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Subject: phoenix from the flames
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flames. weve all seen em in our bungie lives. burning the weak and new, our flames dont have beautiful golden birds coming out of them. only hatred. as some of you may have noticed i havnt been here much recently, i branched out on other websites a bit more, discovered that bungie forums have a rep! a rep for being childish! flaming! our moderators incapable! crazy talk i thought. but upon my return i found someone being flamed because they only just discovered something in halo that was pretty obvious, i felt sorry for the guy i really did. i know everyone thinks the new forums are great. but are they really? its jsut more places for trolls to hide, spammers to prey and flamers to stalk, more ground for the moderators to cover in order to keep this place spick and span. i know theyve got more mods now. perhaps there are more new ones than i thought but are there enough? perhaps something could be introduced, a button that all could press, whilst reading a topic, that will put a little marker next to it to alert the mods to it. its easier and many will be more willing to do this than message a moderator, jsut leave a little marker on it. a picture of a red flag or something. what does everyone think?

  • 06.27.2004 1:36 PM PDT

yoo•zel- ('yoo-zhul): slang: vb.

Officium quod Fidelitas.

That isn't a half bad idea, roll it around and fix the kinks and you'd have a pretty good idea. I can say that it would work, but what if people took it out of hand? Instead of spamming they'd go on a tagging spree? So there's always some down falls.

  • 06.27.2004 1:43 PM PDT
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good to see some more of ye nab.
yea, we're brainstorming at the moments and everyone has some sort of an idea, but right now, we have to wait till achronos gets his new uber toys.

  • 06.27.2004 1:44 PM PDT

we have to wait till achronos gets his new uber toys.
Correction - until we get new über toys. I'm hoping one involves a Halo weapon of some sorts.

  • 06.27.2004 3:10 PM PDT
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If I had a superweapon...

  • 06.27.2004 6:46 PM PDT
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I like the idea. GameFaqs has been using a similar system for ages. It works really well, and is much quicker and easier than PMing the mods. Instead of having little icon designators, the mods could have a special list (like in the top menu bar) of marked messages along with how many people marked it. The mods would then check it out and start kicking ass.

  • 06.27.2004 7:36 PM PDT

bah

This idea has always seemed good to me. I wouldn't set any level, I'd just make it so that mods would get a list of every topic that was marked. They could then look at the title, poster, age of post, and the number of marks it got. Max of 25 displayed per page.This way, if they saw a post by h8 x was made two minutes ago, and it had 5 marks, they would know to check it out ASAP. There should be no automatic lock system, as that could be easily abused by 3 or four trolls with mulitple IDs, or even one troll who has 20 .NET passports all lined up.

  • 06.27.2004 7:53 PM PDT
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Kind of a redundant post, Rip, but a good idea can always be run through twice! I think that would make a world of difference, at least in the short term.

  • 06.27.2004 8:09 PM PDT