The Future of Off-Topic

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07-23-2010, 03:57 PM
acer5200
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Originally Posted by DeSalvionjr

My ideas.. based on topics discussed in the Evony Reps handbook, The Essential Evony mod guide , Evony Admins little black book (there is a lot in there, it IS larger on the inside), and finally the SAS survival guide

Special usergroup of preapproved people who can give negative rep
Stricter Rule Enforcement
more mods
Make trolling and derailing a suspendable offense
Make harassment a bannable offense
make acer a mod
Give all mods jurisdiction over off topic

of course these are suggestions, and not all of them may be a perfect fit or even a viable option for the ot, but I am bringing them up for discussion and debate to decide whether or not they ARE viable or fitting for off topic.
I just read this. I don't agree with any of those points.
07-23-2010, 03:57 PM
Nesterus

and here is the TL: DR version

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Originally Posted by Ikeni

my opinion on this would be useless.
07-23-2010, 04:04 PM
rasterbee

I had a thought yesterday...

Most of us just act like this because it's fun to muck around with authority figures.

I bet if OT were modless for 24 hours everything would be fine. I'm not joking. Aside from spambots and CCC...we do a pretty good job of policing ourselves. There is the occasional rude comment that crosses the line, but I think everyone is overreacting.

Would you green and blue and purple people be willing to open another invite-only section of the forum that was unmoderated for 24 hours to prove me wrong?
07-23-2010, 04:53 PM
FoxyBunny
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Originally Posted by DeSalvionjr

Special usergroup of preapproved people who can give negative rep - we already have this. It's called "The highest forum ranks"
Stricter Rule Enforcement - Already doing this.
more mods -Just brought in three more.
Make trolling and derailing a suspendable offense -Did this too. And suspended two for it already.
Make harassment a bannable offense -Always has been.
make acer a mod _ No.
Give all mods jurisdiction over off topic We have 2 mods, 3 senior mods, and 3 reps here. Plus the other mods keep an eye and give a heads up when stuff goes down. I think that is plenty.
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Originally Posted by rasterbee

I had a thought yesterday...

Most of us just act like this because it's fun to muck around with authority figures.

I bet if OT were modless for 24 hours everything would be fine. I'm not joking. Aside from spambots and CCC...we do a pretty good job of policing ourselves. There is the occasional rude comment that crosses the line, but I think everyone is overreacting.

Would you green and blue and purple people be willing to open another invite-only section of the forum that was unmoderated for 24 hours to prove me wrong?

We've tried this before, many times. It's called "having a life" and whenever all the staff dares to do so at one time, for anything longer than an hour or two, we come back to find flames, hysteria, and spray paint on the walls. The latest incident of this was about 2-3 days ago.
07-23-2010, 05:27 PM
DeSalvionjr

how about a forum reform!

or just move to environmentally friendly servers..
07-23-2010, 05:29 PM
trogdor1316

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Originally Posted by FoxyBunny

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We've tried this before, many times. It's called "having a life" and whenever all the staff dares to do so at one time, for anything longer than an hour or two, we come back to find flames, hysteria, and spray paint on the walls. The latest incident of this was about 2-3 days ago.

I'm pretty sure the incident you're talking about wasn't so much an incident as it was one spamming user making spam threads and a spambot that happened to open about 40 threads. Not much of an incident.

Unless something happened that I'm completely unaware of.

Unless my memory took a dump on me again...wait, what were we talking about?
07-23-2010, 05:31 PM
rasterbee

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Originally Posted by trogdor1316

Unless my memory took a dump on me again...wait, what were we talking about?

I didn't know what she was talking about either. I just wasn't in the mood to address Foxy again and possibly rile her up.
07-23-2010, 09:26 PM
wpack10

I honestly dont either.
07-24-2010, 12:44 AM
Wildor

Quote:

Originally Posted by rasterbee

I had a thought yesterday...

Most of us just act like this because it's fun to muck around with authority figures.

I bet if OT were modless for 24 hours everything would be fine. I'm not joking. Aside from spambots and CCC...we do a pretty good job of policing ourselves. There is the occasional rude comment that crosses the line, but I think everyone is overreacting.

Would you green and blue and purple people be willing to open another invite-only section of the forum that was unmoderated for 24 hours to prove me wrong?

This place would rapidly degenerate and members just wouldn't get along without rules and Mods.

Members hardly get along with rules and Mods...
07-24-2010, 02:50 AM
rasterbee

Yeah...you and Foxy both say that.

But neither are willing to give it a shot.

Invite only, like SOT. Nobody gets infracted/suspended/banned from the forums for what they post inside, they just get their privileges to hang out there taken away.

24 hours....no sub-forum implosion. You say it can't be done. C'mon....prove me wrong.

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