I have a question. Do you think it would be a good idea to have homework help or advice threads? I see that the UK has a thread located here. ACC is a very helpful site, and I see homework help threads get locked. Is there a reason you don't allow these types of topics? I feel a lot of users would benefit from this.

Homework as in from school?  Probably because it's not something you really do on a forum as different school boards have different studies, or some view it as cheating in a sense, but there could be other reasons.

"Homework as in from school?  Probably because it's not something you really do on a forum as different school boards have different studies, or some view it as cheating in a sense, but there could be other reasons."

It wouldn't be cheating, but simply asking for help. I know that schools have different curriculum, but I still see it being beneficial.

i need help with homework sooo

"I have a question. Do you think it would be a good idea to have homework help or advice threads? I see that the UK has a thread located here. ACC is a very helpful site, and I see homework help threads get locked. Is there a reason you don't allow these types of topics? I feel a lot of users would benefit from this."

The thread you've linked to is more of a discussion thread, not a help thread, from what I can see. We try to discourage homework help, advice, or other personal help threads because they tend to not promote any sort of healthy discussion. Threads like these are usually what we consider "clutter threads". You're more than welcome to start any kinds of threads like these in PTs, but ultimately, we feel they don't really have a proper place on the public boards.

"The thread you've linked to is more of a discussion thread, not a help thread, from what I can see. We try to discourage homework help, advice, or other personal help threads because they tend to not promote any sort of healthy discussion. Threads like these are usually what we consider "clutter threads". You're more than welcome to start any kinds of threads like these in PTs, but ultimately, we feel they don't really have a proper place on the public boards."

That makes sense. Thanks! :)

Ah, clutter threads.  That makes more sense than suggesting help threads as cheating. LOL

BTW, this is at page 40.  Do we need to create a new thread or are we good?

We should be able to post 3ds friendcodes freely without getting the posts deleted. The Fcr system is a pointless step for something that shouldent be private and is more of a chore to find the user's fc that you want to add. If anyone feels that they should hide thier friendcode its already thier own choice to not post it online and to add someone that added them. If they want to share friendcodes privately they can use Private Threads. Other better managed sites such as The Bell Tree fourms allow users to display thier 3ds/Acnl friend codes under thier avatar for everyone to see and causes less of a task and makes things faster wich is why I try to stay away from Acc and go to The Bell Tree fourms more.

The reason why we require people to use the FC system and disallow posting of friend codes is not really because of privacy reasons, but because of the rating system. Having people share friend codes willy-nilly all over the site doesn't allow people to rate others, which can lead to dangerous situations. In a sense, the rating system is like a safety measure. Without ratings, you don't have any idea about this so-called-stranger that you're wanting to WiFi with. Sure, they may be an awesome person to WiFi with, but what's to say they are not a town destroyer? That's what the whole friend code exchange and rating system is for: to give you a better idea of the people you are planning to play with, and to appropriately rate them after you play.

Hello Icedude.

I appreciate your concerns, but I do have to disagree. I understand that there is no damage with showing it to the world, but having it private makes things easier and less confusing to a lot of people.

First, it is quite easy to manage who you have added to your FC registry and see their codes. With alternative sites such as the Bell Tree, you might be confused with who you have added and who you haven't. For example, I have 125 people listed on my 'Nintendo 3DS Code' section of my friend codes. Keeping track of who I have added for trades and wifi can be confusing with that amount of friends. Having to go to the 3DS Friend Code list and add them to find they're already registered could be a big problem with alternate sites. Of course, this is not an issue for some people who only make the occasional trade, but for some people, keeping track of friend codes and who you have added can be unnecessary work.
On ACC, if I have registered someone on my Nintendo 3DS, I would tick the checkbox besides their name and mark them as registered -- then, I know they are added and I don't have to check each time I wifi with them.

The main reason we disallow it is for convenience and safety. For convenience, I would personally prefer keeping track of my friend codes as I have mentioned above. Also, there are safety reasons with not the Friend Code system as well -- having it allows people to rate each others wifi experiences and ultimately find more trustworthy and honest people to wifi with, whilst avoiding those who steal or vandalise your town.

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Lastly, I will say this: choose whatever site suits your needs best. If you feel the environment, atmosphere or userbase isn't quite right for you on ACC, you are more than welcome to choose alternative sites such as the Bell Tree.

