BF2S Forums Redesigning DST

paranoid101 wrote:

ATG wrote:

subforums, bah, take or leave it.

I vote a leet invite only section, where a person can be voted out.

I disagree would probably turn into one side ganging up on some one that they disagree with, also don't think Chuy made this site to include separate forums where only the so called Elite people can go.

Also how do you decide who gets to go in this forum or even runs it? hows it based Karma, number of posts, mates with the forum starter?

Think if you want something like that you had best start your own forum.

EDIT: No offence meant ATG, just my opinion that's all.

chuyskywalker wrote:

Tyferra wrote:

I daresay Jeff has a figure somewhere indicating how many new members he gets a day, so an application process is out of the question.

About 40-70 per day.

Tyferra wrote:

What we do now is rely on the mods, who are well chosen and do their jobs well. I call for them to exercise their power more.

Not really. More to the point, I need *more* mods. More people to lay the smack down -- the current ones are simply overloaded. They've gone from being members, to being parents. And for them, this sucks.

Tyferra wrote:

If someone posts something absoloutly useless, give them a warning, (maybe Jeff can programme some system to give them "two strikes and your out for three days, three strikes and your out forever," but I don't want to put any more pressure on him,) and then ban away. It's the only way these people will learn.

I've many times considered a system that works like this:

I invite 100 people to a closed forum. These people are all level 1 members. Each level one members has 3 invites they can share. They can send these invites out over email. However, you better know who you are inviting. Each invitee (a level 2, at this point) is now under the wing of their invitor -- and their actions reflect upwards.

The system would work on a single strike basis. A user who does something out of line that is more than deserving of a warning will receive a mark. Your second mark and your account is deactivated. Sucks, harsh, but needed.

Additionally, when a level 2 is banned, it means that the level 1 person who invited them in, invited chaos in. Thus they receive a mark for their mistake of trusting the person who came in. If you invite two jackass'es, and they get banned -- guess what, you do too.

I've thought about that system for a while now, and about adding it to a "elite" forum for BF2S members -- one I wouldn't have to police so much (at all, really) The problem is, what to do with all the temeing hoards of other people? I mean, honestly, everyone on BF2S was a nobody, at some point, who regged and proved themselves. With a closed, invite-only system, it's really hard to get in -- even for those who would be a great boon to the community.

You are right, there's a lot that I wish I could address, but there are hurdles that no mere mortal is quite ready to take on.



I could write for days about this...