Ryan
10-27-2013, 02:49 AM
Over the next couple of months we will be making a few changes at Simply.
A few sections will be revamped or reorganized. This most notably includes Discus University, which will no longer be used to critique individual fish pictures submitted by members. We feel that this type of judging would be best left to NADA as it is their area of expertise. If you haven't already, please check out NADA's website or their sub-forum here at Simply for more information about the association and its mission. It is our hope that the University section will become an informational one, containing articles and guides on what to look for in quality discus. Until we have completed this revamp, Discus University will be taken offline.
Our Discus Hobbyist Challenger contest will official wrap in December. We would like to thank all the participants who've been busy growing out their discus all year. After we've chosen a winner, we'd like to incorporate some other fun, interactive features here. We are still toying around with ideas on monthly or quarterly contests that members can enter. More on that later.
The Livestock/Product Reviews sub-forum will be moderated more closely to ensure that only first-hand experiences are posted. Any posts not directly related to a sale/trade in the Buy/Sell/Trade sub-forum will be removed. We have a tendency to get off-topic and chit chat in various threads (and we mods and admins are guilty of that, too) but these areas were originally intended to be strictly reviews or sales/trades only. Admittedly we've been a bit lax in enforcing that but we will be more diligent going forward. The idea is to cut down on unrelated posts so that sales threads and review threads are more easy to find and navigate. We hope to make these sections leaner and more efficient. Also, we will be disabling posting in the Livestock and Product Reviews sub-forum for new members (those with less than 10 posts) in an effort to prevent fraudulent reviews from newly registered accounts. It's a bit suspicious when multiple accounts with 0 posts log in solely to praise or bash a vendor, never to be seen again.
On a final note, we always consider suggestions from members and all of Simply's mods and admins have group discussions about adding/removing/changing sections and features here. Some of these changes have been suggested over the past year by Simply members. We appreciate your patience -- it does take time to consider and implement these changes. Thank you for your suggestions!
A few sections will be revamped or reorganized. This most notably includes Discus University, which will no longer be used to critique individual fish pictures submitted by members. We feel that this type of judging would be best left to NADA as it is their area of expertise. If you haven't already, please check out NADA's website or their sub-forum here at Simply for more information about the association and its mission. It is our hope that the University section will become an informational one, containing articles and guides on what to look for in quality discus. Until we have completed this revamp, Discus University will be taken offline.
Our Discus Hobbyist Challenger contest will official wrap in December. We would like to thank all the participants who've been busy growing out their discus all year. After we've chosen a winner, we'd like to incorporate some other fun, interactive features here. We are still toying around with ideas on monthly or quarterly contests that members can enter. More on that later.
The Livestock/Product Reviews sub-forum will be moderated more closely to ensure that only first-hand experiences are posted. Any posts not directly related to a sale/trade in the Buy/Sell/Trade sub-forum will be removed. We have a tendency to get off-topic and chit chat in various threads (and we mods and admins are guilty of that, too) but these areas were originally intended to be strictly reviews or sales/trades only. Admittedly we've been a bit lax in enforcing that but we will be more diligent going forward. The idea is to cut down on unrelated posts so that sales threads and review threads are more easy to find and navigate. We hope to make these sections leaner and more efficient. Also, we will be disabling posting in the Livestock and Product Reviews sub-forum for new members (those with less than 10 posts) in an effort to prevent fraudulent reviews from newly registered accounts. It's a bit suspicious when multiple accounts with 0 posts log in solely to praise or bash a vendor, never to be seen again.
On a final note, we always consider suggestions from members and all of Simply's mods and admins have group discussions about adding/removing/changing sections and features here. Some of these changes have been suggested over the past year by Simply members. We appreciate your patience -- it does take time to consider and implement these changes. Thank you for your suggestions!