User Infraction System

[RockyR]

Perhaps I missed this part - how and when will a member be notified they have been given an infraction point?

The mods will visit them at home and shoot them with a flaming arrow. 1 arrow is 1 point.

HAHAHAHAHAH

Just kidding guys. I echo the statements here... mods are doing a great job keeping this forum clean.

[pdcorlis]

The mods will visit them at home and shoot them with a flaming arrow. 1 arrow is 1 point.

Fair enough then - oh yeah, I like Mike's answer too....

[Robin]

Fine to me, but is this necessary?

I hardly see anything nasty on the forum...I think this is a very nice and well behaving forum...thanks to the rules, the hard working moderators and of course the rabble.

We all make mistakes and "forget" the rules once in a while, but it hardly ever goes over the edge of decent behavior.

[Alan H]

Sure, whatever you guys want to do, but is moderating the forum THAT bad of a job? I'm not being snide, I'm really asking.

I mean, software updates and all are a pain in the hiney, sure, but are the members THAT nasty or inapprpriate or abusive so that a system like this is needed? I never look at the "removed" posts sections, so I really don't know.

[Mike1]

Sure, whatever you guys want to do, but is moderating the forum THAT bad of a job? I'm not being snide, I'm really asking.

I mean, software updates and all are a pain in the hiney, sure, but are the members THAT nasty or inapprpriate or abusive so that a system like this is needed? I never look at the "removed" posts sections, so I really don't know.

Alan, this is the tenth post I have submitted, today. One post was to lock down a thread that had gone OTT. So, where are the other eight, you ask? In a closed section, where the forum staff have been dealing with today's chamberpot of nasty, inappropriate and abusive posts. And it's a good day, as I've only received four Private Messages about forum issues.

Forum moderation really is not that bad. Trying to keep track of 680 active members, remembering who said what and when is. So, instead of the forum staff (who are not allowed anything sharper than crayons to write with) adding up rules infractions on our fingers and toes, we are going to let the forum do it for us. We've merely automated a manual process and felt we owed the membership an explanation.

The Needs Moderating usergroup has a total of 6 members, currently. One forum member just had full forum permissions restored within the last week. Four members have been banned in the last 6 months, with six others banned since 1 January 2006. Four threads have been locked down in the last month. Since the software upgrade, we're enjoying a brief respite from the robot spammer registrations, but that will soon change and we will be back to dealing with the removal of 4-6 spam registrations each day.

Hey, now I'm up to five Private Messages. Number five suggests I give you an infraction for questioning our use of the infraction system. I'm going to assume that one was in jest. And number six just rolled in, so I'm away. I hope this answered your questions.

[Panache]

Sounds fair and reasonable to me.

Cheers

[starbkjrus]

Fine to me, but is this necessary?

I hardly see anything nasty on the forum...I think this is a very nice and well behaving forum...thanks to the rules, the hard working moderators and of course the rabble.

We all make mistakes and "forget" the rules once in a while, but it hardly ever goes over the edge of decent behavior.

Sure, whatever you guys want to do, but is moderating the forum THAT bad of a job? I'm not being snide, I'm really asking.

I mean, software updates and all are a pain in the hiney, sure, but are the members THAT nasty or inapprpriate or abusive so that a system like this is needed? I never look at the "removed" posts sections, so I really don't know.

Alan and Robin, I echo your questions BUT I have a feeling that the reason we even have the question is that due to the moderation of the board we just don't realize what DOES get cleaned up before we see it. These guys do a LOT of work.

I say give it a try and see how it works out.

:blue_ban: <-- This is vaguely disturbing (although not as disturbing as Herminator's avatar ) but I've been dying to use it.

[Frank MacDuffy]

The mods will visit them at home and shoot them with a flaming arrow. 1 arrow is 1 point.

HAHAHAHAHAH

Just kidding guys. I echo the statements here... mods are doing a great job keeping this forum clean.

And getting permanently banned involves a mob of people in kilts with pitchforks and torches.

I like both of these ideas (and I say we use 'em!) I don't see anything wrong with these new rules, they all sound good to me!

[davedove]

The mods will visit them at home and shoot them with a flaming arrow. 1 arrow is 1 point.

If you see a glow on the horizon, you know you messed up BIG.

[RockyR]

And getting permanently banned involves a mob of people in kilts with pitchforks and torches.