More severe moderation in update threads?

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

I think that the moderation level in this forum is about right. There are only 2 or 3 member's who are abusing the system, and spaming the up-date thread with junk each week...we should turn the table on them, by spaming their PM folder with request to cease and desist.

+1

There's also the 'report post' button to make the moderators job easier.

Personally, I find 'Great Update!', 'Fantastic!' 'Thanks Oleg!' or even 'First!' or 'Damn, Second!' just as tedious as the personal attacks between members that inevitably crop up. I wouldn't dream of stopping them though, as they are at least positive and supportive.

If we can't be bothered trawling through posts to find something interesting/informative, lets do something else, such as fly a flight sim.
A good one, such as IL2 Sturmovik.

[Feathered_IV]

Repeat offenders should have text inserted by moderators beneath their avatars. "Resorts to personal attacks" "Unable to grasp WiP concept" and "Thread hijacker" to name but a few.

[BadAim]

I'm not sure if we need to be more severely moderated, but we should certainly have more severe moderation.

[Qpassa]

I think now Its ok.

[klem]

Originally Posted by Qpassa

I think now Its ok.

Qpassa - this is truly not against you personally but your reply is simple, to the point, and represents the view of several others so I picked up on it and I just want to say IMHO that view is incorrect.

The Friday before last I ploughed through 90 pages - NINETY! - to see if my question had been answered.

That is NOT now "OK". It's ridiculous. Its is supposed to be informative, questioning, with responses from Oleg but not a platform for irrelevant posts or egotistical p*nis waving. It needs to be kept to the point. If I were only skimming through just looking at the odd opinions it would not hurt as I could skip what I like but if I have to get past every single post to find an answer it's a frustrating pain in the a$$ especially when you see so much taken up with juvenile tit for tat trash. It also makes it hard for Oleg to even find our questions.

It makes Oleg's attempts to keep us informed almost worthless.

I've been discussing this with others in another thread and truthfully I don't know the answer unless Oleg is willing to lock his thread and post his answers there to questions raised in a parallel thread. We'll still get the lunies who want to see their name up in lights but at least the update thread will be clean - if Oleg can find our questions among the other mire.

And some of them will be laughing at us for the trouble they are able to cause.

The only other way I can think of to reduce this nonsense is to set these guys to 'Ignore' (if I can find out how to do it). They can then feed their egos as much as they like and I won't see it. At least then people will know that if they want to be heard - sensibly - they need to stay away from the kind of post we don't want to see or they won't be heard at all. Of course we could all just filter on Oleg's answers but it would be nice to remove a lot of the unnecessary garbage. Providing Oleg can find our questions in there.

Sorry for the lengthy sermon.

[julian265]

Originally Posted by klem

The Friday before last I ploughed through 90 pages - NINETY! - to see if my question had been answered.

Why didn't you just search through Oleg's posts?

[klem]

Originally Posted by julian265

Why didn't you just search through Oleg's posts?

Because at the time I didn't realise I could - it's not in the help pages. If you read the whole of my post you'll see I mention doing that.

The poll seems to indicate that something needs to be done but I'll just search Oleg's answers.

[Triggaaar]

Originally Posted by Dutch_851

Personally, I find 'Great Update!', 'Fantastic!' 'Thanks Oleg!' or even 'First!' or 'Damn, Second!' just as tedious as the personal attacks between members that inevitably crop up. I wouldn't dream of stopping them though, as they are at least positive and supportive.

Well the 'Thanks Oleg' etc posts are positive, and I think they're worth posting, as I'm sure the developers like the fact that their work is appreciated (imagine if no one posted a thing, like we didn't give a stuff about the update). But people posting 'First!', 'Damn, Second' - what's that all about? I'd rather the mods just removed the post altogether.

[philip.ed]

I agree with what Oleg said last week;
ask questions, supply answers if possible, give links if neccesary, be humble....something to that effect.
Surely that is all that is needed?

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

I agree with what Oleg said last week;
ask questions, supply answers if possible, give links if neccesary, be humble....something to that effect.
Surely that is all that is needed?

You would do well to remember that yourself. Not that you haven't posted good factual information (because you have), but a lot of the time I feel like I'm reading a stream of consciousness novel in your posts.