Have everything accessible from one home page, but not too much overkill at the same time. For example hot topics, latest articles, latest charts etc, but no links to websites that have little to do with vgchartz....

Ive been wanting a thread like this for a while.

Sales Forum
General Gaming Forum
Nintendo Forum
PlayStation Forum
Xbox Forum
PC/ Mobile Gaming Forum
Offtopic Forum

I think that would be perfect. Its easy, simple and with a good search function will eliminate a lot of trouble when searching.
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No like/dislike system on posts in the forums please.

Keep avatars as they are, but flesh out the sig rules. Theres been several cases of people being moderated for certain sized images, but others getting away with it. I think a good system would be how naz once had it. Your signature must not go past the box in which your avatar/points sits, providing your post is 1 line long.

Id like to see points removed. It causes a whole lot of spam. Instead, bring back VG$! Give vg$ for posts. Nothing more, nothing less. The more content in your post, the more vg$ your post is worth (1vg$ per 100 characters). vg$ is removed for bans and such. Use this to bring the prediction league back. Now that VGC is going back to being primarily about sales, I think this would be brilliant.

Some other stuff Im curious about, away from the forums but regarding VGChartz as a whole - Sales articles. I miss things like the Japan preview. Theres currently, afaik, only one person pushing out sales articles (aside from yourself).

Main sales data. Can we have Monthly totals back, as well as a top 5 for publishers? Other things such as say, top 30(?) per console? All easily navigatable with dropboxes, instead of having to click through dates?

The thought of a mobile version of this site is brilliant too. Im posting this from my phone now and quoting people is a ballache!

Oh, Id also like to say "Aye" to sorting out the "This users post...".

If a creator of a thread gets banned, the thread is useless. Make it so the entire post history disappears on a permaban. Nothing more.

Edit - Id also like to agree with KylieDog on the "posts in offtopic dont count" thing.

@ Spurge:

The first news we had about the split / new site / reorganisation / call it as you want was this:

Since then the plan has changed, reviews now have their own site, but if the rest still holds true then the move of our games collection to the new site is reasonable.

Not that I like it, but it fits in the general plan.

And your critic reviews won't disappear, they will be moved to the new site. Just like the critics added by the rest of us

Stronger rules! Meaner rules! Harder and faster rules!

In terms of forum setup I don't have a ton of opinions

Just forum policy

I just want Predictions League back...

The point is, its one less reason to spam. Smeags doesnt spam. Smeags doesnt make threads for points or to be popular, Smeags does the stuff because he loves videogames.

Replacing points with vg$ would be brilliant. It would cut down pointless, spammy posts and it would usher back in the prediction league.

Again, I have to change my stance and agree with KD on his "likes" post. That would really work.

I think that having subforums is a good thing. Back on VGC 3.0/4.0 (or whatever you want to call them), I would always use the subforums to find threads that I wanted to see, and ignore the topics I wasn't interested in. Now, with extra clicking to get to subforums, I mostly just browse the hot topics and I miss a lot of threads. The change to make the subforums harder to access (no more drop down menu) actually caused me to post less for quite a while, because I'm lazy and I didn't want to bother loading extra pages to switch between subforums.

For subforums, I'd be fine with Gaming (maybe split by consoles/PC&other), Sales, Website, and Off Topic. If you do keep subforums, I'd really love to see some sort of drop down menu like the site used to have so that I don't have to load a new page to see the list. And please keep the Forum Buddy. I always miss having one when I visit other forums.

Also, I don't know if anyone mentioned this, but I would love to see spoiler tags. If we can't get those, I'd at least like to see the ability to change text/background colours like we used to have, since I used those a lot to hide spoilers.

About a like button; the only reason I'd like to see one is so people don't post "Yes" or "I agree" or whatever, and spam threads.

What would you change about the rules? Be tougher on spam and obvious trolls?

You said a while back that you had ideas. I wanna hear some!

I would love to see the prediction league back and vgchartz $. Those two things were huge reasons to visit the site.