Published on 12, July, 2020
This is mainly for the moderators to consider.
Could we have a 'Moderator alert'. Perhaps as a 'Sticky', perhaps as an easy to find 'button' or something else.
This should be a means of alerting moderators to threats, safety, spamming, or other 'serious' issues. It would need some thought as to how it would work, but it should also include a facility to private message the moderator with words of explanation as to what the problem is.
The present 'Report as abusive' is not really fit for purpose as it does not really seem to do anything or if it does it takes days to work at times. I envisage the 'Alert' facility to get a moderator to deal with the situation within two hours if possible, and also to provide information.
There should also be a sticky to explain what is acceptable and what is not. Yes we have some rules, but these appear to be subject to interpretation and are flouted. It should perhaps explain unacceptable behaviour such as trolling, spamming, and threats and the consequences. This might also help prevent public spats on the forums.
while we are talking about the stupid way this forum works can someone tell me how I set my own username. Honestly this thing is rubbish coupled with how slow the server is and the cofusion between my profile on the site and on the forum. Whoever produced this garbage should be sacked!
To set username go to your profile at top of page . Edit profile lets you set username
thanks, that is the most hidden thing i have ever seen, why was it stuck up there in the header when it should be in the main page. It looks like I can edit my username at will....... BAD IDEA! I had that disabled on the forum I moderate because people can stir up a load of trouble and then dissapere, not good. If a user wants to change name they contact me and I make the change. But you do get to change your username on registration.
And oh yea, email notifications on this forum do not work! this place is a mess, it's not even easy to moderate this forum from a technical point of view. I wonder who the web developer is that thought they could do something as good as what several people have done over years of hard work for free.