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I still don't see why post count is such a big deal at this forum, I've been to tons of others, but it's never been taken as seriously as it is here.

I've been to a forum completely dedicated to MLB Power Pros, but unrelated posts counted.
I've been to a forum dedicated to a YouTube channel, unrelated posts still counted, even RPGs and forum games counted towards it.

Maybe a phpBB plug-in would help. Like a "thumbs up, thumbs down" plug-in. And as I said, we can have subforum specific rules (short replies, like "I like", "Meh" are not allowed). If someone breaks a rule like that, we'll delete his reply. If it happens too often, we can send him/her a friendly warning.

it can't do any harm having this new place to put fan based stuff, so long as we don't get bogged down in debates on whether or not an item should be in this thread or in another

i'm 50/50 about the post count. On one hand it can be useful seeing how long people have been visiting the site for and how active they are, but there is the spamming danger. Tho most post spammers i have encountered are victims to the impatience which makes them post non replies, and have given up quite quickly

a thumbs up/thumbs down or karma system (ie have +1 karma for a good post, -1 for a bad post) can work quite well too so long as its not abused. Requires a degree of maturity within the community to be useful
But if it did work, karma could be quite fun on this TES site cos we could tailor it to a lore related scale, ie Aedra/Daedra or whatever (tho i don't think Aedra=good, Daedra=bad reflects the lore of TES, it's not as black and white as that)

I think the worry about spamming is it a bit extreme. WE aren't all so morbid and evil that we can't wait til the mods leave so we can ef-up the threads.

Or I am that naive and it is really that bad?

Look i'm fine with the Focusing on the game and sthuff but seriously all we will be doing is ripping a few threads from Arts and putting it in another sub-forum. Why complicate things?

My main concern is, as I stated in the first post, that the activity will be divided between two art sections. I personally am open to trying it out and give it, as Milder Despues suggested, a test period. If it's nothing but a negative experience, we'll just archive the whole thing.

What Generalno1 said, we're just moving a few threads to a new forum, it won't really create new fanart, and the Arts section is underused as it is. We would just be spitting the Arts section into two little-used threads, and further complicating the already-cluttered General subforums.

Thanks to all for your contributions in this thread.