1. Use a full shout box, not a side shout box like we have now, its hard to see anything posted, and it will be easily looked over if its on the side like it is.
2. User Bars instead of Medals. Even though it may take some time to get them all set up, it will be well worth it and it looks niceeee.
The award bars do look nice, but then I don't think we could have them displayed on the mini-profile thing to the left of all posts.The shoutbox could potentially be moved to the bottom of the forum.
The top gets cluttered since we already have the news header up there; it takes up a lot of space.There's a glitch with having the awards in the signature, it looks pretty bad. Plus members wouldn't have as much space for their own creations.I moved the shoutbox to the bottom if anyone wants to comment on it there vs. the side.
I think it is a good idea to use this stuff, but the bars are only good to use in players profile, because there is no way to use them in mini profile in each post.