The all new: Ask a moderator about the forum & rules

[shay_gman]

Hi,

For the upcoming release of MCC Sandbox Mod. I'm asking for your permission to open a new thread for it.
I would like to have the previous thread http://forums.bistudio.com/showthrea...&highlight=mcc open as well for the mean time
In order to support the script version.

Best regards,
Shay

[Tankbuster]

Guys,

There's a broken link on the Arma2.com webpage.

On the CO subsite main page, the "find updates" link doesn't work.

[Tankbuster]

Arma2.com down now too.

[JdB]

Gun politics thread final post.

This post isn't about that particular thread, or the particular moderator, but about the handling of threads as a whole, especially in the Offtopic section. It is the latest example though. I don't see why threads are being closed because one or two individuals are bickering or posting off-topic.

I PM'ed something similar to W0lle a while back, which I'll quote in a slightly expanded form:

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Secondly, and most importantly, the way the moderation of politics related threads is being done in the Off-topic section. I've been following quite a number of these threads, and most seem to be evolving in the same pattern:

- Thread starts of as any other thread;
- Someone brings up the wars for oil, genocide in [insert random country] by NATO, purposely bombing things like hospitals or some other subject barely (if at all) related to the thread;
- Thread is closed.

I've been looking at who is doing this, and it's almost constantly the same people that are ruining these threads. Wouldn't it be much better to deal with these people by post restricting/banning them and removing the off-topic post(s) than to ruin the thread for everyone, and continuing to enable these people to ruin the next thread that comes along?

It's either you deal with it once, or you end up dealing with it over and over again, even if it's as simple as closing a thread. Cleaning up after members costs time, getting members to walk in line saves time (or gets rid of them). In the end the small investment in time starts saving time in the long run.
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They are posting off-topic, posting spam, flamebaiting, derailing threads etc. So why only close the thread for everyone instead of taking action against the individuals that are often breaking multiple rules? Why does the current approach that most moderators seem to use appear more efficient than getting rid of the annoying less than 0.5% of all active posters?

[.kju [PvPscene]]

Can you please disable the "url shortener" of vBulletin or at least make it show a lot longer links without applying that.

Sample: http://forums.bistudio.com/showpost....4&postcount=23 (this link itself for example)

Or get an addon that converts http links automatically to [_url=LINK]Automatically fetched page name[/url_].

[Sickboy]

Can you please disable the "url shortener" of vBulletin or at least make it show a lot longer links without applying that.

Sample: http://forums.bistudio.com/showpost....4&postcount=23 (and this link itself..)

Or get an addon that converts http links automatically to [_url=LINK]Automatically fetched page name[/url_].

+1 lots of people are making mistakes with it when copy/pasting / quoting posts etc.
And generally it's rather annoyingly cut.

Time for a BIF Tracker? :P

[DM]

I'm getting a lot of "Database Error" pages on forum threads at the moment (this one included - I'm blind replying in the quick reply box from page 3), is this known about?

[Sickboy]

E-mail subscriptions seem broken again, would love them to be reliable again

[NoRailgunner]

Why there is a need for two threads for one theme "A3 wishful thinking/daydreaming" aka
Sticky: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=125819
and the disussion thread: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=125820
Thats like making/reading a list in one extra room and discussing/talking about a certain feature/wish from this list in another extra room.
Isn't it easier to close the wishlist-only sticky with "BIS make all the things!! " meme and let the discussion open?

[Tankbuster]

E-mail subscriptions seem broken again, would love them to be reliable again

Plus one.