New Here.

Hi folks I am new to this forum. just introducing myself as one does when they are new.

Welcome to CW really nice to get to see a new member again.

Thank you for making your account with us I am Ape AKA Bob and i own the site here and help out on lots of others and have just been gave the Job of Mod in the support forum aswell so as you can tell i am busy lol

If there is anything you need at all please feel free to ask away

Ape as a thank you for becoming a new member we have gave you 100 credits to use in the store.

Ape

Welcome Jane Sara Miss to Chat World
Nice to have you on our forum if you need help just let us know and we will be happy to help you with your site questions  : 

  Welcome to our little Home please have a good time and will be good to see you make some new posts for us to read

APE wrote:Welcome to CW really nice to get to see a new member again.

Thank you for making your account with us I am Ape AKA Bob and i own the site here and help out on lots of others and have just been gave the Job of Mod in the support forum aswell so as you can tell i am busy lol

If there is anything you need at all please feel free to ask away

Ape  as a thank you for becoming a new member we have gave you 100 credits to use in the store.

Ape

Okay, so why do you seem to have so few threads. Are the older topics moved away to a hidden admin only section?

Ape was away for some time and lost a lot of members in that time so he closed down he then asked us to come back and help out.

He has always been helping out on the support forum for a number of years helping when he could. As he has side he is not part of the staff over there and helps them out a lot.

He also works as a staff member for Fish crazy on he's site where he is also doing a good job.

Chat world was once called Ape chat for about 10 years not always with This host thou (FM) it was with vBulletin cost's was way to high so he gave it up and then come to the host we have now.

Things are a little slow now YES but we will get there some day We hope

Ape help a lot of people with their forums to that take a lot of time a way from this forum too.   

To your Question as already said we have a low number of members and the ones that are here have not logged on for some time. This is no thought of my own for not being around as much as i would like and not posting new things. also not getting any feedback from the members of what they would like to see in the forum.

But they can not take the blame for the lack of posts and threads we are going to re-think the site again and maybe open a new part up or change the site all the way. Some things just stay small i guess    

as for the number of posts you see now well when really old or closed we put them in the Garbage. This keeps the posts for the members count to stay up on there profiles and if a member was to ask for there posts to be reopen then we can do so without having to Do a post backup.

I hope this has Answered your Questions.

Ape

APE wrote:as for the number of posts you see now well when really old or closed we put them in the Garbage. This keeps the posts for the members count to stay up on there profiles and if a member was to ask for there posts to be reopen then we can do so without having to Do a post backup.

But that makes the forum look empty and the members cannot read them if they are in a hidden section. Much better to make a forum for archived threads and move the old and locked threads there as they do on FM support. Then everybody can still read them and the forum will have a lot more posts.

Jane Sara Miss wrote:

APE wrote:as for the number of posts you see now well when really old or closed we put them in the Garbage. This keeps the posts for the members count to stay up on there profiles and if a member was to ask for there posts to be reopen then we can do so without having to Do a post backup.

But that makes the forum look empty and the members cannot read them if they are in a hidden section. Much better to make a forum for archived threads and move the old and locked threads there as they do on FM support. Then everybody can still read them and the forum will have a lot more posts.

My forum is a Aquarium / Fish Forum and I keep all my post open to be see you have to on a  Aquarium / Fish Forum to help other members.  : 

Welcome to CW.

I am Leanne.

When I am not here I can be found in my hobbit hole drooling over Benedict Cumberbatch.

Jane Sara Miss wrote:
But that makes the forum look empty and the members cannot read them if they are in a hidden section. Much better to make a forum for archived threads and move the old and locked threads there as they do on FM support. Then everybody can still read them and the forum will have a lot more posts.

The posts are of things that was not ever posted back to or really old posts that had No use in the forum no more we only lock and remove the threads that have No replies to that have not been used for way over 3 months or more or spam posts.

and Some banned members posts that we Do not want the members to see
FM also have this you just Don't see it  

Well I have been on the FM Support forum and they have other problems Archives where you can read al of the locked threads. Then they have Other Problems with only about 6 open threads. So if they hid the archives then it would look like they got no posts or very few.

Well that is a support forum it is meant to have there threads open to read so you Don't have to make a new one you can just search for your problem This is a Chat site  that you talk about almost anything lol as i said we only close the threads and remove them if there not needed any more. Or never get posted in.

They get sent there on there own after a set time if not posted in. Sort of like if you have a sweet and you bin the littler  No good having Threads that don't get a post in over a set time that is why you have the setting in the ACP to get rid of the crap

welcome to chat world have a nice stay
Bob