First topic message reminder :
Today, Duel Academy gets few new little features that will enhance your experience with this site.
Report System
Recently you requested from us to add the report system with a button where you can report certain posts if you think something is against the rules there. There it is, a small icon
above the post itself, along with other post buttons. When you click it, a reply-like window will open, where you can choose one of the major reasons for reporting and then explain the details yourself. If none of those reasons fits your needs, then choose "Misc" indicating Miscellaneous, again with providing us the details.
Of course, we will try to handle it the best way we can. However, do not try to abuse this option, you cannot report anything you want. You know that we are people and that forum rules are always harder than we are used to when we speak, so if someone says a bad word in a joke, do not consider it as rule breaking to be able to report it. Then, we might issue you a warning for wasting our time. We are all humans, so deal with it. Report only really rule breaking material. If you insist on unnecessary reporting, we will disable the option for you in the future, so please be careful with it.
Contribution & Reputation Points System
From now on, we DA has two more valuable profile fields called Contribution Points
and Reputation Points 
. So, what are these points?
Contribution Points (CP) are points based on your overall contribution to the forum. The following is counted in CP:
Announcements, Site Suggestions, Shadow Arena, Tag Arena and Articles Library give out even 10 points instead of 3.
Forum Reputation is also counted in CP.
Reputation Points is a subfeature of Contribution Points. This is the
way members can reward each other with reputation points. These points
are also counted in CP as stated above. The following is counted in RP:
When you thank a post that was valuable for you in your topic, the member whose post is thanked will get the following message under his/her signature:
"
Amy Cool Thanks You! "
Of course, Amy Cool is just an example. There will be your name written if you were the one who thanked the member for the post.
Now you probably ask yourself why should you even care for these points or why should you like other posts or thank people for contributing in your topics? Well, Duel Academy always had the greatest respect to most valuable members. It means the more you contribute in a positive way, staff looks at you with more respect and at the end, when we have a staff position available, you will be easier considered if you have more Contribution and Reputation Points than other members. Also, in future we will have these connected to our events or features which means for example we organize a tournament where only members above 1000 Contribution Points can enter it, or lets say we want to give out some rewards for the most valuable ones from you and there come your points in play. There will be many events which are connected to those points in future so its better for you to build a good and positive career in DA.
Also, aside from rewards due to these points, they motivate you to act more peaceful towards others, especially Like and Thanks features. People feel good when you like their posts and you feel good when yours get liked too. Same with Thanks. With that cool feature where the member who earned thanking gets marked in his or her post with those stars, you have one more reason why you should really thank to people who answer your question/help/contribute in some of your topics.
Additional notice for the smart ones: Maybe some of you know that phpbb2 forum version has those plus and minus signs for good or bad reputation and maybe you figured out that my codes are javascript which you could turn off when loading the page and then you would be able to click on that minus or generally said, get the link to negative reputation so you could not only blame anzo with words, but also with negative reputation. Well, my name is Amy Cool and I have already thought about it all, so if you do that, nothing will happen because I have put that negative reputation gives 0 negative points. At the end, you will just waste time, negative reputation is turned off with that and even if you click on it, as I said nothing happens.
Enjoy our new features
Report System
Recently you requested from us to add the report system with a button where you can report certain posts if you think something is against the rules there. There it is, a small icon
above the post itself, along with other post buttons. When you click it, a reply-like window will open, where you can choose one of the major reasons for reporting and then explain the details yourself. If none of those reasons fits your needs, then choose "Misc" indicating Miscellaneous, again with providing us the details.Of course, we will try to handle it the best way we can. However, do not try to abuse this option, you cannot report anything you want. You know that we are people and that forum rules are always harder than we are used to when we speak, so if someone says a bad word in a joke, do not consider it as rule breaking to be able to report it. Then, we might issue you a warning for wasting our time. We are all humans, so deal with it. Report only really rule breaking material. If you insist on unnecessary reporting, we will disable the option for you in the future, so please be careful with it.
Contribution & Reputation Points System
From now on, we DA has two more valuable profile fields called Contribution Points
and Reputation Points . So, what are these points?Contribution Points (CP) are points based on your overall contribution to the forum. The following is counted in CP:
- 1 per friend (friend management is located in your profile as well).
- 1 per post. Some sections give out more than just 1 point per post. This depends on how valuable the section is.
- 3 per topic. Some sections give out more than just 1 point per topic. This depends on how valuable the section is.
Announcements, Site Suggestions, Shadow Arena, Tag Arena and Articles Library give out even 10 points instead of 3.
Forum Reputation is also counted in CP.
Reputation Points is a subfeature of Contribution Points. This is the
way members can reward each other with reputation points. These points
are also counted in CP as stated above. The following is counted in RP:
- 1 per topic/post like. To like a topic click on
icon within the post you want to like. - 3 per Thanks. To thank a topic click on
button located within other post buttons. You can only thank in topics you created.
When you thank a post that was valuable for you in your topic, the member whose post is thanked will get the following message under his/her signature:
"
Amy Cool Thanks You! "Of course, Amy Cool is just an example. There will be your name written if you were the one who thanked the member for the post.
Now you probably ask yourself why should you even care for these points or why should you like other posts or thank people for contributing in your topics? Well, Duel Academy always had the greatest respect to most valuable members. It means the more you contribute in a positive way, staff looks at you with more respect and at the end, when we have a staff position available, you will be easier considered if you have more Contribution and Reputation Points than other members. Also, in future we will have these connected to our events or features which means for example we organize a tournament where only members above 1000 Contribution Points can enter it, or lets say we want to give out some rewards for the most valuable ones from you and there come your points in play. There will be many events which are connected to those points in future so its better for you to build a good and positive career in DA.
Also, aside from rewards due to these points, they motivate you to act more peaceful towards others, especially Like and Thanks features. People feel good when you like their posts and you feel good when yours get liked too. Same with Thanks. With that cool feature where the member who earned thanking gets marked in his or her post with those stars, you have one more reason why you should really thank to people who answer your question/help/contribute in some of your topics.
Additional notice for the smart ones: Maybe some of you know that phpbb2 forum version has those plus and minus signs for good or bad reputation and maybe you figured out that my codes are javascript which you could turn off when loading the page and then you would be able to click on that minus or generally said, get the link to negative reputation so you could not only blame anzo with words, but also with negative reputation. Well, my name is Amy Cool and I have already thought about it all, so if you do that, nothing will happen because I have put that negative reputation gives 0 negative points. At the end, you will just waste time, negative reputation is turned off with that and even if you click on it, as I said nothing happens.
Enjoy our new features
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