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Posted by: Coffey4780
Meh, I'll try to answer the other ones the best I can.
Posted by: lesions
Many people enter the threshold that is the Bungie forums without first reading "El Rules". This could particially be avoided (atleast the people who want to read them can) by making the rules thread on each forum the top pinned topic (flashing arrows and explosions on screen around the thread are optional). Just recently somebody made a thread asking where the rules thread was.
They are right there. I say failure to not see the rules is not an excuse to break the rules. People go on here and break a rule without knowing there are any, or they just don't care. Either way, if they made a thead that broke any particular rule by mistake then they will be dealt with accordingly. People will either tell them what they did wrong or the Ninjas will address it to them and do what they see fit. They would then be aware that these forums have rules and hopefully read them.
Posted by: lesions
Getting down to the nitty gritty now, the Halo 3 forum. Oh yes what a bundle of joy that forum is. Quite frankly, its my opinion that people have way to much freedom on that thread. Because of lack of forum Ninja's and letting topics that don't get anything done on the topic of Halo 3 (such as [insert game here] vs. Halo 3 threads). It's time to tighten the reigns of this constitutional dictatorship.
This one is easy. It's been said plenty of times. First of all they do not have any freedom "Bungie controls everything. You have no rights. Play nice." The ninjs are people too and can't keep track of everything that goes on. But guess what? You can. You have a report button waiting for you to use it when ever a thread is violating any kind of rule.
See what happens when I think too much. =/
I have to agree with Coffey, on both items. If I pull someone over, "I didn't know I couldn't do that" just doesn't cut it. It has to be a specific infraction and a real "I didn't know I couldn't do that." Ala, turning right on a red, when it's horribly posted not to, and their DMV check comes back from a different city. Tying that into the forums, "I didn't know I couldn't post about specific users" doesn't cut it. Although, you may have come from a smaller site where that was okay, and you just joined b.net a couple of days ago. Ignorance just doesn't cut it a lot of the time, although sometimes it can.
To the next point, there are only so many eyes and ears as far as the enforcement team goes. They rely on the general population to report offenses. That way, their job is twice as easy. Dealing with the volume of reports, which helps flag trouble users and threads, and largely cuts down on things especially over time with proper reporting and action. Which adds efficiency to the fact that they come across and deal with things we probably don't see, or wouldn't notice as an infraction. They are lurking the forums too, but if you think about that for just a moment it becomes obvious that if they were to go by just their lurking, that would leave a lot more problems than we see. Reporting is paramount.
Furthermore, getting involved doesn't usually help. A lot of members do it in the wrong way. Most of the posts that are offenses to the rules, should simply be reported and that's it. A lot of people just post one liners or frustrated outbursts and that doesn't do anything but exacerbate the entire situation. At best, if the topic is worthy, post on topic and add that it might better suited elsewhere or that it is a repeat.
Fat chance though, a lot of people feel they don't need to read the rules or that they already know the rules. That's about sixty....seventy percent of the problem as I've observed it.
Edit:
If you think about it. The greater community population are the moderators than the actual mods. We have more eyes and ears, and their efficiency is directly tied to our use of available resources. They can lock it, but we can see it a lot better........Hard to lock what you aren't even aware is there. People should worry less about how well the mods do their job and realize that they can be doing most of the work.
I've seen countless posts I've flagged get locked within minutes after my flagging. That shows me that the system works, especially if multiple reports on the same thread or individual or tallied.
[Edited on 03.11.2008 12:00 AM PDT]