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| Thread ID: 51213 | 2004-11-14 18:12:00 | PressF1 Survey: Are we not tough enough? | Moderator (5700) | Press F1 |
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| 291942 | 2004-11-15 19:20:00 | There's a nice document on Apache's website about why Apache v2 should only be used on Windows. I can't seem to find it now, so perhaps the situation has change, but it should be there somewhere. The reasoning was that v2 introduced threading on non-*nix platforms, but Linux et al could already handle that, v2 didn't provide any performance benefits over v1. |
agent (30) | ||
| 291943 | 2004-11-15 19:29:00 | Avatars and text sigs would add character to the forum, it would be unfortunate if they were turned off. Agree though that you should do away with pictures, they suck bandwidth. | Pete O'Neil (250) | ||
| 291944 | 2004-11-15 19:44:00 | Well I love avatars and sigs too - but it does add another potential area for - well the "pricks" - to cause problems. Example - someone gets annoyed that they have been banned so promptly re-registers and puts a pornographic image in as their avatar. I'm afraid that my experience with the handful of troublemakers - and let's remember that of all the people who use PressF1 it really has been a comparative handful who have caused so much trouble for the rest - means I'm now very cautious about introducing anything that has the potential for abuse. I've been a long-time member of other forums - most of them game ones - and I've only seen a fraction of the problems on those forums that we've had here in the past couple of years. Funnily enough one forum I frequent, which had zero proeblems for years, basically melted down after 9/11 because it of "political" discussion. In the end they created a separate unmoderated forum and told everyone to rant in there, just to rescue their normal off-topic forum. Another forum had similar problems and just closed down that section altogether. People do have a way of trashing things done with the best of intentions. |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 291945 | 2004-11-15 20:17:00 | perhaps you could consider making them avaliable at a later date when the forum becomes a friendlier place? Surely the extra moderation and new forum features will do some good. | Pete O'Neil (250) | ||
| 291946 | 2004-11-15 20:53:00 | > Agree. > But I don't like being monitored by some anonymous > person. How come the "chosen few" are permitted to > know? > Jack ;\ Uh Jack... how many people from this forum do you actually know? and how many people here use their real names? Using the name "Moderator" or using the name "Chilling_Silence" both give anonymity. Or do you want to be able to view "Moderator"s posts against what he says with his "real" identity? But then if he wants to say something nasty he could have always created another login to post that which may seem out of character. Whatever is said/done, this forum is an anonymous forum. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 291947 | 2004-11-15 20:56:00 | I think, definitely send the users and old posts across, or perhaps just the posts since a certain date. BUT, make the converter set a 'disabled' flag on all the users, and when they go to the site, they must agree to the new rules, and provide a real e-mail address. Then the 'disabled' flag goes, and they are a good old user again. Shouldn't be too hard Bruce ;). And don't forget to sticky my IRC server on the new forum! Cheers George |
george12 (7) | ||
| 291948 | 2004-11-15 21:00:00 | > across. I'm personally in favour of forcing everyone > to re-register and thereby actually agree to a set of > rules of conduct as part of registration. I'm also in > favour of forcing everyone to provide a valid email > as part of the registration. Contray to popular A big problem with this is for people genuinly coming here for help... What if they require help regarding an email issue? What if they don't have an email address? We don't want to make it too difficult for people to ask their questions (which is the main reason for this forum to start with, isn't it???) Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 291949 | 2004-11-15 21:03:00 | Strongly agree. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 291950 | 2004-11-15 21:08:00 | >What if they require help regarding an email issue? That's true Mike, good point. |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 291951 | 2004-11-15 21:14:00 | > > What if they require help regarding an email issue? > That's true Mike, good point. We don't want to make it too hard, too intrusive, or too involved for someone coming here for the first time wanting a solution to some computer problem, who might never be back after its solved anyway. We need it to be easy for the new users to get help. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
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