How about moderators for certain section. They would only beable to help clean and maintain the sections they have been assigned to. Pick me pick me!!!

 

I am not arguing about anything with my previous post. I also was not saying you didn't understand how a forum works. I was using your comment to create another comment towards the general forum readers.

 

All of the Moderators are grouped to run certain sections of the forum. We also try to help eachother as much as we can to run a great forum. Even those of us mods (like myself) dont have abilities to do quick fixes in sections that we aren't assigned to. So we do the same as you guys and report posts to get it taken care of faster. We try our best and we have a great group of Mods working as hard as we can.

 

Can we at least ask the admin staff to lower the timeout for reporting posts? Right now it is set at 60 seconds, and we could easily lower it to 15 seconds with no worries of spam reporting, server load, or any other negative effects.

 

Ill bring it up for you. Sounds like something to consider. May want to also throw this into the suggestions section.

 

Lock the fab section down. If someone has a fab they would like to post they can post it in tech and ask a mod if it is good enough to be in fab it can be moved to fab if not it is in it's place it is easier to move the good rather move all the not so good. Then fab can be searched easy just my 2EUR

 

Why isnt there a way to force a would be poster to read all sticky's? I am thinking a small check box that is at the end of the Sticky thread, that once checked, allows someone to start posting a thread to a particular forum.

It would be followed with a statement that says something to the effect of "by checking this box I declare that I have read and understand the rules and policies governing the conduct and usage of the (forum name) Forum. Failure to adhere to the rules may result in the deletion of your thread(or whatever other form of appropriate action the moderators deem necessary.)"

Then the Moderators can set the amount of times a poster would have to check the box based on # of posts a person has. The more posts a person has will usually mean that person has experience in the usage of the forum.

Just an Idea.

 

^^that would be like the box on like itunes and everything else, "i hear by agree to the terms and conditions." who is actually guna read them

 

Well so far this forum is based on trust that the individual poster has read the Sticky Thread on rules. Judging by the number of members who are having issues on the use of the forum by others, I dont think its working as planned. But it was just an idea nontheless

 

Its like the terms and conditions box u always have to click prior to joining a site online or downloading something.

No one cares about stickies.

Newbs not reading rulz os a prob on every forum i have looked at.