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  • It's been a few days as I've been busy, but I've finally changed the display settings for all non-archived forums. For all forums I used one of 4 standards: last 30 days, last 100 days, last year and from the beginning. The changes broken down per forum are below. For most forums the setting used is the lowest of the 4 standards which shows at least (almost) 1 full page of threads.

    If anyone has any feedback on these changes, do let me know. Other admins have yet to comment on this, so it's quite possible tweaks will follow based on that or your feedback.

    Note that almost no private forum settings were changed because even after archiving all Civ3 DGs there's still an awful lot of those, many of which aren't being used very often, so doing it for all of them is more work than its worth. If you frequent some of these forums and want the default display settings changed in those, just lemme know.

    Code:
    Forum			Setting		Original
    
    Site Feedback		Last 30 days	(from last 10 days)
    Civ Series General	Last Year	(from last 30 days)
    CivRev			Last 100 days	(from last 30 days)
    Civ en Espanol		Last 30 days	(same)
    
    Civ4 General		Last 30 days	(same)
    	Civ4 AU		From Beginning	(from last 30 days)
    	Civ4 Stories	From Beginning	(from last 30 days)
    	Civ4 HoF & SPT	From Beginning	(from last 30 days)
    Civ4 Creation		Last 100 days	(from last 30 days)
    Civ4 MP			Last 100 days	(from last 30 days)
    	Civ4 PBEM/PBTS	Last 100 days	(from last 30 days)
    	Civ4 Tracker	Last 30 days	(same)
    Civ4 Tri-League		Last 30 days	(same)
    Civ4 Vanilla DG		Last Year	(from last 30 days)
    Civ4 Warlords DG	Last Year	(from last 30 days)
    Civ4 BtS DG		Last Year	(from last 30 days)
    
    Civ2 General		Last Year	(from last 10 days)
    Civ2 Scenario League	Last 100 days	(from last 10 days)
    
    Civ3 General		Last Year	(from last 10 days)
    	Civ3 Creation	From Beginning	(from last 30 days)
    	Civ3 ISDG	Last 100 days	(from last 30 days)
    
    AC General		Last 100 days	(from last 10 days)
    	AC Stories	From Beginning	(from last 10 days)
    	AC Creation	From Beginning	(from last 10 days)
    AC MP			Last 100 days	(from last 10 days)
    
    CtP2 General		Last Year	(from last 100 days)
    	CtP2 Creation	From Beginning	(from last 100 days)
    	CtP2 AoM	From Beginning	(from last 30 days)
    CtP2 Source Code	Last Year	(from last 30 days)
    CtP1 General		Last Year	(from last 100 days)
    
    Alt Civs		From Beginning	(from last 100 days)
    Clash of Civs		From Beginning	(from last 10 days)
    Candle'Bre		From Beginning	(from last 30 days)
    Freeciv			From Beginning	(from last 60 days)
    
    GalCiv			Last Year	(from last 30 days)
    MoO			From Beginning	(from last 100 days)
    RoN			From Beginning	(from last year)
    Spore			Last Year	(from last 30 days)
    Other Games		Last 30 days	(from last 10 days)
    
    Off Topic		Last 30 days	(same)
    	History		Last 100 days	(from last 30 days)
    	Sports		Last 30 days	(same)
    	Tech		Last 100 days	(from last 30 days)
    Some changes to moderatorship and topped threads are still forthcoming, and finally I have to clean up and reorganise all the archives, but the latter has a bit of a lower priority.
    Administrator of WePlayCiv -- Civ5 Info Centre | Forum | Gallery

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    • Thanks Locutus, if this helps, then you have indeed accomplished something

      Hope this all comes together in the big picture
      Hi, I'm RAH and I'm a Benaholic.-rah

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      • Locutus, great!

        Thanks for the hard work at last!
        -->Visit CGN!
        -->"Production! More Production! Production creates Wealth! Production creates more Jobs!"-Wendell Willkie -1944

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        • Concerning the forums categories Alternative Civs and Other Games, all the other forum categories have a general forum, so why not renaming their general forums from:

          Alternative Civs
          Other Games

          to

          Alternative Civs General
          Other Games General

          -Martin
          Civ2 military advisor: "No complaints, Sir!"

