Forum Updates Explained

From TLF Team:

Hey gals! The Lakehouse Forum is open for business once again. We recommend reading this over before resuming posting-there are some changes to be discussed.

First of all, eternal thanks to Ley for working so hard on this forum. She spent 4+ hours installing, clearing out, and just tuning up the forum. Years are being shaved off her life with all she goes through.

We’ve gone through the forum just deleting old topics, one-time announcements, and locked topics. You can see we’ve debuted a new banner previously used in a newsletter. More clearing out is expected in Basic Star Wars Chat and TCW topics, but at a later date.

Some changes:

We’ve installed a rank system. These ranks are visual distinctions only and do not grant privileges or anything like that. The ranks are: Founder(Ley's acount) Admin (the admin account) Global Moderator(The mods), VIP Member(2000+ posts), and Advanced Member (1000+). These ranks are only partly installed right now and will be complete sometime in the near future.

TLF also now has a warning system. These are right under the profile pics of members, and for now they are all green. When somebody breaks a rule, the bar gets smaller and begins to change color. This is to let members know when we are serious and to warn them before we start to get all psychotic. Everybody starts out fresh, and please remember that this not a measurement of popularity or “good standing”. For example: You cannot get marked down for getting in an argument, but you can get marked down for continuing the argument after a moderator says the argument must be stopped.

As for the mugglenet warnings some members have been receiving, we did some research while the forum was down and believe we have completely removed the items setting off the warning. If you still get warnings, take a screenshot of it and send it to one of the mods so they can fix it once again. The forum is clear now! Yay!

Here at TLF, we exercise the policy of containment. We strive to keep the peace on the forum and to keep it at a relaxing atmosphere for everybody. This is why we avoid controversial topics, delete some posts or pictures, and stop discussion and debate on heated topics before they can spread. Please understand our actions are not personal and doesn’t mean we disagree or agree with anything that was said. Also, most actions are taken only with the approval of other moderators. To help us, avoid posting controversial topics, and if members get into a debate, please try to stay out of it and avoid taking sides(even ours!) to keep it down as possible until the moderators have dealt with it.

Also, personal problems you may have with other members should, if possible, be resolved between you and the other members. While we agree to hear your concern about issues on the forum, we are very busy (especially with PMs) so please think things through and decide on whether it’s really important before sending it to us.

We also aim to resolve whatever personal problems we have with members as directly, privately, and peacefully as possible. Please try to do the same.

We missed all of you during the break! Start-a-posting!

Sincerely,
The Lakehouse Adminstration
Leia Organa
Amaranthine
Jedi~Chick
Rachel-is-a-Jedi
JediKnightGirl

Everything looks great!! I look forward to posting more often on here. Awesome job ladies!

luv luv luv luv LUV!!! The banner is fabulous. And I like a little clean up from time to time.

Awesome! I apprececiate all of the work y'all have put in to this!

Awesome job girls!!!!! Thank you so much for all that you do for the forum, I really appreciate it! I love y'all so much! <3 *hugs*

Great new editions girls! Eager to see how fast I'll get used to not getting lost in the clutter xD

Anyway, everything is awesome; I love it! <3

It's so awesome how much work you put into this!! Thank you!

thanks for all your hard work girls it llooks fantastic love the updates

Awesome!! Great job! The forum looks a million times better! A lot less crowded.

You all are doing a great job!!!! I love it!!!!

It's looking great! You all have put so much time into making this forum awesome - thank you so much!!

Thank you so much for all you do (and for creating it) this Forum