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With the year ending, I welcome you to Forum And Site Discussion, where Dr Skull gives a round-up of the year, here at Sal's, charting the ups and the downs of this year.

~ Jamster, wishing you all the best for 2009.

A Glance At 2008 - By: Dr Skull

2008 was a great year for us at Sals, and I'm sure 2009 will be even better. Now, let's see exactly how great 2008 was...

Guides

A huge thanks should go to all of the guide writers! We had over 50 guides (Not including re-writes) added to the site this year, including Dealing With Scabaras, Hot air Balloon Travel, Zooknock's Dungeon, Goblin Priests, Wolf Whistle Quest, Scabaras Research, As a First Resort, Catapult Construction, Gravestones, Kennith's Concerns Quest, 2008 Easter Event, Clan Wars, Oo'glog, Monkey Greegrees, Gnomecopters, Fist of Guthix, Hunt for Surok, Legacy of Seergaze, Perils of Ice Mountain, TokTz-Ket-Dill, Summoning, Summoning Help, Smoking Kills, Rocking Out, Stronghold of Player Safety, Canifis Dungeon, Lumbridge & Draynor Achievement Diary, Learning the Ropes, Quick Chat, Spirit of Summer, Meeting History, Enchanted Key II, All Fired Up, Great Orb Project, Vinesweeper, Summer's End, Item Lending, Defender of Varrock, God Wars Dungeon, Clan Wars, Halloween 2008 Event, Swept Away, Broomstick Enchantment, Purple Cats, Shooting Stars, Hunting Ice Giants and Warriors, Barbarian Training, Cockroach Hunting, While Guthix Sleeps, Balthazar Beauregard's Big Top Bonanza, and 2008 Turkey Event! Good job and thank you to all of you guide writers and to everyone that helped!

Neo Avatars also made a guide on a quest that was yet to be released called Mass Production. This was, unfortunately, a joke, but was still, nonetheless, very cool.

There have also been many rewrites, including Duel Arena, H.A.M. Dungeon, Digsite, Edgeville, Enakhra's Lament, Etceteria and Miscellania, Crafting Guide, Temple Trekking, Money Making, Runecrafting Guild, One Small Favour, Lunar Magic, Edgeville Dungeon, Burgh De Rott, Bank Pins, Magic Help, Prayer Help, Giant Mole Hunting, Party Room, Fight Arena, and Getting Around. Good job and thank you to all of you guide writers and to everyone that helped!

Maps have also been added, including a Freeplay World Map and a Full World Map.

Promotions

There were a total of 12 promoted Clan Chat mods, including Cxkslei, Druin, Hawk, HotBabe69, Matt T, Synapsi, Wiltingplant, Young, finisterra15, kikteethicus, Choccy, and Lord Earth!

There was only 1 promoted Tech Support, Acid!

There were a total of 15 promoted Distinguished Members, including Lilshu, SlashingUK, Mormil, Toungy, OnYx, Razorlike, Doom, Stobbo, heb0, Pixel Bunnie, Doddsy, Dr Skull, Emanick, Finisterra, and Hawk!

There were a total of 7 promoted Mods, including Evin290, Jamster, Sparhawke, Joker, Lilshu, Mormril, and Toungy!

There were a total of 5 promoted Admins, including Neo Avatars, Monte Kyle, Jamster, Xaria, and Sparhawke!

Congratz to Lilshu, Mormril, and Toungy who were promoted to DM and then later to Mod, all in the year!

Congratz to Jamster and Sparhawke who were promoted to Mod and then later to Admin, all in the year!

Media

We had a total of 5 amazing issues of the Newspaper this year! Keep it up!

The Salcast came back this year, thanks to Reaver, Kayla, Merch Gwyar and Toungy in April! They then produced three more episodes! Keep it up!

Rules

New rules have been added to the Runescape Suggestions section. All of the rules were updated in January. A rule was added so that you were required to use your real Runescape name, not a fake one. Another rule was made banning all free Runescape membership, moneymaking and referral advertisements. Another rule was added banning bug abuse. An addition to the bumping rule was made in the Skill Logs section.

Updates to the Forum, Sub-forums, and Other Updates

The Graphics Place had a makeover earlier in the year. The Highscore system is back, now without creating lag. A Closed Suggestions subforum was added to the Runescape Suggestions forum. The Runescape Marketplace was cut down to two subforums, and later to only one. A RuneScape Polls & Surveys section was also added. The Wilderness: Skills, Tips 'n' Kills section has been changed to a Minigame Discussion section, with forums for discussion and questions about PK Minigames and Non-PK Minigames. A bump option has been added to a couple of forums that had been missing the option previously. Rather than being able to change your Display Name once every 90 days, you can now change it twice every 180 days. This means that you can now manually correct any mistakes you may make when choosing a name, so you will be unable to ask an Admin to correct any typos that may be made.

A new set of Avatars has been added to the Avatar Gallery for you to choose from, each one showing off a different RuneScape Skill. The set is called 'Skill Avatars by Jnr JC', so a huge thanks needs to go to Jnr JC for making these great avatars. Tech Talk has been changed so that the previous section dedicated to Forum problems has disappeared to create a combined Programming & Web Development section for anything to do with just that. The other sections have had their descriptions changed slightly to hopefully make it clearer that if you need help with anything it should be placed in Technical Support and discussions in Tech Discussion. The 'Discussion of the following is not permitted:' section of the Tech Talk Rules has also changed slightly. The Story Mat has also been compressed so that stories, poems, comics and whatnot are now just found in two sections - RuneScape Stories for RuneScape Stories and The Library for everything else. Roleplays still go where they did before. A couple of sections in The Graphics Place have had slight name changes to hopefully get rid of some confusion as to placing of topics. The Tech Support pip has been updated so that it fits in better with the other pips. The Tech Support group was removed.

Other

The 2008 Christmas Party was a blast, hope everyone had fun!

We also had two "Sals hunts" this year, courtesy of Cameron.

There was also a Database Drive, hoping to get more submissions to the Databases.

Summary

  • Over 70 guides were added to the site this year! Let's try to beat that next year!
  • Two maps of Runescape were made and added to the site.
  • A total of 40 people were promoted this year.
  • 5 people were promoted TWICE this year.
  • There were 5 issues of the Newspaper. How about 6+ next year?
  • There were 4 episodes of the Salcast. How about 5+ next year?
  • The rules were updated this year.
  • Many new rules were added.
  • The Tech Support group ceased to exist.
  • You can now change your name twice every 180 days.
  • There was also a Database Drive, hoping to get more submissions to the Databases.

This year was great, and I'm sure next year will be even better, with (Hopefully) the long-awaited site revamp! Now all we can do is wait. Happy New Years Sals!

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