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          • The other forum categories that have a "General" forum -- save one -- have at least a sub-forum that's also dedicated to that title specifically. Not only is that is not the case with Alternative Civs and Other Games, but neither are a specific game title either.

            The one exception is "Civilization Series General" but it's reasonable in my view: to better distinguish it from games on specific titles in the series (in theory anyway ).
            PolyCast Co-Host, Owner and Producer: entertaining | informing civ
            >> PolyCast (Civ strategy), ModCast (Civ modding), TurnCast (Civ multiplay); One More Turn Dramedy

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            • Originally posted by DanQ
              The other forum categories that have a "General" forum -- save one -- have at least a sub-forum that's also dedicated to that title specifically.
              Yeah, the exception proves the rule, a nice way to say that the exception breaks the rule.

              Originally posted by DanQ
              Not only is that is not the case with Alternative Civs and Other Games, but neither are a specific game title either.
              That sounds more sound.

              Originally posted by DanQ
              The one exception is "Civilization Series General" but it's reasonable in my view: to better distinguish it from games on specific titles in the series (in theory anyway ).
              In theory ... anyway, I may steal an idea from another site, what about:

              Other Games -> All Other Games

              -Martin
              Civ2 military advisor: "No complaints, Sir!"

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              • vBulletin 3.7 just released.

                Lots of cool stuff in it:
                Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012

                When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah

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                • We know
                  Administrator of WePlayCiv -- Civ5 Info Centre | Forum | Gallery

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                  • Originally posted by Locutus
                    We know
                    Thank you Locutus

                    I love the User Picture gallery, perhaps a few posters can find use of this

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                    Hi, I'm RAH and I'm a Benaholic.-rah

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                    • I have only seen "Reputation Points" over @ Luons Den, for C & C


                      Will we be going to this here?

                      Just curious

                      Thanks

                      Gramps
                      Hi, I'm RAH and I'm a Benaholic.-rah

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                      • Reputation points isn't really that useful. Civgaming.net has them... But It never made much sense...

                        Just like debating over the naming of Other Games- very minor issues.
                        -->Visit CGN!
                        -->"Production! More Production! Production creates Wealth! Production creates more Jobs!"-Wendell Willkie -1944

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                        • Originally posted by DarkCloud
                          Reputation points isn't really that useful. Civgaming.net has them... But It never made much sense...

                          Just like debating over the naming of Other Games- very minor issues.
                          I agree

                          I have a "Bad Reputation" because I posted a post on LionsDen and then a sister site, of which I knew not that they were related

                          I was warned about multiple threads on same subject

                          Gramps
                          Hi, I'm RAH and I'm a Benaholic.-rah

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                          • Originally posted by DarkCloud
                            Just like debating over the naming of Other Games- very minor issues.
                            Indeed a very minor issue, you would think it would also take very minor time for Dan to say Yes or No to my last suggestion.

                            -Martin
                            Civ2 military advisor: "No complaints, Sir!"

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                            • Originally posted by Martin Gühmann
                              Indeed a very minor issue, you would think it would also take very minor time for Dan to say Yes or No to my last suggestion.
                              I had been mulling it over amongst other things. Now that you've followed-up on it, I've considered it further.

                              Agreed.
                              PolyCast Co-Host, Owner and Producer: entertaining | informing civ
                              >> PolyCast (Civ strategy), ModCast (Civ modding), TurnCast (Civ multiplay); One More Turn Dramedy

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                              • A few further changes made:

                                - Civ4 HoF & SP Tournaments has been merged with Civ4 BtS Tri-League Tournament
                                - Martin Gühmann replaces E and BureauBert as CtP moderator.
                                - Some other moderator changes made as well, mostly to give forums without any mods one of the admins as moderator to make it easier for people to figure out who to contact.
                                Administrator of WePlayCiv -- Civ5 Info Centre | Forum | Gallery

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