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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nightcloak" data-source="post: 3178903" data-attributes="member: 23862">That's a great idea. Of course I have no idea how to do that so I don't know how difficult it is.I ran through the admin functions and we can assign mod status to users for specif forums. So that will work. Giving CE full access works to cover all loose ends and extras. Plus it's a nice perk for the founder  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> Plus Cat and myself have admin functions so we can also help out if needed. We just need to define the basic rule then to know when someone crosses the line of participating member to "loitering". The rest of the councils thoughts would be good to know on this.I think this will be tough. Advertising costs money, something we don't have. Free advertising (Spam) will get shot down quickly. So I'm not even sure of the proper approach for this. One thing I would suggest, is that once we are up and running, we spread out and visit some of our other favorite forums with good links or banners in our signatures - and just participate there also.Maybe post a link when someone requests help or information that we have on the site. Also, GM's that see a cool banner or link to a GM members site may be inclined to clink on and see what's up. Before we do that, however, we will want the site going enough with some cool and useful threads to get their attention, that way they will want to come back. Marketing will get them in the door, but substance and quality will get them to stay. Gah... I sound like a text book <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /> Some basic rules would cover that. We should have an easily identifiable slogan(s) to these rules to keep it simple. Like ENWorlds "Don't say something that you wouldn't say to your Grandma." I'm not saying we need to go that far, but as a rule slogan that is great. Not only is it easy for all members to remember, but it also became a saying here: "Don't make Eric's Grandma mad!"Agreed on the politics. That is just a debacle waiting to happen. And the flamewars need to be stomped out quickly.I like the lobby idea. It would be like this sites forum for questions about the forums or the GMF. Complaints and suggestions. I like the name to. It has character. IMHO.As for the council forums, we could block the actual forum if we want, but could run the rest of the discussion through the lobby. The nice thing about that is that only people who participate enough to visit the lobby would be involved in the sites discussion while drive-by veiwers wouldn't be voting on things that they probably don't care about, thus deluting the views of involved members.Hope that made since. Holiday weeks in the transportation business is a killer, and I'm waaay behind on my sleepy time...</blockquote>

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