I'm getting sick and tired of the childish behaviour here.

[rahulkadukar]

Well you are doing exactly what you resent, Complaining

 

[pjk]

Agree in general. And about your particular example:
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."

I also agree.

We have discussed this or something similar many times now. The fact of the matter is that the quality of posts will obviously decrease (at least slightly) as the forum grows, and as more people join the sport of speedcubing. All we can do is try to organize it and minimize it (by moving beginners posts to beginners forum, stupid posts to off-topic, and suspending people who make repetitive worthless posts).

An option that has been discussed before that we could try it shutting off new registrations or manually reviewing each account. The forum has come to the point where nearly every question that can be asked, has been asked. Aside from arranging meetups at competitions and whatnot, you can browse the forum as a guest and learn just as much as someone who is already registered. Manually reviewing accounts would slow the increase in registrations, and perhaps filter out a few of the people who come here for nothing but posting. What do you think, shut of new registrations for a couple months and see what happens?

 

[Deleted member 2864]

Agree in general. And about your particular example:
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."

I also agree.

We have discussed this or something similar many times now. The fact of the matter is that the quality of posts will obviously decrease (at least slightly) as the forum grows, and as more people join the sport of speedcubing. All we can do is try to organize it and minimize it (by moving beginners posts to beginners forum, stupid posts to off-topic, and suspending people who make repetitive worthless posts).

An option that has been discussed before that we could try it shutting off new registrations or manually reviewing each account. The forum has come to the point where nearly every question that can be asked, has been asked. Aside from arranging meetups at competitions and whatnot, you can browse the forum as a guest and learn just as much as someone who is already registered. Manually reviewing accounts would slow the increase in registrations, and perhaps filter out a few of the people who come here for nothing but posting. What do you think, shut of new registrations for a couple months and see what happens?

I think that's a great idea. Keep a private forum for a month and also experiment with a semi-private forum like the twistypuzzles one

I think that could be best, since many people make accounts and post worthless material to this forum. Many accounts don't even post at all.

 

[4Chan]

I stongly concur, Pjk.

I think that would be very interesting, similar to twistypuzzles.

EDIT: Wow, hivemind, me and aznmortal said very similar things. o:

 

[Escher]

Agree in general. And about your particular example:
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."

I also agree.

We have discussed this or something similar many times now. The fact of the matter is that the quality of posts will obviously decrease (at least slightly) as the forum grows, and as more people join the sport of speedcubing. All we can do is try to organize it and minimize it (by moving beginners posts to beginners forum, stupid posts to off-topic, and suspending people who make repetitive worthless posts).

An option that has been discussed before that we could try it shutting off new registrations or manually reviewing each account. The forum has come to the point where nearly every question that can be asked, has been asked. Aside from arranging meetups at competitions and whatnot, you can browse the forum as a guest and learn just as much as someone who is already registered. Manually reviewing accounts would slow the increase in registrations, and perhaps filter out a few of the people who come here for nothing but posting. What do you think, shut of new registrations for a couple months and see what happens?

http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?p=205422#post205422

Please, please do.

 

[brunson]

http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?p=205422#post205422

Please, please do.

The 5x5x5?

 

[StachuK1992]

brunson. read some more of that thread.
As Mike Hughey points out, there have already been threads about this.

 

[brunson]

Okay, I get it now. I was expecting a link to a suggestion, not an example.

My usual recommendation to people is to lurk. Maybe not letting them post for the first week would force them to read more. An enforced lurking period. Possibly followed by a period during which any new threads had to be approved. Probably depends on how easy it is to set up in the software.

 

[StachuK1992]

As was I at first :/

Still, there's so many examples of useless threads here that there's no longer any point in linking them.

 

[Zaxef]

That thread is retarded..

 

[JTW2007]

Agree in general. And about your particular example:
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."

I also agree.

We have discussed this or something similar many times now. The fact of the matter is that the quality of posts will obviously decrease (at least slightly) as the forum grows, and as more people join the sport of speedcubing. All we can do is try to organize it and minimize it (by moving beginners posts to beginners forum, stupid posts to off-topic, and suspending people who make repetitive worthless posts).

