Forum changes

sadly cellphone browsing and candidate attorney work has had me become more of a casual reader than a poster, so many daily posts, so little time. i didnt even see the bad elements refered to above. But being a forum stalker for 10years + now, i think proactive change and active moderating of bad elements is an excellent idea to keep a forum community thriving. Good initiative guys!

 

Thank you Rory!

Thank you to Rory for taking the time to setup the sub forums for Quality Aquariums :top:

 

By the way ALL infractions have been deleted. "Normal" (that's arguable) members can't give infractions any more. (sorry for you)

 

Rory, when you say they are deleted does that mean you can't see them in the UserCP?
why I ask is because the 2 I have are still there....

 

Refresh?

 

I support this decision, quite a few of my friends are forum moderators and so I know a bit of how it can be. I was offline over this weekend as I was at an event, then I wasn't at a PC, and then I got capped, so I missed any nastiness that may have happened over that time period. I'm wondering what happened, but it is not at all necessary to know, I'm just curious.

 

I don't think it was one necessary nasty that can be pin-pointed... but I think there has been a lot of bad vibes, unnecessary comments, poor attitudes that has culminated to the moderators having to re-look at the current setup of the forum.

I believe a few more moderators could assist Rory and Zebra Pleco to keep the forum clean, on target, and prevent the bad "atmosphere". We are all adults here, and as such, 90% of us are either at work, with the other 10% probably still in school or studying. So to spread the moderating load over a few more moderators will just assist with the load.

 

can the "invisible mode" option be removed?

not a cool feature IMO...allows "trolling"

 

Dolphin, I believe this has been disabled already. Certain members are still able to do it though... but not too sure why they would be allowed to.

 

Forgive my ignorance... what is meant by "trolling"

 

Already disabled the invisible mode for normal members. The other usergroups like sponsors/mods/admin and the special group for Henk have it still enabled though.

 

Lurking in the background and you can't see them online.

 

Oh I see ok. I was a troll for a while, but it's not nice being invisible. It feels so sneaky!

Why's Henk special? lol I'm just stirring... only kidding Henk

 

Henk was one o fthe founding members of TASA.. hence he get's to be special.

 

good stuff...

 

Off topic, but the new theme looks really smart. I like it!

 

I changed mine back Because the most popular box wasn't at usercp anymore.

 

It's still there in the new theme. Just click on "Forums" and you'll see it at the bottom of the forum

 

Ag I'm not bothered really. the layout is still better than most other forums.

 

Top of this one looks better but liked the feel of the other theme better.