As some of you may know i run this forum quite differently than other forums around the net. You may be thinking... why?
Since i have been on many forums over the years i have noticed good and bad things about each forums community moderators. Things that annoyed me such as posts just saying "search google".... flaming... spammers... forum signatures (sorry... thats a personal thing).... locking topics... abusers of moderator powers... etc.
So here is my views on each:
Search Google
This is possibly one of my pet hates in a forum. Anyone putting "Search Google" as their reply will get their reply deleted. It's what i call a "lazy answer".
Now if a question is very simple... so what? Still answer it... why not do the google search and ask another question? Expand on what you can find from google, etc. Here are reasons why i do not mind answering simple questions.
1. It's another topic that may be the landing page for new members here
2. The member may have already searched google
3. You can not ask questions and get personalized answers using google
4. Someone else may see the topic and not know the answer either... rather than have everyone searching google for the answer wouldn't it be better to just read it in a reply to the topic.
5. What may seem like a silly question to one person may be hard to another.
6. What can't you say "search google" for? If you could find everything on google there wouldnt be any forums!
7. anything else you can think off... why not to say "search google"
Flaming
This gets peoples backs up and makes people come to this forum to start arguments instead of being informative and helpful. People caught flaming will be warned and have their posts deleted. Flaming on a forum gives the same atmosphere as being in a club with people fighting! It's not a nice place to be if you just want a quiet drink or in this case a nice discussion. If you feel someone is wrong... tell them in a NICE way. Also many things here are simply peoples opinions so please appreciate them.
Spammers
Well... what need i say! I hate spammers, they just ruin websites and fill up email inboxes! If i catch any members spammers there account will be instantly deleted and all the content related to their account (profile, articles, forum posts, PM's, everything). Then their email address will be banned as well.
Also... people who spam about products do NOT build a good reputation for the product they are trying to promote. Oh and i have added no follow attributes to all URL's created in BBCode so it will not help any sites in posting URL's to try and get back links in search engines
Forum Signatures
Annoys me.. because they are basically a more friendly way of spam and advertising. When i read a topic i want to read the posts... not keep getting stopped by signatures that are all singing and dancing! That is why they are not on this forum. I want to keep this site clean from ads and other things like that.
Locking Topics
Nothing more annoying than a locked topic! You want to post a reply... but it's locked! Need i say anymore? I can lock topics here if it is required on the topic for example the topic was on about something that never existed . Even then though i would possibly leave it open for the shear fun of it .
Moderators Abusing Powers
I find they can be intimidating to other members especially when moderators tend to pick on a few other members and just about every new member to the site! Some moderators even start to think they OWN the site or at least you would start to think they do! Moderators can accidentally delete things or have their accounts stolen and abuse done to the site. Admins also have to keep an eye on Moderators since if they get upset on something... your site is at risk!
This is why there are no moderators here and i do not intend on adding any for as long as i can. When i need help on here i will introduce Flaggers (or what ever i decide to call them) who can flag abusive content... so an admin such as myself can go straight to the flagged content and remove it if needed.
Instead of moderators i will introduce Staff... i.e. people who work for me and have their wages depending on how well they moderate this site. Each moderator would have limited powers on a per section bases. But hey... this wont be for a long time yet so i will think about it all more in depth then.
Anyway i think that is about it for tonight... i will update this as i think of other things.
Very good. A lot of your points are valid. It'd be hard to argue with you on any of them, seeing as how well this forum is coded. The most important part of any site is content. Things that don't contribute positivity to the content of a site shouldn't be on that site.
Exactly, I agree with all of those especially the "search google" one, sure I have said search google to a few people on here but I also provided the search link, as well as links to a few other sites for more info.
As far as the signatures go, I would like them, however I have yet to see a reason why we would need them. So I guess I can kinda, sort of, almost agree with you there, lol.
As far as the signatures go, I would like them, however I have yet to see a reason why we would need them. So I guess I can kinda, sort of, almost agree with you there, .
Yeah i know some of you guys would like signatures but then again i think i prefer this forum without them for the reason i stated in the first post and i am sure a lot of you are starting to have this forum grow on you since it is so different to most other forums. So at the moment i am not adding signatures although i have thought about it.
i don't use signature, cause i don't like those and don't know how to create this moving fancy stuff and waht about your idea, it's amaizing! well you are the man and know what you are doing. Good luck
It all sounds good - maybe we can have a quick reply at the bottom of the page like the 'evil quick reply mod' for phpbb forums? as long as we have avatars then i dont mind not having sigs so much :)
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Not enough time to do something productive I run out of ideas Too hard to show people my creations Everything i do has too many errors, and it's too hard I don't get bored!!!
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