Suggested Forum Improvements 2022

[Evwan]

most important development today:

@Linesflag

A forum is not the ideal format for this, far from it. We need a real wiki for this.

Im just gonna quote my paragraph from earlier:
also gonna make this a wiki. Lets stop derailing the other shit

@Evwan

Unfortunately, saying “sketbord” doesnt solve issues. We cant let these issues marinate. Instead of jabbing at each other, former staff, or breaking rules in protest, lets talk this out like the adults that YOU (mostly) all are. This isn’t some large government that cares fuckall about the ideas of individual people. There are like 200 active people here where we all have something valuable to say.

Like issue 1 seems to be the lack of strong moderation. @xsynatic is carrying this forum on his back and its getting out of hand. We cant keep relying on one person to do all of the basic lower level moderation. There’s this ongoing argument about giving people full mod privileges, but we should at least get some other “leader” rank people on this forum to help moderate. From my understanding, they don’t have the moderator level privileges that enables them to do malicious things, so I don’t know why it hasn’t happened.

Bad sales threads, constant derailing of threads among other things cant exclusively be policed with threads, so there have to be other people preferably on a different part of the planet (timezones) to help. I’d offer to do it, but I’m not qualified enough since I’m a stupid 17 year old that hasn’t been here for very long.

There are more problems that my sleep-deprived brain can’t comprehend anymore. We’ve already derailed this thread and I’d like this conversation moved to the appropriate place.

Contributions:

@Kai

Slightly stricter new user vetting period. Nino should never have been able to even send those messages.

@Kai

More clearly defined protocols for when issues arise. In the rules pages, perhaps add examples of broken rules and how they were dealt with. Which ties into what the mob wants, leader level to be an actual thing.

@Linesflag

I think we should vote for more mods. Like at least 3 more. Make a thread, everyone nominates someone, they say yes/no, we vote.

[Kai]

Slightly stricter new user vetting period. Nino should never have been able to even send those messages.
More clearly defined protocols for when issues arise. In the rules pages, perhaps add examples of broken rules and how they were dealt with. Which ties into what the mob wants, leader level to be an actual thing.

[ShutterShock]

Don’t we already have a forum suggestions thread, in the appropriate category?

[Evwan]

@ShutterShock

in the appropriate category

i have no clue what yerr talking about

[AviatorEsk8er]

Can you please provide some evidence?

[UFOskada]

Giving me a Alien badge for starters. That would be nice. That would make this forum much more awesome. I think thats it. That’s all we need. @jamie? Please?

[ShutterShock]

Huh? Why don’t you look lol

[Kai]

Dead threads get buried constantly xD
That’s a biiiit of an issue but not a big one imo.
More leadership would make it easier to merge topics when we end up with dupes.

[AviatorEsk8er]

You said there was another thread about forum suggestions so why don’t you show us where it is. Back up your claims.

[Evwan]

someone said make a new thread, I said ok and did it. I know there is one, but I feel like this is a bit more situation specific

i fixed the category

[UFOskada]

Bro…

[ShutterShock]

Why are you being weird about it? I’ve been here way longer than you. Do you take me for a fool or what? “Back up your claims” like I consistently spew BS around here or something… Okay lmao

@Evwan

but I feel like this is a bit more situation specific

That’s fair

[AviatorEsk8er]

I’m not being weird about it. I was simply asking if you could point us in the right direction, don’t take it the wrong way sir. It was just for reference.

Messages over typing don’t convey like they do in person or over the phone. Forums are not my forte.

[Kai]

I hereby instate productivity law.
No off topic arguments. No snark. Make your suggestions and move on. No dumpster fires.

[Battery_Mooch]

@AviatorEsk8er

Messages over typing don’t convey like they do in person or over the phone. Forums are not my forte.

Knowing that though doesn’t it seem that the best strategy might be to spend a bit more time considering the wording of your responses?

[AviatorEsk8er]

…yeah, gotta work on that man.

[Linesflag]

I think we should vote for more mods. Like at least 3 more. Make a thread, everyone nominates someone, they say yes/no, we vote.

[Evwan]

[ShutterShock]

We tried this before somewhere and the outcome was Xy being promoted to whatever his position is now, nothing else

Granted that was much closer to the last disaster

@AviatorEsk8er

…yeah, gotta work on that man.

I’m not throwing shade here but those kinds of things are definitely ones that would need to be worked out before even considering being a “mod” or something

[AviatorEsk8er]