a bit the page, with half the current height.
- A reorgnization would be welcome. 3 sub-forums moved, merged or removed (Shana, KnS, SAO/AW), one created (Kamachi). It isn't a bad deal.
Modifying the guidelines by simplifying them and removing outdated rules.- Moving Shana in the Abandoned/Stalled section.
- Fusing CSR with KnS, removing Index.
- Moving SAO & AW in the Abandoned/Stalled section.
- Putting Index, Heavy Object, Zashiki and Survey in a sub-forum named "Works of Kazuma Kamachi". Or with another title, it's up to discussion.
- Renaming Daiden and Itsuten's subforum with "Works of Takaya Kagami". Same as above.
- Adding DAL's thumbnail. No changes on other subforums.
Cloud summed up a lot of things, but it's still under construction. However, some things can be done now (links on main page).