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Why is the CT Forum in Hosted?
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aha. see what you did there?That maybe due to your sever retardation, I suggest you see a medical professional. As it happens GuanYin is a medical professional specialising in colonic irrigation.
*retardation here is obviously a reference to cute cuddly putties and in no way an offensive term.
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At a guess, the posters you're referring to (I don't know who most of them are and my guess is the same, regardless) want it to be more obvious and reckon that if it's in a "real" category as opposed to hosted that people will take more notice and take it more seriously.
Many of the same posters who want to been taken more seriously subscribe to nonsense likeFrom the CT forum wrote:this photo is particularly evil imo....
two "horns" above his head formed from the letter "M" in time behind him.
5 sided star ( pentagram ) on his forehead. Draw lines from both "horns" to the pentagram and between the "horns" giving you an inverted triangle.
above his right shoulder is the number 99 ( 66 ).
above his left shoulder reads "leader of the redeem team". Redeem from what i can see has nine different definitions. Redeem in theology means " to deliver from sin and its consequences by means of a sacrifice offered for the sinner", (leader of the sacrifice/sinners maybe???)Lucifer sits on the left shoulder I think lol
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/redeem
Lebron James is black but hes wearing a white kit. black and white ying and yang life and death.
two hands on the ball (earth,globe) might mean control of the world. The word molten with a flame sign pretty much speaks for itself meaning hell on earth , "as above, as below".
just my opinion sry if Im going off topic a bit....
I'd suggest that there is a simpler and easier way for these people to be "taken more seriously".0 -
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My primary "reluctance" to touch hosted forums is due to the fact that the communities involved in those forums "own" the forum to a certain extent and get to make up most of their own rules - not that they normally need any rules in the first place.
Clearly this is not what's happened in CT and both the community and the moderators are eager to make it something more public which operates like any other forum on boards.
As Beruthiel points out, after the last incidents we had neither the power nor the direction to do anything about the forum.
The Soc category is the sober older brother of Rec, and while I'm having trouble fitting CT into "sober and rational discussion", if the people who use the forum want somewhere to discuss this in a mature and seriousish fashion, then Soc is the place for it. There are already a number of forums in Soc who talk about non-rational things I suppose, so all that's needed is to enforce the "sober" part of the agreement.
With that in mind, the moderators are currently discussing their needs as clearly this forum is already a target for people who have some need to feel superior by making snide remarks and scoffing at the ridiculousness of conspiracy theorists. So a firm hand will be required (initially) to kick start the forum's "rebirth" with the right attitude.
We have the power to move the forum now, but I am reluctant to do it without the mods saying "yay", and having the backing of the CT regulars. And since DeV is online a lot for the next while, well he can do it. 0 -
My primary "reluctance" to touch hosted forums is due to the fact that the communities involved in those forums "own" the forum to a certain extent and get to make up most of their own rules - not that they normally need any rules in the first place.
Well, no harm to have the thing formalised to a degree, IMO. I mean, if there are instances of something outside the normal porn/spam etc., like say, bullying, on a hosted forum. I assume an Smod will step in then?
Also, just while I have you, have Smods now got forum creation powers etc. as well?
Would be nice to know what way the hierarchy works, and who does what, etc. 0 -
Basically, we shouldn't have to. I hate using real-world comparisons (because they're rarely up to the job), but it's like calling the Gardai because you're unhappy with the way your golf club is being run. What do you expect them to do about it?RoundyMooney wrote: »Well, no harm to have the thing formalised to a degree, IMO. I mean, if there are instances of something outside the normal porn/spam etc., like say, bullying, on a hosted forum. I assume an Smod will step in then?
If some user came to me and said, "Everyone on the Skylarkin forum has told me to piss off", I'd say, "Well then don't waste your time trying to play with them anymore and go find some new friends".
That's my understanding of what hosted forums are effectively meant to be - clubs which get to set their own agenda and which can choose to exclude or include whoever they want for whatever reason.
The hierarchy hasn't changed really. We have additional powers so that Cult's workload of simple stuff is relieved and he can focus on development and tweak - you know, the stuff he was hired to doAlso, just while I have you, have Smods now got forum creation powers etc. as well?
Would be nice to know what way the hierarchy works, and who does what, etc.
We don't have admin powers, just primarily powers to deal with most user and moderator requests.0 -
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Basically, we shouldn't have to. I hate using real-world comparisons (because they're rarely up to the job), but it's like calling the Gardai because you're unhappy with the way your golf club is being run. What do you expect them to do about it?
It is a flawed analogy to a degree, and I take your point, in that it's hard to find one that fits. I guess the closest I can think of is complaining to next doors landlord, when the party guests start trampling your dahliasIf some user came to me and said, "Everyone on the Skylarkin forum has told me to piss off", I'd say, "Well then don't waste your time trying to play with them anymore and go find some new friends".
And that would be proper order. However, when we have a situation (albeit rare) like what happened on CT, things can escalate to a level beyond simply leaving the party, rather quickly.The hierarchy hasn't changed really. We have additional powers so that Cult's workload of simple stuff is relieved and he can focus on development and tweak - you know, the stuff he was hired to do
Indeed, quite right, and as it should be IMO. The smod role has evolved into something not far removed to that of community manager lite, among a myriad of other things of course.We don't have admin powers, just primarily powers to deal with most user and moderator requests.
Cool. Thanks, Seamus.0
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