I don't want to talk about the reasons or the question of guilt here.
I want to suggest try to keep that what made TWHL so special alive.
Me, Mephs, jaardsi and Xargol have been talking about this yesterday and considered several ideas what could be done to prevent the TWHL losing its old quality even more.
I will list them all here, regardless of what I think about them, or who suggested them.
1st idea:
- An IRC channel where all the former regulars meet.
- We would still have contact to the others and could discuss new projects etc.
- It wouldn't more than a simple chat. Nothing in comparison to TWHL.
- No real competitions, no place to upload maps, no forum where topics can be discussed much longer than one day.
- Finding alternative communities.
- We would still have contact to the others and could discuss new projects etc.
- There might be a place which is not so overfilled with bratty respectless members.
- It would be quite hard to rally all former members there.
- Most of us would be new to this community, too.
- It is unlikely to find a community or mapping site that is similar to TWHL.
- Add a 'Special Member Area' to TWHL.
- Only special members can decide about new special members, by election or voting.
- No one would have to leave this very place and we could continue as before.
- In this area, we could go on creating quality work and having serious discussions, without being disturbed by outsiders.
- TWHL would not have the same fate as many other forums or communties. Becoming a simple helpforum with 95% bratty members.
- You could consider this as an unfair discrimination.
- This would require changing the current appearance of TWHL.
- Form a completely new community for those old TWHL members.
- We would be in private for a time.
- We would still have contact to the others and could discuss new projects etc.
- It would not be the same as TWHL.
- The same thing which is happening to TWHL could happen to this place too.
- It might again be hard to rally all the old TWHLers.
- We would need a host and new administrators and moderators.
- More strict moderators here.
- Respectless and bratty behaviour would be punished by timed disabling or even banning.
- It might restore or at least keep the quality of TWHL.
- This would be discriminatory again.
- TWHL is supposed to be a place for everybody.
- This would be a fulltime job and might require more moderators.
- Flood TWHL with high quality work.
- Win all the competitons with extremely good entries.
- Post a lot of decent maps into the vault.
- This might scare off people that are only interrested in having some fun with 100kb maps.
- It would certainly raise the quality of TWHL.
- New members would have a measure so they know whether their work if good enough to be uploaded.
- Again this might result in discrimination.
- TWHL is also made for people who are not so good mappers, modellers etc.
- It might be a hard job.
- Similar to number 5.
- A 'report member' feature. People can report inappropriate behaviour to the moderators.
- Members who don't behave right can be banned.
- People would probably think before they write something from time to time.
- Ignorant brattys would be filtered out.
- Discriminatory.
- One could also abuse this featrue.
- It would also mean a lot more work for the moderators.
- A timed delay before new members can access the forums and the vault.
- People who just look for a quick fun could not spam the forums and the vault.
- This might also scare off potentially serious new members.
Of course we could combine these ideas.
It's just important to do something and not just standing around while TWHL is drowning.
If you have an idea too, please reply.
If you want to express your oppinion about those, reply.
Don't reply if you don't really have an oppninion to express.
Also don't start a discussio about the reasons for the dying or the ones that are guilty.
Thank you.