id417

Good day, my fellow potatoes!

I'm seyrine, and I'm one of the Global Moderators here on Batoto. In light of recent events, and to give the staff more concrete foundations to act on, we have undertaken a rewrite of the Batoto's General Rules and Guidelines. Not much of the site's original rules has changed, rather our intent was to make them easier to understand and easier to follow (as a member) and enforce (as a part of the staff). We will be implementing this revision of the rules immediately and we hope you take the time to read them.

In addition to the revision of the rules, we have created a new subforum that will include copies of most of the site's policies. The purpose of this subforum is to keep the most important threads in one place and hopefully make things easier to find. The latter was one of the chief issues with the rules based on feedback we received earlier this year.

Finally, in an effort to give everyone a chance and in the sake of fairness, we have clarified our warning system in this post and created a new procedure in handling warning and ban appeals. With this, everyone will have a chance to appeal their warnings if their arguments hold merit. We urge everyone in the community to read it and be familiar with the site rules and policies; to ensure that everyone (or most of the potatoes anyway) will have a good time on Batoto.

Thank you and keep on reading!
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Relevant Links:

Rules and Guidelines: http://vatoto.com/forums/forum-192/announcement-2-rules-guidelines/

Rules, Guidelines and FAQ Subforrm: http://vatoto.com/forums/forum/10299-rules-guidelines-faq/

Warnings and Ban Appeal Thread: http://vatoto.com/forums/topic/17023-warning-system-and-appeal-procedure/

This announcement got quite delayed due to kind of crazy recruitment progress. haha

 We have 3 new contribution moderators!

AcidWeb
Shadowed Fate
MarchClover

 And 3 new forum moderators!

General forum moderator:
ROTFLMAOMAGNETS

RP Forum Moderator
Maia

Comic Forums moderator
themantarays

Congratulations to all the selected to be a batoto moderator and thank you to all those who applied. This brings closure to our moderator recruitment round.

Also, in the event that we may went to recruit few more moderators, we might message some of the other applicants who have already received rejection or not received any notice from us (which also means not accepted...).

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We also have few moderators who are now retired.

SoundSpark
Thunder Wolf *
101010 *

Thank you for your service and your help in making Batoto a better community.

* Though thunder wolf & 101010 has went inactive/retired some time ago, I felt they lacked a proper send-off. So, I've included them here.

Spoiler

I'll just leave this here. No, that is not me...or is it?

Felt like lot of announcements are rarely seen by people. So, I added it to the front page.

 

This announcement isn't important, but hopefully people won't miss important ones in the future, like down times. For small announcements, I usually stuff it in here.

I'm puzzled by this. If an announcement was of sufficient importance that all the registered users needed to be notified of it, shouldn't it be sent as a notification? There is a notification widget right at the top of every page on Batoto. Why not use this to notify folks about important announcements instead of cluttering up the Batoto homepage any more than it already is? Also, it seems like a real waste to have a widget and not make use of it, don't you think?

You don't. I don't want people to miss things.

the spot chosen and the crushing to the follow section is horrid...

I really feel the language settings should go below the follows list. Finding the language feature is important. Constantly seeing it however is not, so it is fine if one had to scroll a little to see it. I'd also prefer the announcements below "My follows", but I can understand if you want it at the most prominent top spot.

You don't. I don't want people to miss things.

Can you put the "Announcements" under the "My Follows"?

So how do I hide the announcement sidebar?