The Marriland Forums
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| The Marriland Forums | |
| File:Marriland logo.png | |
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Status | Active |
| Run | ???? - Present |
| Date opened | ???? |
| Creator | Marriland |
| Mascot | none |
| Website | Main Page |
The Marriland Forums are a large group of forums popular in the fandom.
Contents |
Services
Adopt-A-Newbie!
The Marriland Forums have a helpful service called "Adopt-A-Newbie!", where newcomers to the forums can go to get a helpful start and some knowledge about the forums and what to do.
The idea for “Adopt-A-Newbie!” was suggested by Marriland Moderator: Pupitar247 on Sep 29, 2007. The idea started running on the forums on Jun 05, 2008.
“Adopt-A-Newbie!” was created by Marriland Senior Moderator: Azulkitten
The service consists of mentors that assist the newbies that come and ask for help.
Newbies pick their Mentors by looking at each of the Mentors application by seeing how much Newbies he can mentor and what guidance the Mentor provides.
Mentors can only mentor Newbies who are working on their green and yellow rank.
After a month the Newbie turns into a “Graduated Newbie” and is put on the Graduated Newbie list.
The “Adopt-A-Newbie!” service has mentored about 40 Newbies so far.
The “Adopt-A-Newbie!” Service is located in the in “General Forums” section inside the “Introduce Yourself!” forum
“Adopt-A-Newbie!” is accepting applications to become a mentor as of April 17, 2009
Marriland Hits Shoddy Battle
Development
In 2007 - 2008 the moderator of the Diamond & Pearl strategy section, Method, made an attempt making a Shoddy Battle Server for the members of the forums to go on and battle, talk and rise through the rankings. The members of Marriland Forums reacted in excitement but it unfortunately died out very quickly due to lack of people interested at the time.
In 2009, Draconas, a big time forum regular decided he wanted to make having a Marriland Shoddy Server work. He developed it very well with the most up to date sources at the time and then affiliated with ericpenguin from the forums and Jmtz from another Shoddy Server. Draconas now paired up with these people, they further extended the server progress and it proved to be very successful.
After thinking it out, the main people who were very much involved in the forums as they were in the server, Draconas and ericpenguin decided they would reschedule the complete and fully finished / revamped Shoddy Server with the new HGSS updates (Heart Gold & Soul Silver) when ShoddyBattle 2 was to be released.
The members of the forums acted with excitement towards the idea of this as did the staff of the forums. It has been confirmed by Draconas and ericpenguin that it will be up in the early stages of the new ShoddyBattle 2 client.
Staff
Current staff
Administrators:
- Marriland - Devin
- Devin also serves as the webmaster of the forums.
- Pokemama - Camille
Junior Administrators:
- Houndour
- Teriki Tora
Senior Moderators:
- AzulKitten
- haymaker
- Mozeta
- HypnosProjectHQ
Global Moderators:
- Aqua13
- BonsaiDude
- Daniel
- Dark Shocktail
- DemonicDratini
- DiarugaDude44
- Entei
- Gunther
- HolyMistress
- III MASTER III
- indigo nightbird
- Johnny
- Kawalski
- LuckyLuke5392
- Motokino
- Mr.Crobat
- Pupitar247
- TheUmbreonMonarchy
- Yello Mit
- Zebi
Marriland Shoddy Battle Staff
Administrators:
- Draconas**
- ericpenguin**
- joe**
Moderators:
- DiamondPlayer44*
- SpaceGoo*
Server issues
The Marriland Forums have suffered from server problems ever since Pokémon Diamond and Pearl were released in April 2007. This resulted in the server going down for hours at a time, as it couldn't handle the flood of new users.
Due to Marriland's dire situation, in July 2008 Devin began updating the forums from phpBB2 to phpBB3. After many hours of updates and downtime, the Marriland Forums finished the transition on November 12th. Problems have been decreasing since the update.
External links
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