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Something To Quell All This Madness!

RopeDrink · 2005-09-06 20:21:22

Ok, we seem to have hit a phase where any and all people with a 'Problem' as opposed to 'FeedBack' come here, rather than PM'ing appropriate moderators to sort out their issues or bringing them to the Help Desk. They also seem to come here if they 'have' PM'd a moderator, and just desire to bitch about it anyway. Can we…

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06-09-2005 9:21pm

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RopeDrink

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Ok, we seem to have hit a phase where any and all people with a 'Problem' as opposed to 'FeedBack' come here, rather than PM'ing appropriate moderators to sort out their issues or bringing them to the Help Desk.

They also seem to come here if they 'have' PM'd a moderator, and just desire to bitch about it anyway.

Can we somehow get the rule enforced as to clearly state that this is not the place to go bitching about things, as opposed to offering some feedback?

List of examples:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=299002
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=298644
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=298445
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=298440
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=298231
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=296873 << Of notable mention
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=298413
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=297870
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=296723
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=297975
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=297831
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=296983
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=297745

These were extracted from page 1 of the Feedback page list, and were posted over the last few days (Obviously not the same as, say, some of these being extracted over a period of a year).

This is merely a suggestion, because there are some nice feedback threads here that are getting completely swamped out by this garbage.

I assume the Help Desk is the right place for all this, yes?
If it is, can we somehow enforce this stuff to be moved there in the future, or can that actually happen?

I don't know - It's not like I'm bringing this to the attention of people who don't already know about it, but I don't think this behaviour will stop, so I thought I'd bring it up - Any suggestions?

Post edited by Shield on December 2021

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#2 06-09-2005 9:38pm
Gordon

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=3242341&postcount=20

But good point about the Helpdesk, I've altered my post there.

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#3 06-09-2005 9:41pm
RopeDrink

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That links to wanting to reply to the Sticky Thread, Gord.

You're lucky that sort of thing doesn't give access to your uber mod account

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#4 06-09-2005 9:44pm
Gordon

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d'oh, my only kryptonite :E

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