Welcome to the official updates & changes thread. From now on, all minor updates including staff changes, new themes, plugins and more changes across the forums will be documented here. Be sure to check this thread for any updates, old or new. All staff will be updating here, admins, super moderators and regular moderators. You will see all kinds of updates, from updates regarding a moderators section, or the forums as a whole. Previous Updates in October: Oct 1st, 2014 - Synerjee was promoted to moderator of Members' Lobby and Clubs. - A New skin was added, called Halloween. It's been made our default for Oct. - Oktoberfest has officially begun, be sure to check out the events. Oct 7th, 2014 - Every skin on Lake Valor was updated with a new graphic box in almost every forum. Each image represents the forum. - We hit our donation goal for the VPS, servers will be transferred next week. Oct 8th, 2014 - A few of our staff team were demoted, WavePearl, ThaIssing, RedScizor and Scrafty. - Sheep was promoted to moderator of the Pokémon Center forums, 8542Madness was promoted to moderator of literature library. And his sister, Shinygiratinaz was promoted to super Moderator. Oct 9th, 2014 - Lake Valor hit 3000 members. LostSpirit now moderates the Music Discussion. Oct 10, 2014 - Lake Valor hit 90,000 posts. So, be sure to check back on this thread, as we will be posting here every time there is an update.
Oct 11th, 2014 - New rules for the Graphics forum are now up! Be sure to check them out if you plan to post.
Oct 12, 2014 - Teams have been officially removed, with the Clubs forum replacing them. - A lot of subforums in Other Consoles have been deleted, and a few in Nintendo have been moved around.
Oct 13, 2014 - Changed a Spinoffs forum to Treasure Town and Pokémon Anime to Bill's Lighthouse. Thanks @[member="Sheep"] for the great suggestions. - If you look over in the Friend Safari forum, you'll notice all of the type icons have changed and been made fancy. Check them out. Gym leaders can also add these to the side of their gym, too. If somehow they don't work, or you can't use them please let me know.
Oct 14th, 2014 -All polls that were previously in the Polls/Debate section have now been moved to misc. ahead of the subsection being retired in favour of the new "Debates" subsection. Please refrain from posting debating threads in this new section for the time being. Rules for it will be forthcoming but I will of course be taking suggestions for potential debates you wish to see cross-examined.
Oct 14th, 2014 -Added rules for the Debates section, which can be found here. I'd urge all members to please consult that thread before participating in debates. -I've also slightly tweaked the rules in the rest of the Multimedia question, and would like to remind you that if you want to contact me about something within the Multimedia section itself, be it a post or something else, you only have to send me a pm. I'll be more than happy to help you.
Oct 14th, 2014 - New rules for the Tohjo Falls forum are up! Be on the lookout for more updated rules in forums within the Pokémon Center category.
October 14, 2014 - Added a new rule {Rule 9} to the Roleplay Institute. If you roleplay, publicly or privately, check it out!
Oct 14, 2014 - So many updates today! The Cave of Origin forum has received a new banner. Remember folks, we're still wanting you guys to suggest art for the forum banners.
Oct 16, 2014 - Please, keep OR/AS leaks to the threads. Posting them across status updates, shoutbox or elsewhere is forbidden until the release of OR/AS.
Oct 17, 2014 - Lake Valor successfully finished transferring over to the new VPS. Thanks to Satix for all of his hard work. If you notice any errors or bugs, please let us know and we'll try to fix them. - Your reward is here. Go to "My Settings" and click on Customize Posts. From here you can chose how each and all of your posts will look. Including the default color of your posts, whether they are bolded ect. This is great for people who like to have colored posts and such. Now it's easy to have it! EDIT: It doesn't work currently, trying to fix it.
Oct 18, 2014 - After all of our hard work, we hit 100,000 posts. We're so proud of everyone and how far this little community has come. Here is to many more excellent posts! - @[member="LostSpirit"] now mods everything under Miscellaneous/Multimedia except Clubs, along with @[member="Reckless"]
Oct 19, 2014 - The Competitive Discussion Forum now has its very own general rules thread! - The Wifi Plaza has its own new rules as well!
Oct 19, 2014 - Writing Prompt Contest #1 has started and is pinned up in the Writing Prompts section of the Literature Library. Go check it out here! - Changed the writing prompt contest into an open event with no placing. Everyone gets 400 Pokepoints for entering.