Everyone's photos here thread

sweetme

I'd like it back too, I liked being able to put a face to a name, and, there's no way I'd have ever recognized Torbrex or had a chance meeting with an MSEr without it.

pink_princess

BUMP!

Can you please acknowledge this request MSE towers?

Former_MSE_Andrea

Hi everyone

It was a great thread. Unfortunately there have been so many problems on it our Team doesn't have the time to deal with the repeated reports.

If you can keep Discussion Time and Arms threads friendly without argumentative so we don't receive reports that will help us keep future threads up.

Thanks!

Transformers

sweetme wrote: »

I'd like it back too, I liked being able to put a face to a name, and, there's no way I'd have ever recognized Torbrex or had a chance meeting with an MSEr without it.

I'm guessing that's your picture in the avi Sweetme?

Surely anyone can do the same - problem solved. Then you see the picture every time you read a post from them.

Kudos to anyone that can remember faces just from seeing them on a picture thread. Most people would have to study the faces a few times to memorise them so doing it your way, they see you every time you post.

torbrex

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Hi everyone

It was a great thread. Unfortunately there have been so many problems on it our Team doesn't have the time to deal with the repeated reports.

If you can keep Discussion Time and Arms threads friendly without argumentative so we don't receive reports that will help us keep future threads up.

Thanks!

Is there any chance we could get the thread back?

I know there was some disruption on the thread just before it was removed but it is one of the more popular viewed threads in The Arms and will be a great loss if it is not allowed back.

The original thread took quite a long time to develop and all of the photo's on the first post might be lost forever as the OP Sheel does not visit as often as she used to and I think she is the only one with copies of them.

Mandelbrot

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Hi everyone

It was a great thread. Unfortunately there have been so many problems on it our Team doesn't have the time to deal with the repeated reports.

What sort of problems?

If you can keep Discussion Time and Arms threads friendly without argumentative so we don't receive reports that will help us keep future threads up.

Andrea,
no matter how friendly the posters in DT and the Arms are (and almost all of them are very friendly), on an wide-open forum like MSE you are going to be susceptible to cliques of users (from anywhere in the world) who get their fun by disrupting the forum. (And of course spammers who wish to advertise kitchens. )

I don't see really how you can prevent such 'users' from making as many reports as they wish (though there are a host of monitoring tools, as you are no doubt aware). But you can do something about how you handle such users.

Clearly one way would be to have more staff time devoted to fully investigating what is going on, though I appreciate that such resources are an issue for MSE.

An alternative would be to do what some other forums do and involve your regular long-term forum users - who see what goes on every day - and actually ask them what they think on the matter.

You ask for opinions from users on other issues. Isn't it as important to seek their help on minimising disruptions to the forum? If you do nothing, other than regularly pull entire threads when frustration breaks out into open argument, then the result will be that your regular users will leave for pastures new.
Is that what you want?

colinw

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Hi everyone

It was a great thread. Unfortunately there have been so many problems on it our Team doesn't have the time to deal with the repeated reports.

If you can keep Discussion Time and Arms threads friendly without argumentative so we don't receive reports that will help us keep future threads up.

Thanks!

But surely that means any thread could be targeted by these people who mass report everything using AE's? It also seems to happen that users get PPR through a number of users reporting them constantly using AE's.

itsanne

Mandelbrot wrote: »

An alternative would be to do what some other forums do and involve your regular long-term forum users - who see what goes on every day - and actually ask them what they think on the matter.

You ask for opinions from users on other matters. Isn't it as important to seek their help on minimising disruptions to the forum? If you do nothing, other than regularly pull entire threads when frustration breaks out into open argument, then the result will be that your regular users will leave for pastures new.
Is that what you want?

The problem appears to be increasing, and simply removing everything complained of is counter-productive because it fuels the trigger-happy report brigade by giving them exactly what they want.

I wholeheartedly endorse Mandelbrot's suggestion. There are many established posters who could be trusted to help here.

torbrex

Mandelbrot wrote: »

An alternative would be to do what some other forums do and involve your regular long-term forum users - who see what goes on every day - and actually ask them what they think on the matter.

Or possibly a single volunteer, lets call them a Board Guide for arguments sake that spends a lot of time looking at the actual board they are the BG of.
They might then spot trouble early and nip it in the bud before it got to the stage of a thread having to be deleted with the loss of a great deal of information.

colinw

Mandelbrot wrote: »

What sort of problems?

Andrea,
no matter how friendly the posters in DT and the Arms are (and almost all of them are very friendly), on an wide-open forum like MSE you are going to be susceptible to cliques of users (from anywhere in the world) who get their fun by disrupting them. (And of course spammers who wish to advertise kitchens. )

I don't see really how you can prevent such 'users' from making as many reports as they wish (though there are a host of monitoring tools, as you are no doubt aware). But you can do something about how you handle such users.

Clearly one way would be to have more staff time devoted to fully investigating what is going on, though I appreciate that such resources are an issue for MSE.

An alternative would be to do what some other forums do and involve your regular long-term forum users - who see what goes on every day - and actually ask them what they think on the matter.

You ask for opinions from users on other matters. Isn't it as important to seek their help on minimising disruptions to the forum? If you do nothing, other than regularly pull entire threads when frustration breaks out into open argument, then the result will be that your regular users will leave for pastures new.
Is that what you want?

I am a long term user and was one the ones who was getting almost every post deleted a short while back as well as a sig and an avi......none of which where particularly bad.