Major Changes To Forum Policy

torbrex

As far as post counts go, I think that they should be removed from the public view along side the users name and Avi etc on each post and only made available on their profile.
This would remove bragging rights and mean that the viewer would need to be determined to find out rather than a casual viewer to a particular thread.

it_takes_two

aliEnRIK wrote: »

To be honest ~ your being very vague. If you cant post any actual examples then its completely meaningless as weve no clue what your talking about

Its not allowed to bring up individual cases/users in a thread.If i was to post anything along those lines i would probably be banned,its a bit of a catch 22.

marleyboy

I think you will find they can - but save it for another thread.

it_takes_two

marleyboy wrote: »

I think you will find they can - but save it for another thread.

Can what?appeal?show me the appeal procedure or where any team member has written anything about a user being able to appeal

marleyboy

it_takes_two wrote: »

Can what?appeal?show me the appeal procedure or where any team member has written anything about a user being able to appeal

9.6 If you disagree with a decision of a Forum Team member, you should email your appeal to [EMAIL="webmaster@moneysavingexpert.com"]webmaster@moneysavingexpert.com[/EMAIL]. You must not use the Chat Forum to argue any decision of our Forum Team.

Nomad25

Only just spotted this, I think the main suggestions are definitely a positive move and pro-active to the forum's current and [no doubt over the next few months] future expanding membership.

MSE_Martin

On the issue of do the team respond to emails concerning individuals. Yes to an extend, that is what [EMAIL="abuse@moneysavingexpert.com"]abuse@moneysavingexpert.com[/EMAIL] is - that is my team to deal with the forum

What we cant do is guarantee to respond to posts on the forum itself - one of my frustrations is occassionally i spot a "why hasn't martin responded" buried on page 14 of a thread on the ninth page of one of the 80 boards!

40 paperback books a day of info are written here, there's no way we can see them all.

Plus of course we will not discuss individual posters in relation to abuse issues in the forum - nor are threads on it permitted.

chickaroonee

I think these are all really positive changes, I've been getting so annoyed with the nastiness on the boards recently. It's only a very small number of people who get involved, but it does affect things for a wide number.

It's tough though, the site's so popular now you are bound to have disagreements.

The_Watchman_2

PPR=new trolls.

Not always, but in most cases, more so if they are a long standing poster (good or bad) that feel ‘wronged’ by being banned.

You cannot block via IP's as not many in the UK have a static IP, so you would block the next ‘innocent’ party to get that IP address

And not all AE's are bad; some do it for the benefit of the site because they become a target.

Just a few random facts/thoughts.

ThinkingOfLinking

I know we have an ignore function, and I don't know if anyone else would be interested in this, but a block function would be nice. A "real-life" tormenter of mine monitors my posts here and makes comments about them elsewhere. Being able to block individuals from clicking on your profile (thus preventing them searching all your posts) would be welcomed; obviously, for example if I'd posted here and said person was reading here, they could see my post, just not click on my profile. Generally speaking though, would anyone else like to see this? Not sure if it's even doable...PS I won't report this person as they've done nothing wrong here (the minute they do, I will)