Just gonna leave this here :point_down:

Howdy, here is the latest updates and news from the administration team:

Added - Upvotes: Users must have 10 reputation points to upvote.
Added - Sideeye Emoji: Can be used by using the command :sideeye:
Added - Cool Cat emoji: Can be used by using the command :coolkitty:
Removed - Downvoting: Downvoting has been completely removed until further notice.
Removed - The bio limit was originally set to 10000 by me, I have reduced it to 5000.
Removed - Post Queue
Removed - GIF Profile Pictures
Added - Spam Detection Bot, @AntiSpamio!

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On behalf of the BrowseDNS Administration and The Service Developers, I would like to announce a well deserved nomination to our 2025 Staff Member Of The Year!

This individual has went above and beyond our staff policies and expectations for the team.

We are beyond excited to announce @Sofii as our new Staff Member Of The Year and Co-Manager for Forum Services!!!

Here is a special message from our staff team:

Name: @Maditalian
Rank: BrowseDNS Co-Admin
Message: Sofii you are an outstanding staff member, keep it up. You deserve this and never give up on your dreams. Stay positive and Stay determined! We appreciate what you do for us and I want it to be clear that you should continue doing what you are doing. You give people something to look up to and be inspired by.

Congratulations,
Raven

Name: @Almond
Rank: BrowseDNS Co-Admin
Message: Congratulations to the staff of the year! Keep up the great work, your a great example of a BrowseDNS staff member! Special thanks to the whole staff team as well, love you all!

Much love,
Almond

Name: @Apollo.Is.Silly
Rank: Senior Forum Mod
Message: Congratulations Sofiii! I am so joyous that you were picked out to be the staff member of the year. You really are an amazing staff member and an user, too. I am glad to work alongside with you and be your friend on here. Great work!

Name: @Nared
Rank:Senior Global Mod
Message: Congrats Sofii! I am so happy that you were chosen to be staff member of the year. Throughout this whole year. You showed determination and promise in what makes our mod team so special. I am so happy to work alongside you. You show everyone how good of a staff member you really are. And you have truly earned my vote. Keep up the great work, and Remember Happy Browsing - With kind regards - Nared

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Thank you for reading,

Raven
BrowseDNS Co-Admin

What is this agent stuff that yall keep posting about? It looks to me like it is more like a mini-mod cult that consistently goes past the line by being so unbelievably disrespectful and idiotic. Just LMK if I got it wrong.

Some areas have laws in place that make it okay for there to be a 3 year gap in between couples.

On God if I find out both of them did absolutely nothing wrong everyone who participated is catching a long ban, maybe even permanent considering how serious this is. This is your chance to disband this cult of yours before I do it for you.

You should get your GED regardless of what your mother says if you plan on getting more beneficial jobs and opened doors in the future.

Just get that over with and you'd probably be able to get more jobs and everything else you want to do. Without it you don't have many work options and/or any college choices.

After you get your GED, you don't even have to go to college or further your education, but dropping out is the worst mistake a human can make in their life and eventually does not get them anywhere.

If you believe that dropping out will support you 10-15 years (or more) from now then go ahead and do what you think is best, but choice wisely. You can always go back for your GED.

I don't believe it is a Nintendo issue or something Nintendo has caused. Typically when you login and you get redirected to your profile page you should have your sidebar displayed. If not, you will get redirected to your profile page and it will appear as if you aren't logged in but in reality "you are". It just takes time for the site to realize that you have already logged in. You get redirected to your profile but still have access to the options that allow you to edit your profile settings but not to other features.

I tested this issue and it only seems to occur when you login successfully and you click the back button multiple times to the point where you went back to a page that you were on before you were logged in to your account. Just go back to the BrowseDNS Homepage and click the big blue login button, it should work.

Edit: The 503 Errors is basically you getting rate limited. It occurs typically when the site starts to bug due to database issues, slowness of the site, your device sending multiple requests to the server (common for botnets to do), etc. I'm sure the @administrators will take a look into that when they get a chance.

All i did was tell you NOT to do something, which is simply doing what i'm supposed to do. You said something that wasn't very accurate so you needed to be educated.

If you're responding and i'm educating you, how is that arguing? Lets make sense. Topic Closed.

Cry all you want

I have tissues! if you need any lmk :sneezing_face:

man yall complain when we dont do anything but then when do something it's a f*cking issue. Get a grip.

To me it seems like we are just saying shit without actually looking into the whole point of having moderators, which is to enforce rules. Nothing in this world is free from consequences or some form of limitation, that is a fact, so if we are going to speak factually here, we are practically doing the same thing that the whole world is doing. Our rules are made to keep our platform healthy, safe, and enjoyable to some extent. P

At the end of the day, there are laws that require us to avoid breaking, so before we sit here and f*cking assume that moderation is pointless, maybe go fact check? Not hard.

@st4tic said in As someone who's PR department, how might we improve and keep users from leaving?:
As for staff, some of them should be way more patient with certain users. I don't even mean to be rude but seriously.

