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Game and content blog posts

I think we should make a more focused effort on writing blog posts for upcoming games/expansions/new content as it's announced. I know that we used to write these quite a lot during the TS3 era (Nikel, especially), but since TS4 has come out it's mostly fallen by the wayside. The only two blogs I can think of like this are this and this.

At a time where it seems to be harder and harder to get people involved in our front page activities, those two blogs have generated quite a bit of traffic; check out the poll numbers and the comments as proof. To contrast, consider the average traffic that one of our weekly news blogs gets. Blogs about game releases seem to be a more effective way of reaching out to our reader community. Of course, one of the main goals in this is to turn readers into editors, but anything that is adding to our traffic here is helpful.

I'd like to know if there's anyone interested in helping to write these blogs. The blogs should preferably be written within a day or two of a game/content announcement or game/content release. If there's interest here in writing future blogs, we can come up with some sort of system for making sure that each major announcement gets a related blog post, since the idea of this is to make sure that we're not missing any announcements (like the GtW expansion announcement, or Newcrest). Thoughts? - LostInRiverview ^{talk • blog • contribs} 16:40, June 12, 2015 (UTC)

I was actually thinking of doing a small review on Newcrest (similar to Lab's and yourselfs reviews). I'd be willing to partake in more these announcements and review blogs. ~ Beds ^{(talk - blog)} 16:52, June 12, 2015 (UTC)

I could try to help out as well. I've also been playing some older sims games recently and I've been thinking about writing up reviews/playing notes for those as well. ―ฬђ ^talk 01:50, June 15, 2015 (UTC)

Underage User on Chat

User:Petr.kasuba.12 admitted on chat to being 10 years old. AldoHyde 14:01, December 11, 2015 (UTC)

Soft blocked for three years. Just a note: No, administrators do not have access to the chat logs, because chat isn't logged; only a brief scrollback is kept. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 17:41, December 11, 2015 (UTC)

Bad behavior on chat

Today, a user has joined on chat with an unacceptable username and started saying wikia staff are pigs and spammed a further while I made the screenshot. Sims Player (talk) (mistakes) 14:32, December 12, 2015 (UTC)

That user is currently cross-wiki blocked, so no further action is necessary. -- LostInRiverview ( Administrator) • Contact me here • 17:01, December 12, 2015 (UTC)

Rude User in Chat

User:Vegagarcia made personal attacks against me in chat. AldoHyde 15:44, December 17, 2015 (UTC)

User has been banned from chat for a week. If that user comes back or does anything else, please report it. LostInRiverview ( Administrator) • Contact me here • 16:00, December 17, 2015 (UTC)