Sup.

I understand it's made to keep track of friendcodes and wifi ratings but it still could be sorted out better like haveing it optional as a reward for users that have high wifi ratings or just haveing it similar to The Bell Tree Fourms where you could send a wifi rating to anyone you want.

The point of wifi ratings is allow people to rate people they have wified with. Having anyone to send out wifi ratings opens up the issue of people randomly rating other users without having played with them. For example, a member could give Jader201  -- the owner of ACC -- a 1 star rating to 'troll' that member.

I understand that can easily be prevented with moderation, but, unfortunately, the modmin team is very busy as it currently is without additional work on top.

You can do the exact same thing with the system right now with Fcrs. Friend code request a bunch of people then send them all bad raitings. People who go bad rating sprees could also be very detectable witch could be avoidable by deleteing thier ratings and giving them a break from giving out ratings for a while.

That's correct, people do give out bad ratings and 'revenge' ratings on purpose. The difference between what I was saying though, is that there will be a higher volume of such ratings if we open up wifi ratings to all members and thus more UT/UL work needs to be done. People will be dealing out good and bad ratings to staff members (in particular, due to being seen as 'authoritative' figures) and their ACC friends without having wified with them which will make it harder to pin out good people to wifi with.

We have it as only allowing ratings from people on their friends list in order to make the ratings system as reliable as possible. There are flaws with it, as you have pointed out, but opening up ratings to all members will only make it worse in my view.

^ What they said.


I do like my 5-star record, thankyouverymuch, and I don't want it ruined by trolls.
Anyway, I only save the bad ratings for people who I've had a bad wifi experience. Or better still, never add anyone with legit bad ratings (basically I don't add anyone who has 3 stars or lower on their rating).


It's common sense, yet it appears to be uncommon nowadays.

"I understand it's made to keep track of friendcodes and wifi ratings but it still could be sorted out better like haveing it optional as a reward for users that have high wifi ratings or just haveing it similar to The Bell Tree Fourms where you could send a wifi rating to anyone you want."

This would defeat the whole point of the Wifi ratings actually. We are just as concerned with the person with the low ratings as the person with the high ratings. We want the people with low ratings to be very obvious so other's will not Wifi with them and run into the same problems which got them the low ratings to begin with. A lot of people have told me over the years that our rating system is the reason they use our site.

"You can do the exact same thing with the system right now with Fcrs. Friend code request a bunch of people then send them all bad raitings."

I don't see where this would be a problem personally. To give someone a rating, the other person needs to accept the FCR. Most people do not accept FCR without a specific reason (a trade, wifi session etc.) so therefore don't open themselves up to receiving "spam" type ratings such as what you are talking about.

So you are saying people with low wifi ratings should just leave the site. Since you are telling people not to play with them.

While random low ratings are insignificant to you I know plenty of users would accept random fcrs saying "looking for friends" or false giveaway threads. As JDC1043 and I agreed on It's still a flaw.While I'm wishing not to continue this argument realy I'm curious on how you guys are going to handle this if they make a Animal Crossing for the Friend Codeless Wii U.

Now I want to know why give out warnings for "bumping" on trading section threads? Its very pointless.

Don't get me wrong, the friend code and rating system definitely is not flawless, but it is better than lawless friend code sharing, trolling members for bad WiFi experiences, and blacklisting.

"Now I want to know why give out warnings for "bumping" on trading section threads? Its very pointless."

Bumping violations are only issued to posts on the trading boards that are spam bumps or non-constructive bumps. Constructive bumps are permitted in limited quantities. Non-constructive and spam bumps are not permitted because they don't contribute anything to the thread topic. Constructive bumps are limited to prevent people from endlessly having their thread at the top of the board.

Theres no topic its a trade ad.

They are topics though.  The creator of the thread has an item and he wants to discuss with other people what they are willing to give for it.

If he posts "Price now lowered from 5000 to 4000 bells," he is contributing to the discussion because he is providing a new chance.  People who wanted the item but found 5000 a bit high now have a chance to buy the item.  This is limited though to prevent people from lowering the price by 100 bells all of the time to keep it at the top of the board.

If you post "bump" you aren't contributing to the conversation because "bump" will not impact people's desire to get the item.

