Let responsible users moderate the forums.

Unknown
Unknown
edited February 2014 in MPQ Suggestions and Feedback
If you're going to let this place turn into 'Lord of the Flies', maybe you should give a few level-headed users the ability to police the forums.

If you want this forum to be the main conduit of information to the serious player, you should probably want to put your best foot forward with it. Especially since it's your dime that is paying for the costs to operate it. Currently, I don't think it's doing such a great job of acting that way.

Time to 'drain the swamp'. icon_cool.gif

Comments

  • Unknown
    Unknown
    So, if you (for example) were made a moderator, what would do differently than what is being done? I'm assuming that you don't have the knowledge to answer the questions everyone is asking. Or am I wrong?
  • jojeda654
    jojeda654 Posts: 1,162 Chairperson of the Boards
    At least move some threads to the Other Games sub-forum?
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    jojeda654 wrote:
    At least move some threads to the Other Games sub-forum?

    Heh. I guess some threads have been going quite a bit off-topic.
  • mischiefmaker
    mischiefmaker Posts: 932
    It'd be nice to be able to make some threads sticky, and to be able to put all the complaint and dev-mocking threads into one single thread.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    mischiefmaker wrote:
    It'd be nice to be able to make some threads sticky, and to be able to put all the complaint and dev-mocking threads into one single thread.
    Agreed.
  • Dayv
    Dayv Posts: 4,449 Chairperson of the Boards
    donnbobhardy wrote:
    So, if you (for example) were made a moderator, what would do differently than what is being done? I'm assuming that you don't have the knowledge to answer the questions everyone is asking. Or am I wrong?
    Moderators aren't responsible for speaking for the company, they'd exercise a bit of control in order to help keep the forums useful. They could delete spam, ban (temporarily or permanently) spammers and people breaking the forum rules, move threads to correct forums when they're opened in the wrong place, lock threads, and make threads sticky.
  • Dayv
    Dayv Posts: 4,449 Chairperson of the Boards
    The forum software they're using already has support for moderators, whose name would appear in green instead of red.

    Moderators wouldn't generally be expected to stop discussing the game as players, or even to stop complaining when they don't like a decision.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    DayvBang wrote:
    donnbobhardy wrote:
    So, if you (for example) were made a moderator, what would do differently than what is being done? I'm assuming that you don't have the knowledge to answer the questions everyone is asking. Or am I wrong?
    Moderators aren't responsible for speaking for the company, they'd exercise a bit of control in order to help keep the forums useful. They could delete spam, ban (temporarily or permanently) spammers and people breaking the forum rules, move threads to correct forums when they're opened in the wrong place, lock threads, and make threads sticky.
    Great, add rules. Everyone will love that. icon_e_smile.gif
  • Dayv
    Dayv Posts: 4,449 Chairperson of the Boards
    This would have been a frustrating weekend to be a forum moderator, but their presence could have helped.
  • Dayv
    Dayv Posts: 4,449 Chairperson of the Boards
    Typhon13 wrote:
    DayvBang wrote:
    donnbobhardy wrote:
    So, if you (for example) were made a moderator, what would do differently than what is being done? I'm assuming that you don't have the knowledge to answer the questions everyone is asking. Or am I wrong?
    Moderators aren't responsible for speaking for the company, they'd exercise a bit of control in order to help keep the forums useful. They could delete spam, ban (temporarily or permanently) spammers and people breaking the forum rules, move threads to correct forums when they're opened in the wrong place, lock threads, and make threads sticky.
    Great, add rules. Everyone will love that. icon_e_smile.gif
    The rules exist:

    Forum Rules - Please Read Before Posting
    http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4

Categories