[MERIT]

Well, since you asked:

- The ability to tag members in posts and have it notify them, thus alerting them to pertinent conversation.

- A "Spill Your Guts / Get The Hatred Out" type of thread where users can funnel their anger and say whatever they want without it spilling into other threads and without the threat of being banned. Keep it contained. If it starts spilling over, warnings and bans should ensue.

- Once a member's journal is approved, they should be able to moderate it them self, deleting posts that they don't want in it, etc. Also, once a journal is approved, subsequent posts to it shouldn't have to go through a mod before being posted.

- Some sort of image editor to be included in the site so that we can better change our own avatars ourselves, instead of running to the mods for help [or maybe I'm just retarded when it comes to that].

That's just off the top.

[MERIT]

Nah, I'm from the U.S. I need to go to a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty.

Frownland

Closest thing that we have to that atm is quote notifications and you never know who has those enabled.

I don't think that attracting hatred to any part of our forum is a good idea.

I would be okay with this as far as the OP posting without having to go through a mod once their journal is approved. Maybe an option for a "conditional journal" or something for newer members who want in on the journal action. Not sure on the likelihood of that happening though.

There's a good one in the Avatar Requests OP. You can also use MS Paint and host your image on www.imgur.com.

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windsock

I personally use paint.net for resizing images. It's free and better than paint. Let's you maintain aspect ratio which is important if you don't want your avatar looking stretched.

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MicShazam

I just use Gimp, which is a really good, free program that aims to be like a lighter version of Photoshop. It's great, but takes a bit of getting used to since it can do a lot of things.

grindy

You can maintain aspect ratio in paint.

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Plankton

Imgur has a nifty edit function that lets you resize your images.

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Exo

- Quoting pretty much takes care of this. There's a feature in your settings to send you email notifications when you get quoted that has a link to the direct quote.

- Every thread has turned into a spill your guts thread nowadays.

- I agree that the journal restrictions are a bit dated. We can try adjusting them.

- This could go either way. I think approval is still important to screen for nudity and whatnot.

EDIT - Didn't see Frowns response. We pretty much lined up though.

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MicShazam

I get notifications when people quote me.

Anyway, I think the only one I care even slightly about is the journal post approval thing. I'm actually waiting for that right now! And guess what? It's balls!

The workaround is easy though: Make a regular thread and post your stuff there instead.

windsock

Sure, but paint.net has more features and generally produces better quality than paint. I believe you can control the compression of your photo in p.net.

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