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Since there are various suggestions that get made over and over again, here are some things about which you should not make threads here. In general, such threads are unnecessary, as public interest in these topics is already recognized, but decisions have already been made regarding them.

 

1) Do not request the card maker to have a Dark Synchro Monster function added.

2) Do not request post count to be disabled in the Introductions section.

3) Do not request anything related to the userlevel stars.

4) Do not request new boards to be created that cover a narrow topic.

5) Do not request to be made a moderator.

6) Do not request anything related to trading real-life cards on this site.

7) Do not request the deletion of inactive user accounts.

8) Do not request the card maker to use full-justification instead of left-alignment.

 

These rules are here to avoid wasting everybody's time, since any topic made on these subjects will have about as much impact on the site as my vote in the next United States presidential election. And I'm not even an American citizen.

 

Failure to comply with these rules will result in your stupid, stupid topic being locked and a warn being slapped onto your forehead.

 

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1) Do not request the card maker to have a Dark Synchro Monster function added.

 

The Yu-Gi-Oh Card Maker is patterned off of the actual collectable and trading card games, and while Dark Synchro Monsters play a sizable role in the 5D's anime, they do not actually exist in the real game, and as such will not be added to the card maker. Once Dark Synchro Monsters are officially confirmed to be arriving in the real game, they will be added to the site; until then, they will not be added. Unless, of course YCMaker just feels like randomly adding them, but either way, threads about this are pointless.

 

2) Do not request post count to be disabled in the Introductions section.

 

The Introductions section is often accused of being filled with people spamming copy-pasted messages in order to increase their post count. However, YCMaker has declared that he will not disable post count there, because it encourages people to welcome new users. Like it or not, your complaints will not reverse this policy.

 

(Besides, it's just post count. It's not like it matters. Grow up, people.)

 

3) Do not request anything related to the userlevel stars.

 

People tend to request things like adding a new seven-star userlevel for people other than YCMaker, adding Dark Synchro Stars to the userlevel system, and so on. Put simply, these changes are completely pointless, and given the reasonably low number of users who currently have six level stars, are unnecessary. Eventually, a new level may be added, but no topic made here is going to influence when this happens.

 

(The Dark Synchro Stars suggestion is particularly stupid. First of all, it's completely random. Second of all, it doesn't make sense; they represent negative levels, so why would they be above the positive levels? Third of all, since the card maker doesn't support Dark Synchro Monsters, using their Level Stars on the forum would be stupid. Sixth and lastly, the colours clash with this site's white background, so it would look ugly.)

 

4) Do not request new boards to be created that cover a narrow topic.

 

Some sites have lots and lots of boards - in some cases literally millions.

 

YCM has 33. And you can't even see them all. And you can't post in all the ones that you can see.

 

Because of this, every board must count. Therefore, any new board that would be added to YCM needs to cover a reasonably broad topic, or there is simply no point in making them. Video Games? Broad enough; we added it. Movie Reviews? Not broad. Not added.

 

Use discretion here, but as a rule of thumb, any board that would be less popular than Debates will not be created.

 

5) Do not request to be made a moderator.

 

If YCMaker opens a moderator application thread, feel free to apply there. Other than that, don't request to be made a moderator anywhere - including here. If more moderators are needed and you seem like a good candidate, you will be contacted.

 

6) Do not request anything related to trading real-life cards on this site.

 

Card Trade once existed, and it is gone now - for a very good reason.

 

YCM's staff has no control over what trades are conducted. As such, any system of card trade that could be implemented would inevitably lead to nothing but a long series of scams and broken deals.

 

If you want to trade cards, use something like eBay, or some other site that supports card trade. We don't. And won't. Ever.

 

7) Do not request the deletion of inactive user accounts.

 

I don't know why this was even suggested. I guess you people who enjoy reading through the member list during your free time get bothered by this when you're not preoccupied by your inability to associate with human beings. Or perhaps you were just concerned that our inactive members were using up too many of the available usernames, even though enough possible usernames exist to allow every person on earth to make a billion of them without ever using up more than the tiniest fraction of a single percent of the total number available - if you don't believe me, then you can run the numbers yourself, if you're actually smart enough to calculate them properly, which if you actually considered suggesting this, you aren't.

