Yeah this gives trusted+ an advantage but this also rewards the users who do good things on vizzed. If the normal members try a little harder they can beat the trusted members.

But look at the rented forum rules for them. It restricts the amount of post that they can post in them.

Barathemos : This wasn't for The rented fourm list.


This was mean't mostly for main private fourms like the two  for trusted members. Etc.

SuperCrash64 : But those forums count as rented don't they?
Well, either way, they don't get much activity anyway.

Well, I would say that this would be valid if people posting for VCS and TdV made a lot of posts in the trusted only forum. But that is not the case. Those forums get very little activity, and have never remotely been the cause of someone doing better. Probably because it is a lot harder to spam those forums because a lot of the threads are more specific, and require actual thought. People who seriously participate in VCS look for threads that essentially require very little reading so their posts can just be kinda vague for the sake of making fast posts. That comment might offend people who try to be serious competitors and deny that they personally do that, but that is just the truth. The two competitions have been turned into a spam contest, really. That is the reason I stopped participating. Competition time are when the lowest quality posts are made. 

This honestly isn't that much of a bad idea. Even though it doesn't really do much of a difference, it will still help Trusted+ members to be on the safe side of being DQ'd for posting in the private forums. (Plus the spam thread might be open that way without trouble *wink*) 

But posting in the private forums should still increase someone's total post count while not counting for the VCS or the TDV. Yea... Thats all I have to say.

You know, I was thinking on the same thing because between Normals, Trusted, and Staffs, I think it's fair if all of us can be able to post in the normal boards. but if you look at this, you got 1st time TdV contenders that will spam the lights out of TdV and the only way to counter that is the private boards, but that's to my guess.

So all and all, I do like and don't like this idea.

I've had this same thought myself except that the results of the VCS and TdV more often go towards the normal members who are competing for the first time. The number of posts that go to private/hidden forums aren't significant enough to require David to recode both competitions

I agree with Geeo, posts there just don't make up a whole lot of the total.

BTW, now that we have this thread, suggestions should go there. Please post suggestions there in the future.