The forum team are back for a new week of foruming on our weekly Freedom Forum Friday! Last week brought some major changes for the forums but we haven't seen the end of it, let's be sure of that.
~~~ Announcements ~~~
- Ever needed to message someone about a question? Is someone being disrespectful to you or someone else? Now it is much easier to contact a member of staff or another member for assistance. For any online staff, you can simply follow the button shown in the GIF above and it will open a new window to send a private message.
For offline staff or any other member on the forums, simply go to their front page and they now have a private message button just under their picture. Saves you having to remember their name in the conversation tab or wasting time going through the profile tabs to find the conversation button.
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- We always want to reward new and old members with both physical prizes in our monthly contests and also with our monthly MotM status. This month has brought some good and some bad but nevertheless, the forum team have been able to decide on the fate of the MotM.
However it is not my job to reveal it, so I must let the goddess of MotM - Row announce it for you. Keep your eyes peeled in the Announcement section for the post!
Lastly, @Lunny, sadly the time has nearly come so wear it proudly for however long you can!
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- Many users have asked us for an admin to change their username, but starting as of now, we are not changing anyone's username manually. Any user who wants a name change must go to the credit store and spend 50 credits to change their name.
Asking an admin won't change anything, it is either 50 credits or no name change, your decision.
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~~~~ Milestones / Achievements ~~~~
That's enough updates for one day, now it is time to get those arms moving as it is time to celebrate your milestones!
- Ever since YouTube introduced the monetisation rule of 10,000 lifetime views, becoming a partner of Freedom! got a little harder, but with this member, it shows 10,000 views isn't that hard to overcome, it just takes time and perseverance.
Our example comes from @Smart Facts UK who back in July only had 7500 views, but within a few months time, he surpassed his goal of 10K and granted himself partnership.
It goes to show that if you put enough effort in and work hard, your goal will be met. It just requires time.
You better have those arms up high when you celebrate this success here!
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- Now to a story of my own. 3 days before this very day last year, I was chosen to be part of the forum team as a chat moderator together with @LifelessDane and @zeke morgan. Throughout this year, working with the forum team has been a pleasure. Most of the things I have done for the community have been out in the open, however for these people, they are continuously working extremely hard behind the scenes to make the forums better with all the suggestions you throw at us, so for that reason, I want to publically congratulate everyone on the team for the amazing work they have done and hopefully for the rest of 2017 and the years ahead, we continue to work together to make Freedom! better.
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So that's it for another week. We are looking to showcase the very best of your contributions to the community and as we are human, we can easily miss a brilliant thread, so if you have a tip, resource, service, milestone or introduction thread that you think should be showcased then please don't hesitate to get in touch!
