The greatest internet invention, Maybe ever Options

[Oasis]

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/for...sion=2007110712

[Black Bear]

For people too lazy to moderate their board. If mods really want a board to be intelligent and not have all that crap on it then they will establish the rules and administer them with a firm hand. If the rules say no internet or leet speak, then any posts with such modes of speech should be deleted. If the rules say no going off topic, any off topic posts get deleted. If a thread has outlived its usefulness, then kill it but leave an explanation why. There can be no favoritism or the system breaks down. True, the system takes constant monitering, but when the system is established it has a way of monitering itself.

My favorite example is a board for a faction of a sci-fi game. The rules are posted and are explained black and white. If you violate them you are warned. If you violate them again you are gone. This has led to the creation of a very mature board. If a new member is getting out of hand, veteran members will step in before the mods even find the problem. If the person persist in causing problems and breaking the rules they are banned.

So if you want certain type of board get mods who will enforce those rules and ban those who cannot follow said rules.

Now I know this won't work right away and not for all situations, but it should eventually work for most as long as the people remain diligent.

[FORSAKENR320]

For people too lazy to moderate their board. If mods really want a board to be intelligent and not have all that crap on it then they will establish the rules and administer them with a firm hand. If the rules say no internet or leet speak, then any posts with such modes of speech should be deleted. If the rules say no going off topic, any off topic posts get deleted. If a thread has outlived its usefulness, then kill it but leave an explanation why. There can be no favoritism or the system breaks down. True, the system takes constant monitering, but when the system is established it has a way of monitering itself.

My favorite example is a board for a faction of a sci-fi game. The rules are posted and are explained black and white. If you violate them you are warned. If you violate them again you are gone. This has led to the creation of a very mature board. If a new member is getting out of hand, veteran members will step in before the mods even find the problem. If the person persist in causing problems and breaking the rules they are banned.

So if you want certain type of board get mods who will enforce those rules and ban those who cannot follow said rules.

Now I know this won't work right away and not for all situations, but it should eventually work for most as long as the people remain diligent.

sounds goods, but it all relies on a forum having enough active members to be able to ban people and no kill it's self

[impala454]

Pretty sure we could already set up filters on this board. I.e. make it replace "OMG" with "I'm a dipshit" or something.

[Spectatrix]

Yep, such filters are available with Invision.

[FORSAKENR320]

you people can't be taking this article seriously... it's written by a bunch of old fucks who are green in the ways of the internet.

[impala454]

Well, chatting, forum posting, crap like that, fine. But I've heard from a couple of english teachers I know that they're starting to see crap like that in written reports and such. If you see "OMGLOL" in some article or report, it does pretty much make the author look like an unintelligent loser.

[FORSAKENR320]

If you see "OMGLOL" in some article or report, it does pretty much make the author look like an unintelligent loser.

if you are dumb enough to put "OMGLOL" in an article... are you not an unintelligent loser?

[impala454]

Isn't that what I just said?

[FORSAKENR320]

Isn't that what I just said?

isn't that what i just said?

[RitalinJunkie]

isn't that what i just said?

DAMN YOU MIRROR MASTER!!!

[Black Bear]

sounds goods, but it all relies on a forum having enough active members to be able to ban people and no kill it's self

Then it all boils down to whether you want to nurse along a crappy board you really don't want or care for which irritates the living bee-jesus out of you or closing down said board because it is a piece of crap and not worth the effort and headaches it causes. If a board is not living up to the expectations of the creators then it probably needs to be closed. But that is just my opinion, take it for what you will.

[Xentither]

i agree that there are places that could benefit from this filter, and interweb-speak should be discouraged in general.

One of the things I always hated about WoW is that it's a hotbed for this stuff. Old school MUD's were awesome cause you had to know how to spell worth a damn and have rudimentary grammar skills or you couldn't move around in the game at all, much less interact with other players.

I credit MUD's and other text-based parsing RPG with my own enlightenment of typing, I figured out how to use a keyboard(although i'm still a 2-4 finger typer ;_;), to be critical of my spelling, and the importance of syntax in a general sense. firbll snaek would mean you just lost a battle but having to type all of 'cast fireball at snake' in a timed situation made a difference for me, regardless of how incredibly dorky it is.

These days it's all push-button gameplay and being annoying to the point that someone, somewhere, will give in just to shut you up... WoW almost seems to encourage this because there's no need for grammatical correctness anywhere in the game, and there's just enough bottomfeeding un-guided(not MIS-guided, mind you) yuppie larvae out there that they can actually create their own niches and cliques(not that they know what either of them mean) so that they can fester in their liturgical depravity.

It really is sad, with the state of the education system as it is, lacking in discipline and more concerned about results than they are about procedure, and the fact that the numbers of people allowing/sustaining this akward, malignant growth are in fact growing moreso than their antagonists, it makes me want to vomit.

The day I see my children typing HAI2U on the internet, and not out of a sense of irony, is the day they'll more than likely be sent to a foster home. No physical harm though, by that time, rigorous education and depriving your children of any sort of recreational activity will more than likely fall under abuse. Cause they won't see so much as an outside IP address until they can fucking spell 'hello' correctly and flinch whenever someone else types 'r u?' for fear that I might mistake it for their own messages.

[FORSAKENR320]

so your solution to making the boards better is to just shut it down......

[Black Bear]

so your solution to making the boards better is to just shut it down......

If the board is not meeting the requirements and standards you set for it while maintaining enough members to keep it alive, then it has failed. If it has failed, why punish yourself? Just put it out of your misery.

If I start a business and it loses money, then it fails. Why would I continue to lose money? I would close it down and try something else.