Removing Certain Junior Member Posting Restrictions in the Gameroom

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Hullo folks
Firstly, sorry for the long title - I never was very good at abbreviations/cutting out unnecessary jargon and the such like

Anyhow, this has been something I've been sitting on since the huge Capo I mafia game in January last year (which many Junior Member, including myself, signed-up for).

What I was thinking of was the removal of the Junior Member inability to post in existing Gameroom threads. Their inability to create new threads would remain under my idea, although editing their posts could possibly be allowed since in many cases players may wish to hide any tactical slip-ups they have made.

The problem is that the current system undermines the entire ideology behind Junior Member to Member promotions. Joining and playing mafia games can be used as a method for Junior Members to bypass the "positive contribution" system. I must confess that I manipulated it at the time for this purpose.

Additional benefits also brought by my suggested change would involve less work for staff, and possibly more users actually deciding to join in with the Gameroom games - going through the process of PMing can be awkward for some newer forum users.

Another something I was thinking about is going all the way and dropping Junior Member status/restrictions all together - I do feel that it may be a little redundant. That, however, may be a little too drastic for now, so possibly could be a consideration in the future.

Thanks for reading