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Let's face it, TF2chan is pretty much a ghost town and the only activity we get is a bunch of internet tumbleweeds blowing through. I think we've gone too serious times and not enough fun times wearing hats like the good ole' days.

Just going to other small chans that are more active than ours (and also more laidback and more fun), I have gotten a few ideas, but I want to propose them to not just the mods, but also the users.

I have a few proposals:

1. Secret boards. Boards not listed in the sidebar that can only be found either by tacking a word onto the address of the site or clicking around. Secret boards would be about whatever the fuck weird shit we want. Board only about discussion of hats? Board only about discussing Gaben? Secret board with just Satanic messages scrolling in the background? I dunno. Why the fuck not?

2. Raining hats. Randomly. Refresh a page and there's a chance of just fucking hats raining. Don't know how this would work, I don't know how to work the webternet.

3. Relaxing a few rules to keep the atmosphere slightly less elitist. We can ban people for like being dumb teenagers or whatever, or posting le rage face comics or other redditor shit, or we can just openly mock them until they run away. Speaking of...

4. Joke bans. We don't do them anymore and I miss them. I don't like having to stress out if I'm going to get in trouble for acting on a ban. I feel like it's made me less effective and that I'm at the mercy of a userbase that will be judging my every move.

5. Chilling the fuck out and maybe embracing the chan culture that we used to have instead of becoming more like DA and Tumblr in terms of hugboxing and being offended. We're a chan, goddammit. I'm not saying we need shitting dick nipples all over the dang place, but I really feel like we've become a big NO FUN ALLOWED robot and that because of this, most of the users have left us for Tumblr and we've become irrelevant.

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Okay, so some of you might have known that a while back, some airwolf was spamming red scout on TF2chan because he was buttmad about scout rule34. Well, I have confirmed that he was seized by the Oswego Police Department, and is currently facing trial. Approximately a week and a half ago, he defaced his school's website with red scout (Big red flag to everyone who knows him.) While doing this, he was connected to his IRC network, and was discussing it with his internet butt buddies. Now, at this point the Oswego Police Department heard that this kid (Blair Strater, aka r000t) was a suspect. After getting a warrant for searching, his comptuers and other devices were seized by. After they found his IRC logs un-deleted on his computer, they had a warrant for his arrest, and he is currently facing trial.

Now, I thought I'd just like you to know you won't be seeing 2,000 pictures of the Scout posted 2 seconds apart.

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>>	r000t 09/06/16(Tue)20:04 No. 1437 please delete this thread immediately or I will have my lawyers contact you

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>>	Tworefined 09/09/16(Fri)22:18 No. 1439 If there's one thing Chans are known for, it's their fear of internet-lawyers.

For real, this place is deader than a door nail (what the hell kind of saying is that anyhow?) Is this site dead, did everyone just leave?

The new Captcha system seems to be working like a charm, Kumori!

I really feel like this place could use a makeover, this post is just my 2 cents about what I would change.

Attached is the image I'll refere to, it's the frontpage with the changes I have in mind (I know it's a bit shit, but it's just an "alpha" to illustrate the stuff I'll talk about).

First of all, notice the different color-scheme. I know it dosen't have the "chan" feel, but I feel like grey/white/orange would be more related to TF2. I think it should be a little lighter, but I was a bit lazy when making it (sorry).

First the frontpage, I've made a few changes as you see.
I rearrenged the "news/boards/FAQ ect" into a more natural order, I feel like this is more the order people would want to know the stuff.
I removed the "boards" because really most boards here is either self explanatory or have an explanation as to what they're about as the very first post.
I removed the "servers" because all id does is say "N/A" and that makes the site seems pretty abandoned. It could be readded if we ever get the servers up and running again.
Same thing with paint chat, I removed it because it always appears to be offline (I figured it should be added in "community" in the sidebar anyway, if it ever became active again).
"contact us" is now "mod(eration) team" (alternative titel "meet the mods"), because I feel like it's more self explanatory and makes it easier to figure out the page is about the mods and not just the owner of the site.
Left a few blank boxed as I figured other might want to add something.

As you can see, I made some changed to the right side of the front page too.

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With all the necrobumps lately, I feel like a crabby old lady getting pissed off at ancient threads topping the boards when our active/recent posters get bumped down with little to no comments on their work.

So I have a question though I have a feeling it is impossible to achieve but here goes anyway:
Can we not have 'sage' be the default entry in email fields for every reply? Maybe accompanied by some text that explains this next to the field?
My thinking is that if you're not paying attention to the email field when you post, at least it will automatically sage. Much easier to go back and purposefully bump the thread, rather than have newfags (or oldfags making an honest mistake) continue to necrobump.

Probably been suggested before but I couldn't find any discussion about it. Apologies if it has been, based mods.

  i'm sorry if this is the wrong board to post in, but i've lurked for a long time and i really would like to post my art here. i know that things have really changed a lot here and i find you all to be quite lovely people, but i'm a little nervous because i started drawing because of anime and subsequently, transitioning away from that hasn't been easy.

i'm more than willing to accept constructive criticism, but i know how people on here feel about anime (not even gonna bother to call that a 'style') and while i would love to improve, i don't want to be torn apart.

is it okay to post my art here, even though i'm still transitioning away from anime? i don't really like hipstr because there are so few adults there that i can communicate with effectively...

btw, while on the afanart board, my roommate happened to be in here when the random flying dicks happened. without asking me what kind of chan this was, he asked me if i was looking at 'my stupid tf2 shit again'.

congratulations, guys. you've captured tf2 in a way most people dream of. (i wonder how big each respective class' dick is? huuuuuuuuuuuh. that's something to think about on a rainy day)

Would a CYOA Thread (choose your own adventure) go in fanfiction or roleplay?

Would anyone be interested in doing a Secret Santa Exchange this year?

For new members of the ‘chan, the Secret Santa Exchange is an event in December where artists and writers each create a gift (a drawing or story) for an anonymous person in the fandom and receive a gift in return. You can see last year’s gifts here:

Art: http://tf2chan.net/dis/res/11026.html
Stories: http://tf2chan.net/afanfic/res/9426.html

I’m asking because I’d volunteer to manage it, in case no one else steps forward. I’ve asked Kilo, who did an excellent job last year, and I’ve asked the TF2chan mods, but unfortunately it seems they’re all prevented from taking on the task. I’ll have the time for it in December, though, and I loved how the community came together last winter to create some amazing art and stories.

Please let me know if you’d be interested in participating. If you guys are okay with me managing it, I will post details on how to sign up in mid-November.