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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:
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.
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