Done. Fixed another one that you didn't mention as well.
Now you've got me curious - what did I miss?
But if you've already fixed it, it doesn't matter anymore.
Thanks.
I know nothing about backups, servers, or any of that. I don't and have never had access to any of it.
The site currently feels stable(ish). I don't know if any of that is recoverable, how it would be recovered, or what even is missing, but if restoring it involves trying to automatically bring stuff back from some backup version of something, I'd avoid it. I don't want that to break something else on the site.
I don't have a good understanding of what was lost in that, so it might be more important than how I'm assessing it right now.
What is important and what isn't is relative and depends on whether you've formed a connection to it or what memories you associate with it.
@Apollo said he would keep searching through the backups until everything that was lost (I say “deleted on purpose”) was restored.
Judging by what he said, it should be possible to restore a few threads that haven’t been replaced by new ones in the meantime.
I’m not talking about game threads; I have two very specific ones in mind that were intentionally deleted.
I already mentioned one of them in the post I linked to.
The other is directly related to the first and is part of my own and LC's history, and it would be very sad for me if the memory of the events associated with it were to fade into oblivion.
The LC Avenger and his JUSTICE LEAGUE©
There needs to be some kind of barrier on the site. Whether that's activity, time, or some other process is up for debate. This is the one that's here. It has its issues, but removing it entirely seems like it would not be a stable transition.
Yes, that’s the one that exists here and, in this form, only here.
And since its introduction, it has caused more problems and led to more frustration than it would have solved, even if it had worked as intended.
Implementing access restrictions to the Members+ area, like on other sites, wasn’t enough; someone had to introduce a system that some people - myself included - even call a paywall.
What’s the point of all these ranks, and why divide the images into three different sections, each with its own rules and user areas?
It’s absolute nonsense and totally unnecessary - other sites that don’t monetize content would never even consider imposing such absurdity on their users.
Many did not like the complexity it added. We also had a preview page that showed what images were allowed in the next step to users based on their ranks.
And the problem is that you assume that people don't talk.
Yeah, that shocked me when it happened. I was literally on the site talking in the forums when that reaction cooldown was added a couple of years ago. The first Prestige rank removes that limit. It was limited to cut down on the like-for-like spamming in the early days of the coins system.
It's definitely something we should consider tweaking, so thanks for bringing it up.
I don't know what the plan for those were, but I'd made a suggestion a while back to have those adjusted and when I re-posted my suggestion, we got this change.
This has nothing to do with your reply to me; I'm just leaving it here because it also proves that the ranking system has more drawbacks than benefits.
I agree with changing up how the system works. We could use a bunch of re-organization of the ranks, but I don't have an issue with selling silly cosmetics.
You're active on almost every other site I know, and you play an important role there and in the community as a whole; You know your stuff and you know what's going on, so why you, of all people, are so into this coin game is a real mystery to me.
In the end, they weren't good for much more than bragging about anyway, and you don't really believe that this won't happen again in the future, do you?
Once users have acquired all of the ranks, they often ask for things to spend their coins on. If anything, I'd want to find other interesting ideas for things to spend coins on. In a fun gamifying way, not hiding essential site features or anything like that.
Now that the commotion over the lost millions and billions has calmed down, and no one is really mourning those losses anymore, now would be the perfect time to finally free ourselves from this curse and bid farewell to this misguided monetary system.
The longer we wait, the greater the risk of becoming stuck in the same trap, and in a few months or years we’ll find ourselves right back where we are today - but we’ve been there before, and it’s slowly becoming a cherished tradition for us to just go around in circles instead of making real progress.
Besides, at some point you just get tired of complaining about the same things; you just leave.
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- Activity Coins 3.0?
- Sports betting?
- A peep show?
- A strip club or a virtual brothel?
- Live chat with real Porn stars?
- A streaming service?
Please don't reply ! ! ! ! - I don't want you to spoil the surprise and the anticipation for me.
Agreed. I did a bunch of that already. There are so many of those that you probably didn't notice that I've removed at least a dozen out-of-date information threads.
We obviously have a lot more that are out-of-date.
You’ve probably noticed what all these - and many other threads and questions - are about.
Coins and ranks, how to earn them, and what you get in return.
These are entirely avoidable and artificially created topics that serve no purpose other than to drive interaction on the website.
Perhaps you should add a few more items to your volunteer task list, especially for customer service representatives who focus exclusively on answering these types of questions.
And since the topic is relevant right now and the reactions have already been mentioned in this and other threads:
Get rid of the redundant, unnecessary, and non-functional ones and replace them with a few useful ones.
You know this one, for example:
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aka helpful
Couple it with a reward, and you’ll see that more people will be willing to help those who need it.
The same goes for the report function - reward those who use it to report problems.
That's all from me for now.
Thanks for listening and for your reply.
