Fixing the problems with the forums and trolls

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Left alone... natural order will prevail :-)

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Wayne, Kees, Red!!! Lads lads lads... lets keep this on topic please :lol:

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Amiga.org is what we make it...

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Glaucus wrote:

1) refining the rules?
2) Getting stricter? (good idea or bad?)
3) Re-hashing the forums into a new schema to include more forums for personal discussion?

Well, I think someone else already suggested it, but I like the idea of patrolling all the forums except for the Talk-About forum more strictly. The way I see it, the Talk-About (or DMZ as I still think of it as) is not really about anything at all. Talking about the Mars lander in the Talk-About forum is as relevant as talking about the color of air or making fun of Michael Jackson. However, posting about smoking dope in the Amiga Hardware forum is obviously unwanted and justifiably deleted or moved to the Talk-About.

Btw Wayne, I think you mentioned in another thread that the Talk-About forum has "ballooned", out growing all other forums. I think it's a clear sign that people are more interested in socializing, as there's really few new things to discuss about Amigas any more. I think it's important for all of us in the community to just stay in touch, even if all we talk about is crap. I think the Amiga.org community has a spirit of it's own and I'm not sure it really needs to be overly regulated. I think this is the easiest and most likely to succeed scenario.

  - Mike

Simple solution, 10 free posts per month, want any more and you have to pay a $5 subscription fee.

I'm gonna be really unpopular now :-(

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mikeymike wrote:

Glaucus wrote:

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Simple solution, 10 free posts per month, want any more and you have to pay a $5 subscription fee.
I'm gonna be really unpopular now :-(

It would kill A.org over night, as far as I'm concerned.
  - Mike

The upshot those is that we'd end up $5 better off! :-D

Heheheh... but that's quite sad, Mike that you are not prepared to pay (even a tiny sum) for Amiga.org!

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mikeymike wrote:

Heheheh... but that's quite sad, Mike that you are not prepared to pay (even a tiny sum) for Amiga.org!

Hey, I should be paid for my services! :-D

My comment was aimed at Glacious-Mike not you :-)

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MarkTime wrote:

Once upon a time, Amiga.org's DMZ was a place of lively and intelligent discussion which actually BROUGHT people back to the site on a daily basis. Now the same people who used to post such great inciteful posts have seemingly disappeared.

gosh Wayne, I'm embarassed.

Listen, why don't you just ask me to come back and see what comes of it?

...but seriously...I think there are still a lot of intelligent people in these forum's...just not a lot of intelligent things to say..(how 'bout dem bears, comes to mind).

the problem is NOT trolls.  The fact is, the old community had trolls.  the bus arch troll...George Noel...back in the day Tim Rue was a troll GOD....now he's so much calmer, but I miss those old days.

we do need a growing community...now that genesi has moved on to morphos-news.de and amiga, inc. seems dead...we are going back into a lull period.

c'mon aros guys...your turn to save us.

Ok, then... everyones first 5 posts a month should be AROS related; praise, critisize, bug/feature report, bug/feature request, user support, development help... etc... if that doesn't start up interesting (for me at least) disscusion then nothing will :-D