this site needs...

When I first joined, this was a very busy site. It was a site about learning, and teaching people about this hobby. This past year, more, and more users have joined. Few have been quality members. Uncountable times do people ask the same questions about avatars, or about how to resize images. Really dumb things that are specifically outlined in the terms of service. Almost a year ago, Damien, our resident Moderator CLEARLY outlined our Quality Content Policies. This helped for several months, but it's been long forgotten, and not even read by new members. Same goes for the Actual Terms of Service! New members are incessantly chastised by members for NOT following the rules, and they deserve it! It's their responsiblity to live by OUR rules if they want to be a part of OUR community. I know how annoying it can be when someone just replies in a topic to use the search function, but really! Use some common sense. A couple months ago, we updated the search tool to try and fix this problem. Has it worked? Not a chance. I use it all the time to find old topics to post in, rather than make a new topic. There's really nothing worse than having some ten year old kid whining about how to paint something, when dozens of topics have already been answered by our patient and loyal members. I don't care if you are new. If you want to learn about customization, explore the site! There are thousands of creations, ideas, techniques, etc. that are amazing to look over. As the 'newbies' have been noticing, some of our oldies have been leaving. It's true that some have simply fallen into their 'Dark Age', but many, including me, are just a little peeved about how the members here on MCN are acting. I have chosen to stay, because I love the community, and it's made a huge impact on me. I really want the site to return to it's former glory, but for that to happen, that takes the support of everyone here. EVERYONE. This is a rant, and it's been waiting to come out. I'll leave you with these links to read over.

-Vidgamer838-

Rules and Regulations

Quality Content Policies

Search Function (Also in the Top Right-Hand corner of every page)

Wow. Way to go Vid, I think you beat Victor in largest block of text! ; )

Now then, time for my rambling:

This site needs to some publicity. It's very quiet.
Right now, there are 33 people on this site, and we have nearly 3000 members, not saying they are all active, but still, those were(are) all people who knew(know) about MCN and joined up, seems like enough people know about the site, and I certainly wouldn't want this place 'busy', the MCN staff does enough work as it is keeping up with moderating the forums and running the site, if it suddenly got populated with a bunch of new members that would be bad, in my opinion.

It could be days before someone actually posts. 
Not true. I can't recall a time where it has been days before anyone has posted, I can't even recall a single day where there were no posts to the forum. Sure, it may take a couple of days for somebody to post in a topic of yours, but I don't think that has anything to do with publicity problems, for there can be other threads posted at the same time as that one and get two pages of comments, it's all up to the people visiting the forums to post where they want to. You can't really expect tons of comments in a decal thread these days, because the site's overrun with them.

That's a good thing!
This is obviously just "IMO", as they say, but I rather like it like this.
I do too actually, I can't come on here every day now, and it's nice when I miss a couple days and can easily catch up on what I've missed. This can be a task at some other forums, but here it's just nice.

I'll leave you with these links to read over...
Thanks, I hope this gets a few members (Especially the newer ones.) to look this stuff over.

~Amanda

I just KNEW that was going to pop up! :D

Thanks for the support. It was a really a mass of feelings that was waiting to escape. I hope that members will read it, and realize what many of us are feeling.