StaceyG opened this issue on Apr 21, 2005 ยท 97 posts
Ironbear posted Fri, 22 April 2005 at 9:03 PM
Actually, unlike the reasoning with closing C&D, the VT, and OT forums, I don't have a problem with this "change". The Community forum - what used to be the Staff Contact and the Communit Ideas [if I still recall the names correctly after 3+ years] forums before they were smerged really is for site business. Contacting the admin in relation to site issues/problems that don't need to be handled in email or IM, making suggestions for the site, staff announcements, new features posts, whatever.
Not that a great deal of site business goes on here of late, but when it does, it shouldn't get buried by "My Hamster got runover!" threads. ;]
There's not a real problem with the staff saying "use it for the described purpose please", any more than it would be if I moved an OT thread from Animotions site contact to General Discussions. Np.
Only problem is that there's no place for unrelated chitchat threads, hence the spillover.
My snicker at Stacey on the mods thing was in relation to a very recent related off site conversation we'd had on that subject - she got the refference and the joke. ;) Nuthin' more.
You're going to keep having this problem and this spillover until ya'll learn how to manage a General Discussions forum... because people are going to chitchat about nothing or anything in particular, and they're not going to bother with where they are at the time if there's no other place here to do it. May as well get used to it, it's going to happen, and figure out how to have a place for it.
Else your mods are going to be continually running around stamping out OT posts where ever they crop up, instead of doing their real jobs. Bank on it.
Look at it as a part of "managing" a "community". snicker Have fun. ;]
"In lieu of completely eliminating all posts not dealing with art for art's sake, or the specific tools used to create it, let's determine which of the OT posts are of value and establish a framework for them." - hauksdottir
What Carolly said.
[Oh don't die of shock, Carolly - I actually do agree with you on rare occassions. ;)]
They do keep a permanent record of warnings, # of warnings, competing site admins, bannings, vendor Y/N?, contacts with members: tagged to the profile for mods/admins refference.
This has been stated by staff in thread responses within this forum and others. Do a search. Look it up.
Now, Yewston's crack that they're moving the threads to a private forum just so they can reffernce who was in them/posted them is probably projectng that a bit far....
Maybe. ;]
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