Rapture

Forum Link: http://raptureif.net
I will answer all questions: yeah sure
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I can not seem to find where you keep the amount of members, i looked at the bottom of the page, and in the members list. I shtere a way you can tell me or show me where it is?

(i always tried registering to find it) Still no luck.


Xarina helped me out with that.
Will be completed shortly.
Kinky

Sorry about that. I should have put the member number down in this thread due to the fact I disabled viewing the stats on Rapture.

I'm sorry, i've been removed for staff, for doing my job.

Someone else will have to do this.

I'll do it.

To determine how many questions I will ask: how many members are on your forum?

Qwerty wrote:To determine how many questions I will ask: how many members are on your forum?

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OK, thanks you! You will recieve 42 questions in your interview.

I'm sorry for the delay. It was a little hard for my first interview.

1. What is the theme of your forum?
2. Where did you come up with the name? What was the inspiration?
3. What host are you using for your forum? Are you satisfied with this host?
4. Rules of the chicken! What are they? Are they your forums rules, just given a random/different name?
5. What are the groups in your forum? What are their roles?
6. What is the average amount of members you get a month? How many of them actually stay active?
7. It looks like your forum is pretty random. Do you think it is?
8. What gave you the idea to create fading text in the top right-hand corner? Was it hard to put it there/make?
9. Where did you get the name "Rapture"? It's a pretty unique name.
10. I see the guests can view the shoutbox. Can they post in it too?
11. Has your forum ever gotten spammed? If so, how bad was the damage?
12. Is here more "Behind the Scenes" for members and further for staff?
13. In the "Ranting Room" what do people talk about? Does stuff ever get out of hand in there?
14. Would you say your forum is on the "popular" side? Why?
15. In the Spam and Humor forum, can people just post random thing in there like "liu4diun" to get their post count up?
16. In The chicken rules forum, there is text right next to it saying "Redirected hits". What is that for?
17. Who makes the graphics in your forum?
18. How often do staff on your forum come/leave? Is it often?
19. Is there a pet feature on your forum? I see you have a "Premade Pets" link, I just got a clue, lol.
20. When was your forum opened?
21. How has your forum progressed from it's opening date to today?
22. Do you ever change themes in your forum t got with certain holidays/events/seasons?
23. Do you have a special point system where members can earn points by posting?
24. How often are the Rapture FAQs updated?
25. Do you have any "special" members on your forum?
26. What's your favorite feature in Rapture?
27. I see the shoutbox is in every page,does that ever get annoying?
28. What is a feature on Rapture that has recently been removed?
29. Are you thinking of adding some more features on your forum? If so, what are they?
30. Are there any discussions going on between the moderators right now?
31. Have you ever had any other themes on your forum? Is this one the first?
32. Have you ever banned a member? Why?
33. Why did you create Rapture?
34. Are any of your personal friends on Rapture? If so, are they part of the staff?
35. How do you advertise Rapture?
36. What's one of the best memories you have of Rapture?
37. Along with the best, what is the worst memory you have of rapture?
38. Do you have paid hosting, or is it free?
39. Do you have any type of advertising on your forum? If so, what kinds?
40. What are your favorite games in the games section? any special favs?
41. I see you have a whole section just for anime/manga. What gave you that idea?
42. Who made that favicon? Did you make it, or it special-made by someone else?

1. What is the theme of your forum? General chat

2. Where did you come up with the name? What was the inspiration? --- A fellow member name Tazay thought up the name and I used it because I liked it and it sounded like a nice unique name.

3. What host are you using for your forum? Are you satisfied with this host? --- Invisionfree and it's been decent for as long as I used it.

4. Rules of the chicken! What are they? Are they your forums rules, just given a random/different name? yeah random rules, not to be taken too serious. Also mostly put up as a guest welcome image and made it to soudn fun and not all serious like.

5. What are the groups in your forum? What are their roles? Admins and moderators. The usual o.O

6. What is the average amount of members you get a month? How many of them actually stay active? ---I honestly don't know as I never bothered to pay attention to stats.

