Suggestions and Feedback

[Kane52630]

or make a private group just for the teams

 

[Kahoot]

isnt that what the thread search is for?

No, that's what this button if for

. It only works if the site remembers me long enough.

 

[Cuyan]

Don't be so forgettable.

Spoiler

 

[Sentinel X]

I suggest you ban smaug...Seriously....DO.NOT.WANT.TO.SEE

disturbed for rest of the year

 

[Majic Walrus]

He is banned.

 

[BlackLantern]

I suggest you ban smaug...Seriously....DO.NOT.WANT.TO.SEE

disturbed for rest of the year

you know you liked it

 

[Majic Walrus]

Here's an actual suggestion. Don't let brand new users post images. Make it something that they get after so many posts and so long waiting.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Like the avatar thing!

 

[Marx]

I suggest you ban smaug...Seriously....DO.NOT.WANT.TO.SEE

disturbed for rest of the year

He is banned.

you know you liked it

The situation with Smaug has been dealt with.

 

[BlackLantern]

and by dealt with....Marx means waterboarding

 

[Marx]

 

[katie_girl09]

He got banned? Not soon enough, man!

 

[BlackLantern]

I think smaugs contribution left a lot of Hypesters questioning themselves

 

[Paradoxium]

Here's an actual suggestion. Don't let brand new users post images. Make it something that they get after so many posts and so long waiting.

I'm for 15,000 posts before you can post images. That's like 2 days for the average lounge poster t:

 

[[A]]

Any posting count problems..? I'm curious.

 

[ComicChick]

Any posting count problems..? I'm curious.

i lost about 70-ish i think

 

[Motown Marvel]

so, i gotta say that moderating and infractions have got quite ridiculous around here to the point where its almost laughable. i have been here for 7 years, and only in the past few months have i started to receive infractions, and for reasons that are mind boggling stupid. i could cite a few examples, but here are two.

a few months ago i was infracted for self censoring a curse word instead of letting the auto censor do it for me. yes, i got an infraction for censoring myself. we're talking about the dreaded S-word here (gasp!). for the 'H' and 'I' in the word i used # and !. apparently that looked too much like the real letters. because you know, if they are '**' instead of '#!' then the young kids who visit this site will be magically protected from the offense and their innocence will be left intact. this infraction is made all the more ridiculous since on the front page of SHH! (which gets way more traffic than the forums) is linked to the red band trailer for the movie Kick Ass, which displays far worse and completely uncensored language.

then today, there was a thread about mcdonalds being told it was wrong for firing an employee over an extra slice of cheese. in the thread i said "holy crap who cares?" and was infracted for it. the moderator, hobgoblin, said i was trolling. then when i questioned how thats trolling, he said maybe it was spamming (apparently the moderator himself doesnt know why im being infracted), but either way he said it was unnecessary posting. now, is there some place around here where i can see a guideline of what is considered "necessary posting?". and regardless of its necessity, i feel the post was entirely harmless and so totally NOT trolling or spamming. and i'm also pretty sure that there are far less necessary posts here that go unchecked on a regular basis. and then i was deferred to this thread, because apparently moderators have time to hand out infractions, but not the time or means to justify them.

surely you guys have to have your rules around here, and thats to be understood and respected. but over the past year things have clearly gone too far in that regard. it makes it almost impossible to take any of these infractions seriously.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I'm too afraid to agree with you.

 

[Kelly]

so, i gotta say that moderating and infractions have got quite ridiculous around here to the point where its almost laughable. i have been here for 7 years, and only in the past few months have i started to receive infractions, and for reasons that are mind boggling stupid. i could cite a few examples, but here are two.

a few months ago i was infracted for self censoring a curse word instead of letting the auto censor do it for me. yes, i got an infraction for censoring myself. we're talking about the dreaded S-word here (gasp!). for the 'H' and 'I' in the word i used # and !. apparently that looked too much like the real letters. because you know, if they are '**' instead of '#!' then the young kids who visit this site will be magically protected from the offense and their innocence will be left intact. this infraction is made all the more ridiculous since on the front page of SHH! (which gets way more traffic than the forums) is linked to the red band trailer for the movie Kick Ass, which displays far worse and completely uncensored language.

then today, there was a thread about mcdonalds being told it was wrong for firing an employee over an extra slice of cheese. in the thread i said "holy crap who cares?" and was infracted for it. the moderator, hobgoblin, said i was trolling. then when i questioned how thats trolling, he said maybe it was spamming (apparently the moderator himself doesnt know why im being infracted), but either way he said it was unnecessary posting. now, is there some place around here where i can see a guideline of what is considered "necessary posting?". and regardless of its necessity, i feel the post was entirely harmless and so totally NOT trolling or spamming. and i'm also pretty sure that there are far less necessary posts here that go unchecked on a regular basis. and then i was deferred to this thread, because apparently moderators have time to hand out infractions, but not the time or means to justify them.

surely you guys have to have your rules around here, and thats to be understood and respected. but over the past year things have clearly gone too far in that regard. it makes it almost impossible to take any of these infractions seriously.

