What do YOU want in VMKF?
 

I've been seeing alot of

'VMKF isn't this'
'VMKF doesn't have this'
"Oh, i'm starting to get away from VMKF'
'VMKF is losing its touch'

It's kind of saddening for me, I LOVE VMKF, and I do NOT want it to go away.

So, just asking here, what do YOU want in VMKF, so that you will stay?


~fantasyforever

PS: for those who want a bigger signature size:

Batleth on signature size:

1. I would like more arcade games.
2. I would like it so you don't have to wait for your comments to come up in the gallery.
3. I would like more days with REP.

:o Not that much can really be done... But I'd like old members to return...
Other than that... Well I've been perfectly happy with VMKF for almost 3 years, and I don't see any reason why not to be so now...
EDIT:
The only real problem is that there's not much posting now, which is only to be expected for a forum with a topic that's now gone...

agree with Friez.
and, I want some older members back as well, as Pisces mentioned.
gotta miss the days that VMK was open. And agree with the last time we asked for too much, it closed, and that day, I was really sad. It was VMK closing all over again.

1. Isn't an easy task as it might seem. Gotta go find games at other sites, review their content and links, then add them to the forums. That's if I actually get time between maintaining 6 other forums, DOW, and chat. Just one of those things that will probably on occure once or twice a year.

2. Sorry, but comments are reviewed for a reason. We've found some pretty bad messages left there before and have decided it was just for the best for all of them to be reviewed by a mod first.

3. I recently added additional holidays to the forum's calendar. This should increase the days we'll have rep on. Now I just gotta remember those extra days:icon10m:

Though I have been slowly going through the rep comments left for this year. They've been the best I've seen since we first added rep to the forums. Most of our smaller sites just leave rep on all year and I'm considering doing the same thing here. We've finally got a good balance where it takes someone a while to build up their rep without making it impossible. It's just been the rep comments that has worried us. In the past, there had been some pretty bad comments left for people. No one deserves that kind of stuff, so we've always limited it to hinder those kinds of comments. Removing comments completely just isn't an option at this time.

You're right, not much can be done about that. Activity is pretty low lately. It takes quite a few users to start making good topics for that to change and not always over night.

Your considering turning rep on all year? xD It's probably been the best since the community is getting smaller..
- ace

1). I'd like to see trivia contests and stuff like what you guys do in chat, because not everyone (such as me) can use the chat that often or almost never.

2). I'd like to see some things that should remain updated for others' benifts like the Complete I'm Going to WDW GUide updated.

I have other suggestions and ideas to if you want to hear them.

-Stitchco

:stepone:I'm not even sure how we could manage that. Trivia in chat is dynamic and competitive with other people trying to get the questions right at the sametime. Sometimes, you can play alone but not too often. Just not sure how we could replicate that same type of trivia here on the forums... :Question1:

:steptwo:I see the OP is no longer updating the thread. Probably wouldn't hurt if someone is willing to keep it updated, to just create a new thread. Then we can stick the new thread and start a new with the current info.:1stitch:

:stepthree: Sure, that's what this thread is about. :2dlrp:

I know you said in the past that we won't be having visitor messages but considering that we're only allowed 21 private messages in the inbox, it is quite difficult to keep in touch with other members when constantly deleting messages to make more room. Is there anything that can be done about this issue? :)

I have an idea- create a sub-forum for Virtual Family Kingdom, the "remake" of VMK, for the many people from VMK who have moved over there. Most of the people I see there have mentioned that they came from VMK originally.

Seeing how it's a non-Disney mmo, we've never officially endorsed the game. Frankly, I don't think any of the mods are currently playing the game. From what I hear, the game is declining in popularity rapidly. I do know there are other fansites similar to VMKF that deal just with VFK.

Normally, a subforum is create for a topic which is already taking over another forum's main topic. I did a quick review of the other games forums and only found 3 threads about VFK. None of these threads seem to be very large either. So I'm just not really seeing the demand...

Thanks for stating this. At some point last year, I changed our standard PM inbox space to 25 for all our forums. I guess, I overlooked making the change here on VMKF. I have no corrected that problem. Everyone should have 25 inbox space.

As to visitor messages, we find that it has inherently the same basic problems as shout outs that were on userpages. People think we don't review those and decide to break policies on them and quite often. It didn't take the shoutouts long to become a moderator's nightmare and afraid the same thing would happen to visitor messages. Neither were meant to be used as chatboxes but rather just a quick message saying how great their userpage or profile is.


:character0174: A few projects we are working on...

Nick is working on a dynamic sig. This is where you just put the url of the site sig into your signature spot and it'll automatically draw info from your profile to create the sig. We've released them on POF for those that are members there, they have a clue of what I'm talking about. I'm not sure of the time table to add them to our other sites as it takes Nick a lot of work to add them to each site.

:smiley-technik015: We're still looking into ideas how to solve the image hosting problems. This has just been an on going problem with finding G-rated hosting sites for everyone to use.

:2castle:We recently added more holidays to the calendar and now we're adding site notices for these holidays. The notice will appear at the top of the site on those holidays just like the Birthday announcements.

:2ears:I created some new header images for VMKF. Hoping to change the top images a bit more often than before. I'm also hoping to find more time to work on the skins. Either improve the ones we have, create new skins, or both. Really depends on how much time I get this year to work on this.

:yavn873:
UpInTheAir has been doing the "This week in VMK" threads in the news. Even though some may not get many replies, they sure are getting lots of views. We've decided to keep on doing this as it seems popular enough.

:2sorc:Tepcat will continue to do the monthly site contests.

With #1 that is understnadable.

With #2- I've tried making a new thread and taking the original so I could update it often and even include FAQs and a News Article page, however to do all this took too much time which I currently don't have too much very often. I'd love to be in charge of updating the WDW Guide, however I just can't see how I can even take that time until at least the summer time mid-way through. Another option I thought of was for you to choose someone who could update the Guide consisently as a Mini-Mod just for the WDW area sub-forums to update the Guide easierly (not a word but I'm trying to give a sense of it). For me it took too much time to do it the other way and take the originals, putting it into a new thread series type of thing, and everything else. If you have any suggestions on how else to do this I'd love to hear it/them.

Also another thing I wouldn't mind seeing is some Disney parked theme wall papers/skins.

-Stitchco who has still much more advice/suggestions