There have been a few members who have been annoying me and I'm sure most of the other users of this forum recently.
- One has been making lots of requests for stuff and promising to eventually post something without actually doing so.
- A 2nd has been making a lot of posts in the last week or so which are usually 1 or 2 words long. I think he is doing this to advertise his blog, because his signature is longer than the actual "content" of most of his posts.
- A 3rd has posted the same thing to a huge number of threads recently. Maybe he actually wants to thank all those other posters and is too stupid to realise that although feedback is nice when it is repeated so often it looks like spam rather than gratitude.
I've just discovered the ignore list so hopefully I won't have to put up with those 3 anymore. For those of you looking for this click on the name of someone you want to get rid of to go to their public profile and you'll find a link on the right hand side of the page. Alternatively go to your control panel and then to the buddy/ignore lists section. I might remove them in a few months in the hope that they've learnt something and become useful contributors to our community.
I think that perhaps part of the problem may be that they want to get "senior member" by their name. It is good that we give some recognition to those who've made a significant contribution to the board, but it cheapens it to give the same recognition to those who have made things worse rather than better. I've a few suggestions, but I'm not familiar with the software used for this forum so don't know what is possible:
- Is it possible for membership type changes to be awarded to those who've posted a significant number of attachements? Attachements that broke the rules and had to be removed shouldn't count.
- How about once you've posted enough to have your membership type change you still need to get approved by a moderator? The downside is of course that the moderator already do so much and we shouldn't exect them to do more.
- What about the section on each post that says when a member joined and how many posts they've made be expanded to also say how many attachments they've shared. If it could seperate out photos and videos that'd be even better, but if if it could say the total size as well as the number that'd give us an idea.
Does the software that runs this board have a feature that can block someone who makes too many posts in too short a time period?
Oh, and to Alex, the moderators, and everyone who posts attachements and thoughtful comments thanks for making this such a great site.