Major Changes To Forum Policy

crin

I think these are brilliant ideas and hope it will stop all the rubbish from first timers that appeared on the Damien Hirst comp thread.

Normally I try to ignore someone getting a bit sarky or ratty as everyone can have a bad day but it is better to actually answer a newbies question than cross refer to somewhere else.

I have been a member for a while now and it is really only recently (in the last couple of months reallly) that I have noticed some people being a bit nasty.

Go for it Martin and try ice packs and heat for the RSI it doesn't stop it but it can sometimes ease it off a bit.

Mozette

k2tog wrote: »

PLEASE can we have the view first unread button back!

At the immediate top of the thread on the right it says 'views' and gives the number. Next to that is a white down arrow on a blue background; click that.

hesjane

Many thanks to Martin and team.

Personally I think this move is much needed and welcome the changes.

Bogof_Babe

biscuitfan wrote: »

I love the idea of the newbie bubble...I only joined a couple of months ago and still feel really new and there's loads I still don't quite understand and would love to ask...maybe the newbie bubble could be for a certain amount of time - eg 3 months after joining instead of the number of posts?

I second that. I thought three posts is hardly five minutes membership for someone new who has just found us and got all excited about registering! I'd think a period of at least a couple of weeks, or say 50 posts, whichever happens first, would be more realistic.

Not that I've ever noticed anyone being unkind to newbies, but maybe I don't use those boards.

layla1979

itsinthemail wrote: »

I think this refers to me. Layal, if you consider I was abusive, please report it, I am happy for someone else to judge the thread.

I do feel you was bullying me yesterday, as you was the leader in the posting yet you voted for someone in the thread who put there name down because she lived near you. Seemed that you had double standards.
You wasnt the only one, but I had a pm to say sorry from others.

itsinthemail

korkythekat wrote: »

Think you have explained it very well, the highest posters on reading the board seems to be a mixture of us who chat in the 'inn' a lot or post 'well done' in the IWIWIW, whereas i would have thought the star system/highest posters would be those like yourself & a few others who post every day new competitions, but some of their names don't show on there some of them do but there's a lot that don't ?

Hi Korky
I think you know that I didn't mean just me lots of people post here, thats what makes it a great forum, I would hate you to think I was banging my own drum.
I love finding new comps - who could forget the giant lamp - that was one of mine - the thread was hilarous :rotfl:
For a while I have had more time that usual time to find them, I've always comped (just not here until recently) and have been so thrilled that some people have won from my posts - just as I have had some wins from other people's posts. Its the community I have been enjoying, and for the most part I have found it a very positive forum. I wont be posting quite so much in future, as I got a job today after a year out of work :j so its more for other comp posters I had in mind.

Sorry if that's off topic.

Bogof_Babe

Mozette wrote: »

At the immediate top of the thread on the right it says 'views' and gives the number. Next to that is a white down arrow on a blue background; click that.

Good heavens, I never realised that! :beer: Of course presumably it can only take you to the page you were on, not the post, unless it's psychic!

amcluesent

Make the board for subscribers only. £5/year would be OK

itsinthemail

layla1979 wrote: »

I do feel you was bullying me yesterday, as you was the leader in the posting yet you voted for someone in the thread who put there name down because she lived near you. Seemed that you had double standards.
You wasnt the only one, but I had a pm to say sorry from others.

Layla
I think you should refer the thread as I suggested.

Just because I politely told you that you'd posted on the wrong board doesn't make me a bully or abuser, just because it wasn't what you wanted to hear.

I cant be accused of flaming a newbie, you've been here longer than I have, I've just made more posts.

I've decided I'll just lurk in future, so this is the last post from me on this forum.

Zara33

amcluesent wrote: »

Make the board for subscribers only. £5/year would be OK

Can I pay it up say 20p a week?