In the past for Christmas time, I change the default theme to the Holiday theme I do for Christmas. In the past we have received complaints from people using the default style, so this year I am not going to set the Default style sheet to the holiday style.

Last night I made the changes here for the Christmas decorations as well as adding the Holiday theme as an option for the members. If you wish to view it or set your preferences to use it you can do so in my stuff-> preferences.

Hope you enjoy it

It has come to our attention that when passing along this information to some members in the community who may not come to GliderCENTRAL as often as they once did, the information is not getting passed along exactly as things were posted here.

We have NOT thrown open the doors so that members can post anything they want any way they want making us just like some other message boards on the internet.

The censor has NOT been lifted completely as there are some words that will never come off. In fact, there were only a few we did take off the list.

The subject line "It's About Damned Time" was my idea as I thought this would be a good attention grabber since that word was previously on the censor list. Good way to get people to say, "Hey, that's different. Maybe this post is worth reading."

Finally, Eddie is NOT cussing all over the place.

We appreciate the fact the word is getting out about our new changes.

We do NOT appreciate the incorrect information.

How about just giving them the direct link to the new changes

We are sorry for the delay in getting the last annoucment off the ground and running. We have already removed the words off the censor and some of the video providers have been added. Please give us a bit to get those smilies

We decided to go ahead and make another change while we were at it. This change will be applied to Rule 8. We are renaming the Critterbin forum and naming it Auctions. We will be allowing Auction posts like ebay now as well. The same rules and policy will apply for the Auction forum as it did for Critterbin.

Rule 8, as well as the rest of the rules, have been updated. Within the next few days, members will have to agree to the rules by checking the box at the bottom of the page.

We have been thinking of some changes lately that we can do to GliderCENTRAL to keep up with the times while keeping the board on the same course and keeping our rule 4 policy. In the beginning of the year we took a small step to test the waters with some changes for GliderCENTRAL which can be found here. We think we have come up with some changes that everyone may appreciate, and this is a much larger step for us!

First thing here is we are trying to move more to a "PG" rated board instead of a "G" rated board as many things have changed over the years. We are now seeing more words considered non G rated being used on News and TV shows. We have decided to remove some words off of the censor and have debated removing more, but we just dont see how allowing those words to be posted is needed at this time.

We have also discussed on how far GliderCENTRAL should be going to protect and keep younger viewers from stumbling across things. In today's world a parent should have checks put in their computer to limit their access to areas of the internet, back in the day this was not something parents did or was practical for them. If they can read or see that info via posted here, they can also read it anywhere on the web. Parents should be restricting blogs, news sites, video sites, and photo sites not us.

So we have decided that we will be allowing links to news sites, blogs, and sites such as esty as long as the page being linked to complies with rule 4. What does this mean? As long as the initial page being linked complies with rule 4 it will be ok. As always we will rely on notifications to help us if such content is found.

The next change we plan on doing is to allow the use of non glider related videos to be posted here on GC in Community Hall. We will also be allowing the use of other video hosting providers such as photobucket, vimeo, yahoo after Eddie is able to code those video providers in. All videos must be embedded though.


The last change we plan on making is some new smilies that will either replace some that we have that will stay constant, or find seasonal ones meaning Eddie would swap the images out a few times a year. Not seasonal as in thanksgiving, christmas, etc. Just something to bring change every once in a while to the board.

Here is what we have come up with for the rule changes. The left side is the old rule and the right side is what will become the new rules for both rules 4 & 7. On the left the red means it's been removed and not on the new. On the right the red means it was added to the line and the green box means newly added to section.

http://www.glidercentral.net/image2/rule_comp.png
(click for larger view)

Sometime later we will make the changes to the rules page and sometime tomorrow night users will need to click the box agreeing to the rules.

Please help us congratulate four out of our 5 newest mods, Jessie, Johanna, Shelly, and Stacie!!! I say 4 out of 5 because in order to get them to come on board we had to promise that they will not be the newbies, so Aimee has been sent back to the bottom of the list again!!!

Ok, now that thats out of the way on to the serious stuff. We are real excited and happy that you ladies have agreed to come on as staff, we are long overdue for a vacation!! With 4 of you we should be able to go somewhere nice this time, don't bother your accounts have been cleaned out for a few days now

Now a few things to tell you as I am sure Karen and Gretchen neglected to tell you this. I really am the nice one here, they are the ones who do the mean stuff!!! I only ask that you keep away from that red button so it doesn't cause me work around here!!

From your loving, charming and talented DCMuffin:


"Drum roll please..."



It's the moment you've all been waiting for. Some patiently, some not so much. Each and every one of the entries were fantastic, we've definitely got a creative bunch here!

So I guess it's time to get down to business. But jeez, what fun would it be to spill the beans ALL AT ONCE??? Now, had y'all not whined, maybe I'd be just a little nicer. On second thought, probably not - because it's just sooooo much more FUN this way!! And besides, the slower I do it, the longer my monkeys get to play with these AWESOME prizes!


So, without further adieu...

I'd like everyone to give a HUGE, rousing applause...



...to our first winner - for Best Color/Theme in their Glider Room....





JOHANNASGLIDERS!!

See ya in an hour for the next winner, folks! I've got stuff to do!