Red X said:Interesting,its about time SHH clamped down on spam more.
Option 1 for me.
Mulitple poll.
Red X said:Interesting,its about time SHH clamped down on spam more.
Option 1 for me.
Warhammer said:Since the votes are so high, if and when do the changes happen, Drakon?
That it is. But are avatars in general that important? I mean, if you take away or decrease my avatar for a time, it's slight annoyance, but if you take away my name (which already happens when you get banned, obviously), and I'm really pissed.Drakon said:Well, in this case, it'd go from 7-30 days to 180 days. Overall, that's a pretty steep incline.
Any reason why you couldn't get through? I'm always available...usually.Drakon said:Agreed. I tried IMing you to make sure you didn't think I was just discrediting your ideas because it's the thing to do.
Oh yeah. With you (especially) I know. You always make that pretty clear.Admittedly, I'm for the ideas, because I think they will really help. I'm not so much trying to make you agree with me, moreso that I want you to see why I think they will help. Making you see my logic and why I made the decision I made is infinately more important than making you agree with my decision. Admin or not, it's better to teach a man to fish than feed him once.
How many, "How do I get an avatar?" threads do we get, even with the sticky in Tech, and usually within like 10 posts of the person joining? Seems the avatar's pretty important to most people...CConn said:That it is. But are avatars in general that important? I mean, if you take away or decrease my avatar for a time, it's slight annoyance, but if you take away my name (which already happens when you get banned, obviously), and I'm really pissed.
Any reason why you couldn't get through? I'm always available...usually.
Admittedly, I'm for the ideas, because I think they will really help. I'm not so much trying to make you agree with me, moreso that I want you to see why I think they will help. Making you see my logic and why I made the decision I made is infinately more important than making you agree with my decision. Admin or not, it's better to teach a man to fish than feed him once.
CConn said:That it is. But are avatars in general that important? I mean, if you take away or decrease my avatar for a time, it's slight annoyance, but if you take away my name (which already happens when you get banned, obviously), and I'm really pissed.
Any reason why you couldn't get through? I'm always available...usually.![]()
Oh yeah. With you (especially) I know. You always make that pretty clear.![]()
On that note? Toven, everytime she's banned goes back to her same avatar. The same avvy she had when she was Bloody Mary (earliest version I was around for), Uncle Petunia, and Holly Goodhead...Drakon said:I edited your above post--you had an open quote tag, and I closed it for ya.![]()
To some, yes, it is. I know of one particuluar user who's been banned several times, and each time we let him back, he'd go right back to a specific avatar once he got to the level enough.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODrakon said:Greetings. I hope you've all had a fun, safe weekend without SHH! vampiring all your time.
As some of you know, while we were booted off Hype for some much-needed maintainance, a good portion of us used our exile time to visit our sister site, Coming Soon!. While there, I kind of got a bit miffed at everyone complaining "Oh, this site sucks compared to Hype!" and, in particular "I miss my avatar and siggy! Now I've gotta spam to get my post count up!" So, I made a thread, and it seems that a decent amount of you guys are somewhat in agreement with me on several ideas. I know most of you aren't even going to bother reading the entire thread once you realize it's over 200 posts, so here's my proposal to limiting some of the more blatant spam and keeping a viable reward system in place.
1--Set up a "Game/Trivia thread" for stuff like "Last thing you ate/drank/wore on your head" or "Three Word Story" that's separate from actual community. Posts in this forum will NOT count towards your post count. This will eliminate all these kind of threads for community so that we can get back to discussing "you know, the important stuff". And by, discuss, I mean pages. Not, at most, 3 posts. There are people who have at least 40-75% of their one-word posts in spammy threads like "Last thing you ate/drank/peed/pooped/wore on your head", or something similar just because they want an avatar/sig/title. I'm all for chat-chat til you're hands fall off. Hell, if you look in Games, I'm in the top 10 in terms of chat thread posters. But there's a difference between chat and crap.
2--User Join Dates will actually contribute to earning an avatar and such, in addition to post count. This way, if you're banned under your regular name, you won't be able to go back to an old name and still have avatars and such. By doing this, I hope it makes a lot of the people who like to "sit on the fence" when it comes to getting in trouble think twice, because they'd lose everything, and it'd be harder to just spam them back. This will would very well with the above idea. To quote a good friend--"The idea behind those things is that they are "privileges" or "rewards" that are meant to be earned by being a contributing member of a community over a period of time." By combining length of membership and post count as prerequisites for benefits, only members who are both active and patient would be rewarded and there would be less benefit from spamming. Also, bans would become a lot more meaningful when you not only lose a few nights worth of spamming, but you can also lose up to 6 months of your life.
Something like this order--
Code:Signature--1 Week Custom Title--2 Weeks and 100 posts Small Avatar--1 Month and 300 posts Medium Avatar--3 Month and 1000 posts Large Avatar--6 Months and 2500 posts
With these ideas in mind, hopefully it would help keep Community feeling more like a Community rather than a collection of random people. Conversations will be able to mean more, there would be less spam to wade through, and everyone can have a little more fun. I know I'm being a little idealistic here, but that's what ideas are for--being idealistic.
Please post thoughts here, and vote. The poll will be up for two weeks.
THIS IS A MULTIPLE CHOICE POLL!!
you're talking about me aren't you. What the hell did I even do last time to get banned?Drakon said:To some, yes, it is. I know of one particuluar user who's been banned several times, and each time we let him back, he'd go right back to a specific avatar once he got to the level enough.
Drakon said:Ideally, yes. But that's not always the case. With a site this big you've really got to watch yourself when it comes to moderation. You add too many at once, and you're gonna have people with sore feet, cause a lot of toes will be stepped on. That's why I keep worrying about my admin boost. The last time someone was boosted to admin was 2001, and that was Dew. I know that they wouldn't have given me admin without trusting me with the "keys", so to speak. But at the same time, I know I've got a lot of ideas and vision for the forums, [and even the site], and I don't want to step on any toes, what with me being the new guy and all.
Green Lantern said:Hon, you're in denial... Drak IS a higher up![]()
Oh, so the only Real higher up is Mirko then?twylight said:You don't need to worry about that in my opinion.
No offense 'Hon' but Drak isn't the one able to make the real decisions.![]()