7. It looks like your forum is pretty random. Do you think it is? Yes it is =D

8. What gave you the idea to create fading text in the top right-hand corner? Was it hard to put it there/make? Dardan who made the print designed it that way.

9. Where did you get the name "Rapture"? It's a pretty unique name. --- See answer for question 2

10. I see the guests can view the shoutbox. Can they post in it too? --- no

11. Has your forum ever gotten spammed? If so, how bad was the damage? --- Yeah a few times, not that bad I think?

12. Is here more "Behind the Scenes" for members and further for staff? not much or anything behind the scenes tbh.

13. In the "Ranting Room" what do people talk about? Does stuff ever get out of hand in there? It's never been bad really, it's to rant about random things, real life issues and online issues. It rarely gets out of hand, if it does, people cool down on their own pretty fast.

14. Would you say your forum is on the "popular" side? Why? --- as long as the members and future members like being there popularity don't matter at all.

15. In the Spam and Humor forum, can people just post random thing in there like "liu4diun" to get their post count up? --- yes they can, but people rarely do things like that. Also post count really means nothing here so you can get yours as high as you want but it won't mean a thing to anyone.

16. In The chicken rules forum, there is text right next to it saying "Redirected hits". What is that for? --- counting the amount of peopel who click it. It redirects to the register page

17. Who makes the graphics in your forum? --- Members, Xarina or ZeroLouise.

18. How often do staff on your forum come/leave? Is it often? It's been the same staff forever, no one has ever left staff wise.

19. Is there a pet feature on your forum? I see you have a "Premade Pets" link, I just got a clue, lol. --- you can use a BB-tag thing to get a pet if you want. It's just a cute factor.

20. When was your forum opened? --- August 23, 2008

21. How has your forum progressed from it's opening date to today? Pretty good I think.

22. Do you ever change themes in your forum t got with certain holidays/events/seasons? --- events or seasons no, just when we feel for a change.

23. Do you have a special point system where members can earn points by posting? --- nope.

24. How often are the Rapture FAQs updated? --- yeah we have one but it hasn't needed to be updated since its creation.

25. Do you have any "special" members on your forum? --- They're all special, but if you mean elites... no.

26. What's your favorite feature in Rapture? --- The shoutbox!

27. I see the shoutbox is in every page,does that ever get annoying? --- not in my opinion.

28. What is a feature on Rapture that has recently been removed? --- I don't recall anything ever getting removed. I don't add things unless i feel they will most likely get used which they do.

29. Are you thinking of adding some more features on your forum? If so, what are they? --- we'll get a skin changer when we convert to ZB.

30. Are there any discussions going on between the moderators right now? --- nope.

31. Have you ever had any other themes on your forum? Is this one the first? --- we've had a few, want links to testboards?

32. Have you ever banned a member? Why? --- Only one for stealing someone's identity which I don't want hanging around but he's been unbanned since when he cleaned his act up. Other then that, there is a bunch of spammers that got banned but that's it.

33. Why did you create Rapture? --- Just wanted a place where me and my friends and anyone who felt like joining could hang out and have some fun.

34. Are any of your personal friends on Rapture? If so, are they part of the staff? --- If you mean long term online friends then yeah. I known Zerolouise for three years and Xarina for almost two I believe.

35. How do you advertise Rapture? --- signature advertising and topics where allowed.

36. What's one of the best memories you have of Rapture? --- miss a few people that aren't active atm.

37. Along with the best, what is the worst memory you have of rapture? --- I have to say the cracking of a test account accidentally left on as moderator on September 23 of 2008. We lost everything we had but everyone pretty much reposted everything lost in a week so not that bad of a memory because of that.

38. Do you have paid hosting, or is it free? --- free

39. Do you have any type of advertising on your forum? If so, what kinds? --- nope. People are allowed to have links and such in their sigs and there is an affiliation topic linked in the sub menu that they can use to affiliate with us but that's it.

40. What are your favorite games in the games section? any special favs? --- Date the member and last post wins!!!

41. I see you have a whole section just for anime/manga. What gave you that idea? --- we don't, we have a section for entertainment and that includes anime and manga.

42. Who made that favicon? Did you make it, or it special-made by someone else? --- Dardan made it I think.