I know I have brought this up before in the past, and even in a few other threads. But nothing really seems to be changing about it.
There is countless threads in the General Chat section that do not belong there, and I personally cannot stand that.
I can understand someone having an accident and posting it in the wrong section, but that should be moved as soon as possible into the correct category. But when we have that many topics in General Chat that do not belong there, and have been there long enough to have more than one page in that thread, something is wrong here.
I have read the rules, and I do know if I see this I should of course report it. However, there have been multiple times where I have reported a thread more than once. I reported the thread, and a few days later I see it is still in the General Chat. I then reported it again a few days later. Not until then was it finally removed.
I have come to think that we may need a little more moderator power here. It seems that the current staff around here cannot keep up in keeping each category cleaned up. This is nothing personal at all. I actually like most of the moderators and administrators around here, and even talk with a few of them on a daily basis.
I have seen this problem for months now, and it is still the same, if not worse.
I am not blaming this on the staff at all, I am simply saying that we may just need more. I know the staff here are very busy people with their own life, and Frihost has a pretty big amount of daily posters, and we are still growing.
We have quite a few different categories here at Frihost, and almost any topic has it's own category.
Right now I can go into the General Chat, and I'll bet I can find that 40% of the topics in there can fit into a different category other than the General Chat.
I used to use the report button quite a bit. But I started noticing that the problem I report doesn't always get taken care of.
I really think something needs to be done about this.
There can be a few things that can be done to help the situation.
We can get another moderator or two to get some more power to keep the place cleaned up.
I have been on a forum before that when you first start a new thread, before you even type the title of the topic of your new thread, it tells you the description of the category you are in. It makes you check a box saying "I believe [insert category name] is the BEST section for this topic". This could be something to make sure people are more aware of where they are at.
We could also have a global announcement reminding people to look at other categories of the forums before they even think about posting a thread in the General Chat.
Does anyone else have any good suggestions that we could do to keep topics where they belong?
Last edited by Ghost Rider103 on Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:05 pm; edited 1 time in total
There is countless threads in the General Chat section that do not belong there, and I personally cannot stand that.
I can understand someone having an accident and posting it in the wrong section, but that should be moved as soon as possible into the correct category. But when we have that many topics in General Chat that do not belong there, and have been there long enough to have more than one page in that thread, something is wrong here.
I have read the rules, and I do know if I see this I should of course report it. However, there have been multiple times where I have reported a thread more than once. I reported the thread, and a few days later I see it is still in the General Chat. I then reported it again a few days later. Not until then was it finally removed.
I have come to think that we may need a little more moderator power here. It seems that the current staff around here cannot keep up in keeping each category cleaned up. This is nothing personal at all. I actually like most of the moderators and administrators around here, and even talk with a few of them on a daily basis.
I have seen this problem for months now, and it is still the same, if not worse.
I am not blaming this on the staff at all, I am simply saying that we may just need more. I know the staff here are very busy people with their own life, and Frihost has a pretty big amount of daily posters, and we are still growing.
We have quite a few different categories here at Frihost, and almost any topic has it's own category.
Right now I can go into the General Chat, and I'll bet I can find that 40% of the topics in there can fit into a different category other than the General Chat.
I used to use the report button quite a bit. But I started noticing that the problem I report doesn't always get taken care of.
I really think something needs to be done about this.
There can be a few things that can be done to help the situation.
We can get another moderator or two to get some more power to keep the place cleaned up.
I have been on a forum before that when you first start a new thread, before you even type the title of the topic of your new thread, it tells you the description of the category you are in. It makes you check a box saying "I believe [insert category name] is the BEST section for this topic". This could be something to make sure people are more aware of where they are at.
We could also have a global announcement reminding people to look at other categories of the forums before they even think about posting a thread in the General Chat.
Does anyone else have any good suggestions that we could do to keep topics where they belong?
Last edited by Ghost Rider103 on Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:05 pm; edited 1 time in total
