4 of the five lounges I was a part of where deleted. I will miss seeing the posts and just talking there, but I dont really care it was just a nice off topic place.
They put it there so people could go off topic with some of the more familiar board members here and then they take it away citing low post quality? That makes no sense, you have to expect that kind of stuff when you open a forum like that up. I think that there might be a bit more to the story here.
I'll share what Dre said: The original premise of the team lounges was to reward forums had alot of active members,that maintained high traffic and generated lots of quality posts and discussions. We have gotten away from that in recent months. We feel that to maintain the integrity of our 'For Diehard Basketball Fans Only' stance we need to stick with the guidelines of a lounge as a reward for aforementions forums. These forums may once again be activated by doing the following things: <ul><font color="Red">Having between 10 - 15 'quality' members that post daily and contribute to the forum.</font>[/list] <ul>Having a thriving forum with lots of quality message traffic.[/list] Some of you will say how is that done? The moderators of a forum need to recruit quality members and the members need to make the forum attractive to people by the quality posting and conversation. Making a quality forum takes work and I know some of you say you aren't moderators or your forums don't have moderators You don't need to be moderators to transform a forum into something good. Just be a dedicated member who wants to contribute and have a quality forum. If you guys started improving your post quality, we could possibly get the lounge back. In the meantime we no longer have it due to lack of quality in the actual Magic forum - very wise idea to close it down. <font color="Blue"> Thread locked by Ice</font>
