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TeamSonora
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| Insane Monkey wrote: | | A newbie forum is a great idea. However, how do you suggest we keep all of the smart alecks from chiming in on the newbies? Stict censorship on one forum? |
Hi, new to this site, but a bit frustrated with some aspects of gc.com, even though I use it and otherwise love it.
To stop the smart alecks, you need moderators, good ones. GC.com realized that too late, then they went a bit crazy with their censoring. |
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Scout
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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| TeamSonora wrote: | | To stop the smart alecks, you need moderators, good ones. GC.com realized that too late, then they went a bit crazy with their censoring. |
Jeremy Irish was censoring his forums over two years ago (for bad reasons, imo). The ironic thing is that, before he set up his own forum, he announced he was leaving the original geocaching mailing list because he objected to the moderation he was subjected to.
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Insane Monkey
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 12:11 am Post subject: |
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| TeamSonora wrote: | | To stop the smart alecks, you need moderators, good ones. GC.com realized that too late, then they went a bit crazy with their censoring. |
Yes, this may be the obvious answer but not a simple solution. For instance, we have already had a guest express his disgust that only registered users can post in the forums (with the exception of the Just Say Hi forum).
So, any form of censorship/moderation will have it's fair share of criticism. And, that was really my point from the first post.
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hmarq
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 6:47 am Post subject: |
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My $0.02
I really dislike censorship and I'm inclined to let idiots look like idiots ... the readers can make up their own mind. I can see where if harm can come from a post that it should be edited down or out.
For example in the 'General' forum this morning ... there are 2 posts that would probably be deleted many places, I just locked. The problem with censorship is it's subjective to a great degree -- it is a 'general' forum, should stuff just be deleted becuase a couple people (or even 1) think a post is goofy? |
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nici-
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Location: Hürth near Cologne, Germany
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 3:54 am Post subject: |
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| hmarq wrote: | | but directionally, the welcome page has to have the complete newbie in mind ... what the heck is a geocache? Why would I look for one? What do I need to do this? ... I suppose we could make |
I disagree - I think the index-page should be very straightforward and allow a very fast orientation. All those texts for newbies would make the page long, texty (is there such a word  and the opposite of straightforward.
I'm sure a Link like 'new to this?...' would make it. Of course good to see somewhere 'top'.
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nici-
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 4:02 pm Post subject: Text, text, text |
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In german language we do have a lot of things already (for newbies at al). Scout has a good history text, and dozens of private pages have genious texts about all possible aspects...
What I mean is: There already _IS_ a lot of information that may be used!
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jogging
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nose565
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:58 am Post subject: wrong |
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| Quote: | | A newbie link, then, on the intro page? |
Do you not think you were wrong?:X:X
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