Completely agree on this. 

Looking at Famiboards, its almost identical to ResetERA when it comes to discussions and viewpoints.

The only thing it has going imo superior to ResetERA is the UI on Famiboards is amazing. The "Like" buton actually has a sound too lol. Custom backgrounds like the Tears of the Kingdom style is really appealing to me.

VGChartz just needs a fresh coat of paint and a bit more activity and users - and all would be well.

I couldn't say the original intentions since that rule has been here since I joined but I imagine it's along the lines of if we allowed it then people would go around publicly in the forms in an attempt to create witch-hunts against certain users, they'd be a lot of "This user should be banned!" in threads and attempt of public pressure instead of simply reporting it, it could be used in clique ways, it also encourages grandstanding. Then of course we also don't want threads dragged off topic by a single user or two complaining about a ban.

As for thread bans, that was my team who introduced those and we introduced those precisely so we didn't need to do full bans, if a user is only an issue in one area then a thread ban solves that issue without banning them from the site entirely, but still people complain as if they'd prefer for us to go back to full bans, Lol. There have been plenty of times I could have banned someone but opted for a thread ban instead. We can use it to remove Xbox trolls or Sony trolls or Nintendo trolls from one section of the site and then they can actually f*cking talk about what they enjoy instead of what they don't

This was on the list once, although I think I suggested to lock it behind supporter, Lol.

Those other things would be nice options, I've wanted multi-selection for a while, and the ability to change your vote in case of accidental miss click, it could have a timer on it like you can't change your vote after 1 day so people don't vote for one thing, then change their vote to the other once the other thing "wins" Lol. I've also wanted public votes, a setting to show who voted for what which could be good for certain prediction style threads, all of these will be options of course and not just applied to every single poll.

A fresh coat of paint would be great. But we don't have the money. Bandorr has helped us with adding many features as a volunteer, however, to redesign the site is another level. I'm not even sure how we want a redesigned site to look. 

I'm looking at the biggest gaming site (I think?), IGN, and instead of a top row with links to the different areas of the site they have it on the left. While the front page is essentially just one really tall column that keeps loading more articles as you scroll down. VGChartz has the front page on desktop as three columns (left sales, middle articles, right forums/user content).

How attached are people to avatars on front page? I still think they make the site look messy. Would something like this not be preferable...

Imagine Bradlod's name is hyperlinked in Orange but the avatar is now removed.

Also having "Discussion" in the name is totally pointless, Lol.

I also think we should merge this table.

Into one.

(Ignore the first empty block).

I like that change a lot! As for the avatars? I think I’d be open to seeing them removed. Could help the site look a little bit more clean.

Yeah remove avatars.

Actually yeah, remove avatar. It’s very weird seeing my Link icon all over the list lol.

I love this shit, Lol. I'm not any good at editing or understanding coding but I still like going into the HTML and doing basic ass changes to try to come up with new ideas, Lol. IIRC I changed up the whole Avatar area in Forum Posts before but I've probably lost that now.

I also want us to revamp the leaderboard area into a mega leaderboard tracking multiple things.