What's wrong with our forum moderator staff?

[DanTheBanjoman]

trt740,

Do you know the full reason why Zek got a temp ban? (it's only a week) It's internal affairs, there are some minor incidents prior to the current which led to this. (I will not get into this either, like I said this has nothing to do with any member)

You don't have to agree with me either, just respect the fact that we (the staff) don't need a big drama about every ban or infraction. This wouldn't be the first time a group of members feels like they have a say in things and spam the forums about it. I believe you've been here long enough to see these things happen.

[Namslas90]

By the time you all get done "Discussing" this, Zek's ban will be over...LOL

[effmaster]

Lets back on topic here guys?


Anywho I can think of a few things that would make the forums better.

I am a moderator for this website:http://gamestrategy.org/home.php and my username there is ef29

and if you look in the forums you will see that we have a pretty neat voting system built in I wouldnt mind having something like that here and the fact that we are allowed to create them ourselves makes them even better.

Also it would be nice to have some type of leaderboard for most posts, most thanks, most times thanked, etc.

[tigger]

just had a look,it looks ok,but maybe you need to screen the spam out a bit better.

http://gamestrategy.org/showthread.php?t=1178

[Sasqui]

Originally Posted by tigger69

just had a look,it looks ok,but maybe you need to screen the spam out a bit better.

http://gamestrategy.org/showthread.php?t=1178

OUCH!

[d44ve]

I think there are a lot of people concerned with post counts or a ranking system.... I think we should worry more about what we can do to make the site itself better, rather than worry about who posts more than the other.

just my 2 cents

[effmaster]

Originally Posted by tigger69

just had a look,it looks ok,but maybe you need to screen the spam out a bit better.

http://gamestrategy.org/showthread.php?t=1178

You bastard how could I not see that?


I have to find my password that I had on that website somewhere in my room it just expired and now I cant find it since it always logged me in automatically lol I will see to this but my point was that you should look at our voting system.
A similar idea would look great on TPU

[POGE]

The thing thats wrong with our forums is that I wasn't active. But thats going to change.

[pt]

Originally Posted by POGE

The thing thats wrong with our forums is that I wasn't active. But thats going to change.

game addcit
just abolish the post count

[DanTheBanjoman]

Originally Posted by effmaster

Also it would be nice to have some type of leaderboard for most posts, most thanks, most times thanked, etc.

That would spawn more postwhores, people will abuse those systems. The thanks system here already gets abused by several people.

[effmaster]

Originally Posted by DanTheBanjoman

That would spawn more postwhores, people will abuse those systems. The thanks system here already gets abused by several people.

Good point

But I would think it would be rather easy for the mods to control this would be epidemic considering how easy it is to delete or modify a post

[d44ve]

Originally Posted by DanTheBanjoman

That would spawn more postwhores, people will abuse those systems. The thanks system here already gets abused by several people.

Exactly

[pt]

Originally Posted by pt

just abolish the post count

[d44ve]

Originally Posted by d44ve

I think there are a lot of people concerned with post counts or a ranking system.... I think we should worry more about what we can do to make the site itself better, rather than worry about who posts more than the other.

just my 2 cents

back at cha

[effmaster]

Originally Posted by d44ve

back at cha

I guess I can see why it won't work

But I still think the voting system would be a great addition to the website

[DanTheBanjoman]

Originally Posted by effmaster

Good point

But I would think it would be rather easy for the mods to control this would be epidemic considering how easy it is to delete or modify a post

Your forum:
Threads: 476, Posts: 5,159

This one:
Threads: 36,589, Posts: 449,139

Besides, you currently have 5 members logged on, which includes me. Trust me, your comparison is flawed.

[effmaster]

Originally Posted by DanTheBanjoman

Your forum:
Threads: 476, Posts: 5,159

This one:
Threads: 36,589, Posts: 449,139

Besides, you currently have 5 members logged on, which includes me. Trust me, your comparison is flawed.

Thats a little harsh wouldn't you think?


and I won't be able to do aything about that tigger69 till I get home from college right now I will have to search my whole room for that dam password since I can't even put in a new account due to my email addresses being the same This man (ME)needs a chill pill and needs to fix this asap

[DanTheBanjoman]

Originally Posted by effmaster

Thats a little harsh wouldn't you think?

Nope, just pointing out that your forum is countless times smaller, tracking everything on a bigger forum isn't as easy as it sounds.

[effmaster]

Originally Posted by DanTheBanjoman

Nope, just pointing out that your forum is countless times smaller, tracking everything on a bigger forum isn't as easy as it sounds.

But you gotta remember we only have about 5 moderators versus how many do you guys have here again?

[DanTheBanjoman]

Originally Posted by effmaster

But you gotta remember we only have about 5 moderators versus how many do you guys have here again?

So you have roughly 1 mod per 100 threads. We have 5 supermods and like 10-15 regular mods. Lets assume a total of 20 mods, that's about 1829 threads per mod currently. Not all mods are active either.

[effmaster]

Originally Posted by DanTheBanjoman

Not all mods are active either.

Ok I agree with the statistics you just stated just to make it simple.

But I gotta say though our mods arent active either.
pm me if you wanna continue this discussion dan lol

[keakar]

the only people who care about the damn post count are the ones who need to justify their status.

what does a high post count say? it only says this person has a lot of free time and is posting a lot or he is a long time member and has gained a good post count over time.

both of these are irrelevent to weather the person has ever helped anyone with their advice.

delete all post counts period, they are a waste of resources and mean nothing.

the date of membership shows how long you have been a member and also indicates how long you have been helping people. a long time member should get a little more respect and credit for his knowledge since he has been around for a while. this is all the recognition that anyone should need.

this means no post whoring will gain you anything and the same resources not used to record and show individual members post counts can be used to track spamers who can be flagged due to higher post counts than average.

[DanTheBanjoman]

That's why postcount in general nonsense got turned off keakar. Registration date doesn't mean much either. I think making useful posts is the main way to get status, people will notice it eventually.
However you shouldn't be here to gain some status, you should be here to enrich yourself and others, share knowledge. There are plenty of things you know that I don't know and vice versa. We can learn from each other. And the more people contribute to that, the more knowledge is to be gained.

[effmaster]

Originally Posted by DanTheBanjoman

That's why postcount in general nonsense got turned off keakar. Registration date doesn't mean much either. I think making useful posts is the main way to get status, people will notice it eventually.
However you shouldn't be here to gain some status, you should be here to enrich yourself and others, share knowledge. There are plenty of things you know that I don't know and vice versa. We can learn from each other. And the more people contribute to that, the more knowledge is to be gained.

Well said

I try to learn at least 1 new thing a day at TPU (if not once a week).

[keakar]

Originally Posted by DanTheBanjoman

That's why postcount in general nonsense got turned off keakar. Registration date doesn't mean much either. I think making useful posts is the main way to get status, people will notice it eventually.
However you shouldn't be here to gain some status, you should be here to enrich yourself and others, share knowledge. There are plenty of things you know that I don't know and vice versa. We can learn from each other. And the more people contribute to that, the more knowledge is to be gained.

well i have to agree join date means very little, even though i was thinking the join date would show you have a commitment to this site and your not a "drive by poster" like some people who come to get answers to solve their problem but never come back to try and help others. it still doesnt mean that you actually contributed anything.

i think the thanked count best shows how helpfull you have been weather it was just usefull advice or you actually solved a problem. it is the only accurate indicator of weather or not you actually contributed anything. we would just have to encourage members to thank those who helped or offered usefull advice.

i help people to help people, i dont give a flying monkey about scoring or keeping track lol.