News corner

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hawaii wrote:
Re: your last post....leave the existing posts.  The CM topics are all scattered every where.

By starting a New System, newbies will post there.

No, they won't. I've been an admin of this forum in more than one and a half year and I was a forum member of the old MM forums. If a newbie cannot find his answer in a hurry he will post his question in a new thread. And there is nothing wrong with that. He has every right to start a new topic.

hawaii wrote:  The old posts are already finished plays and the newbies, like I was & still am, are going to have such a hard time finding their answers that they are just going to start posting the same old questions in a new topic because they couldn't find the answer to their question anyways.
It just perpetuates the same viscous annoying circle of trying to find the answer.

Missy, you are NOT a newbie any more. In your system the newbies will still have a hard time finding their answers because the threads will be sooooo long with hundreds of posts each thread. No one will have the patience to look for an answer to his question in these long threads. Again I am speaking out of experience.

hawaii wrote: I guarantee you that the New System would definitely stop all this confusion.

You cannot guarantee that. I know that people will still start new threads if they cannot find their answers in a hurry. They will NOT find their answers in a hurry in threads that contain hundreds of posts.

hawaii wrote:
Brell, you have to remember to think like a newbie.  Confused and in a HURRY to finish the game and move onto the next one.  No one wants to spend hours looking and reading.......THEY WANT TO PLAY!    [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

missy

I do NOT have to think like a newbie. The newbies have to learn to navigate our forum. Of course everyone wants to play and everyone wants quick answers to their questions. But sometimes patience is a virtue. And furthermore, most gameplaying related questions are in the excellent manuals that come with the game. People's life would so much easier if they started by reading the manuals.

Once more I will try to make my point:

1. The

one mansion - one thread

strategy will NOT prevent people from starting new threads.

2. Every forum member has the right to start new threads. While the posts are not offending in any way I will NOT participate in any kind of censorship.

3. The admins are captains of the forum - they have the final word in any decision of forum changes. Vern has put me and Freddy in charge of the forum.

4. Freddy started this thread to get some ideas for the news corner at the top of the forum page. Some of the ideas are good and worth trying while others are not as good and sometimes based on misunderstanding.

5. We, the admins, will update the news corner after Vern has activated the newest version of the forum software. That way we can see whether the update contains changes that will make our forum easier to use.