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Important Poll =) - TheBigBasicQ - 10-15-2003
How many moderators do we have? Do we have multiple admins?
Important Poll =) - oracle - 10-15-2003
3 X admin
wildcard, dav, fling-master.
0 X moderator
What did aetherfox use to be?
ps: tbbq: check the site issues forum pls.
Important Poll =) - TheBigBasicQ - 10-15-2003
Aye, aye.
Important Poll =) - oracle - 10-15-2003
thx, much better
Important Poll =) - TheBigBasicQ - 10-15-2003
'cmon, dont keep the mystery. Tell us what that pattern is?
Important Poll =) - oracle - 10-15-2003
Wrong thread
Important Poll =) - Nekrophidius - 10-15-2003
Quote:My conclusion: It seems nobody is willing to shutup people who are misbehaving. Everyone feels that it is the admin/moderator's job. Lets hope that there will be more moderators on this forum =)That IS the admin's job, as well as the few other jobs they must attend. And in addition...this capability you speak of would require an incredible modification to phpBB, requiring first of all a new status class for all users, and a modification of at least half of phpBB's scripts. Have you ever looked at phpBB's sourcecode?
-nekrophidius :evil:
Important Poll =) - LooseCaboose - 10-15-2003
I agree with Na_th_an, I believe that forums should be allow free speach. I use completely unmoderated Usenet groups where discussions sometimes get out of hand and people abuse others and/or make fools of themselves. Eventually these discussions are abandonded, the only thing that keeps them going is the idiots that continue to post to them.
Threads that get out of hand, where people start getting abusive can usually be avoided with a few simple rules:
Dont respond to obvious trolls, somebody starting a thread that says something like "Qbasic sucks!!" or something incomprehensible should reveive zero replies.
Approach topics such as relgion and politics objectively, express your opinions, and listen to others, but dont try to change them.
Don't abuse people.
Don't post for the sake of posting, this happens heaps here.
Allowing owners to lock threads isn't going to fix the problem either, in fact I see it making things worse. If someone starts a controvesial thread and then it starts getting out of hand so they lock it, then the person who was trying to get the last word in starts a new thread to carry on (this already happens here) and then locks it later when they no longer want to listen. All of a sudden we end up with several out of hand threads instead of just one.
I think that threads should be left unlocked and people left to make fools of themselves. Thread locking should be reserved for really bad situations when people are being personally abusive or discussing things that do not belong in a public forum where young-uns are present.
Important Poll =) - Nekrophidius - 10-15-2003
Quote:...or discussing things that do not belong in a public forum where young-uns are present.You mean like describing what I did last night with Marcade's mother and a donkey named Raoul? Good idea then...
-nekrophidius :evil:
Important Poll =) - LooseCaboose - 10-15-2003
I was just flipping back through the general thread looking at what topics had actually been locked, and found this gem posted by Plasma357 in the "Answer the survey!!!!!" poll, and it about sums up part of my argument:
![[Image: arguing.jpg]](http://carcino.gen.nz/images/image.php/463c5922/arguing.jpg)
Quote:You mean like describing what I did last night with Marcade's mother and a donkey named Raoul? Good idea then...Yeah, exactly like that. Someone, quick, lock this thread ;-)