I pretty much agree with everything you’ve said, Night Owl. Appointing more mods is, I think, a fantastic idea, as well as creating a Getting Started forum. Hopefully it will appear more obvious than the FAQ, which no one ever seems to look at.

Excellent idea on the ”getting started”forum.You have some excellent viewson the banning and reprimandation of troublemakers.
You have my full support.

Absolutely. I’d appoint people who I know are mature, know the rules and standards of the site, and who won’t abuse the power they have.

Would you please expand on this comment. Are you proposing that members seeking each other’s advice on camera purchases should be considered a violation of forum guidelines? Perhaps you could explain how you would express this change in the forum rules and guidelines so that members are aware of this policy change? What other topics are there that might be deemed off-limits and deserving of deletion or locking?

I think that there are quite a few threads that don’t specifically against the rules, but clutter up the forums. We’ve been having a lot of threads in General Brickfilming lately that were pretty much copies of older ones. Of course people pointed that out, but others (newbies in particular) kept posting in them, so we had around 4 or 5 threads where one would have sufficed. This could have been solved by deleting the thread, sending a PM to the author, and moving their post to the proper thread (eg. from the now deleted “my set” thread to the “Let Me See Your Set” thread).
Of course I would alter the rules and guidelines to point that out.

Great, just ban everyone.

“thebaloob123″ wrote:
Why would anyone do that???

No one would, brianfast is just mudslinging.

“Dictionary.com” wrote:
mud·sling·ing
Pronunciation Key – [muhd-sling-ing]
–noun
an attempt to discredit one’s competitor, opponent, etc., by malicious or scandalous attacks.

Aside from malicious attacks, it’s also considered mudslinging to discredit someone by manipulation, and by making ridiculously overdramatic and sarcastic statements, so that people reading the thread pick up a general “bad vibe” about the candidate.

What candidates need to learn is that brickfilms.com voters are informed, and talk to each other — and candidates should run on their own merits, rather than the downfalls of others. (That just shows how poorly suited they are for the position, that they’ve decided the only chance they have is to discredit their opponents.)

-Trill, Election Commissioner

“Night Owl” wrote:
I think that there are quite a few threads that don’t specifically against the rules, but clutter up the forums. We’ve been having a lot of threads in General Brickfilming lately that were pretty much copies of older ones. Of course people pointed that out, but others (newbies in particular) kept posting in them, so we had around 4 or 5 threads where one would have sufficed. This could have been solved by deleting the thread, sending a PM to the author, and moving their post to the proper thread (eg. from the now deleted “my set” thread to the “Let Me See Your Set” thread).
Of course I would alter the rules and guidelines to point that out.

You can point it out ’til your red in the face, but how exactly are you going to enforce that? Even disagreeing with the multiple threads (that usually already have multiple answers in multiple other places) how to you intend to regulate them? How is this really an enforcable policy? Because, even if they’re annoying – punishing the members for them is only going to earn brickfilms.com more of a reputation for being unhelpful. (Which, we had for a while when threads like that weren’t even getting answered, but sarcastically replied to and sent to resources.)

Do you see any way to get around this?

Could it maybe more of a priority issue? Is it more important to make the forums better for the senior members, or the new members, in your opinion?

I’m not trying to mean at all, sorry if I have come off as agressive. (I don’t know if I have, but I do that unintentionally sometimes.)

You have my full support, I’m just curious as to how you plan to implement this particular assertion.

-Trill

Night Owl, I like your approach. You have my support.

-Dave