Think of it this way - there are only 75 spots on the top of the board.  There are more than 75 threads on the board, so some of them have to be in later pages.  The 75 that deserve to be on the top are generally more active.  If someone has a highly priced item, they don't deserve a spot on the front page because the item is so highly priced that there is no desire for the item and therefore no discussion.  If someone else has a reasonably priced sale of multiple desire, there will be lots of discussion because there are multiple items that people want.

I have a small grudge. Perhaps it's already been discussed. I wish we could change our username. About a year ago, I created another username because I'm tired of using mrsflamingo. I have a name that I use on all gaming sites and GameCenter and I would prefer using it. I understand why you don't want someone creating a bunch of different accounts, but I am only asking to change the name, not the account.

Thanks for any consideration.

Username changes are currently allowed, either to make minor changes like capitalisation or to remove personal information: just contact a Modmin.

In the future, we intend to implement a system allowing people to change their usernames themselves from time to time.

Good to know, thanks.

Hello, I have some issues with the site that I would like to voice. I know that with most or all of these issues, there is nothing that will ever be able to be done, I'd just like to explain how they are issues for me.

1. The April Fools Features are mandatory.

From March 31st to April 2nd, 2014, there was an April Fools event on ACC. The picture on the homepage was replaced with another image that was more creepy to me. All of the emoticons were replaced with other emoticons that were also creepy for me. Posts were constantly replaced with useless text randomly. This soon became too much for me to bear, so if I am still using ACC by March 2015, I have promised myself that I will not use ACC at all from March 25th to April 8th. Why having these features mandatory is necessary is beyond me. They were not in any way to me helpful, fun, or comical.

2. Nothing can be done to penalize users who rob or ruin other towns.

I know that ACC can't monitor people's Wi-Fi sessions with each other. However, other AC trading sites like ACBay and Reddit give users the benefit of the doubt, and will strike down on thieves and town-ruiners. I don't see why that can't be done here as well. If the user is able to provide a picture of their town both before and after it was stolen from or ruined, it should be pretty obvious when towns are robbed or ruined. This fact adds to a sense of fear for me while using the trading boards.

3. Nothing can be done to ensure that users stick to deals previously agreed upon deals.

Even if a user has made a deal with you, so long as it's not in an auction, that person can take back their offer in the deal whenever they would like. For example, if you offer money for an item and then the seller agrees to that price, but then another buyer comes along and offers a higher price, the seller can just not do the deal with you and do it with the other buyer. The seller should have said to the first buyer, "I'll consider your offer but I want to see what other offers there are first," by not doing so and making the deal and then breaking it, the seller has instilled false hope in the buyer and nothing can be done about it. I know that once I had agreed upon a trade with a user, but when he found out that I had another item that he wanted but he couldn't offer anything else on his end, he threatened to revoke the trade offer unless I included that extra item within the trade that was not part of the original deal, and nothing could be done to stop him. I do not think that this was very fair.

4. (Removed because it has already been answered and might be breaking the rules).

5. There is nothing you can do to get minor notifications waived.

I know that sometimes breaking the rules are a big issue that needs dealing with. And I understand, with more severe offenses, it is something that can never be forgiven. However, I have never done anything that major. *content removed* I could be using this site for 70 years and I would never get considered to be staff. Surely there must be some service project people could do for the site to get minor notifications waived? I'm talking about Level Zero and Level One.

6. You're continually alerted of the FCR's you have until you either accept them or decline them.

I know that this is somewhat minor, but I would still like it fixed. When you get an alert for new flagged threads or new private threads, the alert goes away once you check your flagged threads or private threads board; you don't have to check each thread individually to make the alert go away. However, FCR alerts don't go away until you either accept or decline them, just visiting the FCR page won't do it. Sometimes, I have reasons for neither accepting nor declining an FCR, and I wish that I didn't have to be constantly alerted of the FCR, even if I had already visited the page and knew that I had it.

That's about it, so if someone could address my concerns, that would be great, thanks!


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I also think minor violations could expire. If you have a few minor notifications from a long time ago, I don't think they should be on your record permanently.

"I could be using this site for 70 years and I would never get considered to be staff."

Notifications lose importance over time. You can still be considered for staff even with those notifications. Notifications from when you first joined aren't going to matter now.