An option that has been discussed before that we could try it shutting off new registrations or manually reviewing each account. The forum has come to the point where nearly every question that can be asked, has been asked. Aside from arranging meetups at competitions and whatnot, you can browse the forum as a guest and learn just as much as someone who is already registered. Manually reviewing accounts would slow the increase in registrations, and perhaps filter out a few of the people who come here for nothing but posting. What do you think, shut of new registrations for a couple months and see what happens?

Agreed 100%. Although I'm not really one to talk, as I do contribute to the problem.

 

[blade740]

I don't think shutting off registration is the be-all end-all answer. After twistypuzzles closed, I got three or four emails asking how to join because I had posted my email address in a thread. I wasn't even a member of the forum any more.

 

[Mike Hughey]

brunson. read some more of that thread.
As Mike Hughey points out, there have already been threads about this.

I think the best solution to this is: as soon as a new thread like that shows up, the FIRST person to respond should post as many relevant links as they can find, to give the OP a clue that they could have already found their answer. When you do this, be sure to hit refresh before you post, so you make sure you haven't been beaten to it by someone else. Then, unless the OP has actually brought something new up that's worth discussing (which is an altogether different case, and deserves decent responses), NO ONE ELSE should post on that thread at all. No snide comments, no other remarks, not even responses to the OP's comments or questions, unless again it is something new that's worth discussing.

If we would all follow these rules, we'd probably put a stop to most of these threads fairly quickly, and most of the offending people would learn their lesson. And we wouldn't have to prevent new people from joining.

Maybe it wouldn't totally work, but I think it would help. Just my 2 cents.

 

[ChrisBird]

A lot of the things that have been said here I agree with, but one thing I would like to mention.

Someone brought up something along the lines of "all the questions that are being asked have been answered before", and so maybe we should make it much more apparent how to search threads. Like making the search function its own banner for a while or something along those lines.

As for my videos that people are spreading around, I'm sorry for posting the stupid videos to begin with, but whats done is done, and surely I can't be blamed 100% for them being splattered over here?

 

[Ethan Rosen]

While I like Mike's idea, the one variation that I would make is that instead of posting links to threads, you tell the person what to search. I don't mean saying "use the search function," what I mean is saying something more like "I recommend that you search for the "Pochman Clock Solution."

 

[byu]

Mike and pjk have the best ideas so far. I think Mike's idea may be better.

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Man, this is tough.

I think pjk's approach is a LITTLE excessive, because what if someone who averages 9.8 wants to join, and has loads of info they can share with us?

I personally think we need to have the forum "split up". There will be the "A" section, for example, where all of the regulars can be, and only members who we KNOW won't cause a mess of the forum can post. Everyone else cannot see this forum, until an admin decides they can. When new people sign up, they won't even know that the A section exists until one day an admin will allow them "in" to that part of the forum.

This still isn't a great solution though...

 

[Mike Hughey]

While I like Mike's idea, the one variation that I would make is that instead of posting links to threads, you tell the person what to search. I don't mean saying "use the search function," what I mean is saying something more like "I recommend that you search for the "Pochman Clock Solution."

That can be okay, but it might be difficult for a new person to do it. Or it might be difficult for a new person to sort through the results efficiently. In the case that I did mentioned above, I searched for something pretty generic like "best 5x5x5 method" (I don't remember my exact search, but it was something like that) and got a lot of hits. I culled those two from the list because they seemed like the most pertinent. I suspect a newbie might have trouble finding things so easily.

Perhaps an alternative might be to do as I did, but preface it with a message telling how you got the results. So my post could have instead been something like:

I used the search option in the toolbar above, searching with the string "best 5x5x5 method", and found the following pertinent recent threads:

http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=13209
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=12851

 

[byu]

I think it maybe a good idea to do something like this:

How do you get faster at the Fridrich Method plz respond!!!!

There have already been many threads on this topic, you can find good results by using the Search function at the top of the page. Click this link to see some good results:

How to Get Faster

 

[ChrisBird]

I am not sure if this was mentioned before, or if it is a good idea, but maybe we should have more moderators.

This way there will be at least one on at all times, ready to post Mike's response, then close the thread.