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Judging from our Inbox here at BASHandSlash.com, it is quite obvious that there is a real need to provide Server
Admin's with constructive criticism regarding their servers/forum-sites. Getting useful data on how you are fairing can be tricky. Your friends may be afraid to hurt your feelings and strangers will not bother to tell you anything. Without honest input, you can find yourself staring at an empty server.
What if you could get an unbiased opinion on what you are doing right and what you are doing wrong on your server or on your forum site? Well, today on our BASH Boards we launched just such a service.
We call it "Server Makeover" as the idea is patterned on
the television show "Restaurant Makeover"
The idea is to provide constructive criticism for any
Admin who voluntarily requests help. It goes like this:
- If you are an Admin/Clan Leader and are seeing your server struggle for
players, maybe there's something wrong with the way you're going about
things. Perhaps the readers of BASHandSlash.com could lend you a
helping hand?
- If you are interested, then volunteer for the service (write to me at
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
) and we'll post your server IP and your forums site. As time permits, we will throw in our two cents as well!
- Readers of BASHandSlash.com will then be invited to go and visit your
site and tell you what is right and what is wrong. Of course they'll
post their thoughts right here. Criticism is hard to stomach (tell me
about it!)...so if you cannot stand people criticizing you - don't
volunteer. But as they say, what doesn't kill you makes you
stronger...so think about it. Everytime someone has criticized me on
here, I've sulked for a while - and then grudgingly implemented
changes. I hate to admit it, the criticism has always made me better at
what I do.
In the end ...it'll be up to you to implement any ideas we come up with.
In
addition to this, if you are failing on the techie side of things, we know quite a few people out there with great
resources at their fingertips. One such resource is PST*Joker at
mycallofduty.net.
If you would rather have a turnkey operation for a server, Joker suggests downloading one of his mods and if you do he has volunteered to help you
out to install the X4 mod on your server. He'll do all the dirty work for you. All you have to do is sit back and
be a good host for the folks that will stream to your server.
If you are interested, you can visit our forums and view the Server Makeover forum, just click here.
Our first critique can be found here: Satanic Soldiers. Note that you will need to register to view this forum. Come and add your own constructive criticisms or just read what others had to say about your colleague's sites.
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