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| Thread ID: 133081 | 2013-05-27 00:26:00 | PC World Chat will close this Friday | Siobhan Keogh (16063) | PC World Chat |
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| 1343428 | 2013-05-27 10:28:00 | joined +1 |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1343429 | 2013-05-27 10:29:00 | Mightn't matter to you, but it matters to me if Im considering registering a domain name and setting up a forum board where people here can be a community and talk and get close to instant help for their pc issues by people with 100s of combined years of knowledge and experience . Dont care about the advert impressions or whats made out of them, its not about the money so much as providing people here with a service but I only have a limited amount of monthly bandwidth which is why I was asking . I know very well the closing of the chat isnt to do with hosting costs, its just being used as part of the excuse to try and justify it . Sad part is that they are silly enough to think that getting rid of chat and pre-approving posts that they are going to retain all the members and cut the work down for moderators . Where ever these people end up, do you really think they will come back here for help or ask for it where they are with thier friends . The chat is a big part of what keeps this community together, people have built up trust and friendships that go back years - not that fairfax care, because that doesnt make them enough dollars . Cant speak for anyone else, but you got my backing mate . :thumbs: The pre approving posts doesn't work - the ones in charge get side tracked and things dont get done . I know that from personal experience -- As I mentioned earlier on, I admin a Facebook site, when it was first created I set it exactly how its going to be here -- that lasted all of 3 days, the amount of work to pre approve posts was over whelming, it could have been a full time 24 hour job - it was quicker after people joined ( which have to be approved by a admin), then moderate/remove offending posts as they appeared . Rules are set, NO BS / warnings, any post that doesn't apply gets dumped as per the rules . Simply put Fairfax are being run by lawyers . |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1343430 | 2013-05-27 10:31:00 | 5016 It's a funny joke but I think you may have misused the meme? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1343431 | 2013-05-27 10:35:00 | i will go as far to say the chat forum is the busier of the two. Chat is probably the only reason half the members are still active... I suppose Fairfax will have learned there lesson when this place is a ghost town. Hoping Ian can come up with something :thumbs: Hell, I'd chip in a dollar or two if it was going to help anything happen. *thinks of imagef1* |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1343432 | 2013-05-27 10:41:00 | Cant speak for anyone else, but you got my backing mate . :thumbs: The pre approving posts doesn't work - the ones in charge get side tracked and things dont get done . I know that from personal experience -- As I mentioned earlier on, I admin a Facebook site, when it was first created I set it exactly how its going to be here -- that lasted all of 3 days, the amount of work to pre approve posts was over whelming, it could have been a full time 24 hour job - it was quicker after people joined ( which have to be approved by a admin), then moderate/remove offending posts as they appeared . Rules are set, NO BS / warnings, any post that doesn't apply gets dumped as per the rules . Simply put Fairfax are being run by lawyers . stuff . co . nz commenting as been on pre approved for a while now . No good if you want to comment at night |
plod (107) | ||
| 1343433 | 2013-05-27 10:42:00 | Hoping Ian can come up with something :thumbs: Hell, I'd chip in a dollar or two if it was going to help anything happen. *thinks of imagef1* +1 for a new forum run with proper software goodiesguy, your forum doesn't seem bad but it won't let me sign up (says my email address is fake and it won't accept underscores etc in user names) don't know what forum software it uses but it's pretty horrible if it can't handle that. stuff.co.nz commenting as been on pre approved for a while now. No good if you want to comment at night Why would you want to? Stuff is run by a bunch of clowns who don't understand the concept of journalism or the English language. Of course it doesn't look like the Herald does any more either, though... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1343434 | 2013-05-27 10:47:00 | Why would you want to? Stuff is run by a bunch of clowns who don't understand the concept of journalism or the English language. Of course it doesn't look like the Herald does any more either, though...hmm, sounds awfully like the same people that run this one | plod (107) | ||
| 1343435 | 2013-05-27 10:49:00 | stuff . co . nz commenting as been on pre approved for a while now . No good if you want to comment at night Stuff is slightly different though . It not a place where someone asks for help, and various people answer . The amount of replies are tiny in comparison to here . Also whats going to happen here on weekends and public holidays?? Is it going to be closed for the weekend ? ;) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1343436 | 2013-05-27 10:49:00 | yeap joined that one .....but would be interested in iantech options as well, and yes $ to help if needed as well :) will have another look at google + but really if we get one really good site we would all go to//not multiple little ones we may not visit is what worries me.... | beetle (243) | ||
| 1343437 | 2013-05-27 10:49:00 | Sorry goodiesguy but your forum hurts my eyes :( What's the host like you're on? Looks like a free one? Happy to offer up a real server to host the new forum on if there is any interest.... Edit: just read Iantech's post properly. Do you have somewhere decent to host? |
Dannz (1668) | ||
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