Since the bots are starting to get really annoying I have taken some action against it that is withen my power.

I have made it so new members will have to be accepted by an admin before they can post or do anything with their new account. We will hopfuly be able to use this to stop bots from posting until Ralle can make something else up. So new members, if u want to make sure we can tell your account apart from a bot then send a pm to an admin, that way we should be able to confirm your account is not a bot.

And remember, that from what I can see the bots only use their account once, so I see banning them mostly a waste of time, however if I am wrong and a bot posts more then once I will start banning them.

Thanks, Bob27

Members of The Hiveworkshop.

As you might have noticed, the forums are being swayed back and forth for the last couple of days this due to; trying to achieve the best working forum possible.
At the moment, "The Hiveworkshop" is undergoing a series of changes in order to get the best results out of the forum and its navigation, we therefor ask you to bear the upcoming changes with us, so we can make this forum the best for all forum vistors.

Also, as you might have noticed by now, warcraftIII is getting more exposure again.
We are still supporting the multi-gaming forums but at the moment we let warcraftIII be a part of the primary bord, this for all best intrests off course.


~Thank you
The hiveworkshop Team

Already gotten my first wave of "OMFG WTF WHY DID YOU DELETE MY MAP!!!111" PMs in my inbox.

All of the 1400 maps I deleted this month of July were done because of the broken link problem (the files no longer exist due to problems with the host, and are instead leaving empty download pages which I have been steadily removing). I gave months of advance notice to people to update their maps so that they be uploaded on our server again. Only a very few select people did so. Dont say I didnt warn anybody.

Plus, recent news has stated over and over was has been going on in regards to broken link maps. So I'll just say this; if you wont even bother to take 5 minutes to read the site news to know what is going on with the site, then I wont bother take the five minutes to respond to your PMs. Sound fair?

Thats what I thought.
-VGsatomi

<font size="2">"SOLDIER on July 28, 2006"</font>
We are proud to present the three winning maps as well as the honorable mentions for our sports map contest. There were several excellent submissions, and the judging was extremely tough, but we had a great time playing all of these and hope you had fun making them. Go here to see the different prizes that will be awarded for this contest, and keep an eye out for more contests in the future on the Battle.net Mod Support site!</quote>

<table width="60%" bgcolor="EFDEB1" border="1" bordercolor=#000000><tr><td><table width="100%"><tr><td><table width="33%"><tr><td><fieldset><legend><font color="FFD700">1st place</font></legend><table width="100%"><tr><td><fieldset><a href="http://maps.worldofwar.net/maps.php?id=10135"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/Warnicro/Goldcraft.jpg"></a></td></tr></fieldset><tr><td bgcolor="CAB274"><font size="3">Golfcraft<fontsize></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="997644">Creativity: 8
Fun: 10
Technical: 10
Polish: 10</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></fieldset></td><td><table width="33%"><tr><td><fieldset><legend><font color="C0C0C0">2nd place</font></legend><table width="100%"><tr><td><fieldset><a href="http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/war3/maps/spotlight/My_Boomstick_OSSMRASSA.zip"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/Warnicro/MyBoomstick.jpg"></a></td></tr></fieldset><tr><td bgcolor="CAB274"><font size="3">My Boomstick<fontsize></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="997644">Creativity: 9
Fun: 7
Technical: 8
Polish: 9</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></fieldset></td><td><table width="33%"><tr><td><fieldset><legend><font color="8C7853">3rd place</font></legend><table width="100%"><tr><td><fieldset><a href="http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/war3/maps/spotlight/Friscraft.zip"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/Warnicro/FrisCraft.jpg"></a></td></tr></fieldset><tr><td bgcolor="CAB274"><font size="3">FrisCraft<fontsize></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="997644">Creativity: 9
Fun: 8
Technical: 8
Polish: 7</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></fieldset></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table width="50%"><tr><td><fieldset><legend><font color="F08080">Honorable Mentions</font></legend><table width="100%"><tr><td> <a href="http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/war3/maps/spotlight/DwarvenDownhill1.0.zip">* Dwarven Downhill</a>
<a href="http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/war3/maps/spotlight/XGM-TreaM%20Soccer.zip">* XGM Soccer</a>
<a href="http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/war3/maps/spotlight/(10)Etherball.zip">* Etherball</a></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></fieldset></td></tr></table>

I've lately seen a lot of complains from people, that certain recolors are accepted, and others are not. Since everyone asked for a purge and we don't want to have anyone discriminated around here, thinking that we are impartial, I have decided that pure recolors will no longer be accepted.

Exception files are Darky's icons (why? because he owns the site) and Blizzard icons (because they were put here by Darky himself). If Darky allows me, I will remove these icons as well. Until then, they will stay. But any other icon, purely recolored, will be deleted.