When first joining, you go straight to the noob section and cannot post anywhere else until you've posted 2 posts in the noob section

Good idea, i like that

Would keep it tidier, and stop us all telling em all to go there

my point exactly, scotts on about putting some ideas in to action for next year on another post, so thought this might be a good one to include

like it

like it but can it be done?

You've all got to remember this forum board is about 6-7 years old now and the functionality just isn't there. It would be pretty difficult to enforce this with my limited admin functions.

I'll be having a much closer look at these things in the New Year so don't worry. For now, n00bs will be popping up like moles all over the place.

understood scotty. thought it would be difficult to enforce such 'rules'

ah i see scotty, thanks for taking notice

Shame tho.

I did create a whole new forum 2 years ago as some of the older guys would have heard about. We did demo it for a 2 week period but we scrapped it as it didn't meet the needs originally set out.

Briefly:

The page must be very easy to view
The site must be extra easy to navigate
Not needing stupid amounts of screen scrolling.
Creating posts easy and quick
NO Adverts or stupid side bar options clogging the screen up.

Still... even now... the site works brilliant and looks great. I'm looking to expand sideways off this... exciting stuff to come... it will take a little while though... but it will be worth it *top secret atm*

P.S I always take suggestions on board... and suggestions are more then welcome now as I can use the ideas for the plans to come in 2011.

How about an IM style chat option, like facebook does??

An image gallery that we can upload the best pictures to and browse at will. Just a thought.

some good ideas coming up ... ^^^ what they said =)

Image galleries eat bandwidth like crazy.

If you ever want to switch to a phpBB based board I can help. I think your main concern with such old software would be security updates, or lack thereof.

Working from scratch. All security would be up to date Kevin. I'm not sure what board i'd use atm. I'll do my research first.

I would like an Image Gallery put in so good idea.

I'm not a fan of live chats or chat boxes... i've seen this ruin sites before. Far too much emotion involved which gets messy.

Maybe a status update a bit like RSOC has?

Kind of like facebook. If it's the same as on STOC, and I would imagine it is, then you update your status in the same manner as facebook and it shows up on the left hand side of the homepage for everyone to see.

Yeh i like that idea,

Under your name where it says Noob, or site Supporter etc..?

Nice shout there Alex

yep i like that idea

What he said as in STOC, but on the RSOC its on the right, just sort of a list of updates, I'll take a screenshot in a little while when I'm not as busy

How about a red light next to our name or somewhere on our avatar when we're offline and a green one when we're online.

This works great on another forum i use

hmm yeah that's a nice idea especially when you're looking for a reply from someone in particular.

Good one Rob Instead of looking at a list of whos on-line

oh ... there's a list ... but that's not convenient

Yeah it is very useful