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Forum Suggestions

PostPosted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 3:24 pm
by Admiral Nelson
I have a few Forum Suggestions which I feel would help improve the Forums greatly. Of which will be listed and explained below.


Suggestions for Forums themselves


> Ability to Ban user of a certain Forum Thread now of course, this does not apply to Moderators that do, all of the Forum but News Reporters they should be able to give " Side Warnings " where if the user reaches 3 side-warnings and they are approved by a higher Moderator he is banned from that Topic Forum for X time ( Following guide lines of Ban's ) - He can still view such, but not comment. ( This will not go in Administrator Logs due to it being " Spammy "). The current power that News Reporters is to Edit or Delete the forum posts of course this is good all credit to Admin for letting us/trusting us to do such but, it does not teach the User doing a action a lesson so in this case - It can be a better system.

> Forums within Forums , now this does apply to only News Reporters Forums if I am honest - Big News Topics of which mine aspire to be we should be able to create Threads within our Thread, as my current Newspaper Consists of one thing: News, but I want to add to it such as: Interviews, Adds for banks ( In game ) gossip, general things like that - Of course, there will be a limit of which I think the suitable amount if 4 threads per Newspaper. They will receive this after 10 Issues of there newspaper being Made.


> Another suggestion be for News Reporters yet again to be able to lock posts made by Users - Not threads or Sub threads but posts within the actual Thread such as lets say a warning is given to a user, some User's edit it saying Noted, which is fine but to prevent more editing, they could lock the post I am not sure if this is already in place, but I have not noticed it, which is why I be suggesting for a fine tool like this to be implemented. - Nevermind, the tool be there. :lol:


Edits to current Moderation


I feel like the power of Moderators should be changed:
In terms to the power of the "Moderators" that moderate all forums, the Moderators that moderate there News Reports. Both "powers" to these should be changed, it is not that I do not trust the current Moderators - I do, but there is certain elements they do not need to know.

> A example of this, which goes into both News Reporters ( Like me ) and Moderators of the Forum ( Such as Sir Henry Morgan, Trixikilikili and RoiLeon) is viewing the User's IP. I am not sure why we, as News Reporters are able to view this which the News Reporters bothers me more then the actual Moderators - It gives away certain things ( Giving that if they are using the Right IP address - Thus the position of us, opening us up to DDOS attacks and much more liable things ) . Of which no Moderator has abused this system, but I still feel it should be removed from at least the News Reporters accessibility.

> One element that News Reporter Moderators do not need is to view the persons Forum Account, where we can see Warnings added : The person who gave the person the warning itself, and their Warning Level - We do not need to know this for its not our business and to me eye opening - Any foe or friend can become a News Reporter and leak information like this. Of which I doubt there would be, but certainly worth mentioning at least


> Forum Edits inside News Reporters threads should not be mentioned in Logs only if a player reports such before hand - As it is a great amount of Spam otherwise to the logs.

Forgive me if I be' wrong about anything, or offend any of the Moderators but I feel like this should be mentioned at least, about the IP's.

Comment what you think.

- Nervous Nelson!

Re: Forum Suggestions:

PostPosted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 3:52 pm
by William Pitt
I posted about Ddos attacks earlier.

+1

Re: Forum Suggestions:

PostPosted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 4:18 pm
by ChaIbaud
THIS IS AVONMERICA! WE HAVE A FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH AND IGNORANCE

Re: Forum Suggestions:

PostPosted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 8:34 pm
by Juicypotato
Nervous Nelson what a dumb name. You are no nelson, you are BOBLI!

Re: Forum Suggestions:

PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 5:13 am
by Dreadnort
ban this {del} is a snot brain

Re: Forum Suggestions:

PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 6:00 am
by Big Brother
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Just thought this might help... seems to have become quite lax recently... check the bolded parts!

Re: Forum Suggestions:

PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 6:33 am
by Admiral Nelson
Who this be aimin' at, matey?

Re: Forum Suggestions:

PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 7:52 am
by Big Brother
This is not aimed, merely a reminder for those who dont know what they are anymore, they know who they are.

Re: Forum Suggestions:

PostPosted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 6:33 am
by Admiral Nelson
Me' not be letting this go, mates!

Re: Forum Suggestions:

PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 11:01 pm
by ChaIbaud
-1 boo freedom