Alright, let's not go crazy on the new people, ok?
We need new people to survive, and if you'll remember, we were all like that once upon a time. I'm still like that, to be honest.

but yes... changes need to happen. still working on that... stick with us a little longer. those of you who know me more well know my word is good

What we all really need, is for CP to get his butt in gear, crank out that last book, so that we have a reason to bring the old peeps back. Hell, I still drop in around here often enough, but I haven't had a good conversation here in ages. My latest posts have actually been trolling attempts, believe it or not, (it's so easy to troll little kids that think they're being cool and stuff, you wouldn't believe it)


What would help though in the mean time, is some action taken by our Admins, Louis and Annie, I'm not entirely sure what they could do, though I'm sure Kotor has a few ideas. I mean, if we can get a few mature straight thinking minds to work together, and then throw in a few immature, scattered minds in for a good mix, we could maybe save SF. I've personally had a few good memories here, and hate to see it in it's decaying form.


Save the Murlocs. Save Saphira Forums.


EDIT: one thing I don't miss about this place... the mature language filter...

I agree a bit with Kotor on this one. We were all like that once upon a time. Hell I joined when I was 14 and weird. Don't believe me? Check my old posts. I was so annoying I dont know how I didnt get booted!
We all need to combine together if we was SF back to its old glory. Its not just the admins and mods, maybe you guys can join and be the mature voice in the crowd of kids. Sometimes it takes one good influence you know?

I'm trying really hard to make it back here at least a few times a week but between school, work, homework, gym, social life and other random commitments its difficult to stay on top of things in real life let alone online world.

Yes but there is a difference between spam and just "noob" chatter. Many people mistake posts as spam because they dont find it relevant or they find it annoying. CHWYB for example has *always* been random. Thats why (if i remember correctly) the post count there doesnt count. Same with "Forum Games". There are certain places where people being random and posting whatever can be appropriate. Just because you find it irritating or immature doesn't make it spam although those lines can become blurry

When it boils down to it, the problem is with people that join in with serious conversation when they don't know what they're talking about. If I wasn't as conscious to the rules, I would have called a good few people out myself by now, especially in the debate section.

High level debate -> Ignorant, naiive or downright stupid person comes in and misunderstands what's going on yet tries to join in anyway -> debate is brought down to a lower level -> debate is ruined

That's what I tend to see happening.

So,
Was just looking at all my posts.
Wow, I was a noob.
I wasn't even the proper age when I first joined SF.
I still am only 13, so probably would be categorized with the spammers.
But I have matured a lot in the past year since quitting SF.
I have been returning lately, sneaking in here and there.
This place was a very happy place for me (Even at such a young age, and still at such a young age.)
I agree, we need to get this site going once more. Let's get our admins, and let's return this place to its natural order.

After some consideration.... i've decided not to leave (yay silv) and I want to help out SF get active again (the right kind of active. So mods, let me know what I can do

stay around, keep an eye out.
like i said earlier, what we all speak of is coming. it's just taking longer than i'd like. i can't say anything yet, but it's a game-changer.
we will fix this.

That was a pun wasn't it if indeed it is what I think it possibly is, but not accurately think.

Even though I'm quiet as always....does seem a little lonely around here, not as wild as it use to be. I'll be sticking around though...I'm as patient as a spider. *Starts staring at Kotor with both eyes* Two eyes better than one...I'm watching with both.

I don't know where the pun is you're referring to, just a turn of phrase.

Alright, thx. :}

Well the forum games section is not counted to your post count, but CHWYAB is since it is located in the chat section. It is not possible to stop the post count for only one topic, it as to be the entire section.

As for me coming back more it might be complicated. I do not have internet at my home and do intend on getting any, this as been the case for the pass 14 months. So when I have to get on the internet I have to come down to University. That's another reason, I just don't really have the time. Between my lectures, tutorials, labs, assignments, cooking, cleaning, sleeping, SF/saphira jack-o-lantern etc. I don't really have the ability to put the amount of time that I might have one day been able to put on SF. Almost all of the work that I have done in the past couple of months have been maintenance related to the server and updates.

I'll try to put in more time, but it won't be like it once was.

I may not be an older member, but...

DD is right. I will admit, being from the newer generation, that I am reluctant to post in anything dominated by older members. As with the others, it's a bit intimidating. CHWYAB is the sole exception to that, seeing as it is so informal.

Another point here being that most of the newer generation is under the age of 17, it seems. Many of the older members are above that age, which also makes us back off. You don't pick fights with older people that can whoop your ass, especially if the entire forum is going to back them up. Including the admins.

Which leads to the point that some newer members try to bring back older topics, but since they do it with the wrong topics and the wrong approach they get warned and don't try it again. It's fairly common, from my point of view. Maybe it'd help is a notice went up for those people of how to properly restore a thread, which would help with some of these instances.

A final point is that the problem in the creative section is more the fact that the newer users don't tend to look at it. It may be a global announcement, but let's be honest with ourselves: how often do we read the GAs more than once, possibly excluding the rules just as a refresher for mods and such? I know I don't. I have read the rules exactly twice since I joined. Once briefly last August, to learn about foruming, and once in late spring or early summer when it became an announcement. Just like this, most of the newer users have seen the announcement, not seen it where they thought it would be, and then just continued on their way. I found the section before I saw the announcement, so I read the announcement just to make sure it was what I thought it was. The older users tend to dominate graphics, as the newer users tend to dominate FG. We tend to dominate writing, while you tend to dominate other stuff. Many of the recent fanfiction posts have been made by those who have joined after January 1, 2009. Not all of them, but many.

SF activity reached a peak, but is starting to slide down again. If we're going to get this place like old days, days I do not remember, we should get started finding the fans we need to survive. Depict SF the way we see it: a casual place to talk, a place to journey far into the wild land of RolePlay, a place to just debate when we have a point to talk about. This is how to bring us back, guys. This is how you do it.