Journal #1097
Posted 20 years ago2004-11-05 20:06:09 UTC
OK, so everyone has been talking about TWHL going downhill, and now is the verticle slope. IRC has been so polluted that now we have a whole nother channel for spam. The forums are spammed, messy, and dirty, and nothing is being done about it.
I have actually devoted some time to thinking about what can be done about all of this.
There is nothing that we can do against the IRC issues unless we have punishments for spamming members. In my opion the best way to deal with this is to make an intra-site chat room so that it can be moderated using peoples accounts. Their accounts will have IP tracking to prevent multiple accounts. Punishments need to be set up for members who dissobey. Turning this site into a "do one thing wrong and your banned", though, is not where I want this to go to. Using punishments from taking away posting rights for a day to the severeness of being banned from the site for a week is where it should go. People will not stop if it continues like this, you can say whatever and do whatever you want and nothing will happen. EX) MoP / Jardaarsi hack into and screw with THWL's host cariad, so what if their posts and maps got deleted, nothing happened.
For the forums, if people don't like bad language, get word filters for the forums, or at least have a setting for each user to have word filtering on or off. We need a no flamming policy that is not to strict, but is enforced in bad situations (Anon / Palo). People get in a fight which ends up in spam which ends up with people not being happy. Having anonymous posting is a bad thing, because people cannot be punished in the ways that I have described.
Newbs are always going to come, go on their 5 map a day spree, and after about a month get better. It happens. Flamming them, doing bad things to them, it does not get rid of them most of the time, and it does not teach them anything. We should have an official page on this site that explains problems with newbs in the past and what you should NOT act like on this site. That way when there is a newb that is annoying the hell out of all of us, we can redirect them to that page and ask them to please stop.
Having good moderators, using the idea's that I have listed should make this site new and improved. Hopefully this will make sense to people who read this, and I would actually like it if someone commented on it in an email, explain if you think this is the right way or not.
I have actually devoted some time to thinking about what can be done about all of this.
There is nothing that we can do against the IRC issues unless we have punishments for spamming members. In my opion the best way to deal with this is to make an intra-site chat room so that it can be moderated using peoples accounts. Their accounts will have IP tracking to prevent multiple accounts. Punishments need to be set up for members who dissobey. Turning this site into a "do one thing wrong and your banned", though, is not where I want this to go to. Using punishments from taking away posting rights for a day to the severeness of being banned from the site for a week is where it should go. People will not stop if it continues like this, you can say whatever and do whatever you want and nothing will happen. EX) MoP / Jardaarsi hack into and screw with THWL's host cariad, so what if their posts and maps got deleted, nothing happened.
For the forums, if people don't like bad language, get word filters for the forums, or at least have a setting for each user to have word filtering on or off. We need a no flamming policy that is not to strict, but is enforced in bad situations (Anon / Palo). People get in a fight which ends up in spam which ends up with people not being happy. Having anonymous posting is a bad thing, because people cannot be punished in the ways that I have described.
Newbs are always going to come, go on their 5 map a day spree, and after about a month get better. It happens. Flamming them, doing bad things to them, it does not get rid of them most of the time, and it does not teach them anything. We should have an official page on this site that explains problems with newbs in the past and what you should NOT act like on this site. That way when there is a newb that is annoying the hell out of all of us, we can redirect them to that page and ask them to please stop.
Having good moderators, using the idea's that I have listed should make this site new and improved. Hopefully this will make sense to people who read this, and I would actually like it if someone commented on it in an email, explain if you think this is the right way or not.
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