Good day!
To promote something that may be a bit more pleasing to the eye, perhaps the Board Topics could be broken up into sub categories? (and if we can get even more technical, they could have the option to minimize/collapse so the sub categories are not visible if so desired). Here are some of the suggestions, along with quirky/fun names I came up with! I think I captured all of the sub categories.
Our Community
-News & Updates
-Forum Suggestions
ARK: Survival Evolved
-General Discussion
-Rumors (Could really be removed, and rolled into General Discussion)
It's all about you! (Really!)
-Videos & Guides
-Game Featured Ideas
-User Creation
Welcome!
-Newbie Corner
-Introductions
Technical
-Game Bugs
-Modding
-Server Hosting Help
Community Servers
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Additionally, it might be kind of fun to come up with 'rank' names that would display under the avatar based on post count (or better, how many up votes or likes a user has - discussed after this suggestion). In addition to this, I've noticed the Global Moderators names are green; however, they should also display the title of Global Moderator.
Lastly, having the option to like or up vote a specific comment would be great. Along with this, that user could have a specific 'title' that corresponds to how many likes or up votes that person received. Not only is this a good way to keep people posting helpful/useful information, but it will be an immediate notification to those that read the post, that this person is someone to take seriously/rely on their information.
Sorry for being long winded! Keep up the great work site admins!
-Dayjob