Anakyn, usafnbc, I mean, usa only has like 33 posts I think. But he articulates himself so well that he'd be a good guy to include in conversations. I mean, there are smart people who provide hugely opinionated threads, or posts. But they're so articulate and insightful, that they're the people I want to read posts from. So that's sort of where I'm getting at. I mean, although Murder is too much of a conspiratist, he makes great posts. Or Carlos and his perspective on Bush, and the war in Iraq. Magistrate, Siaynoq, Elfen, Equinox, Goodguy, these bright individuals. It would just be nice to sit in a private forum and read ONLY posts from these 15-20 members who really know how to elaborate on their point of view.
I know I sound a bit sucky up right now. But Its hard to stay interested in a forum when all of these big serious threads about wars, governments, forum members are starting to fade. I want them back. I miss drama, and I miss debates. I hate spam. I hate this week of the forum.
The problem is that we only have a small number of moderators compared to the average 10 posts per 5 minutes of threads like the Splash page threads (especially during a time like this.) You can't put all the wait on them- not right now, anyway- there just isn't enough of them to combat the spam onslaught. During a normal time without all these pending special events, there are enough moderators, and spam is usually taken care of- but right now, it isn't humanly possible.
And I like the idea of gem quality images being used for reputation. It would be nice if reputation was a larger part of a profile, too. ATM, it seems kind of just like an "Oh, what if we want to gauge someone's reputation? Idea! Let's add green rectangles that accomplish absolutely nothing!"
Well I think arguing that would be an uphill battle.
It would be nice to have an unmoderated forum for only specific priveleged individuals. I don't necessarily mean regs. We have a few that I would never invite to an actual discussion. Such as, Zubin, SteelVelocity, Robert91, HDLG(sp?). I could just never see them providing any insightful posts.
I don't like reputation being based from post count or join date. Not just for me, but for other members who I think are still somewhat new, but are very adequate members. Or members worthy of being reconized.
Isn't that the niche of a moderator? To get rid of spam? I mean, if we have ineffective moderation, wouldn't that be something that needs to be addressed.
I couldn't really see a special forum for reg members have many things to disucuss. I mean, would it be a GENERAL forum? What kind of topics would be discussed that couldn't be discussed else where? Would we be involved in more of the forums direction? I dunno, I'd rather just have a special color for reg members. It's recognition, that's really all they need.
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Maybe a section devoted to older members (a month or more).
This would at least help everyone who's a serious member to debate in times of flooding... not to mention it would almost certainly be less suceptive to bots and other kinds of spam... also, I don't know about this but is there a time limit for people who don't get online for some time to get online, otherwise getting their account deleted?
1 month, are you serious? I wouldn't even put a date requirement on it.
Also, instead of putting a time frame on reg members. I think it would be a nice idea to color code their names, like admin/mods do. How they're deemed as a "reg" would be entirely up to certain people.
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I was thinking it would be a good idea for silver to accumulate everyones pictures in the "picture thread" and edit his first post with them. I've forgotten what half the forum looks like. That way we could all just jump to the first post and see what everyone looks like.
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I know I sound a bit sucky up right now. But Its hard to stay interested in a forum when all of these big serious threads about wars, governments, forum members are starting to fade. I want them back. I miss drama, and I miss debates. I hate spam. I hate this week of the forum.
Oh explorer, I like your idea.
Well I think arguing that would be an uphill battle.
It would be nice to have an unmoderated forum for only specific priveleged individuals. I don't necessarily mean regs. We have a few that I would never invite to an actual discussion. Such as, Zubin, SteelVelocity, Robert91, HDLG(sp?). I could just never see them providing any insightful posts.
I don't like reputation being based from post count or join date. Not just for me, but for other members who I think are still somewhat new, but are very adequate members. Or members worthy of being reconized.
1 month, are you serious? I wouldn't even put a date requirement on it.
Also, instead of putting a time frame on reg members. I think it would be a nice idea to color code their names, like admin/mods do. How they're deemed as a "reg" would be entirely up to certain people.
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I was thinking it would be a good idea for silver to accumulate everyones pictures in the "picture thread" and edit his first post with them. I've forgotten what half the forum looks like. That way we could all just jump to the first post and see what everyone looks like.