-Moderators do not post in this

1. Do not flame anybody.
We don't need people to start insulting everyone and making trouble. If you do flame you will receive one warning, after that you may become banned.

2. Do not spam.
Don't go post, post, post, post on every thread to get your post count up, it's not worth it if you become banned for it.

3. Swearing limit.
We are lenient on swearing, just don't go making every post have four F-bombs.

Allowed Example.

So for some reason I decided to make some major updates today. Mainly to the theme. If you notice we have more of a new grunge look and the forum is wider. I also have a mock-banner up there that might be changed to make it better. But that's what we'll be going for, for now.

Secondly, UG's have been closed and removed for now. This sites activity has gone way down and until it gets back up, we have no need for usergroups.

It is essential we all invite our friends to the site and anyone for that matter. Get in contact with old members. Summer is coming so everyone will have...

Well darkprism was asking about moderating two forums as a section mod, and I said I would be adding that. So here it is RULES:

-Two sections at max
-You must have been a section moderator for two weeks
-You must make a new app WITH the second part.

After this the regular process of approval will take place.

Understand that when voting takes place it is going to be taken more serious than before.

-Zeph

We're going to try out a new IRC chatroom. We voted on it apon the staff and they overall think it would be a good idea to try it out, myself included. So let me go over a couple things with it.



1) How to register.

When you first join IRC you won't have a set in stone registered username. To do this you want to type:

/ns register passwordhere emailhere

This will register your username so that nobody can steal it.

Note: Any account theft found and you will be banned from accessing the server


So now...

Well Stephen decided to resign from the staff due to a drop in his activity because I would not de-admin him. It's sad because he was a great member, and one of the best admin's I've had.

In other words we have a new replacement, Zeph! Welcome to the team. You've been here for a long time and such so yea. Have fun being my new slave buddy.

We've been discussing this for a bit now but here are some new site updates for you guys.

Usergroups removed due to inactivity or not needed:

Tech Team
HW Reviewers


New Usergroup:

Section Moderators


Section Moderators are given a special job. They can choose which forum they want to moderate and then they apply for it. The applications are discussed by our Moderation and Administration team, along with current Section Moderators(which there are none atm).

HW MMT has stolen the gray color. We need peeps making maps...

Well here are our yearly award results. If you won then you get a custom field and a picture right next to your name when you post!

Quick note: Some people didn't vote for sections so the votes aren't all going to have the same count. But here are the results from my notepad file!


Member of the Year:
zekedablitzer
Stephen
LolICU
Neverwinter
Neverwinter
SmoothCriminal
Stephen
Diggy
Neverwinter


Moderator of the Year:
gr33n
SexyZephyR
gr33n
SexyZephyR
gr33n
SexyZephyR
SexyZephyR

Congratz HW for reaching the 10,000 post milestone! Not only is it special because it's 10,000 posts but we also did it on New Years

Thank you all for staying loyal and active and lets try to get to 20,000 by the end of the school year!

So firstly, due to inactivity, it will be just me and Neverwinter for now. Anyone can apply. Secondly, ther will be a hiarchy(i know i spelled it wrong) system.

Might as well do this. PM ME YOUR ANSWERS.


Member of the Year:
Moderator of the Year:
Administrator of the Year:
Funny guy of the Year:
Newb of the Year:
Assistant of the Year:
Gaming Mod of the Year:
Recruiter of the Year:
TDP4 Clan Leader of the Year:
Tech Member of the Year:
Graphics Member of the Year:
Retired staff member of the Year:

Merry Christmas everyone. The best time of the year


And as for giving presents, a well deserved person has gotten moderator. SMOOTHCRIMINAL! So gratz

Well I recently took out our donation box due to nobody using it and my paypal being disabled.

In it's place I've added a newly customized feature to the site. A user control panel in place of the donations box!

You can do everything from edit your profile to sending private messages.

I even have some special options for administrators right now and soon to be for moderators. When I get it set up you moderators will be able to manage reports without having to wait for a new one to show up. I expect to add more also.

Well hope you guys like the new feature....

Well I did a little treat for you guys and decided it was about time to release the new HW Snow theme!! We'll be using this all throughout christmas and until the end of January or February. We also have some falling snow that interacts with your mouseI updated it so now if falls in random directions every time you change the page! Sadly it freezes whenever you type in the chatbox but it's still pretty neat. I hope you guys really enjoy the new update! I worked hard on it

I know it was quick but congratulations on mod. Sadly, gr33n was let go, but we already talked about this.

SCC will be replacing him.

As for the new mod at 100 members that is still going to be in place. So yea,

gratz my love <3

We have a new usergroup called the Advertising Crew. This will be led by SmoothCopyCat because she has the most experience and maturity for it. I'm willing to give it one last shot. If it doesn't work then we won't see it again. So yea, wait for an application and we'll get this up and running by the end of tomorrow.

Gratz guys we've reached 7000 posts now. It's a great milestone. Now lets keep going and go for 15,000!

<3 you all

Turned announcements into more of a "blog" look. This will keep things in chronological order so that we don't get those bumps ^^.

I personally think it looks pretty cool so yea,

have fun!


Note: I'll be updating the templates to make this center around an announcements thing and not a blog.

We have now switched to:

http://hissingworms.com/

Thanks to all of your activity forummotion has offered me 1 year with this domain. I love you all