Originally Posted by MOZ
hi Egor
I am guessing that these are standard parameter-settings in the software. AO has been very helpful to change other settings that I have drawn to his attention for fine-tuning; you are correct, a thread is a good idea.
MOZ
Hi Egor and Moz,
Thanks Egor for the positive feedback.
When I started this forum my goal was only to provide an alternative to the established and chess admin top heavy forum known as chesschat. I knew some whinging about the mods there would occur here, but I think its been fairly minimal so far and the criticism has largely been based on issues and not playing the man, so to speak.
I also wanted OzChess to be a real and genuine chess resource for the benefit of all Australian chess players. Chesschat perhaps started out with that mission statement, but I think it has strayed into being more of a social club and social discussion forum with maybe 50% of the posts there being chess related. While I don't really care if this forum goes down the same path and ultimately becomes more of a social debate forum than a chess forum, as far as I am concerned I will try to keep my posts primarily filled with chess related content.
Moz is right about the default settings. Slowly, when members bring new issues to my attention, I try to change the settings to meet people's expectations. Usually this takes a couple days as I need to ask VBulletin's support team how to do most of the changes. I will try to allow more smilies and images to be placed in people's posts. Thanks for starting a feedback thread, that was a good idea.
AO