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George posted 02-05- 12:11 AM CT (US)
Well frankly this forum right now is just an underused message board with a cool script. But it'd be cool as an author's forum so though their might be newbys questions, they'd be about DMOD making (hopefully). I sympathize with all the people who freeze when fighting Seth and all ... but it'd be nice to have forum just for DMOD making
George posted 02-05- 12:13 AM CT (US)
Well by 'it' I meant the forum, though you could probably tell ;)
Wyndo posted 02-05- 02:10 PM CT (US)
I'm not going to tell people it can only be used for D-Mod programming questions though. There just isn't enough chat to make it worthwhile to make it just a programmer's forum. I think it's a lot better allowing any Dink topic. If I didn't, it would get even less use than now. :(
George posted 02-06- 02:25 PM CT (US)
You sure about that? Right now very few people come... more people might if it was all DMOD questions.
Wyndo posted 02-06- 02:33 PM CT (US)
But why? That makes no sense. Limiting the forum to just one narrow thing (D-Mod questions) would mean *fewer* people would come. Right now, people can come here and post D-Mod authoring questions if they like. Saying "you can *only* post authoring questions here" just doesn't seem to help, since it's for authoring questions already...
George posted 02-06- 04:16 PM CT (US)
Cause people would have a reason to come here if it was all DMOD questions! IT would be different than all the other forums. Well that's just my opinion... do what you want.
Wyndo posted 02-06- 11:27 PM CT (US)
Up until the new year, it was 2 separate forums (a general forum and an author's forum). Neither one got much use. When I had to upgrade to a Y2K-compliant UBB and lost all the messages, I decdided just to make 1 Dink forum here since neither had gotten much use. Surprisingly enough, since I did that, the conversation here (while still not much, really) has quadrupled. It seems that I did *something* right, because there wasn't this much chat when there *was* an author's forum.
But, I dunno. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, only that I'm so busy I rarely have time to answer programming questions and I hate to tell people there is a forum just for getting D-Mod questions answered when nobody is around to answer them... are there enough people willing to help people with questions, you think?
Mike.
George posted 02-07- 08:21 PM CT (US)
Actually alot of DMOD authors seem to check the forum, I've seen some replies by redink1 and Dukie. But I dunno. Personally just wanna have a forum without one goblin sanctuary post, and I think others might too ;)
Wyndo posted 02-07- 09:44 PM CT (US)
LOL well I can certainly understand that. :) I'll have to think on it. It seems to get much more use now that it's a single forum than it did as two... but that could be coincidence. I'll think on it. :)

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Author	Topic: Maybe not split it into 2 forums, but how about changing it to author's forum?
George	posted 02-05- 12:11 AM CT (US) Well frankly this forum right now is just an underused message board with a cool script. But it'd be cool as an author's forum so though their might be newbys questions, they'd be about DMOD making (hopefully). I sympathize with all the people who freeze when fighting Seth and all ... but it'd be nice to have forum just for DMOD making
George	posted 02-05- 12:13 AM CT (US) Well by 'it' I meant the forum, though you could probably tell ;)
Wyndo	posted 02-05- 02:10 PM CT (US) I'm not going to tell people it can only be used for D-Mod programming questions though. There just isn't enough chat to make it worthwhile to make it just a programmer's forum. I think it's a lot better allowing any Dink topic. If I didn't, it would get even less use than now. :(
George	posted 02-06- 02:25 PM CT (US) You sure about that? Right now very few people come... more people might if it was all DMOD questions.
Wyndo	posted 02-06- 02:33 PM CT (US) But why? That makes no sense. Limiting the forum to just one narrow thing (D-Mod questions) would mean fewer people would come. Right now, people can come here and post D-Mod authoring questions if they like. Saying "you can only post authoring questions here" just doesn't seem to help, since it's for authoring questions already...
George	posted 02-06- 04:16 PM CT (US) Cause people would have a reason to come here if it was all DMOD questions! IT would be different than all the other forums. Well that's just my opinion... do what you want.
Wyndo	posted 02-06- 11:27 PM CT (US) Up until the new year, it was 2 separate forums (a general forum and an author's forum). Neither one got much use. When I had to upgrade to a Y2K-compliant UBB and lost all the messages, I decdided just to make 1 Dink forum here since neither had gotten much use. Surprisingly enough, since I did that, the conversation here (while still not much, really) has quadrupled. It seems that I did something right, because there wasn't this much chat when there was an author's forum. But, I dunno. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, only that I'm so busy I rarely have time to answer programming questions and I hate to tell people there is a forum just for getting D-Mod questions answered when nobody is around to answer them... are there enough people willing to help people with questions, you think? Mike.
George	posted 02-07- 08:21 PM CT (US) Actually alot of DMOD authors seem to check the forum, I've seen some replies by redink1 and Dukie. But I dunno. Personally just wanna have a forum without one goblin sanctuary post, and I think others might too ;)
Wyndo	posted 02-07- 09:44 PM CT (US) LOL well I can certainly understand that. :) I'll have to think on it. It seems to get much more use now that it's a single forum than it did as two... but that could be coincidence. I'll think on it. :)