EcchiDreams News and Information Latest Announcements from EcchiDreams http://www.ecchidreams.com Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:45:40 +0000 60 Changing how we treat new members, and inactive members. Oh and a few updates! ^^ http://www.ecchidreams.com/topic/1555-changing-how-we-treat-new-members-and-inactive-members-oh-and-a-few-updates/ EcchiDreams Updates! (5.3.2)

16th February 2012


We’ve made some updates today, in response to a fair few suggestions from new members and old members alike. A concern was raised via my PM inbox that EcchiDreams was punishing new members who had less than 10 posts; subsequently we have made some changes to our system that should prove to be more fair.

A few months ago, we put a restriction in place that when a new member registered, they could only look at 10 gallery images a day before they hit a bandwidth error. This was because we had severely limited bandwidth and people were “Taking the piss” by registering, and leeching without contributing to the forums. Once they had made 10 posts they were free to look at as many images as they liked. We were pouring more money into extra bandwidth costs than we were to the site, which has harmed us in some ways, we were unable to renew our forum licence which means we fell behind on forum updates, as well application updates, new features and researching/ programming.

However what wasn’t realised when this was coming into effect, was that this was punishing new members, which isn’t exactly friendly now is it? So we had an obstacle to overcome. How can we make things fair to everyone, and “punish leechers” to lack a better word.

The answer is now when you register to EcchiDreams, you will have unlimited viewing of the gallery. However there is a condition. If you have less than 20 posts, you’ll see a red box at the bottom of the screen saying:

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It goes slightly transparent, when you're not hovering your mouse over it, we have a smooth GUI. ^^


If you have clicked this message you’ve ended up here, and this is what the new restrictions are:

When you register to EcchiDreams you will have unlimited viewing of all the pictures in the gallery (Except for private albums, obviously). However, if you have less than 20 posts and you don’t post for 30 days, your account gets downgraded to the “Leecher?” usergroup. (Notice the question mark. We’re not accusing anyone of being a leecher.) All you have to do is post, just once anywhere on the site* and you’ll have unlimited access again for 30 days, if you stay below 20 posts and don’t post again for 30 days, you’ll go back to “Leecher?” again, until you post again. This is automated.


It is our opinion that this is fair for everyone.

We are also scrapping “Inactive Members”. This usergroup is no longer on EcchiDreams, for many reasons. Once you have made 20 posts, you’ll never be registered as “Inactive”. It was a system brought in by NekoLust’s Administration, and it was trial, the system didn’t work as intended so we’re using it to handle the anti-leeching system.

As always we appreciate any feedback anyone gives on this update. Feel free to post below.

We’ve also updated a lot of out dated applications (Like the shoutbox) and introduced a “Like” chart to encourage people to use the like system. This like chart shows the top 30 people who have likes on the forums.

All the updates above are considered trial, and can be changed and tweaked. I will make announcements or post in this thread (And even edit this post) if there are changes. If it works we’ll keep them.

Thank you for reading!

EcchiDreams Management


*Posts that break Terms of Service will be removed, thus not count. Repeat offenders may be banned. The forums that will not be viewable while in this mode is; EcchiDreamers Intrests Lounge, Sexual Discussion Forums, Anime, Hentai, Manga Reviews and Recommendations, Forum Games, Roleplay Side Stories and all subforums. Posts must contribute to the community, one worded posts, posts that don't contribute and spam, will not be tollerated, they will be removed in accordance to the Terms of Service, repeat offenders may be banned.]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:45:40 +0000 http://www.ecchidreams.com/topic/1555-changing-how-we-treat-new-members-and-inactive-members-oh-and-a-few-updates/ We are proudly against SOPA http://www.ecchidreams.com/topic/1530-we-are-proudly-against-sopa/ Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and its Senate counterpart, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the USA. SOPA will not just affect those in the USA; its knock-on effects would touch every website in the world. Under the proposed legislation, it would be illegal for us (or you) to link to any website – any website at all, including community-driven behemoths like YouTube, Flickr, Blogspot or WordPress – without checking first that nothing on that site infringes copyright. And we’d have to review those sites continually after a link was made.

Under these Acts, every person making a link to such a site would have to check the millions of other pages on that site to ensure that nobody, anywhere, is breaching copyright. Even search results would be covered under the proposed law. And if a website like ours were to be prosecuted for linking to another site where copyrighted material was hosted, our domain could be confiscated and our IP address added to a USA-wide blacklist, even though we are UK-based and have servers hosted outside the USA – all this without legal process.


So far, so ridiculous. It’s censorship and shifting of responsibility on a grand scale. But despite a loud chorus of opposition to the Acts from legal experts, internet experts, journalists, website owners like us, human rights activists (want to publicise the next Arab Spring using Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or another site that potentially infringes? You’ve just provided the powers that be with an instant excuse and mechanism to shut you down) and ordinary people who just surf the web, the Acts stand a genuine chance of being pushed through. Lobbyists like the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the movie and music studios have much louder voices and deeper pockets than we individuals on the internet do; but by joining together on January 18 we hope that we can make enough of an impact to be noticed by those voting on the legislation, and by the news outlets that they read and watch.

So on January 18, EcchiDreams and our other sites intends to join the planned shutdown organised by Reddit. This site will be unavailable all day, instead EcchiDreams will be redirecting to ProtestSOPA -- We encourage those of you who can to join us – and if you’re a US citizen, please call or email your representative.

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