Post by Roku Ni-San on Jan 16, 2006 10:36:42 GMT -4
I'm aware that some people don't like my forum colors. If everyone could design their own color schemes, everyone would be happy. ^-^ Unfortunately... the only place to change forum colors is the administration area, to which only forum administrators have access. There is currently only one administrator on this forum and that's me. But I do have the ability to change members' status to mod status or even admin status. If I could go and hand out admin status to everyone else it would make it easy for people to make their own color schemes. Well, it's not that easy... 
One... administrator powers are nothing to be taken lightly. They are SCARY. The administration area gives you, literally, complete control of the forum and everything in it. If admin status got into the wrong hands the forum could be easily overthrown.
Two... My forum isn't very big. I'm not hiring very many staff members in my forum's current state. But when my forum gets bigger I will definitely be hiring more staff members.
So. I am considering two options for people who don't like my color scheme and want their own.
The first one (and I prefer this one...) is requesting color schemes. People request what colors they want to see on the forum, and I try my best to make a good color scheme with those colors. If people don't like the result I will alter the color scheme until they do. ^^.
The second one is to let people make their own color schemes. But as you know, you kind of need access to the admin area to change forum colors. So if people really, really want to choose this option (I'd rather not have it this way as administrator powers are VERY dangerous things), I can alter their profiles to give them temporary admin status. By temporary I mean changing their status to admin status (5 red hearts) for a certain period of time like an hour or so, so they can get into my administration area and make their own color scheme. After one hour I'll change their status back to what they were before. This is just for a safety precaution, I know you're all nice people ^^ but I really don't want anything to happen to my forum so I'd prefer this only as a last resort. ^-^...
If I do hand out temporary admin status, I do have just a few rules...
1. You get one hour of admin status. I think that will be enough time to make a color scheme. If you want to do this, it should be a time when you're actually online for a while. Because you only get admin status for an hour, and it wouldn't be very nice if you were offline for most of that hour...
2. Please just stick to making color schemes and please, I'm begging you... don't go into any other areas of the administration area. I can't stress this enough. Please don't touch anything else. Again, this is just a safety precaution because I don't want anything to happen to my forum.
3. Please... don't go and alter people's profiles or ban members. That includes changing people's status (member, mod, global mod, admin etc.). If I find out that someone altered their status this way I'll just change it back anyway.
That's about all the rules for now. I really don't want to resort to that second option for the sake of the forum (I must sound both paranoid and mean) but I will if I have to. Sorry if that was confusing... ^-^
Have a nice day!
One... administrator powers are nothing to be taken lightly. They are SCARY. The administration area gives you, literally, complete control of the forum and everything in it. If admin status got into the wrong hands the forum could be easily overthrown.
Two... My forum isn't very big. I'm not hiring very many staff members in my forum's current state. But when my forum gets bigger I will definitely be hiring more staff members.
So. I am considering two options for people who don't like my color scheme and want their own.
The first one (and I prefer this one...) is requesting color schemes. People request what colors they want to see on the forum, and I try my best to make a good color scheme with those colors. If people don't like the result I will alter the color scheme until they do. ^^.
The second one is to let people make their own color schemes. But as you know, you kind of need access to the admin area to change forum colors. So if people really, really want to choose this option (I'd rather not have it this way as administrator powers are VERY dangerous things), I can alter their profiles to give them temporary admin status. By temporary I mean changing their status to admin status (5 red hearts) for a certain period of time like an hour or so, so they can get into my administration area and make their own color scheme. After one hour I'll change their status back to what they were before. This is just for a safety precaution, I know you're all nice people ^^ but I really don't want anything to happen to my forum so I'd prefer this only as a last resort. ^-^...
If I do hand out temporary admin status, I do have just a few rules...
1. You get one hour of admin status. I think that will be enough time to make a color scheme. If you want to do this, it should be a time when you're actually online for a while. Because you only get admin status for an hour, and it wouldn't be very nice if you were offline for most of that hour...
2. Please just stick to making color schemes and please, I'm begging you... don't go into any other areas of the administration area. I can't stress this enough. Please don't touch anything else. Again, this is just a safety precaution because I don't want anything to happen to my forum.
3. Please... don't go and alter people's profiles or ban members. That includes changing people's status (member, mod, global mod, admin etc.). If I find out that someone altered their status this way I'll just change it back anyway.
That's about all the rules for now. I really don't want to resort to that second option for the sake of the forum (I must sound both paranoid and mean) but I will if I have to. Sorry if that was confusing... ^-^
Have a nice day!