PMing an Admin. will be much more fruitful than bringing it to this thread. This is not what the thread is for, PM is a better solution.

 

[Marx]

so, i gotta say that moderating and infractions have got quite ridiculous around here to the point where its almost laughable. i have been here for 7 years, and only in the past few months have i started to receive infractions, and for reasons that are mind boggling stupid. i could cite a few examples, but here are two.

a few months ago i was infracted for self censoring a curse word instead of letting the auto censor do it for me. yes, i got an infraction for censoring myself. we're talking about the dreaded S-word here (gasp!). for the 'H' and 'I' in the word i used # and !. apparently that looked too much like the real letters. because you know, if they are '**' instead of '#!' then the young kids who visit this site will be magically protected from the offense and their innocence will be left intact. this infraction is made all the more ridiculous since on the front page of SHH! (which gets way more traffic than the forums) is linked to the red band trailer for the movie Kick Ass, which displays far worse and completely uncensored language.

then today, there was a thread about mcdonalds being told it was wrong for firing an employee over an extra slice of cheese. in the thread i said "holy crap who cares?" and was infracted for it. the moderator, hobgoblin, said i was trolling. then when i questioned how thats trolling, he said maybe it was spamming (apparently the moderator himself doesnt know why im being infracted), but either way he said it was unnecessary posting. now, is there some place around here where i can see a guideline of what is considered "necessary posting?". and regardless of its necessity, i feel the post was entirely harmless and so totally NOT trolling or spamming. and i'm also pretty sure that there are far less necessary posts here that go unchecked on a regular basis. and then i was deferred to this thread, because apparently moderators have time to hand out infractions, but not the time or means to justify them.

surely you guys have to have your rules around here, and thats to be understood and respected. but over the past year things have clearly gone too far in that regard. it makes it almost impossible to take any of these infractions seriously.

PMing an Admin. will be much more fruitful than bringing it to this thread. This is not what the thread is for, PM is a better solution.

I do agree with Kel. If you ever have a problem with an infraction, it is always best to contact an Admin.

That being said...since you did bring it up on an open forum, I'll add my two cents.

The first situation IS a censor bypass. You used symbols resembling an 'H' and an 'I' to replace the letters. Had you allowed the censor to block the word, you wouldn't have gotten the infraction. I also have a hard time seeing you get an infraction had you chosen to use ** to block out part of the word.

As far as the second situation, I can't really comment without reading the entire thing. You should know that every warning and infraction issued is reviewable by the staff. If something is deemed unnecessary or wrong, it will be reversed.

 

[Motown Marvel]

well i only posted the issue in this thread because thats what hobgoblin told me to do when i questioned the infraction that he gave me.

as for the censor bypass, lets be honest, no matter how the word is censored it's always going to be read as what its intended to be. its not fooling anyone. so does it really matter how its censored?

and the second one, just go to the following thread and insert an imaginary post from me that says "holy crap who cares?"
http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=333874

either way, i think my point still stands in regards to feedback on how the site is being moderated. i hope its taken into serious consideration.

 

[Majic Walrus]

Time for a blackberry app!

 

[The Original Bamfer]

well i only posted the issue in this thread because thats what hobgoblin told me to do when i questioned the infraction that he gave me.

as for the censor bypass, lets be honest, no matter how the word is censored it's always going to be read as what its intended to be. its not fooling anyone. so does it really matter how its censored?

and the second one, just go to the following thread and insert an imaginary post from me that says "holy crap who cares?"
http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=333874

either way, i think my point still stands in regards to feedback on how the site is being moderated. i hope its taken into serious consideration.

Yes, Hobgoblin advised you to take the issue to this thread, so, I don't feel it inappropriate to post my opinion. I would not have infracted you for the second post, and am not sure why Hobgoblin did. I'm not saying this to disrespect him, as I'm sure there could have been a misunderstanding.

Like Marx said, all infractions can be reviewed by the entire staff. In fact, when someone's given an infraction, a special thread is automatically created and many of us frequent these infraction threads. Even had you not mentioned the issue, I'm sure some of us would have discovered it soon enough.

The censor bypass infraction you received, however, is a valid infraction. This rule has been present as far back as I can remember - and, look at that! I've been here seven years, too. And I've been a moderator (on and off) for the past two years.

Now, given one potentially-unjustified infraction isn't really reason to put the entire staff down. While we try to keep things consistent, the truth is, we're all individuals, and we all judge actions individually. This, though, is why the staff has a forum which chronicles issues and punishments - so others can discuss them and, when necessary, disagree with them. And, believe it or not, we do disagree with one another.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

the censor bypass is the using symbols instead of the auto-censor right?

Why would anyone do that? :/

 

[The Original Bamfer]

There's loads of ways to bypass the censor... but that's definitely one of them!