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Issue: 016 - April 2010 - www.dftd.co.uk
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Hello, Demons!

Welcome to April's edition of the BTS! Firstly, apologies for the lack of BTS last month. It gave me time to think-over why it didn't happen, and what I could do to make it better for us all. I hope you enjoy the improvements!

I hope you enjoy reading!



We've always liked to keep with Jagex when they change a policy or make an update. Following the bonus XP weekend, we will be doing our first ever bonus posting weekend, where one post will count for 2 in your post count. As you can imagine, there is absolutely nothing wrong with doing this, our logic is sound, we are not encouraging spam, we don't care if you can't get on on that weekend, and after-all, everyone is benefiting, so it must be good!!! (P.S Only members of DFTD (that is, not free-to-players AKA retired/friends) will benefit from this, so make sure you become a member today!)

We are re-naming some of the ranks in the clan. After much careful thought, the Leadership team have came up with the following: 'Leaders' will be known as either 'King smurf' or 'Queen smurf', depending on gender. 'Senior Management' will be known as 'Papa smurf' or 'Nanny smurf', depending on gender. 'Banned' will be known as 'Wartmongers', Members will be known as 'Smurf' or 'Smurfette', depending on gender, and finally, you will all be receiving appropriate edits to your member titles, depending on our opinion of you. Daz, for example, will be 'Timid smurf', because of his coy nature and dislike of attention.

We will shortly be making an edit to the rules so that addressing a fellow smurf by anything other than their member title will result in an immediate, unappealable and permanent ban.

The unfortunate process of banning a user will been streamlined somewhat, as we want you guys to be more involved in the process - it's not easy for us to do it. Banning will now be done through a process of 'Heads down, thumbs up'. Details of this later.



January's Statistics
This section gives you some of the statistics taken from the Clan Forums.

Member Registrations
There were Over 9000 New Members
That's 1337 more than last Month

New Topics
There were 42 New Topics created
That's what the galaxy told us anyway

New Posts (Replies)
There were quite a lot of New Posts created
That's a fair amount less than last Month
On average, I'd say a few posts were created each day

Topic Views by Forum
There were more Topic Views than normal
That's down to the Chinese, and probably ginger people
General Clan Talk had the most views with a large amount down to the clan in the general chatty mood





Heya!

I hope you all agree that the updates above are necessary to the continued survival of the clan. We will be rolling those out when Julz' steamroller arrives (I think they're delivering it mid-April).

All in all, a very exciting month ahead!




Loyalty!

Our loyalty awards haven't arrived yet, but don't worry, I think they're being dropped off at the same time as Julz' steamroller!


Outstanding Service!


Outstanding Service - 1 Stars

This'll go to the first Smurf who paints his/her face blue!



In no particular order...

99's are for nerds



Newly graduated Smurfs!
Curious smurf would be here, but he was eaten by our resident cat, Mandy.



Milestone attenders!
I think vaux smurf must have hit at least event #9000 by now, but I haven't checked.



Top 3 Attenders of March:
#1. Papa smurf! At 5 events.
#2. Mama smurf! At 4 events.
#2. Baba smurf! At 3 events.



I hope you have a Happy Birthday to...

Birthdays should be everyday. :D

Real life time! I have a feeling that this section of the BTS is quite unnecessary. I am planning to remove it in March's BTS. What do you think?

This month's 3 to-see films are (the same as last month as nothing else has came out...):

Sherlock Holmes
I don't know if Hollywooding this was the way to go - I'll have to see it to find out.
Avatar
I saw it, at last. :P It's the highest grossing film of all time now! Woop!
Alvin and The Chipmunks 2: The Squeakquel
Any of you under 13? Check this out. :P


This month's 3 Music tracks are:

Fireflies - Owl City - This is a really cute song and has been number #1 in the UK for a week or two.
Don't Stop Believin' - Glee Cast - Now excuse me, but I don't watch Glee. I seem to be one of the few in my social group who hasn't. Am I missing out on something fantastic here?
Riverside - Sidney Sampson - I know my brother is home when I here this being pumped out onto the drive. >.< (warning about the language)


An article from me this month! If you hadn't clocked on already...

Heya Demons,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7HfTS_Q8fA
<3
Grant.


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