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    * Mapping forums = mineral forums
    * Other forums = no mineral forums
    * Reward people who finish a good map with minerals.
    * Reward new concepts with minerals
    * And so on... tongue.gif

• Reward new concepts with minerals
  

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Since when member opinions count? ANd that wouldn't be any forcing people to post in mapping forums, it would motivate them to do so. And for random crap, rules about spam are still there

Anyway, thats just a suggestion, stop being so negative about everything golden... [right][snapback]494392[/snapback][/right]

I see no "fatal flaw" in there at all. maybe thats because I don't have your negativity talent. Who knows. [right][snapback]494433[/snapback][/right]

And I believe retards you are speaking of doesn't spam because of minerals but because they are retarded. And I doubt that normal people will start to post like retards just to get minerals. Beside 1 or 2 retarded post like those per topic is nothing comparing to null and other forums where whole topics are retarded as hell.

Well it's simple. Spam = ban.
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Are you serious?

Just wow, wow.
I never said that people who already post there would suddenly become under a mind control and act retarded. I'm talking about the +1000 members that DON'T post there, and they post in the other section for minerals and posts. If they wanted those they would have to psot in the maping place saying stupid stuff that wasn't relavant to the topic or very blanant spam like posts like "GUD JEUB". Maybe if you weren't too busy trying to lie to yourself that I'm always wrong you'd realize that your idea is stupid and won't work.
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I say reward people for mapmaking to motivate them.

    * Mapping forums = mineral forums
    * Other forums = no mineral forums
    * Reward people who finish a good map with minerals.
    * Reward new concepts with minerals
    * And so on... tongue.gif


By doing so, members who will be active in mapping forums and will produce good maps will be richer than "other" crew. I say it's a good solution teehee.gif

I liked the random map making tip that used to be at the top of the website. Added variety, and it increased my knowledge in map making, allowing me to help more people in the map making assistance. What evil being removed it!?

I liked the random map making tip that used to be at the top of the website. Added variety, and it increased my knowledge in map making, allowing me to help more people in the map making assistance. What evil being removed it!?
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I say reward people for mapmaking to motivate them. 

• Mapping forums = mineral forums
  
• Other forums = no mineral forums
  
• Reward people who finish a good map with minerals.
  
• Reward new concepts with minerals
  
• And so on...
  

By doing so, members who will be active in mapping forums and will produce good maps will be richer than "other" crew. I say it's a good solution
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If I was forced to choose one forum to remove in the "Other" section, I'd remove the Serious Discussion forum. I don't see much community bonding there; if anything I see mostly community disbonding there, because of conflicting opinions and beliefs.

At least people most of the time have fun in the Lite and Null forums.
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I'm a moron who instead of realizing what's wrong with my idea and trying to fix it, I instead try insulting the person who is obviously crushing my argument.

Could be good, but bad as well. Anything which incites people to post more in the mapping forums only for the purpose of post counts or minerals and not actual mapping will eventually lead to spamming.[right][snapback]494683[/snapback][/right]

I really suggest we do something called a "Map of the Week"

- On sites like http://www.broodwarmaps.net we do a map of the week with melee maps, where many of us get together and take a vote on which map we think is best. We can do the same with UMS maps.
- Last time I was told by minimoose that we had the Map Spotlight. But the problem with those is that they really don't seem to change. They're basically reserved for contest winners.

Yea, but if you look on http://www.broodwarmaps.net the way they do it gives more attention to those maps because they don''t just only update their MotW list.

They also have a section on the right side saying MotW: (map name), but what makes their MotWs so special is that they actually make newsposts about them. Then people can comment and be like "Congrats so and so," just like as if minimoose made a post for the results of a map making competition. This'll make the MotW system even more special and have people be like "Wow, cool, I really want to have my map receive such recognition." If we make tihs like a mini-map making competition, it'll incite more people to make maps and thus, wanting to submit them to our MotW Competition.
Just updating the map spotlight is boring. It's like giving out 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places but without any ceremonies. What's the use of getting 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place if you receive barely, if any, attention for it? What I mean by attention is where people can actually say/respond to the results on the newspost or w/e. We need to do more than just change the map spotlight, we need to somehow bring more attention to those maps that make it into the map spotlights.



This is one reason why I seem to nowadays spend less time with SEN and spend more if it at BWMN, because at BWMN, they have competitions every week (mainly the MotW) and everyday we users can discuss the maps and vote on which one gets MotW. Everyone there is alway eager to know which map is going to get MotW, and there's this atmosphere there where people want that attention, want their map and their pictured posted on the frontpage of that website. It's almost never boring at BWMN when it comes to the SC/map making world there. It's kind of like our SEN games; it's something we all want to win/participate in. Making a MotW system like the one at BWMN here will create that incentive.

Once we announce this Map of the Week (or Month) system, people will eventually start pumping out maps. It might take a couple of these competitions to actually get the whole thing really kicking, but like with the one at BWMN, it'll become serious business.

It's because of the MotW system there which I really got into making serious melee maps; I want my melee maps to become MotW.

BWMN's motw system works where starting on monday, you can submit whatever maps you want to the MOTW competition list. The deadline is on friday and then you have from that day till sunday to discuss amongst yourselves the order of your preferences (like #1, 2, 3 candidates.) Then on monday, we count up the votes and usually (but not always) make the map with the most votes the MotW and have somebody make a cool newspost about it.

So I guess that if we do a MotM (map of the month system) I guess we can make the deadline to enter the maps 1 week before the last day of the month and during that one week, we can play the maps and discuss which ones should be best. There will be no grading rubric or any criterion for these maps; you just simply pick the one you like best or is worthy of a MotS. Maybe we can make an official specially made poll or something (now I said special mainly so that we can also make sure people don't cheat in voting with double accounts.)

EDIT: Well actually, scratch the poll. Just make it discuss only. We'll give everybody the chance to discuss/share their opinions on the map and then a selected few people (probably us staff members) will make the official pick based on how the comments turned out to be.
(This method will reduce as much bias in the map picking, because I know there are PLENTY of people out there who will blatantly exclaim that a person's map sucks or that they show major favortism based on who the authors are.)

Yea I prefer every two weeks rather than one month. It's a little more frequent and doesn't completely put a person down if he misses the deadline and has to wait another month to enter the next one.

It's not like your time in making a map for this competition is constrained to only two weeks. You can spend however long you want on it, and when it's done, submit it to the current Map of the (Two) Week competition that's in progress.

DEAD this is the sugar coded version of what I'm saying. Forcing people to post somewhere won't make them like maps, it'll make them pretend to like maps so they get some stupid crap like the 3,000 mineral club and laugh in everyone's faces.

Deleteing the Serious Discussion fourm won't do anything either. It'll just change the location of what's said there. If it's in Null though people will be like "LOL WAR IS FUNIE" and more flamming will start.
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What argument? What forcing? As always when I show that your bloody "argument" is actually nothing important, you stop arguing and post something like that. Go ahead, I don't care about your thought's at all, just don't call me moron just because you can't "win" a fight you started. /rolf[right][snapback]495192[/snapback][/right]