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omg; i have an idea
Topic Started: Feb 20 2005, 05:38 PM (960 Views)
Stealth09
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I know members of the IFSZ, have shut multiple boards that were ripping skinfs down, because the members spammed them, and the reported it.
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polar
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My board is new and this is my first time with working with forums but I set guidelines and planned how I should go about doing it to make my board easier to manage.

First thing I did was place rules for my board including not to break any of If's rules as my number one rule. I also placed a link to IF's rules beside it.

Then I setup my chat filter with adding do not break the chat filter in my rules. Along with that in the rules I have the no content rules that apply to things such as this.

Now to help me keep control over it I figured how I would chose mods. So for every 20 to maybe 30 members I get I will place one mod. So if I get 21 members then I will place a mod for the 20.
How I would chose my mods will depend on the persons actions and activity to the board. So one well active member that has been helpfull and abided by the rules as much as possible would get the position.

Last but not least I set up some moderator rules for them to go by on the side of my general rules. This consist of basicly not abusing your privilage as a moderator.
This may sound strict but its really not and its not difficult. I think this should keep my board under control pretty well and you should think about doing something like this to help you.

~Polar~
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Wow.
1 mod per 20 users is a bit excessive, I think.
If we did that, we'd have 1556 moderators right now. :blink:
Too many staff members can lead to even worse problems than not enough, as some of the skinning resource forums would likely attest to.
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polar
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Yeah I suppose that would be true PhranK with having having it that way. If I started getting tons of members I would prob change my stratagy on that.

For now I figured with one mod and me (the Admin) I will be good for 50 to 100 people. If I see its getting out of hand with trying to control the forums then I would chose another mod. Basicly Im saying I would choose mods as I see that I need them.

Im shooting for 3 active mods for up to 500 members at the moment. Since I dont have that many members at the moment Im just staying with what I do have. I may not end up with that many members anyway since it dont seem that people really like tech forums for computer help or webdesign help.

~Polar~
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Dennis
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PhranK
February 22, 2005 05:22 PM
Wow.
1 mod per 20 users is a bit excessive, I think.
If we did that, we'd have 1556 moderators right now. :blink:
Too many staff members can lead to even worse problems than not enough, as some of the skinning resource forums would likely attest to.

We could delete some members and have 1337 mods. That'd be way better.

Speaking of, I have three more posts to go.
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(V)onkeyBoy
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how often do if staff check each persons board? theres thousands of boards? do you have computers do it for you?
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Michelle Potter
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Earlier in this thread someone mentioned boards being closed for language. Does that mean that if we didn't put up a word filter and a member went around posting excessive explicit material while a mod wasn't on, the board would automatically be shut since it could have been prevented, or would the admin still get some sort of a TOS violation warning so that they have the chance to clean it?
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You probably wouldn't even get a warning unless it was really bad and you left it there for at least a few days.
We give you a reasonable chance to take care of things yourselves before we ever decide to get involved, unless it seems you're encouraging it.

And we don't check everyone's board.
We check boards that have been reported, or seem suspicious, for the most part.
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tropicaldawn (CC)
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i have 36 members and just me and a mod, i think that'll be sufficeicent until we get around a hundred members, presuming a fair few of them are active.
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