For example, I've recently seen a user here (shrub, who is now banned,) having to appeal a warning that was only given to her because she said "newsletter ahh post" jokingly. Sure, it was eventually revoked, but it shouldn't even have been issued in the first place since it wasn't rule-breaking at all. If you need another example, some posts talking about another forum site (mppc) were being mass-deleted in a topic, and for seemingly no reason at all. They were not mass-advertising, they weren't doing anything inherently inappropriate, and everyone in the comments was confused by it.

and another thing that I hope was changed(? I'm still kinda confused by it) was a strange dislike for shitposting. I mean, this is a silly forum site after all and shitposting is a great part of the internet. That's just how it is. You could argue "but this is originally for talking about tech and homebrew" but do you really think people use this site for just that? The answer is no. Most people use this just to post silly topics like irl updates or talk about their favorite show, which is why different categories even exist. so like. How would shitposting even affect anything here so negatively?

and yeah, i dont mean all of the mods- but if this behavior could be changed i would greatly appreciate it. I'm sorry if nothing here makes sense im writing this at 1 am and my brain isn't even functioning very well atp <//3

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Nice reply and post regarding this matter. Let us begin,

I want to start off by saying that I have been doing this long enough to know what and how we need to improve a community. Even though some changes are major and take away a lot from this site, they will almost always benefit us in some way. Therefore, I ask that everyone start waiting rather than immediately pointing the finger and complaining. That's an issue as well and I am not referring to you at all. Just keep this in mind.

As stated before, the only reason Shrub and the other User were warned was that newsletters are meant to have clear, constructive, and meaningful replies as this is usually content that is going to be published via Social Media. Additionally, I still hold the expectation that if something isn't necessarily needed or isn't constructive, don't post it.

The Moderation Team noticed a spike in thread-derailing and unnecessary, unconstructive posts made by the community. This forum for the longest has banned any form of Shitposting long before much was said regarding it. However, Shitposting wasn't really a problem until the last few months, when we had a problem with unconstructive, foolish posts, which could in our eyes, be deemed as shitposting.

Despite numerous announcements to keep posts constructive, this problem continued to become worst throughout the months ahead. Additionally, the Forum started dying until we started pushing the unconstructive posts off the site.

This wasn't just an issue, it was a problem that needed to be fixed.

Therefore, shitposting was banned in the forums section, but deemed okay for our public chatrooms.

As a result of us starting to remove shitposting and encouraging more on-topic discussions (this was exactly why the engagement category was made), the number of posts increased by over 10,000 and the number of Topics increased significantly.

On-Topic discussions give you something to post to, rather than a foolish, unconstructive post that is ruining engagement and the amount of interesting content around the forum.

Others, for weeks have been privately begging us to take action regarding this. It was even to the point where the administrators had to step in and help out with this issue!

I believe that our actions to limit the amount of shitposting in the forums, which are meant to have engaging content has boosted the desire to post more and ultimately increased the amount of conversation around the forum area.

To add on to this, we get about 400,000 unique views monthly. Unique views are views from different people, devices, etc. It is just a fancy way of saying that we have 400,000 people either looking through our forum or using the forum to browse the internet. Our goal is to increase the number of users we have coming in by improving engagement and the number of interesting topics. To be genuine, we should've banned shitposting a long time ago.

Regarding your statement about the MPPC forum and other forum communities, we have temporarily removed the mentions and advertisements that users have been creating. This was not done to be petty or show hate towards this forum. Our administration team and higher-ups frequently talk with the forum administrators as we work together to fix issues around our forum. Additionally, I have removed it as we work to establish connections with other forums in hopes of creating an affiliate page that would improve relationships outside of our forum, which is something we are aiming for in the long run.

Hopefully, this somewhat clears up the confusion and I will be awaiting your reply.

Statistically speaking we've actually seen a decrease in the amount of users, posts, and topics, this past month.

Last Month Statistics:
Unique Visitors (These are 100% different people): 282,698.
Topics: 1,010
Posts: 10,920
New Registrations: 401

This Months Statistics:
Unique Visitors: 463,928 / 64.1% Increase
Topics: 851 / 15.7% Decrease
Posts: 10,866 / 0.5% Decrease
New Registrations: 203 / 34.4% Decrease

We are probably going to use github just as a way for you all to see what we are working on here and the rest of the BrowseDNS Service. @VGMoose would probably be the one to ask about the projects and changes he has made.

We did talk about the data deletion process after a user deletes their account as for some reason NodeBB does not delete the posts but instead they just display the username as "A Former User" but there is still more to talk about.

These things take time so we just ask you're patient.

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When he learns to stop acting like a clown then i will take unbanning him into consideration. He will be unbanned just how everyone else will. If he does not want to go through the process than he can stay banned.

I drink, yes, but I do it in moderation like every normal adult should. As far as smoking, not at all.

@FlavPlaz45129 hmmm... probably teal

sooo... why have you not learned to not post this nonsense in announcements

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@Raven
you moderate a web forum in 2025 your opinion dosent hold much weight lmao

Respectfully, I don't know why you think anything you say matters but other peoples opinions don't. I don't think you understand how egoistical and stupid that sounds from you. You can leave, we are not keeping you here. I could honestly care less about you or what you have to say.

You literally can not say something so disrespectful and expect to get respect back from it and I am saying this to everyone, it just isn't how this works.

I want it to be clear that I did not send that post with the intention to discriminate, be disrespectful, or cause harm to anyone. I simply sent it with the intention to point out how stupid something was and to try and make it clear that everyone gets the same kind of treatment but we're attacking the person who was literally standing up for someone else, kind of shows why people keep leaving. To be fair I could care less about someones sexual orientation and i'd probably forget about it eventually.

i have a feeling you were doing this while they were tryna teach lol

I'm not the one to go at someone if they truely are making a commitment to changing their ways, obviously there are some things we can't give second chances to. In regards to this inappropriate conduct situation I believe that because it does not involve BrowseDNS you are indeed bringing on more drama to the website than we already have. Nothing will be done at all on our behalf until this conduct continues here.

Anyone who consistently takes part in drams will be subject to mute or ban, no questions asked. If you do think that rules of our website were violated please contact a global mod or forum mod.