Archive for November, 2006

New forum section: Classifieds

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

A new section is up for you who wants to sell, buy and trade your stuff; Free Classifieds!

There is a rating system, which you can use to rate your business partner.

Check it out and place your own classified ad by going here.
If you want to put in a premium ad, click here (your ad will be seen on every page of Soulreaper.net).

(This service can be used by anyone; individual users, labels, magazines etc etc)

Downtime this saturday evening / night. *resolved*

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

The site may be un-available during saturday evening/night starting from 21.00 (gmt+1) due to database maintenance, software-updating and the adding of a new feature.

I’m sending out an email about this now. The chat will be available through-out this time.

Edit: The update seem to have went fine! You should also take a peek at the new “add to”-service that was installed tonight. Now you can add your own or others’ threads to services such as digg and del.icio.us. (see screenshot below)

add-to.jpg

What the administrator&the staff behind the site do - here’s the brutal truth

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

So, I’ve been getting quite a few questions on what I and the whole team behind the site are doing and now I’m seizing the opportunity to tell you about what happens behind the scenes of Soulreaper.net! ;)

First off I’m sorry to say that you are becoming disappointed now, as there are no juicy behind the scenes activities. The moderator-team does have some discussions on matters regarding the site, but these are mostly about site-improvements, criticism (positive/negative) and purely technical matters.

The moderators’ job is to keep the site clean and move/close topics and posts as the moderators see appropriate. The first level moderators’ job is also to notify the senior moderator / administrator about users (read: spambots) that needs to be banned, and then, if necessary, the IP-addresses will be denied access to the site by the administrator. I also disable usernames that I know are spambots of different kinds, as there are ways to detect this before they even cause any damage.

What the administrator also does, beside keeping this site clean from vermin is to do all the coding necessary to add new features and keeping the server ticking as it should.

Another important aspect to this site is that we have certain methodologies in place which protects all members against spam coming through the site (including private messages) as well as protecting the members’ personal information to always be safe and not leave the realms of this site. The later includes IP and email-addresses.

I hope that this post explained quite a few things regarding the daily upkeep of all our’s Soulreaper.net.

Cheerio!

Fileserver move

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

This is a short note to tell you that I have moved the fileserver from one place to another. If there are any problems with the hosted files, then please let me know either here on the blog or at the forum.

Thanks :)

Welcome our new moderator; Reyna

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

I’m happy to say that “Reyna” now is a member of the team behind Soulreaper.net! :) She’ll be helping out with moderating posts and keeping our site clean and healthy!