10. Premium Members get an extra category in the store (adding on to that *incentive* thing ) or a discount off products in the store! The discount would be the easiest thing, and doesn't have to be anything big, 5% or 10% 11. Time for some new Group titles! Maybe when GR gets its new skin, a contest can be made for Admin, Moderator, and Premium Member! I know a few members didn't seem to like the Premium one, and would give them a chance to try their own! 12. To get some free advertising, why not create a Premium Member name for a company, and then email their editor/CEO with the Name and pw, and ask they come and join our site for a free look! GameWallPapers did this to several Computer Magazines/web sites, and their site seems to be taking in a nest egg very well 13. extremepixels and transverse styles are always looking for new competitions to sponsor, they both recently sponsored a contest at ibhelpers.com. My idea is basically simple, its up to the staff to help, and for bratzer; it would mean alittle bit more work. Every week, their is a new SOTW, correct? Every month, have the 4 SOTW winners in a vote, and the best one will win a prize of credits, etc. As this gets going, each month you can have different companies offer prizes for the winner, you'd be suprised at how many companies will line up. I know my IPB company Invisioneers would be willing to offer some custom work, if this eventually got going. 14. The current GameRenders gallery is pretty outdated, and I can imagine why. Why not purchase the Invision Power Board Gallery, and support a "Premium Render" Gallery; renderers would be able to upload their staff, with Moderators and Admins approving renders. You can set limits on the gallery, I believe; such as how many post it takes to be able to see it, upload size limit, etc. The gallery can be split into categories ranging from cars, anime, to *adult*. Instead of the IPB gallery, Dean's Downloads System would work better as Mayur has suggested. Because it'd offer a *search* function, to easily be able to look for a render or what not. Though i do not agree bout being allowed to upload brushes and everything 15. The sub-forum under Marketplace, "Services" be moved to the main page, and renamed GR Shops & Services, or something catchy. The current Services forum doesn't get as much business, since most people don't take the time to even look there. Moving it to the front page, under Marketplace would be overall IMHO. <--thanks 4nub1s for the idea 16. To cut down on spam, and also take off the spam filter, I think GameRenders(Llam) should install the "Thank you" mod. The concept is quite easy; this mod adds a "Thanks!" button next to Add Reply & New Topic, and compiles the list of Thanks in one message, that is easy to read, and gives the "thank you" for the render, help, etc...without having to post. Thats the first part, the second part would be where mods come in: If anyone is caught(if the spam filter was taken off and this mod installed) saying "ty for render", etc...they would be banned from posting for a day, for the first offense, etc. A tough verdict, but it would get rid of complaints of the spam filter, give an ability to thank someone for a render, and reduce the spam in the render section to only tips/suggestions. Not so many this time, i'll try to update with a few more as I think of the right way to word them. BFTP *Edit*This is a list of suggestions i recently posted in the STAFF SECTION; but i'll release them to the GR public for opinions. I've edited a few out just because of certain aspects 18) MORE GAMES IN THE ARCADE! Theirs no point in having the arcade if we're not going to stock it well Joe i've spent you tons of games, and i can get you alot more if needed. Rarely do these lag down the site, and it always bring more active members. I also think all scores should be deleted monthly; and a prize given to whoever is the general arcade champion(something similar to the prizes of the SOTW; nothing to big, but enough to give some fun and competition 19) Pruning of the members. At least delete anyone who has joined before February 1st, 2005 and has 0 post. Also delete anyone in the validation group(people that registered but never got the registration code in their email). 20) These are the Premium membership "extras" i liked the most: - new Premium Banner - Premium download pack - more admin / mod sponsered contests for premium memberships and credits( POKER TOURNAMENTS ANYONE? wo0t wo0t) - exclusive downloads for Premium Members - Credits per person who becomes Premium? <-that would be quite a chore to get the current Premium Members the credit; but its feasable. - Premium only gallery sounds good to me. Its workable, and i know its easy to setup with Invision Gallery (insert shameless plug) - Discount for items in store for Premium members. Nothing big, but even 5% would be nice (or 50% for moderators ) - zomg was about a gamerenders email? (my own idea)...i'd love to have a [email protected] i can use. Joe has cPanel/WHM i'm pretty sure, so that usually means unlimited amount of email addresses. - Premium members can upload images of upto 2MB instead of 1. 21) Raise the reputation system from 100 post to 250; so less problems overall. 22) I think moderators should have the power to fine/edit members points. I know its a IBStore setting in Invision Power Board; and would help things get solved faster. 23) Time to add a few more categories to GameRenders. Here's the following setup i think we should have, with the new areas/forums that have been moved in bold. - Is the forum name -- Are subforums In bold are the new forums. This is a few days old, since we just originally changed the IRC forum around. Announcements - FAQs - Latest News General - Introductions - General Discussion -- Spamfest (Post Count disabled, and all gloves are up! Post that video that has been making you laugh, or a picture. All GameRender rules still apply, yada yada)- Premium Member Forum -- Resources & Services (renders, brushes, free stuff for just Premium members? Premium-only shops as well) - IRC Room Discussion - Games - Computing The Marketplace - Offers and Request - Auction Room - Shops & Services (I still miss the old setup Was so easy to check for new post, one click..3 forums. Considering that is one of the most active forums, that comes in handy when moderating) Renders - Renders -- Non-Gaming Renders - Premium Renders -- Non-Gaming Renders - Render Requests Competitions - Contests - Sig of the Week -- SOTW Archive - Battle Arena -- Battle Requests -- Intermediate & Expert Battles (Great for the higher class battles, so that people can go in and vote.) -- Completed Battles Graphics - Tutorials -- Tutorial Requests -- Photoshop/Image Ready Tutorials -- Computer & Coding Tutorials -- 3D Program Tutorials - Your Stuff -- Gifts -- Larger Pieces? (new name possibly; but for wallpapers, splashes, etc...that way they don't get backed on on page 2 being in Your Stuff because of signatures posted, etc) -- Resources - Website Templates Site Related - Problems and Suggestions - Staff Applications
My man, always got a great idea for adding to the community. Again, I commend you. Especially the parts about finding new affiliates. This site is huge now, and many companies would be honored to affiliate here. The prizes and such would be an extra bonus to that. I've seen it also to many sites that are/were never as popular as GR. I'm gonna try to rep you again for all the great ideas, but I don't know if time will allow it. We'll see.
I have also suggested this. I suggested a new gallery system but now I think there should be a downloads system like the one I have on my site. It would be better because you can add brushes and everything. You can also make sub categories so for renders you can anime and cars and adult and all that. The downloads system I use also has the ability to auto create new topics in a forum that you choose. This is useful for commenting as lot of people like to do here. Here is link to my site and link to my previous post. http://photoshopvision.com/forums/index.php?act=downloads http://www.gamerenders.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=69747
deviantArt does the same thing, and would just end up taking pointless space. No need for the "downloads" system. BFTP
just a suggestion. but only thing bad about the IPB Gallery is that there is no search function (at least none that i know of) and the downloads system has a search function so if there hundreds maybe thoundsands of renders then one can be easily found.
Yeah, the titlee are kinda getting old and they're incorrect. I've seen n00bs with a veteran title who are usually the ones that spammed their way up. >.> Better Moderating too. ^_^
BFTP 4 admin why the fvck does that freakign smiley look demented and sarcastic i want a funny joking kinda : P smiley !!!!
we should keep that smiley and add a funny one too. thats a good way to kinda say, this didnt quite turn out the way i exptected <-- it fits there, but another smiley wouldn't be bad.