 

Deleting inactive accounts, on top of being completely and utterly pointless, would discourage people from returning to this site after absences, and would prevent them from saving their cards on this site via the card maker.

 

This will not happen.

 

8) Do not request the card maker to use full-justification instead of left-alignment.

 

If you do not know what this forbidden suggestion is even talking about, then let me explain: The difference between left-aligned text and full-justified text is that left-aligned text only lines up on the left-hand side, as with forum posts, whereas full-justified text lines up properly on both the left and the right sides, as with most books.

 

Real cards use full-justification, whereas the card maker uses left-alignment. This has been acknowledged as the least realistic aspect of the card maker; however, YCMaker has publicly stated that, though he would like to change this, it cannot be changed for programming reasons:

 

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I've wanted to do this for a while' date=' but there a few things that are holding me back. PHP has no built-in functionality that allows the justification of text, so I would have to program it myself. The Card Maker currently calculates the needed length of each line of text, and then renders it onto the card, line by line. In order to appropriately space out the text to be justified, the description would have to be rendered word by word, as opposed to line by line. This would dramatically increase the generating time, as well as put additional strain on the server. I've been looking for a solution to this for a while, but as of yet I haven't found one. If I ever do, though, I won't hesitate to implement it.

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As such, this may be corrected at some point in the future, but your requests won't make it happen any sooner, so don't make them.

 

Also, I full-justified the quote, just to provide an example of it if you still don't understand. Aren't I nice?

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4) Do not request new boards to be created that cover a narrow topic.

 

Some sites have lots and lots of boards - in some cases literally millions.

 

YCM has 33. And you can't even see them all. And you can't post in all the ones that you can see.

 

Because of this' date=' every board must count. Therefore, any new board that would be added to YCM needs to cover a reasonably broad topic, or there is simply no point in making them. Video Games? Broad enough; we added it. Movie Reviews? Not broad. Not added.

 

Use discretion here, but as a rule of thumb, any board that would be less popular than Debates will not be created.

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Is a Literature/Books & Novels section broad enough?

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4) Do not request new boards to be created that cover a narrow topic.

 

Some sites have lots and lots of boards - in some cases literally millions.

 

YCM has 33. And you can't even see them all. And you can't post in all the ones that you can see.

 

Because of this' date=' every board must count. Therefore, any new board that would be added to YCM needs to cover a reasonably broad topic, or there is simply no point in making them. Video Games? Broad enough; we added it. Movie Reviews? Not broad. Not added.

 

Use discretion here, but as a rule of thumb, any board that would be less popular than Debates will not be created.

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Is a Literature/Books & Novels section broad enough?

 

On this site it wouldn't be broad enough.

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4) Do not request new boards to be created that cover a narrow topic.

 

Some sites have lots and lots of boards - in some cases literally millions.

 

YCM has 33. And you can't even see them all. And you can't post in all the ones that you can see.

 

Because of this' date=' every board must count. Therefore, any new board that would be added to YCM needs to cover a reasonably broad topic, or there is simply no point in making them. Video Games? Broad enough; we added it. Movie Reviews? Not broad. Not added.

 

Use discretion here, but as a rule of thumb, any board that would be less popular than Debates will not be created.

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Is a Literature/Books & Novels section broad enough?

 

It covers an entire medium, and one of the most extensive mediums at that. It would certainly be broad enough not to be auto-nullified.

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1) Do not request the card maker to have a Dark Synchro Monster function added.

 

The Yu-Gi-Oh Card Maker is patterned off of the actual collectable and trading card games' date=' and while Dark Synchro Monsters play a sizable role in the 5D's anime, they do not actually exist in the real game, and as such will not be added to the card maker. Once Dark Synchro Monsters are officially confirmed to be arriving in the real game, they will be added to the site; until then, they will not be added. Unless, of course YCMaker just feels like randomly adding them, but either way, threads about this are pointless.

