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Quoted from RTC

Ducky, do you have to be so self-righteous all of the time? If you’re actively going to debate and defend ETF2L’s current stance, please do it in a way that doesn’t make you look like a bigoted twat waffle, thanks.

Using the tier name “Low” seems a little degrading in my personal view. Open is more inviting towards new players, as in it is open to all players.

I’d agree that the newcomer guide needs to be updated and have more attention drawn to it, especially with the recent influx of new players coming in, and a likelihood for this to increase in the coming months with matchmaking due to arrive.

harsh words from someone whos been here for literally 7 months

Quoted from Twiggy

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Good idea, i’m sure if you are in uni your teachers will be pleased to adopt this attitude with you, they’ll save a lot of time for sure.

It’s funny, because that’s exactly how it works. What you get out of the experience is related to how much you’re willing to put in yourself.

The whole recruitment section is a bit confusing at first, but there are resources there for people to use. The kind of people who are jumping straight into commenting on prem player posts with “herp derp i topscore in pubs can i play please” are going to be the kind of people who would just immediately close the FAQ if it flashed up on the screen the first time you visit the site. I really don’t understand why so many people seem to think cluttering up the site for the benefit of that kind of person is so important. Kaneco’s just on the warpath again.

Making a little guide within the help section for how to use the wordpress backend is a good addition to make though. Also popcorp is right, every time I write an article I intend to ask Ygg to make a banner without the “sign up now” and every time I’m too lazy to actually do it. My bad.

Quoted from Popcorp

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http://i.imgur.com/lNbrXPf.jpg

Literally 1 minute, Content aware + Clone stamp in Photoshop :^)

Not everyone got a cracked Photoshop :(

Newcomer guide might not be that needed necessarily updated immediately as the upcoming season is just about to start now in this week, however it does need to be updated before announcing Season 22 or another cup made for new people. (Archimedes Cup for example)

Quoted from freshmeatt

Also, not to be a negative nancy, but I see a lot of people being hopeful about matchmaking. Why do you think it will be any different than tf2lobby?

Honestly, my outlook on matchmaking will be that it’s nowhere near as good as it’s being made out to be. Not bad, just disappointing. I think most people will agree that the concept itself is excellent, which is going to draw more people to look into competitive alternatives. Enter ETF2L, UGC and the other various leagues to attract the resurgence of users.

Quoted from prof

The whole recruitment section is a bit confusing at first, but there are resources there for people to use. The kind of people who are jumping straight into commenting on prem player posts with “herp derp i topscore in pubs can i play please” are going to be the kind of people who would just immediately close the FAQ if it flashed up on the screen the first time you visit the site. I really don’t understand why so many people seem to think cluttering up the site for the benefit of that kind of person is so important.

To be fair, while there are resources that can be used to figure out a multitude of things (forums and admin support come to mind) people do make a valid point by saying that an explanation of the recruitment section is not included in the current guide.

This and some other issues will be fixed in the updated guide (which btw is 80% finished), so the reasonable portion of feedback has been aknowledged and will be implemented.

However access and visibility of the guide itself will remain as it is.

Like you said, it’s the first thing that people get redirected to when creating an account, even if someone was to click it away or wanted to visit it afterwards they can find it incredibly easily through the help tab at the top of every page.

‘Cluttering up the site for the benefit of that kind of person’ is not in our interest whatsoever, no need to worry there.

Quoted from Nevo

The easiest thing would be to add a “Make a new recruitement post” in the Recruitement tab itself. Would be a lot easier to intuitively click on Recruitement and then see a big button to create your own post.
Add a visual line like “Open < Mid < High < Prem" above the chatbox where you choose your div, no more confusions.

this.

Gave it a glance, looks solid. Will read in more detail later tonight.