What About Moderators in the New Forum?

yes. in the name of claudio ken. :)

>A SUDDEN OUTBREAK OF COMMON SENSE!

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OH MY GAWD!

A SUDDEN OUTBREAK OF COMMON SENSE! :)

thanks chris.

Holy cow this thread has been busy.

My $0.02 :

I'll give it a try with the community experts titles. I think it might help the newcomers a lot better than following up with "why yes, I did write the book on that" posts and mockery by the usual suspects.

Avatars - eh, I'm not sure it's a great idea, but I'll give it a try. On some forums I find them ugly and distracting, while on others they work pretty well. Of course, allowing user uploadable avatars means we'll have to include some kind of constant policing of avatars (which could turn into a major hassle).

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

We will make the new forums work, one way or another.
(just remember that no one design is ever going to please everyone)

F'rinstance I've just had a sarky comment deleted. Fair enough ;)

> So, do the dissenters normally shut up after the moderator has made his/her point?

Very seldom. But there is one less person feeding the flames, if you see what I mean. Once you have made your point, the reasonable people will understand what you feel, and will accept it. No point in repeating it for them. And the others ... no amount of repetition will get through to them.

Make your point, by all means, but only once ... a second shot occasionally if you need to clarify something. But you'll burn yourself out in no time if you try to reply to every comment made.

>What I'm interested to hear is how Adobe forum regulars view the moderation (Forum Host) system. What's good about it? What's bad about it?

I think it works very well, in the main. A specific 'report spam' button might also be useful though.

The majority of hosts I've come across use their powers very sparingly, mostly only issuing warnings on the 'negative' side and being immensely helpful besides. A few, however, either get hopelessly trigger-happy or throw around weight they are not generally acknowledged to possess. Respect has to be earned and almost all of them I've seen have done so.

But not all.

>f&#k to "fluffykittens"

For which I must not-so-modestly claim credit ;)

>What's bad about it?

it's not enforceable. if a persistent user wants to get around a banning, all they have to do is create a new name and continue with their contentious behaviour - which is why i wrote the afplonk script for firefox + greasemonkey (ff plugin) in the first place. http://milbut.org/afPlonk.html

i've also recently added another script:

http://milbut.org/afClean.user.js

that converts the worst of the curse words into inane drivel (i.e. f&#k to "fluffykittens"). i've been using that rather that outright hiding (plonking) users. but to each his own.

@John & Neil:

Ahh - thanks. Being a newcomer to this medium, I'm not familiar with those things.