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An epic flaw in your logic, sir. We have had a Divine-Beast Sub-type and a DIVINE attribute; way be for they ever truely existed in real life. There for just saying "they do not actually exist in the real game" isn't a real good reason. Parden that pun there.

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1) Do not request the card maker to have a Dark Synchro Monster function added.

 

The Yu-Gi-Oh Card Maker is patterned off of the actual collectable and trading card games' date=' and while Dark Synchro Monsters play a sizable role in the 5D's anime, they do not actually exist in the real game, and as such will not be added to the card maker. Once Dark Synchro Monsters are officially confirmed to be arriving in the real game, they will be added to the site; until then, they will not be added. Unless, of course YCMaker just feels like randomly adding them, but either way, threads about this are pointless.

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An epic flaw in your logic, sir. We have had a Divine-Beast Sub-type and a DIVINE attribute; way be for they ever truely existed in real life. There for just saying "they do not actually exist in the real game" isn't a real good reason. Parden that pun there.

 

There are several distinctions between the Dark Synchro Card Type and the properties of the Gods, however:

 

1) The Gods are infinitely more central to Yu-Gi-Oh! lore than Dark Synchro Monsters are. The Gods were the primary MacGuffins in three seasons of the original show, and then played an even larger role in the final season - and then continued to make appearances after that. The Dark Synchro Monsters, in contrast, are just a series of cards used by villains.

 

2) The Gods have appeared in and were playable in a wide variety of official Yu-Gi-Oh! video games. In contrast, Dark Synchro Monsters have never appeared in any games; to my knowledge, they are not even in Stardust Accelerator, the 5D's-themed WCT2009 game.

 

3) The Gods' properties take much less effort to add than the Dark Synchro Monsters would take. You'll notice that, though the Type and Attribute were made available, the card backgrounds were not - the closest you can get to making an Osiris Red card is Effect Orange. Only the properties that could be added with minimal effort were added; beyond that, it was not worthwhile.

 

4) Even aside from all of this, demand for the Dark Synchro Monsters has already been expressed and recognized; as such, regardless of the above, further threads on this matter are a pointless retread of previously covered marerial, and as such contribute nothing to the site.

 

Thanks for playing.

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1) Do not request the card maker to have a Dark Synchro Monster function added.

 

The Yu-Gi-Oh Card Maker is patterned off of the actual collectable and trading card games' date=' and while Dark Synchro Monsters play a sizable role in the 5D's anime, they do not actually exist in the real game, and as such will not be added to the card maker. Once Dark Synchro Monsters are officially confirmed to be arriving in the real game, they will be added to the site; until then, they will not be added. Unless, of course YCMaker just feels like randomly adding them, but either way, threads about this are pointless.

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An epic flaw in your logic, sir. We have had a Divine-Beast Sub-type and a DIVINE attribute; way be for they ever truely existed in real life. There for just saying "they do not actually exist in the real game" isn't a real good reason. Parden that pun there.

 

There are several distinctions between the Dark Synchro Card Type and the properties of the Gods, however:

 

1) The Gods are infinitely more central to Yu-Gi-Oh! lore than Dark Synchro Monsters are. The Gods were the primary MacGuffins in three seasons of the original show, and then played an even larger role in the final season - and then continued to make appearances after that. The Dark Synchro Monsters, in contrast, are just a series of cards used by villains.

 

2) The Gods have appeared in and were playable in a wide variety of official Yu-Gi-Oh! video games. In contrast, Dark Synchro Monsters have never appeared in any games; to my knowledge, they are not even in Stardust Accelerator, the 5D's-themed WCT2009 game.

 

3) The Gods' properties take much less effort to add than the Dark Synchro Monsters would take. You'll notice that, though the Type and Attribute were made available, the card backgrounds were not - the closest you can get to making an Osiris Red card is Effect Orange. Only the properties that could be added with minimal effort were added; beyond that, it was not worthwhile.

