psycoblaster said:
Well giving suggestions really wouldn't help. Because rules aren't read, and are ignored most of the times.
That means, even if you add more rules, you are only wasting time. Those 1 posting requesters can't be stopped.
There's no way to work around that, unless you listen to urza and agree in this "stop registration for x amount of time"
because after reading that thread one more time, I think his solution will be the last remaining method, and should be used to protect GBAtemp itself, more than it's number of user.
From my personal viewpoint without the new members the site would rot at an even quicker rate. One question that comes to mind is how long "x amount of time" would be. I don't see a short term closure having any justified effect on the current situation, having it closed for a long period could lead to the "rot"... it'd become just like your average fansite of which there are many if you know what I mean.
exactly. sacrafice fame, or sacrafice the existing members. having less members that help each other is better than having more members that are only posts spam and request and all that shit.
The large majority of the regular posting members (95% plus hazarding a guess) originally joined gbatemp to gain information and not to make friends or have fun (this applies to all forums like this one). So to deny someone the opportunity to join the site may mean missing out on the next mthrnite, wildwon, shadowXP, urza, psyfira, narin, another world etc. even if it does mean having to deal with the rest of the "n00bs".
yup, and this 95% + members are now "dead members" which gbatemp is prowd of having.
Another factor is that no one from the sites makes any sort of profit by managing the site, in fact at one point for a long time, some of the admins were actually paying alot of money to keep the site running. The only reason why this site is still running at its current capacity is due to our affiliates, so I seriously doubt that Urza's idea would work well with them (having said that I'm not 100% in the know as to how that deal has been made).
Then why not clean up gbatemp, delete some dead members, and actually delete, not close, the posts that requires deletion? Then that will save so much space, and you guys won't need to pay for such a large bandwidth.
I will say that we're always on the lookout for new staff (I'll even go as far as to say that a few members have been approached and seem willing to join - although I ask that such members don't say anything until it's officially been done
). This I see is the only other way of trying to minimise the number of repeat posts etc going on... as the number of members increase so would the number of staff in order to maintain some sort of order. As mentioned earlier there has also been some discussion on how the current warning system can be improved (as the rules have been done) but again these things take an unimaginable amount of time to sort out (I say this as I've never done so myself
) so once again the patience thing has to be mentioned.
Don't. More mods won't do any good. Just work harder, and try to improve, and get more serious on serious posts, and don't worry about the small problems like this:
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=110463
moderating posts that are supposed to help? bullshit. This is the first problem of the mods.
read my full paged rant against lagman. you will soon understand.
What GBAtemp needs is that they should actually listen to user feedbacks, more than doing what "seems" to be right.
What's the point of having more mods? Even costello can't determine what is a joke or what is serious.
So you guys want to have more mods, so you'll have less to do?
It won't work that way. We don't need new mods. The current mods can do better, and that's all that is necessary.
and mods shouldn't break the rules themselves, if they are going to bitch at us.
) so once again the patience thing has to be mentioned.
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