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    Site Issue: What's New ... ?

    Since this is where all the activity happens ...

    With Civilization Beyond Earth about to be released I've been looking at some quick and easy things we can do to make the site a little more friendly to new visitors and search engine bots.

    "What's New?" is linked on every page and generally full of OT stuff. This makes the site look much less like a gaming site to new visitors and to search engines. Generally it's just another way to read the main OT forum. So "What's New?" is something I think would make sense to change, but I'm not sure how much it's used. I use it all the time, generally to pick off new spam posts, but could easily do without it.

    If we disallow OT posts from showing in "What's New?" would that be ok? It may be possible to have it show OT posts only on certain forums (OT, Sports, Site). Any preferences? Other ideas?
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    OK for me, but I am not the main spammer here.
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    • #3
      I didn't come here for OT.
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      • #4
        I also use the What's New page, probably for the same reasons you do. I'd miss it if it were gone, but not that much.
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        • #5
          I've never even heard of this "What's New" thingy.
          To us, it is the BEAST.

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          • #6
            You might want to turn off avatars for it, right now Sava's ass is everywhere.
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            • #7
              To us, it is the BEAST.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Sava View Post
                I've never even heard of this "What's New" thingy.
                +1
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                • #9
                  This site is full of trojans and other computer viruses!
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                  • #10
                    so's your face
                    To us, it is the BEAST.

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                    • #11
                      I'd love it if my phone would stop telling me that apolyton is tapatalk native
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                      • #12
                        Turn off OT. What's new should be for OnT posts.
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                        • #13
                          Put me down for hiding OT from newbs.
                          John Brown did nothing wrong.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by loinburger View Post
                            I'd love it if my phone would stop telling me that apolyton is tapatalk native
                            I am considering removing Tapatalk. I think one or two people use Tapatalk on the forum, but it ignores it's "don't ask don't tell" settings and keeps spamming me on my phone too.

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                            • #15
                              On a separate issue the Time for East Coast USA is behind by 1 hour.

                              very annoying and has been an issue for a while.
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