A bold suggestion indeed, and not without merit I think. However swiftly we move to resolve misuse of the shout, I can imagine how it could be intimidating for a newcomer to wander in only to experience such an immediate introduction to community politics.

haha.. there is a thick line which seperates insults from truth.. Why KingFISHER is an Adnin is a huge mystery..

There is a separate topic for that where I gave a quite lengthy answer.

which topic

[topic=3280643]how kingfisher became an admin[/topic]

I have turned off the shout by default for new users to see if this makes any difference to the percentage of newcomers who remain active.

Glad you took it serious. Just got some questions. Where exactly is 2wap going? Since it's going downhill and not revamped with new version. Are the owners going to shut it down sooner or later?

Shoutbox is a good feature IMO. It makes a dead place like 2wapworld seem active, thanks to Smarty.

There is no prospect of 2wapworld closing within my lifetime. I don't agree that anything is going downhill, rather our online count and number of visitors per day remains consistently at the same level with a small spike some days. We are looking at perfecting features which will keep users online longer, such as the chess game which was launched in beta last month. And there will be a new web version and smartphone version later in the year. I think it cannot be argued that this is a far more feature-rich site than it was 2 years ago, and I aim for this technical development to continue.

Why would people sign up and use forums here? Most topics are just long copy pastes from internet. We can find them anywhere by googling. And they don't even include the source. Forums were meant for discussions, which is not an apparent thinking of 2wappers. I don't have prob with Copy pastes of News forum and their links. They can be acceptable. The constant online users you said are from just one country. 2wap isn't the global community it was even though now it has better features.

Huh? Its soooo many years pass and the problems are still the same you still cant solve the isues, Liam?

So according to Mr Lame nothing is going downhill. Are you just blind or blank in your head? You have written on the front page of this site "active members today" which reads three digit figures.. Now that also includes those who just loggen in and logget out immediately. Well of course those figures are tongue in cheek and are meant to lure people. You had to pet people like KingSUCKER so that they could stay here all day. Have u seen that guy in forums? He sounds like a big jackass in his posts. You are doing good job in updating this site but there's no point in doing that if there's going to be nobody to use those features.