New moderation policy. 5/24/06

amen to that

 

Please dont all fill my inbox with report bad post e-mails when someone calls you names....

 

I'm all up for comments not being removed, but if a thread gets out of hand I think a mod should lock it.

I hope this doesn't open the floodgates for huge amounts of spam/flame idiocy.

EDIT: testing to see if I'm allowed to edit.

 

Sort of wish we had the edit button back, wouldnt flood the forums much with double posting.

 

So excuse me asking, but what are the roles of the mods now? Is it just moving posts to appropriate sections, enforcing buying/selling rules, or is there more to it than that?

 

Yeah less work for me now

 

So wait, I can't edit this post? That means I can post political topics? At least bring back the "edit" button because I would like to be able to add onto a post rather than double post, it eats up more bandwith on your end, really.

**Nevermind, I guess you can still edit posts.

 

I'm allowed to edit, as can be seen in my post above.

 

guess i'm still the black sheep. Can't edit.

 

Honestly guys, I like the forced politeness. Keeps people on the straight and narrow.

 

GUYS?

what does this mean?

anyway, i guess this is the first time i don't agree completely with you Assembler, having posts kept under control, flame wars put under control and such i think help taking idiots away and make the board a little more for "elitists" anyway, we'll see what happens

 

I hope this is just a temporary thing, I wouldn't want to see this community go to the dogs.

 

well as is being hinted just because you all now have free speach and can attack each other doesnt mean your possition here is safe. Its all about allowing people to see what the mods have kept under control and what made this board what it was a week ago. Lets see what its like a week from now...

 

This is all going to end in tears...I'm not all that for deleting posts, but threads can often and quickly become train wrecks. When peoples differences become emphasised people focus on that rather than what they have in common, which is why locking threads which are becoming out of control is without a doubt a good thing.

 

As an experiment I think it is worth a try.

I hope it doesn't lead to griefers and the like setting up camp. If nothing else it will show us what the mods have to deal with, who almost never get thanks but often criticism.

Thanks btw

 

I think that the "you said it, now live with it" policy is fine and should work well. Particularly, this will allow better examination of members whose actions may warrant removal. I think that a good idea might be to limit post editing to a 24/48/96 hour time frame, after which the posts become locked for editing. This allows people to edit mistakes and maintain recent updates for sale threads and the like. I have seen this work many other places, but I do not know if this particular forum software directly supports it.

I also do not see a problem with the "no deletion" policy. However, I do not think that the "no closure" policy has any merit. As long as the threads are given a reason for closing (which the vast majority I have seen are given reasons) and the threads are not deleted, there should be no problems. How about an alternative where threads that would normally be closed are simply moved into a "junkyard" forum. The last thing that I want to see is this place starting to look like GameFAQs' forums.

 

So from now on AlienWorkshop can call me a faggot in a PM and on the forum from now on ??? without any stopping ? WTF ???

Yeah AWS was the man with the big MF of a gay hating, and faggot calling PM to me.

 

While I don't agree with the "no closing of threads" policy, I have to say that I think the idea of leaving people's original posts intact is a good idea. Hopefully it will weed out some of the more aggressive members.

Actually, maybe the new thread policy isn't such a bad idea. One of the moderators wore the hell out of the close option.