Published on 12, July, 2020
Am I wrong in feeling offended that a task I've been performing for over a year has now been assigned to someone else, with someone other than myself supervising them?
Said supervisor hasn't consulted me and has disregarded my documentation / process.
Feels like a massive FU to me.
My work colleague tells me not to take it personally.
I'm growing tired of people spouting things like...
"Don't take it personally", "You're not the only one this affects", "I don't understand your problem", etc.
Management at work do my head in.
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To be honest i am surprised at how this thing runs. Firstly there is no report to moderator function, secondly there seems to be no moderation. I am a member and moderator of an electronics forum. It runs SMF software, if anyone has a concern they click a report to moderator link on the post in question and all moderators get an email. i am in the UK, the site owner is in Australia so we have virtual 24 hour coverage, spammers last from minutes to a couple of hours tops and arguments are intervened into very quikly and settled.
I also find the general running of this forum odd. The multhread nature of erm, threads is confusing. I never understand forums that allow threads in threads. It's confusing and unless you get a proper notification of each reply you will never find it. I had to hunt for yours. I don't get this latest fad and fosion for forums. Decades old software like SMF and phpBB and all the others are single thread, you have clear sections and each topic is a single thread making the dicussion clearer and keeps things on topic. Yes it means you need a seperate site install for these (free) forum systems because they run as their own entity but I take that insignificant drawback as a non issue when I see the utter mess people make by having a forum integrated into their main site template or worse use the awful stuff that gets integrated into wordpress.
A forum is quite a complex beast of it's own, to have it integrated into the main site is madness. I also note that this forum is very slow at times. The one i moderate while not being massive runs across 3 different servers in order to remain stable and responsive.
Why do you think they use this pathetic software??
We could start our own forum way better than this within a few minutes using PHP.
After a quik look wrong planet seems to be the only forum for people to just chat that usues a proper forum system. Other sites a specific ones like for partners or they are not used much or just weired where there is one where all the users are called anonymous so it's impossible to know who is who. Usually anonymity can be sufficiently acheived with a username that is not your real name. The thing on here where we get numbers is a bit silly as they are hard to remember.
Indeed i can have one up by the end of the day although it will take several day's of tweaking to get it just right and I do not know what is the best software these days, the electronics forum I moderate is SMF and is not perfect but is way better than this mess.
But who would use it? I have seen plenty of forums that people setup and go nowhere. A well known member on my electronics forum that has his own site and youtube channel has a forum with no activity and at the end of the day if you want to find him you know where he hangs out.
Finally large forums do require resource to run so you have to plan for it. my VPS can be upgraded at will so it's not impossible to just keep going although dedicated servers can become a good idea, the electronics forum in fact has one or even two dedicated servers to run it.
I know some beautiful forums that are a pleasure to work on. Always fast, always easy to navigate. I used to run my own forum before fb addiction killed the WWW.
A good forum will not have up & down votes. It will enable embedding and also be properly moderated.
Yeah - just start your own. There are no rules as to who can start a forum. People generally will not though bevasue they see it as too complex.
what do you mean by using php? writing your own or installing a package? there is wrong planet already. I don't know what software they are using but it was integrated into the main site for astetic reasons. Sadly every site I see do this has a poor forum experience.
I run my own server andhave installed forums in the past but you need to start with a critical mass. Even maplins attemps at starting their own forum flopped as we were all already using other well established forums.
Of course if the NAS want someone to set a forum up for them I am all ears.