From now on certain forums will have some posting requirements to publish new topics/reply on themYou do not have the required post count to post in this forum.
- Custom Server MODs (20 posts required)
- Custom Contributions Requests (15 posts required)
- Custom Datapack MODs (20 posts required)
- Core Bug Report (50 posts required)
- Server/Datapack Discussion (5 posts required)
- Core/DP Retail Contributions (5 posts required)
Instead of giving a rude reply to them or just sending warnings without regrets, we think that we should try to move our efforts into educating the new users or at least diverging their posts to the correct place, the most common issue is when we get "PLEASE HELP", "A PROBLEM" or "HOW TO..." topics on the Discussion forums... those forums arent intended for support, if you need help please use the Support Forums for either Datapack or Core.
Support forums have NO POSTING REQUIREMENTS, any new user is invited to post on this forums if they need help or have questions about our software.
Now it comes our second most common problem, the Contributions and Requests forums, a lot of people still posts on the Contribution forums when they have a problem with certain piece of code or something, Contribution forums are ONLY for posting YOUR OWN pieces of code to the rest of the community, not for Support Petitions and Requests, if you need help with certain Contribution then go to the topic from where you found it and ask there, do not create a new topic.
The Requests forums are mostly spammed recently by new users looking for Code Modifications or Support and i will state a few things about those forums:
- Requests forums are to give your ideas about new content to apply to L2j Server, you may have noticed that there are two requests forums one on the main development branch in Feature Requests where you should put Requests for RETAIL FEATURES OR ALIKE, the other one in Custom Contributions Requests has been renamed to Custom Feature Requests to avoid misunderstandings and this one is THE ONLY ONE where you can request CUSTOM FEATURES
- Recently the Custom Server MODs and Custom Feature Requests forums has been spammed by new users asking, begging, spamming and duplicating posts without following the Forum Rules, that is the reason of the increased amount of posts required to post a new topic/reply of those forums, we know you all new users are really exited to get those new custom features in your server but that isnt a excuse to violate our rules.
- Custom Server MODs is ONLY to post YOUR Modifications Patches, if you post anything else that doesnt contain a contribution in your first post it will be removed/deleted/destroyed, if you need help with a Custom MOD then go the topic of that MOD and ask there, if you are are looking for a Custom MOD then go to Custom Feature Requests and ask there.
- Custom Feature Requests forums ARE NOT SUPPORT FORUMS, so please do not "request support" there, if you need help with a MOD then go to the topic where that MOD is posted, if you are looking for help with a MOD that isnt posted on L2j Forums then go to the forum where its located. If you are looking for a NEW MOD then post your ideas for that feature and wait patiently for someone else to reply, but do not duplicate or bump your post.
Also we have seen a lot of Custom Contributions made by users that arent the author of them, we remember you all that ITS FORBIDDEN to post code contributions that arent under GNU General Public License, or code leaked/stolen from another forums/servers or with questionable copyrights/license, if you post a code contribution made by another one be sure to also give credit to the original author by mentioning it, we will DELETE contributions that doesnt follow this guidelines.
And last but not least the Bug Reports forum have the highest post requirements since we see lots of "bug reports" made by new users and actually those reports arent "real bugs", just problems that occur due inexperienced users handling complex software, we hope that rising the requirements we could filter those "problems" and get the real bug reports.
Even if you cant post of those forums they are READ ONLY for you, please exercise your brain and look for answers using they mighty Search Feature or reading the forums.
Notes #2: Users with more than the required posting requirements (high post count) that repeatly do not follow the posting guidelines stated on this post (keep posting on Requests/Contributions incorrectly), will be WARNED at sight and BANNED on the 3rd Warning.
The objective of this measure is to keep the forum clean and in order with less spam/junk posts on it.
## UPDATE - POST HUNTERS ##
Just to remind to all our NEW USERS that going through the forums posting on really old topics ( >6 months after last reply) or just doing random comments on random posts like: "doh dude i like this!", "great work! thanks!", "hahaha nice
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