Using previous memberHQ threads system

[Khanu]

I just had a random thought. What if we had 3 main chat threads and they were named after things related to TLK. Like "Elephant Graveyard", "Watering Hole", "The Outlands" and you could have three to choose from?

[Tora]

^ That is solution 3.

And that's what I'd call a totalitarian system.

Solution 3: Modify the rules so that members can be banned for creating threads that are deemed pointless.

1. How is that totalitarianism?
2. Amend the set of rules to what should already be in there anyway.
3. Clarify what is deemed pointless.
4. Establish a form of discipline other than just banning.
5. Let our founding father Moka decide what he feels is best for this forum.
6. Cease this pointless arguing.

[Tabby]

LOLWAIT, I JUST COUNTED THEM. I HAVE MORE THAN 70 POSTS AT LION KING RELATED THREADS, YAAAAAY

[Khanu]

^But how many are from the "Lion King Word Association" thread?

[Tabby]

didn't count any of those^, nor the ones from the ''lines by line'' ones...

Sometimes it's the same people posting in various threads about the same things. With regards to the chatting, maybe we should have an official Community thread that can be pinned and people could use that as the 'chat thread'. That way, at least it's restricted to the one thread and if you so wish, you can chat there instead of MSN etc and you won't get little groups formed and everyone can get involved.

YAY SOMEONE ELSE THINKS ON THIS FORUM :B

[Tora]

I'll agree that when I used the word Totalitarianism it may be a quite a bit to strong, but none the less the decision should be made before everyone with their input; ultimately leaving it for Moka to decide.

There are levels of discipline which could be implemented. For example say that a member spams in a certain subforum. After his second warning move him into another group which does not have the ability to post in that subforum for a while instead of an outright ban.

So another words:

Member 1 creates spam topic.
Mod warns Member 1.
Member 1 creates another spam topic.
Mod warns Member 1 and moves him into a new usergroup that does not have the ability to post in the section in which he spammed.
Mod deems an appropriate time in which he would not be allowed to post in that section.

After that time he is allowed to post in that section again. Follow?

[Tabby]

That's actually harder to do than the proposals we've been discussing, LOL.

[Regulus]

Solution 1: Prevent new members from being able to create OT threads until certain conditions have been met.

Pros:
will cut down on the number of pointless topics being created
will not give mods more power

Cons:
could create spam in the TLK sections
could prevent new members from feeling welcome

Solution 2: Change nothing, but continue to lock the pointless threads that are occasionally created.

Pros:
none

Cons:
none

Solution 3: Modify the rules so that members can be banned for creating threads that are deemed pointless.

Pros:
will cut down on the number of pointless topics being created

Cons:
must give mods more power (which could be abused), to interpret what constitutes a pointless topic

Solution 4: Eliminate all member chat threads, and replace with a few general chat threads

Pros:
will completely eliminate many pointless threads from ever being created in the HQ
does not give mods more power

Cons:
???

[Arani]

The problem is super simple to fix. Lock the spam threads. Set up a system that locks a thread after, say, a 90 day period of inactivity or something, which by the way locked topics can be unlocked if necessary, and have the members make 10 posts in tlk sections before doing anything in Member HQ. Problem Solved! And that takes all of... 15, maybe 20 minutes! It's not that difficult!

And sure, if a member spams, send them a warning! If they do it over and over again, give them a ban! Those are the rules that are already there. It makes sense.

You guys have blown this into a huge production, when it is really very, very easy to fix. No matter what we do, we cant get rid of spammers, but there are simple ways to reduce them! I think every single one of you need to take a step back, take a few deep breaths, and actually think it through.

sorry to come off this annoyed, but really, are 12 pages of arguments really necessary?

[DGFone]

While I am for changing nothing, let's wait for Moka to read this... largely spammed topic and decide what to do with his forum.

Don't you see guys? You are complaining about spam, and in this very topic, roughly half the posts are spam. It's not the system that is at fault here, but people. Grow up already.