What About Moderators in the New Forum?

It's moot point, Ozpeter.

> You mean if my mug shot is too ugly, it won't be approved?

Perhaps in due course John will publish some guidelines of what is acceptable.

You've changed a bit since the last photo I've seen of you. Trying to give gorillas a bad name?

You mean if my mug shot is too ugly, it won't be approved?

There are some built-in generic ones to be used while waiting for approval. No idea or promises yet on the turn-around time for approval. But I don't think it will be a high priority during the first few days (weeks?) of launch.

>avatar must be approved

Gonna make for a busy couple a' first days!!

What I would be looking for is the ability to take advantage of the changes/updates in the Software provided by the vendor. I don't want to have a system designed that customizes everything and leaves us in the position of not being able to upgrade.

As for avatars, each user will be able to upload one custom avatar, and that avatar must be approved before it is available to them for use. So there will be delays between the time the avatar is uploaded and when it will show up in someone's profile.

> All the objections ... have been about things added.

And I'm willing to bet that at least 10% of the things being complained about will be embraced down the road. Another 40% will be tolerated or ignored. Perhaps 40% will be disliked but things we can live with. The other 10% will be really bad ideas, which hopefully can be fixed.

I think the big thing about the software, and probably why John is more enthused about it, is that it won't be so hard to make changes to things in the future. I think that was one of the problems with the current software.

We can change things within the allowances of the software. We (JC and his team) can also ask them to add options that will become part of future upgrades.

What John is not doing is making code changes to our copy of the software that will prohibit upgrades being done to ours when they upgrade all their other customers.

>If things don't work out, we can change the forum appearance. If other things are needed, they can be added.

This sounds really nice, but can we?
And if things are not needed, they can be omitted?

All the objections, to what we have actually seen in this forum, have been about things added.