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How to access to Request forum? - Khyze - 04-30-2017
Today i wrote 5 unnecesary messages to get to 50 Posts, i wanted to see what kind of threads people create there:
https://www.vg-resource.com/forum-131.html
"Sorry, but you do not have permission to view threads in this forum."
Btw, you should let people see what's inside at least :s
EDIT: Nevermind, now i can see the forum
, sorry for the inconvenience, now i can stalk there 
RE: How to access to Request forum? - Petie - 04-30-2017
I'm... actually at a loss for words. Spamming your way to 50 is very much not allowed but I don't think we've ever had anyone outright admit to doing it...
I'm going to let it go in this case since you technically already met the old requirements and also because the posts you made were actually meaningful but just know that posting just to get to the requests section is generally, at minimum, frowned upon.
As for letting people see what's in it, that used to be the case but we found it encouraged people spamming to meet the requirements so we decided to hide the entire section until members were eligible to post there. Those group changes happen hourly so that's likely why you saw that message even after reaching 50 posts.
RE: How to access to Request forum? - Kosheh - 04-30-2017
I think Petie pretty much covered what I was gonna say - right down to the hourly changes. It's a matter of the site forcing to update the cache on things like that (member usergroup changes)
Also hiding the forum was actually one of the things I argued to death - while it does prevent new users from seeing into the forum and that does suck, it prevents two things:
- Users posting their own requests in other people's request topics as replies,
- Abusing this with "me too thanks" posts, gaming the system to get to 50 posts this way
But uhm, yeah I'm kinda baffled - did you at any point consider before posting "Yeah, I'm just gonna tell the staff that I posted a bunch of spam just so I could get to the limit" That's kinda shooting yourself in the foot lol
RE: How to access to Request forum? - Khyze - 05-01-2017
Well, i don't see the difference between that forum and the commisions forum (Requests are free? In commisions people also request stuff for free xD)
I wanted to help here:
https://www.vg-resource.com/thread-30880.html
Which it's kinda easy, but my lag it's too high to download that model
(04-30-2017, 06:05 PM)Petie Wrote: I'm... actually at a loss for words. Spamming your way to 50 is very much not allowed but I don't think we've ever had anyone outright admit to doing it...Im not a bad person, if i know i did something wrong i have to say it, i i didn't "met the requirement" before, i needed 5 messages, which are:
I'm going to let it go in this case since you technically already met the old requirements and also because the posts you made were actually meaningful but just know that posting just to get to the requests section is generally, at minimum, frowned upon.
https://www.vg-resource.com/thread-25313-page-57.html
"What are you playing" thread (Postcount thread)
https://www.vg-resource.com/thread-30267.html
I actually "helped" here
https://www.vg-resource.com/thread-31001.html
Welcome thread (I always saw that as a Postcount forum, sure, it's important to care about new users but still...)
https://www.vg-resource.com/thread-30972.html
An opinion of a videogame (My post it's better than Kosheh e.e)
https://www.vg-resource.com/thread-30094-page-2.html
And the last one to make an artist feel better about his art (It was unnecesary, he is freaking talented)
I wouldn't call those posts "spam", most of the people do it normally, i just dont like to do them. (At least, not here)
Anyway, i apologize u.u (I know spam isn't allowed in any website
)(04-30-2017, 06:05 PM)Petie Wrote: As for letting people see what's in it, that used to be the case but we found it encouraged people spamming to meet the requirements so we decided to hide the entire section until members were eligible to post there. Those group changes happen hourly so that's likely why you saw that message even after reaching 50 posts.I understood why it was hidden, i just wanted to know why i couldn't see it, i expected something like that, i didn't tough it was hourly updated (I expected daily or manually)
I just wanted to help there (I would like to try to do 3D Models and see if people feel good with them, i can't rip but sure i can copy the Models)
(04-30-2017, 07:33 PM)Kosheh Wrote: But uhm, yeah I'm kinda baffled - did you at any point consider before posting "Yeah, I'm just gonna tell the staff that I posted a bunch of spam just so I could get to the limit" That's kinda shooting yourself in the foot lolI didn't tought about that to be honest, i guess i was drawing or reading about IA when i posted that, so i didn't pay attention to what i was going to write
Well, thanks for not banning me or something like that, i apologize and wish to be helpfull to other users
(Modelling, Rigging, Posing or with Game Maker)
RE: How to access to Request forum? - Petie - 05-01-2017
I wasn't trying to call you a bad person. I actually did mention that all five of those posts were quality posts, not just spam to get into the requests section. It's even more admirable that your goal was to fulfill a request rather than request something yourself so you're in the clear. I was just trying to explain why I was confused.
To clarify though, the commissions forum, specifically, is for paid requests. That is, someone requesting something there is offering money for the work which is why anyone can post there at any time.