In order to clarify a rule that has been questioned of late, we would like to state that the rule applying to English-Only in the forums ALSO applies to Visitor Messages in individual profiles.

The main reason for this is that we don't want people to be able to come by and, for example, insult someone in another language so that they don't understand what was just said to them - this rule is primarily to allow everyone to understand everyone else and also to prevent flaming.

Thank you for your understanding.

Once again -

The server will be shut down for a few minutes very soon. We are going to fix the wallsocket where the server is hooked up. It looks horrible
We will be back a few minutes after the server goes down.

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And we're back!

Hey everybody. I just want to tell you why the server was down 20 minutes today. It was nothing nasty, actually it was very good.
The server has been moved to a room next to my bedroom instead of being in my bedroom. So now my room is much quieter and will maybe cause less stress on me to not be reminded about the things I have to do ALL the time

Ralle

New changes are taking place here at hive. I have been changing the resource sections. Moderating is now a bit different.
We have 5 states a resource can be in:
-2 rejected (permanent)
-1 rejected (until updated)
0 pending
1 approved
2 reviewed

Reviewed obviously means that the resource has a review but also that it is approved. This also means that moderators can moderate resources with writing a review, they simply have to type in a few reasons of why and what. This makes the moderation job much quicker, especially for the maps section which we hope to clean out within a few months.

So reviewed resources will be weighted higher than just approved resources, if the rating of the resource is good though. But resource moderators aren't forced to review a resource, though they ARE forced to moderate it. So if your resource is getting reviewed it must be because it's worth it.

So I hope to speed up the moderation process for our moderators with these changes.

Greetings, members of the Hive!

In an effort to address the growing problem of disproportionate punishments that have been causing problems lately, the staff has implemented a new system that we hope will encompass any and all rule breaking that may happen and specify a punishment for each rule that may be broken.

*Thanks to Rising_Dusk and zombie2279 for coming up with the idea of a table to standardize things.

1. The RED text is the length of the INFRACTION for the punishment.
2. The GREEN text is any additional action on the part of the moderator.

The punishment table with all of the possible problems and resolutions can be viewed here:

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/apps.php?p=pages&f=punishments

Thank you!