Update:Changes to Forums

The original post can be found here.
Recent changes to how the forum is used in certain areas were made this morning.
Reports/Appeals
*Reports and appeals threads/posts will now require moderator verification before being publicly viewable.
 
The aim here is to limit posts on these threads where they are not required, also it gives the moderators more discretion (and yourself) when posting in these subforums. No more of that "I want to report somebody, but I know they'll see me do it", it's all private.
 
After a report/appeal has been decided upon, it will be moved into one of the respective archives:
*Successful Appeals
*Unsuccessful Appeals
*Closed Reports
These act as archives, where posts in there are only viewable to staff and the original thread creator, just so the original poster is able to see the decision made.
 
News
*News threads will now automatically archive themself after two weeks of being in the news forum; they will be archived into a child forum of the news forum named "Old news", any player (and guests) can read this forum; however you cannot post or create new threads in this subforum. This does not apply to stickied threads.
 
Notifications
*I tweaked a number of notification settings, you will now (hopefully) receive notifications when another member post quotes you, when another member replies to a topic you started, your friends create a status update, another member comments on your status update, when you receive an infraction from a moderator and (hopefully) if any moderation is performed upon content you created.
 
Hopefully this should make the forum more accessible, I know I first had issues regarding keeping conversations going on threads because I had no idea whether a reply to that thread had been made or not.
NOTE: If these new settings are not working for you, you are able to change them yourself in your account settings > notifications.