The following list of proposals is open to debate and discussion, naturally. I want to get everyones input on both the issues themselves and the proposed changes before anything is implemented. Feel free to speak your mind
Issues and Proposed Changes For Resolution
General Forum Moderators -- Theyre out of date, its that simple. The list currently comprises of three Global Mods/Admins, Lighty (who left 3 years ago), and BlueFlames who rarely visits. My opinion is that a complete replacing of the list is required. In order to try and bring together the community more, MS has suggested and I agree, that the new list should be made up by several leaders of our most active groups, and others who have not been tasked with such responsibility before. Therefore, the proposal is that the following be appointed as the new General Forum Moderators Kahn, undrin, Laughing Man, Syro, Stracius.
As a subnote, it has also been suggested that the General Forum be renamed to something that more reflects its position as a Community gathering point. Namely "Community General" or "SSX Community General". Whilst it is not currently proposed that this be changed as part of this Shake Up, thoughts on this point are welcome.
Forum Administrators -- It has been noted that we havent had a new Administrator in quite some time now, and the team tends to rely on the same three or four people most of the time. Whilst realistically there is not generally an awful lot of admin work that needs doing on the forum at the moment, as time has gone on a lot of us have gotten busier, and perhaps that should be telling us that we should consider appointing a new Administrator to learn the ropes as it were and provide an extra pair of hands for when it is required. Since he is, in effect, a Site Administrator already having Admin level access to the News and widespread access to our various group websites, along with being a Global Moderator and very active around IRC (which will help massively should problems arise), it is proposed that MS be appointed as a new Forum Administrator.
IRC Automatic Operators To anyone who frequents IRC, it is no shock to hear that a lot of Opping goes on. However our AutoOps list isout of date, being comprised of mostly outdated nicknames and people who rarely visit. It is proposed that, with Eds permission of course, the following nicknames be removed from the IRC Auto Ops list SSX-Killjoy, SSX-esd, Saad, esd, and Goober5000. It is also proposed that the following nicknames be added to the Auto Ops list Judd-MGT, firedancer, SSX-MS, and Isileth.
Group Forums It has been pointed out that for a long time, probably for too long a time, both the Lore and the FS2 group have been in effect dead. Their group forums however, have always managed to avoid any archiving generally because of the feeling that As long as there is someone still playing, it stays. Unfortunately, I can think of no-one who actively and regularly plays either of the games under the SSX banner anymore (except perhaps esd in Lore, but his time has been limited of late). I really dont think we can justify leaving open the dead forums anymore, whatever our sentiments may be (and believe me, it being my original group I will be very sad to see FS2 go). Realistically, this should have been done a long time ago, therefore it is proposed that both the Freespace and Lore groups be archived.
It has also been mentioned that our list of Archived forums is getting fairly long, and the possibility of turning them into subforums has been raised. Whilst this is not possible with phpBB2 without significant modding, it is a core feature of phpBB3. Last I spoke to him, Fahd was going to look into the possibility of making the switch namely how we could do it without breaking everything due to our mods. I will be chasing this up when I next catch up with Fahd and seeing how we can proceed down that path, because admittedly this too is a very good point.
As stated above, thoughts/comments, even more ideas for incorporation in this Structural Shake Up are welcome
. As regards to the auto-op list, I don't think Saad will mind - I'll poke him to visit the IRC channel though 
. Yeah, archive 'em. They've not had new posts since March. That's 6 months...
;). I'll be on IRC this weekend, so we can talk it through then.
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Have fun with that thought I would be willing to help in anyway that I can.
