Major Changes To Forum Policy

bluey890

MSE_Martin wrote: »

I called a brainstorm of the team at MSE Towers today, as i've been worried about the forums and what I perceive to be an increase in nastiness.

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Martin

Hopefully a yellow card doesn't become a badge of honour (for some). Like an ASBO has.

pavlovs_dog

rmg1 wrote: »

The newbie flag should be extended from 3 posts, IMO.

I agree with this, as many newbies would use up their first three posts in one thread alone.

perhaps linking it to length of (active) membership or maybe even their first few (3?) threads might be more apt. Perhaps an alternative would be to generate an automatic signature for their first X posts (although i accept the success of that is depedant on other users having signatures enabled).


there will never be a one size fits all solution to this problem due to the different posting habits of users, but i do feel that 3 posts is insufficient. goodluck whatever you decide :beer:

Munchkim

korkythekat wrote: »

hi munchkim , was suggested they have a link for both

#16

Thanks Korky, I saw that but what I meant was making the title of that thread bigger and more noticeable because a lot of people just click past messages like that in haste to post due to confusion when everything looks the same and incredibly daunting. If that post was highlighted as different by a different formatting on the forum it might direct people to it rather than just to post first....................does that make sense?

MSE_Martin

Munchkim wrote: »

Thanks Korky, I saw that but what I meant was making the title of that thread bigger and more noticeable because a lot of people just click past messages like that in haste to post due to confusion when everything looks the same and incredibly daunting. If that post was highlighted as different by a different formatting on the forum it might direct people to it rather than just to post first....................does that make sense?

That was in our meeting too - and is being done - not a policy change though.

hundredk

Zara33 wrote: »

Martin can I ask, the yellow/red card how will this be done via pm or on post/thread?

Personally I would hope it would be via pm, so other posters aren't able to taunt someone to get a rise out of them.

.........:whistle:

iwanttosave_2

Going back to the BG thing, rather than giving them more "powers" I think a good idea would be to give them free reign over the boards, I know if I was a guide on a board and saw something going on over a board I had no control of it would frustrate me. Also a lot of BG's get singled out for deleting threads or posts, if others could handle other boards then this would happen less.

wingobins

Completely off topic there seems to be some suggestion that people are given r'spect based on how many posts they have done - I look at people with more than 60 posts a month and wonder what sort of life they have... [/QUOTE]

I admit I do post quite a lot as I like to come on here and unwind by comping & chatting in the Inn. I do however post comps too & also thank most posts out of kindness for posting and also to know where I am on my return to the forums. I also like to look in the IWIWIW to see what folks have won and I often venture over to Freebies/bargains or other parts of the forums so I feel it is important to have the thanks button as a way of being nice to OP's. It's also nice for a newbie to be thanked too, (unless it was abusive post), this way it would boost their confidence and they would be made to feel more welcome.

Zara33

hundredk wrote: »

.........:whistle:

yes you were in my mind whilst posting that!

Zara33

iwanttosave wrote: »

Going back to the BG thing, rather than giving them more "powers" I think a good idea would be to give them free reign over the boards, I know if I was a guide on a board and saw something going on over a board I had no control of it would frustrate me. Also a lot of BG's get singled out for deleting threads or posts, if others could handle other boards then this would happen less.

Good post wanty, agree totally.

skr80

Perhaps cap the post count indicator to 1000, so as not to intimidate the newbies with post counts of 5000+