I am going dark for the day of Tuesday as a sign of discontent

for the heads of this site it will mean nothing, but hopefully will show how many are displeased with way new layout was handled

the saddest thing is that from what I hear, the gliches that the editors have with the submissions has not been totally fixed, and many editors are retiring

until wednesday, this is the wise signing out

please take out the basically all white layout, it makes the posts blend with each other too much, and it tends to give a slight headache; do a new color pattern, if possible, one similar to the old color layout

some of the "new stuff" is silly, and it was done by taking some items that made TVcom unique

you should do a merger of the new features that people will tell you to keep, and of the old features that were taken out that people will tell you to bring back

for example, I like no more scroll bars when signatures exceed the 200 height, which is what made many old computers go on the fringe, and it will stop mods having to give TOS to people with a 202 height signature, and just simply look for people who have signatures that are like 400 height; and they should bring back the % of the levels, and allow ratings of 9.7 and such, and take away just increments of .5

I know that the profile on top probably was made to give more room length wise for the posts, but it forces people to see the profiles as being in the way and it will get annoying; so profiles should go on the side again

make the layout firefox friendly, lot of us(myself included) use firefox or similar

most important of all, whoever did it should apologize for rushing forward, and not making sure there were NOT MAJOR GLITCHES; is understandable that there would be minor glitches but we talking major stuff, like problems with the PM system, making editors not able to accept submissions and such

some people think that "the refuge" is very exclusive

it is not, we are a litle selective, we want to know if the members applying are good people, and not probable trolls, so basically if the people who are applying come from TVcom, we want them to be at least level 3 or 4, and preferably with some activity at the blogs and/or forums, so they will have a certain history to judge them by.

and the site is mostly avatar, but we got lot of other stuff to talk about in different sections like other shows, politics and so on

and we allow people to be a little "off-topic" in the threads, so basically there is a more sense of community since is more likely to talk to everyone about anything instead of feeling constricted to "just talk about the shows" or having to go to so many different blogs just to be able to discuss with someone about *for examples* Hurricane Gustav, the election, the world series and who will get to the playoffs, college footbal and so on

and we do have journals that is pretty much like blogs

and I encourage people who are still members of TVcom to visit and discuss things at the avatar forum and other forums

it is a little more "constricted in here" because sometimes what one considers a "non-issue" might be something that is considered "disruptive or malicious" to someone else, even when is other 2 parties

we can have situations like if "jack" writes "Aang appereaded in every episode" and "Jim" writes "are you being foolish? don't you remember Zuko alone?" than "jack" writes "oh, that is right, Duh, how did that slip my mind?" than "sam" reports "Jim" for calling "jack" foolish

so I will not force people to come to the forums of TVcom, they do what feels more comfortable to them

plus having the refuge means that people can come over and talk to the people who were banned, and also means that it makes it less likely that the banned people will feel forced to "ban dodge" (which according to TVcom is illegal) in order to talk to their friends

is ok(for those who want to do it) to go to both places, one should not feel it will be a traitor if they don't go to one of the sites

ythe refuge is http://z11.invisionfree.com/Avatar_mocVT_refuge make sure to PM me after you sign up, so i can check your profile and approve you