Seperating beginners from the rest.

[Mewthriii]

Yes, but again, you're looking at this from a bad point of view. You can't sort out 'poor' customs' and 'good customs' from the 'crazy crap' without starting fights, and causing unnecessary wastes of time. The forums are fine as they are, and trying to separate the spriters into categories is a waste of time and will only cause the members to see how the rest of the forum actually sees them and either a) cause unneeded ego boosts, and more dick comments, AND b) cause members to leave forever

if we were to look at this logically, everyone would be in beginners, around two members would be in main or intermediate, and no one would be in pro, because no one here is that good. If you really want to stop the sonic threads from turning into fights as often as they have been, monitor them more, and as soon as something happens, whether it's the thread starter getting pissy, someone posting a dickish comment about how edits suck, or whatever you feel is 'something starting' suspend the person responsible and move on.

suspending people responsible for starting fights is much easier and a much smarter solution than what you guys are planning with this
repeating my last post because tsr doesn't ever understand anything the first time

I agree, this would cause a lot of conflict (and considering that I've seen where we used to be, take it from me: We would just turn back into the old Pixeltendo if we caused more conflict). More conflict would lead to tighter rules, tighter rules would lead to broken rules, and broken rules would lead to even tighter rules until the belt is so tight we're bleeding through it.

I think most of this has got to do with total noobs, though. IMO, Not everyone who has just recently started posting on boards is a noob. I think that there is some sort of source where noobs get this false sense of cool, think they're fitting in, and then get banned. I think if noobs did not start out typing horribly and talking like they know what they're talking about, they would be very easy to educate and in no time they would, in fact, be semi-pro.

And it's not all about age; I think the younger people learn, the less likely they are to be noobis. Like, I go to PureZC, where people make Zelda Classic quests, and there is an eight year old there who not only is great at making ZC quests, but he also has excellent spelling and grammar (for an eight year old, at least) and could easily pass for a respected veteran had he not already disclosed his age. QED, young people != noobs.