 

4) Even aside from all of this, demand for the Dark Synchro Monsters has already been expressed and recognized; as such, regardless of the above, further threads on this matter are a pointless retread of previously covered marerial, and as such contribute nothing to the site.

 

Thanks for playing.

 

Now your just pulling hairs. The God cards pulled fanboy weight and for that they where okay to make into the first subtype and Divine Attribute, and also because they where easier to add; therefore, Dark synchros; who just appeared, and just started to pull fanboy weight and not eligible for creation. And this has nothing to do with Realistic cards? Real and then fanboyism. Sounds like to me, someone is loosing ground here.

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1) Do not request the card maker to have a Dark Synchro Monster function added.

 

The Yu-Gi-Oh Card Maker is patterned off of the actual collectable and trading card games' date=' and while Dark Synchro Monsters play a sizable role in the 5D's anime, they do not actually exist in the real game, and as such will not be added to the card maker. Once Dark Synchro Monsters are officially confirmed to be arriving in the real game, they will be added to the site; until then, they will not be added. Unless, of course YCMaker just feels like randomly adding them, but either way, threads about this are pointless.

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An epic flaw in your logic, sir. We have had a Divine-Beast Sub-type and a DIVINE attribute; way be for they ever truely existed in real life. There for just saying "they do not actually exist in the real game" isn't a real good reason. Parden that pun there.

 

There are several distinctions between the Dark Synchro Card Type and the properties of the Gods, however:

 

1) The Gods are infinitely more central to Yu-Gi-Oh! lore than Dark Synchro Monsters are. The Gods were the primary MacGuffins in three seasons of the original show, and then played an even larger role in the final season - and then continued to make appearances after that. The Dark Synchro Monsters, in contrast, are just a series of cards used by villains.

 

2) The Gods have appeared in and were playable in a wide variety of official Yu-Gi-Oh! video games. In contrast, Dark Synchro Monsters have never appeared in any games; to my knowledge, they are not even in Stardust Accelerator, the 5D's-themed WCT2009 game.

 

3) The Gods' properties take much less effort to add than the Dark Synchro Monsters would take. You'll notice that, though the Type and Attribute were made available, the card backgrounds were not - the closest you can get to making an Osiris Red card is Effect Orange. Only the properties that could be added with minimal effort were added; beyond that, it was not worthwhile.

 

4) Even aside from all of this, demand for the Dark Synchro Monsters has already been expressed and recognized; as such, regardless of the above, further threads on this matter are a pointless retread of previously covered marerial, and as such contribute nothing to the site.

 

Thanks for playing.

 

Now your just pulling hairs. The God cards pulled fanboy weight and for that they where okay to make into the first subtype and Divine Attribute, and also because they where easier to add; therefore, Dark synchros; who just appeared, and just started to pull fanboy weight and not eligible for creation. And this has nothing to do with Realistic cards? Real and then fanboyism. Sounds like to me, someone is loosing ground here.

 

Point 3. Point 4. Kay? Thanks.

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All Hail crabdude he is probably the only person who can tell it straight to the n00bs whereas other people say thing like

Please Stop Being nice But he Just say don't i thank you crab Helmet for telling it to them the way it is! Keep it up man and then maybe one day YCm will be Rid of rule breaking n00bs and full of law abiding card makers.

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3) Do not request anything related to the userlevel stars.

Put simply' date=' these changes are completely pointless, and given the reasonably low number of users who currently have six level stars, are unnecessary.

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We have 61 Members (Excluding those that are permabanned, which happen to only be two) with six stars. What would be considered a reasonable level to add a seventh star? At least twenty members having over 10,000 posts?

 

Otherwise, I completely agree with all over points. Good job Crab Helmet.

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I was wondering if u can create stimulations where people can use these cards that we've created in duels on this site? That would be really great.

 

Ah' date=' thanks, now I know something [i']else[/i] to add to the list of things not to request.

 

Adding such a feature is completely pointless when YVD exists, and would take far too much effort.

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