Personally, I think he's kinda busy. But he does know his members well.
There may be some new members that I did not notice because I wasn't here for some while, so I am not sure about that. I do have the free time, though.
As I said, anyone in the administrative-moderating team.You are joking, right? I may not approve of things you sometimes say but that doesn't mean you are not a senior member. >_<
I was just kidding.^_^ I know you love me.:cute: But getting back on point, do you think my proposed gem reputation system is possible?
I was just kidding.^_^ I know you love me.:cute: But getting back on point, do you think my proposed gem reputation system is possible?
I saw a reputation work fine on other forums, and it's kinda fun. There was some abuse, though. You cannot use such a system to distinguish members too much, though, or give any favors. It may be too hard or too easy to get. On the forum I was -300 reputation gave the person an auto-ban, but such a low reputation was extremely hard to get and required a ton of senior members lowering that person's reputation for about 2 weeks lol.
Restrictied forums are generally based on user groups, which are primarily based on post totals.
Which means, yes a spammer can gain entry if the have enough posts.
I do not know how or if you can make it so requirements are based on how long someone has been at a forum.
The only real exception is Staff forums. One can only get in if they are an Admin or moderator.
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
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.
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.
Isn't that the niche of a moderator? To get rid of spam?
First of all, it's not spam, it's multithreading and/or flooding. Spam can be prevented on the technical level, but multithreading is virtually unavoidable if it comes from a new person every time. Moderators cannot keep up with deleting that, not to mention fairly, not to mention with a slowing down/crashing website.
can you put restrictions on a staff member so that he can get in but has no special powers?
Would be easier to change how the regular users group works, I don't really want to make another group, I not even sure forum entry can be granted on age, it's post count.
I can make a staff group that is like a regular user group, but I would have to manually move everyone. Id rather the forum do the work for me.
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
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.
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!"
Would be easier to change how the regular users group works, I don't really want to make another group, I not even sure forum entry can be granted on age, it's post count.
Can't you just extract the value of forum join date and then when it reaches a certain amount of x days, users are automatically transferred to the Senior Member usergroup? You could even make the system more elaborate by incorporating, oh say, post count/reputation like this:
And when the total left side of the equation is equal to 365, they are automatically transferred to said usergroup.
(You'd take 5% of the user's total post count and add it to 10% of their total reputation, rounded to the nearest whole number, and then add it to the number of days since joining- this would allow users to get in to the usergroup sooner depending on their post count (which is diminished greaty in the equation by only taking 5% of it, which can cut back on users getting in for spamming) and a small portion of their reputation.)
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.
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Fuck you, I'm a dragon.
Edit: Well, I have been here around 6/7 months.....
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It's the decisions you make when you have no time to make them that define who you are.
Which means, yes a spammer can gain entry if the have enough posts.
I do not know how or if you can make it so requirements are based on how long someone has been at a forum.
The only real exception is Staff forums. One can only get in if they are an Admin or moderator.
Fuck you, I'm a dragon.
Without all the spammers around.
It would probably be more or less a tavern thread.:rolleyes:
Fuck you, I'm a dragon.
Would be easier to change how the regular users group works, I don't really want to make another group, I not even sure forum entry can be granted on age, it's post count.
I can make a staff group that is like a regular user group, but I would have to manually move everyone. Id rather the forum do the work for me.
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!"
Can't you just extract the value of forum join date and then when it reaches a certain amount of x days, users are automatically transferred to the Senior Member usergroup? You could even make the system more elaborate by incorporating, oh say, post count/reputation like this:
(postcount * 5%) + (reputation * 10%) + (days since joining) == 365
And when the total left side of the equation is equal to 365, they are automatically transferred to said usergroup.
(You'd take 5% of the user's total post count and add it to 10% of their total reputation, rounded to the nearest whole number, and then add it to the number of days since joining- this would allow users to get in to the usergroup sooner depending on their post count (which is diminished greaty in the equation by only taking 5% of it, which can cut back on users getting in for spamming) and a small portion of their reputation.)
Just some elaborated thoughts.
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.