Or just make me an admin and have a handy, non-intrusive banstick. 8)jvd said:then perhaps better software is needed .
There's phpBB up-to-date boards "pre-hacked" available. No coding is needed.Sonic said:There needs to be a solution for this. There has to be something that can be done with the software to allow certain features in the way of banning. Though I do understand they may be tricky to implement.
Good in theory, never had much luck with it in practice though.Vysez said:There's phpBB up-to-date boards "pre-hacked" available. No coding is needed.
Also, we have tons of people with enough php knoweldge on the board who could hack the phpBB software and include the required hacks.
Because phpBB is a GNU project, and they concentrate their work only on the primary functions.Sonic said:Can anyone tell me why PHP doesn't support these features? It is just not possible with the software or did they deliberately decide to forego these much needed features>
How long does it really take you to write: "because people won't stop posting off-topic complaints despite being PMd I am locking the thread", or somesuch?
You keep saying nothing is wrong bla bla, but people are telling you over and over - both here and in the console forum - they don't understand why threads keep getting locked with no explanation. It doesn't take einstein to figure out that indeed something IS wrong here, and what it is.
And you think its not fustrating to me to have to sit and explain myself in every locked thread when not only are there other posts i still have to read but then there are other things i still have to do .The reason you (and sonic) need to give explanations is - like I said the first time but apparantly you didn't understand - because it is frustrating to those who actually do try to live by the rules and write good posts, to see the topic they started (or replied in for that matter) locked all of a sudden and with no apparant reason.
Apparently u didn't read through it or you would have seen attacks made on a member . One was left with out being edited as there was no cursing , others were deleted and the offender kepted trying to post in it and other threads . I locked the thread with other people flaming in it so that I could prevent said person from crapping on other threads and people responding to those crap posts which make my job even harder .The one I provided as an example is a prime one
Spend the thirty seconds man. And if you by "I don't have enough time" actually mean "I can't be feckin' bothered to", again, you need to re-evaluate why you are a mod to begin with.
Guden Oden said:I don't see why this is so hard for you to understand. People want to know why topics are getting locked and as I already stated, if it's too much for you to explain this, DON'T BE A MOD.
It's not beneath you to explain why you do something, if that's what you're thinking. You're not god, or the king of spain or somesuch. In reality you're what amounts to a meter-maid, and they have to explain their actions too you know.
I don't see why this is so hard for you to understand. People want to know why topics are getting locked and as I already stated, if it's too much for you to explain this, DON'T BE A MOD.
Except i'm not a meter maid and nothing in my job disciption says i have to tell you why a thread is locked .It's not beneath you to explain why you do something, if that's what you're thinking. You're not god, or the king of spain or somesuch. In reality you're what amounts to a meter-maid, and they have to explain their actions too you know.
I never made any commitment because i thought it was a stupid idea . I said i would try and thats it .It's a give and take relationship, if you live up to the commitment you and sonic made a couple months ago, the complaining about locked threads will go away. If you persist in being a bitch on this point and act as if you're too good to explain yourself, then people will keep bitching back at you.
Once again i never once committed to doing it .Like I said, it's not too much to ask to write one goshdarned sentence explaining why a thread got locked, particulary when you yourself committed to doing just that not very long ago.
If you really don't have the time and aren't willing to commit to do your job properly just friggin resign already and let someone else take over; it'd be better for the forum in the long run unless you shape up man.
london-boy said:Guden Oden said:I don't see why this is so hard for you to understand. People want to know why topics are getting locked and as I already stated, if it's too much for you to explain this, DON'T BE A MOD.
It's not beneath you to explain why you do something, if that's what you're thinking. You're not god, or the king of spain or somesuch. In reality you're what amounts to a meter-maid, and they have to explain their actions too you know.
Mmm not really. A mod's job is to make sure that the boards a clean. Their job is to make sure that the stupid gits on here respect the agreement they have agreed to when signing up to this site. It's the gits that have to respect the agreement, not the mod's job to keep reminding them, which they still do anyway.
You can't expect them to keep repeating the same thing over and over again, when the gits should have read the agreement before posting and should know what to and what not to post.
The mods are not bound to explain themselves, it's the users who are bound to the agreement.
Hardknock said:If you don't state in the thread why something got locked, nobody will see what they did wrong and it will continue to happen. It doesn't take rocket science to figure this out.
london-boy said:Hardknock said:If you don't state in the thread why something got locked, nobody will see what they did wrong and it will continue to happen. It doesn't take rocket science to figure this out.
you should know how to post by the way most other old poster do, and from the agreement you sign before entering the site.
It doesn't take rocket science to figure this out.
Nor it takes rocket science to figure out that the very few mods we have have no time to state the reasons why they lock the threads, especailly when 99% of the time it is so obvious.
Really simple, it's usually because of trolling or because of repeating information. It's not like they lock threads because they have nothing better to do.
sonic said:
Thank you for the feedback everyone. When we lock threads from now on we will explain why we did it and give a reason. We will try to pm the author before the thread is locked and if anyone else feels that it is unfairly locked then please pm me or jvd explaining why. We will look at it and consider unlocking it.
jvd said:Right notice how Sonic says try .
Not only that but its sonic , not I who said this .
So once again it has nothing to do with me .