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Originally Posted by Davy Fireskull
Well that explains why POF was down for a few days haha.
How drastically...? As in BBcodes would be changed, forum layout, some skins, and having different buttons moved to different places? Or more internal stuff that we mostly wouldn't notice? Just a bit curious as to how much everything'll change, and if you have an idea of the time you'll switch.
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Pretty drastic. Base coding will change for just about everything. We'll be loosing customized profiles, all our skins, many plugins that we use now won't be compatable, and the list goes on and on. It's one of the main reasons we've held off doing this upgrade. We have upgraded CarsOnlineForums to vB 4.x and if you browse that way, you can tell it looks a lot different from our other sites.
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Originally Posted by Davy Fireskull
I'm not sure if this is the place to discuss this, and if its not feel free to edit this part out (although I'd rather it stay...). I understand that you mods need to uphold all the rules and such, because otherwise it would be, as you said, a spam and troll war infested forum. On that same note, I have seen a lot more unneeded editing than when I joined last year. As I said, I know that rules must be upheld, but a lot of this editing is quite unneeded, such as in the activities (most would agree that as long as people are participating in the game and aren't having full blown conversations that last several pages then it should be fine) or more recently someone was edited for saying Disney World because that was supposedly Personal Information. On several occasions me and several others have stated where we are going on vacations and haven't really been edited until now.
In no way am I questioning the authority of the mods/admins, but I do feel as if there is a lot of unneeded editing, deleting, and the occasional banning of users when what they did is not really harming anyone. I just felt that this would be a good time to voice my opinion, but I do not at all mean to act "trollish" or flame anyone.
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I was indirectly speaking about this situation and some other recent outbursts. I'm sure you aren't the only one slightly confused by recent modding actions. I think the main problem comes from a sudden shortage we had of mods on staff towards the end of last year until recently. We had several hard working mods suddenly decide to retire all about the same time. So the site wasn't being moderated as well as it should have beem. Some time went by hoping some of them would return but real life just became more of importance for them and they didn't have the time to moderate anymore. So I modded some people here that were already mods on our other sites and were members here. Less training involved and they only had to get used to the PG rules, since our other sites are all G-rated. But there was a major clean up that needed done from the lack of mods on hand to take care of things.
So now that the major clean up is done and they are modding the site as it should be taken care of, it leaves people a bit confused from a rather lax modding style to a little more rigid modding style. Actually, things are being taken care of as they should be and not being over looked due to a shortage of people modding. Of course, you do have different people doing most of the modding now than were doing it before. So they may interpret policies slightly different and some may be a bit more heavy handed than others. I think overall, we tend to balance each other out with our slightly different modding styles to form a fairly unified modding style.
Now for activities; there seemed to be a lot of extra chatter going on in several threads rather than actually playing the game. The mods began cleaning this up. Some members began voicing that this was unfair where the mods saw it as just doing their job of getting rid of a lot of off topic and spammish posting. I can see points where the members were just saying they were having a good time but I can also see where the mods were saying they were off topic and spamming. This is debatable, considering most posts found in violation were just being edited without any punishments being given out. A few users took it upon themselves to say some rather rude comments directed at the mods just trying to do what they felt was their job.
I'm sure you probably figured out that this is about the time the issue was brought to my attention. I for one will not tolerate mod trolling. I've been a mod for nearly 10 years and I've put a lot of hard work into our sites. I don't think anyone that takes time out of their day to help a community deserves such treatment. If you want to discuss an edit or mod action, PM the mod. If you aren't happy after having talked to them, PM an admin. Staff is here to help as well as enforce policies. Making rude comments towards a mod or any other member of the forums will not be tolerated here.
I'm hoping as the newer mods get settled in and the users get used to having mods around full time, there will be a point where both parties can find an nice even balance and everyone can be happy. Each of our sites is slightly different with its interests and how members do things. It takes time to adjust to modding here as say another of our sites. Since my last post in activities, the mods say that a lot of the extra chatter and off topic comments have stopped but people are still having fun playing the thread games. Sounds like it's a step in the right direction to me.
P.S. My wife edited my last post because I have horrible grammer after teaching myself Klingonese for 3 years, or so she says.
