Start suspending people who blatantly disregard forum rules.

[qqwref]

I think we should suspend (i.e. ban for a short amount of time) users who blatantly disregard forum rules.

This forum has been getting progressively worse and worse because of the amount of users who seem to only exist to contribute a bad ambiance to this forum. I'm talking about users who don't understand the concepts of spelling, grammar, and punctuation, ask stupid and obvious questions repeatedly, bump old topics, ruin serious discussions, and otherwise make this forum terrible. We COULD have a good place to discuss new cubing developments, make jokes, and compare times and strategies, but we DON'T, because of the volume of terrible posts. Since the possibility of convincing all of the good cubers to all move to another forum is nonexistent, we need to change speedsolving to make it more friendly to people who actually care about its content.


Well, I've had enough. We need real moderation. We need someone who will ban a user for bumping a two-year-old thread just to say "wow this is old". Forget the rules - I shouldn't even have to ask you whether this kind of thing contributes a negative ambiance to the forum. You should already know. Stuff like this just makes this forum look like a place for people with no intelligence or social etiquette. That is not what I want the main English-speaking cubing forum to be.

We can do so much better, but we need the administration's help to make it happen.

 

[shelley]

We need someone who will ban a user for bumping a two-year-old thread just to say "wow this is old". Forget the rules - I shouldn't even have to ask you whether this kind of thing contributes a negative ambiance to the forum.

Agreed. This isn't even something we can solve with another sticky or another novel way to ensure new members read forum rules. No matter what you do, there will always be people who don't read the rules and the stickies. But bumping an old thread with nothing but "wow this is old" just goes against all common sense. In my opinion this should be a bannable (or suspendable, if you must be nice) offense. At the very least this person needs a stern warning.

 

[Escher]

+1 I actually completely agree with everything said here. I know that I'm not perfect with useful posts but at least I at least try to make the forum a more informative place...

 

[Roux-er]

This could be a possibility. I don't know. I do get tired of those type of people though.

 

[ConnorCuber]

+1 I actually completely agree with everything said here. I know that I'm not perfect with useful posts but at least I at least try to make the forum a more informative place...

+1 With this whole post.

 

[JustinJ]

+1 10characters

I agree, +1. I've had quite a few people tell me they don't like it here because of exactly this type of thing.

 

[BigSams]

oh shut up you ******* *****
kidding kidding
i duno, the english is alright, but the bumping and repeated questions ARE annoying. but they're funny sometimes too. to me the standard is fine, but what do i know. i wasnt here a year ago when things were so great.
gotta admit though, the mod quote was kinda shocking.. and hilarious.
just make a poll. people click 'we need a better forum' or 'whatever' or 'we need a worse forum'
ten bucks says a bunch of jokers are going to click on the third option

 

[kjcellist]

I agree, something should be done.

However, I think it will be hard to enforce any sort of punishment.

There is really know way for an administrator to keep track of all the posts made. So members would have to report to an administrator if there was a stupid post or thread. But if that were the case, everybody would be blaming everybody and that just wouldn't work out.

 

[BigSams]

I agree, something should be done.

However, I think it will be hard to enforce any sort of punishment.

There is really know way for an administrator to keep track of all the posts made. So members would have to report to an administrator if there was a stupid post or thread. But if that were the case, everybody would be blaming everybody and that just wouldn't work out.

the report button..........?

 

[Shamah02]

I agree 100%. The repeated questions, old thread bumps, and horrible punctuation has gotten to be very annoying.

 

[masterofthebass]

I agree, something should be done.

However, I think it will be hard to enforce any sort of punishment.

There is really know way for an administrator to keep track of all the posts made. So members would have to report to an administrator if there was a stupid post or thread. But if that were the case, everybody would be blaming everybody and that just wouldn't work out.

the report button..........?

all the report button does, is send an annoying little e-mail into my inbox (along with the other mods.) It would get very irritating if every other post was reported by multiple people.

 

[PatrickJameson]

Finally someone stood up and said something about this formally. I have been getting tired of the lack of people even trying to post non-idiotic posts.

 

[Dene]

Oh damn I'll be banned within a week

 

[ISuckAtCubing]

when is understand the concepts of spelling, grammar, and punctuation, ask stupid and obvious questions repeatedly a rule? so people that doesnt have perfect english doesnt belong in this forum?

 

[shelley]

when is understand the concepts of spelling, grammar, and punctuation, ask stupid and obvious questions repeatedly a rule? so people that doesnt have perfect english doesnt belong in this forum?

We can of course afford to be lenient on the English on this forum because a lot of members are not native speakers. However, if you are a native English speaker and you're using bad spelling/grammar on purpose, it's really easy to tell ("wat do u tink i shud use 4 my cube"), and it's just annoying. If you know English, there's no reason not to write properly.

 

[Kian]

There would still be a problem, even if the moderators started suspending/banning people. There would still be no way to stop people from creating any number of new names and posting again. I'm not sure how this could be rectified, unless you were more judicious with giving usernames.

 

[Logan]

when is understand the concepts of spelling, grammar, and punctuation, ask stupid and obvious questions repeatedly a rule? so people that doesnt have perfect english doesnt belong in this forum?

When is understanding the concepts of spelling, grammar, and punctuation, and asking stupid and obvious questions repeatedly a rule? So people that don't have perfect English don't belong in this forum?

You're welcome.


^^This is what spell check and the edit button are for. ^^


EDIT: I do not mean to be mean. You may not be native to the U.S and this may not have been your fault. I am just using ISuckAtCubing as an example.


EDIT #2: On a related note, I think that this is a really good idea.

 

[waffle=ijm]

However, if you are a native English speaker and you're using bad spelling/grammar on purpose, it's really easy to tell ("wat do u tink i shud use 4 my cube"), and it's just annoying.

agreed. It's pretty obvious that some people just use bad grammar for their amusement, while others, who are not native speakers actually try to type coherently. I strongly support that the users who bump threads for no reason and use incoherent grammar should be suspended. But there really is no need to be complete grammar Nazis and correct everything word for word. That would just make us look like snobbish perfectionist. Just a little clearer and none of these... "wat do u tink i shud use 4 my cube"

 

[DavidWoner]

There would still be a problem, even if the moderators started suspending/banning people. There would still be no way to stop people from creating any number of new names and posting again. I'm not sure how this could be rectified, unless you were more judicious with giving usernames.

They have access to, and can ban IPs as well.

 

[kjcellist]

I agree, something should be done.

However, I think it will be hard to enforce any sort of punishment.

There is really know way for an administrator to keep track of all the posts made. So members would have to report to an administrator if there was a stupid post or thread. But if that were the case, everybody would be blaming everybody and that just wouldn't work out.

the report button..........?

Still, people would start reporting posts that they thought were stupid but really weren't.