Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-17897872-20150823043852

Wazzup everyone! Primetime here, wanting to bring up a few things before Update 2.0 comes out. I hear it’s going to come out anytime now (which is what we thought a month ago), so I wanted to bring a few things up before the wiki gets busy again. If you read all of this, I will praise you. However, please – I need your feedback when I ask for your opinion!

Map packs and achievements page notice
I always start with the easier one. When Update 2.0 comes out, try to do your best to add information to these two pages first. I will try helping to add and organize things in on all the pages, but put these two pages on priority. In a matter of days after the update comes out, the pages will become locked (could be up to a week) for me make a major edit of the pages (reorganizing the content) and organizing them underneath appropriate.

Usage of templates
Hackey5 said:

The use of templates: Templates are designed with a functional use in mind. Some are more complicated than others, and some do things that you might not expect. The forum is not a place to play around with templates, especially if you don't understand how they work. There is a sandbox page for this, if you would like to trial and experiment. Article status templates in particular have been popping up on the forum, and certain ones automatically apply categories, which we do not want. For this reason, please refrain from using them. There is also the USERNAME template. Sure it is a cool feature, but using it to confuse people isn't why we have it. Use it in moderation. This is true. I would also like to add that adding videos and images should become annoying for this wiki. If you want to use an existing picture that can be found on the wiki already, feel free to, but please refrain from adding new ones. They become a hassle to mark for deletion and delete a few days later. Want your pictures to stay? Then use template:image or a YouTube player template so it withstands inclusion from our files list. Have any questions about how to use this? Ask one who knows, and he/she will surely like to help you!

New community pages?
I have been browsing through my home wiki and found a few pages that could benefit the Geometry Dash Wiki Community. Please tell me what you think of them as I propose them here.

Staff page
I need your vote people to let this page idea go through, though I think Hackey has the final say in this decision.  * To show your stance, please mark or. Take a look at what my home wiki just presented here. It has the profile pictures and a tiny description of every staff member on the wiki. The page has a very nice layout, so any new members can. Should we have this gismo?

Birthday calendar
I need your vote people to let this page idea go through, though I think Hackey has the final say in this decision.  * To show your stance, please mark or. Take a look at what my home wiki just presented here. Scroll through the little tabbers, and you will see why this is neat. Want your birthday to be remembered here on this wiki? Ask any admin to add it in. And on your birthday, a user will send you birthday wishes on your message wall! Should we have this gismo?

Warning system
I need your vote people to let this page idea go through, though I think Hackey has the final say in this decision.  * To show your stance, please mark or. Take a look at what my home wiki just presented here. This system has been implemented on our home wiki to avoid the over-usage of harsh blocks (or infinite blocks). Because the apparent maximum sentence that admins can impose on a user here is one month (though I disagree, but according to our future bureaucrat), this can be revised later. The voting now is to simply vote on the idea if it seems to be a good one. Should we have this gismo?

The use of lennies is not strictly forbidden
Hackey5 wrote:

The posting of 'Lenny' faces: Enough is enough. The MLG bang has gone from somewhat funny to repetitive and unoriginal and constant and the same thing over and over and over and repetitive and unoriginal and... exactly the point. You can post text faces, sure, but in relevant context like :P for something goofy and :D for something fun. Posting these Lenny faces amounts to spam, and from now on, that is what it will be deemed as. Accordingly, you will be subject to the conditions outlined in the site policy. This includes the chat, so don't be surprised if you are kicked for posting them. Yes, I agree with this too. I originally found the idea of these faces rather annoying, even before the kicking rule is imposed. Using different emoticons are more colorful anyways and aren’t as irritating. :3 does the same thing anyways. Therefore, I want to implement a few rules with these faces (these can be subject to change). What do you guys think about these rules?
 * Any “face” you post using computer alt symbols (or other symbols) that is not an emoticon on this wiki is a lenny.
 * If you have to ask a user if what you want to post is considered a lenny, the answer is, “It is a lenny.”
 * Do not post more than one lenny in a post.
 * Do not exceed the horizontal scrollbar on the mini-chat-window.
 * You may not post a lenny if:
 * One of the last three posts made by you contain a lenny.
 * The last five posts on chat contain a lenny. (Of course, this can be subject to break at times.  This rule simply states to please use lennies in moderation.
 * If an admin/moderator thinks you are lenny-spamming, he will kick you. Kicks are not punishment.  They will not stay on your records.  You may also join chat immediately once you have been kicked.  If you have been kicked unfairly, state so on chat and take a screenshot so others can review it.
 * After getting kicked 3 times, you will receive a 10-minute ban.
 * After the ban, if you still spam, the ban hammer will raise the time you are banned according to the admin’s discretion (remember, one-month maximum).

Chat colors
You can see that the candy crush wiki uses these. On chat, your user name and message you type can have a different font and color. Do you want to input this gismo here?  * To show your stance, please mark or. If so, I do not just admins and moderators to have these colors as it is unfair to those without ranks and I believe in democracy where everyone can have cool things (should 1000 edits suffice?).

Users with zero edits
Beware of these users, especially if they become idle. It is NOT a coincidence that there is always one idle user with 0 edits on EVERY ACTIVE CHAT I SEE over a span of approximately 10 Wikias so far. Kick them immediately if they have not posted for 10 minutes or more. And most of the time, a new user with 0 edits comes in about half an hour and become idle again. That user will never be seen again. Strange, right? We have no idea why these users keep coming. And where do the old users go? User:Emmaelise401 has brought to my attention that they could be spies. Once personal information leaks out onto the main chat, they do have the potential to use it to their advantage and hurt you over the internet. The online world is scary nowadays. I ask any moderator or admin to kick these users when they become idle.

Are you an innocent user and become idle? Join chat again once you have been kicked, or simply make one edit, even if it is your user page!

Be sure to leave a Kudos if you liked the message! -3primetime3- (talk) 