Charles Stover

Amit, I'll give you some games advice on IM. For those who aren't aware, I'm a huge Steam gamer. Analogically, I am a McDonald's CEO who eats at McDonald's. http://steamcommunity.com/id/gamechief/games Team Fortress 2 - 993.6 hrs on record 369 of 369 Achievements Earned

Yes, when it is a feesible option. There are a few more important details to work out before adding new servers, so I don't know how long it will be until that happens. But, yes. TF2 FTW.

I don't know yet. I'd have to give them a really in-depth look over. I just know the staff section is ridiculously huge, and there really should be no reason for that. Gotta find the cause, before I can find the solution. Hopefully the end result will be fewer ranks, but an equal number of member benefits - like combining the administrators into a single Administrators group, instead of differentiating between BOD, site owner, admins, possibly server admins, other staff, etc. I haven't looked at the usergroups and their tasks yet, so I can't comment on what will disappear and what will appear. The overall goal is just to make it simpler for everyone with no downside. If that can't be done, it will be left as is. I don't think it would be wise to demote the staff who know this site better than we do. ;P I intend on working very closely with the current higher ups. That's why I'm here. Hard-to-follow navigation is a huge pet peeve of mine. I won't allow that to happen. If SG "branches out," it will be solely to other Steam games - after all, that's what it's named after. And Hell no to G ratings. Most [good] Steam/Valve games are bloody violent, and the language level can reflect that. I'm off now, though. I'll have to answer more questions when I get home.

It was answered on chat, but I'll answer here for those who aren't online this moment. There are many ways to profit from a website. There is currently no set-in-stone idea that will be implemented, but some rough ideas: non-intrusive ads (as described in the last post), premium accounts, in-game rewards (like unusual hats in TF2), etc. As per your chatbox question, nothing illegal or immoral will be done to make a profit.

They cannot be accessed because the posts are in the staff section, confirming with the staff that any and all plans are appropriate and a positive influence on the community. While I'd love to run ads, I haven't heard anything from Amit about it, and he really has the final decision on the issue. If there were ads, however, they would be completely non-intrusive. "Plastered" would be an inappropriate word for it. Again, if they exist, it would be something like a single AdSense banner at the bottom of the page, out of view unless you want to see it. But I can neither confirm nor deny that ads will exist in the first place. Amit hates ads. Of course not. That causes so many problems.

Except me. Hey guys. My contact info is in my profile. Feel free to add me and all that junk. I'll be the one tweaking stuff to make it easy to use and all that jazz.