Hey all, through the time I have been concentrating on Runescape, I have found many good examples of forums. So here is my suggestion.

First off, a list of rules for the whole forum and sections of the forum . I find that this forum does not have any rules, maybe that is why so many people are misusing it. Perhaps those forum rules can be posted as stickies.

Second, a suggestion section where users can suggest on how to improve the forums.

Third, a banning system . Users who misuse the forums should be entitled to a banning after 3 warnings.

Fourth, moderators for every section of the forum so that moderators can split their work and just concentrate on moderating one part of the whole forum. Also, moderators should be given the power to edit, move, change and delete posts from users if they are too offensive.

Fifth, a sticky called Forum Emergency so that users can report those who are misusing the forums. This will prevent spamming of threads and give moderators an easier job.

Sixth, an off-topic section where users discuss things not related to Think Tanks . This will not let the general section be jumbled up with too many things that are not related to TT.

Seventh, there should be a sticky in each section to tell users what to post and what not to post. Anyone who breaks the rule will be given a warning and their thread or post will be moved to the correct section of the forum. This will make the work of moderators more easy and the forum will be more organised.

Thats basically all I want to say. I'll add more when I have the time. :)

Last edited: Saturday, January 14, 2006 at 5:56:10 PM

Too much rs fourms? :P

Yup, you play RS huh? :P

Im a non-member though, so cant use RS forums. I use tip.it forums and RuneHQ forums

PS. My wish is to be a player moderator on Runescape. B)

Last edited: Saturday, January 14, 2006 at 8:31:02 AM

LOL :P Nice suggestion! _{I play RS too!} Kami and Soap what're names on RS? %)

P.S._{hm.. I don't know what to P.S...stupid I need to enter some content -.-}

Pleasepay is my name

Im lvl 82 with rune G and d scimitar... Yall?

Good luck with that.

Last edited: Monday, January 16, 2006 at 9:17:43 AM

Those actually sound pretty good, but that would mean a lot of work for the newly returned -z-. ;)

Then maybe there should be more people that can help change and improve ptt

 

 

 

Yes, definitely. I got this idea from tip.it forums and Runescape forums. That is how they organised their forums. :)
TT should have more moderators to handle this job.

 

I don't think any of that is really necessary, as this is such a small forum.

The first one you said, Rules being stickied I requested a very long time ago but it didnt go anywhere but with -Z- back now it should. Stickies are very easy to do and all it needs is a moderator/admin to write up the rules.

Last edited: Sunday, January 15, 2006 at 3:29:50 AM

Yes now all I need is an admin to read this and approve of this. :)

A short list of rules: yes, thought, the ones who will behave wrongly a) won't read it b) won't care it c) won't understand it

Section rules: no, same rules goes for all sections.

Suggestion section: Not needed. In case someone got truly good suggestion(s) he or she can always create a new thread.

Banning system: there seems to be that kind of system already, thought, it would be good to tell the user he will get banned if he does something wrong and an example of getting banned

Give mods own sections to patrol: Not really needed neither. Small community. Won't take more than fifteen minutes from a mod to see if everything is alright in forums(this means he reads ptt daily). I'm pretty sure they can already edit, move, change and delete posts.

Emergency forum: What the hell you're talking. Your nor anyone else job is to report other users for misbehaving. That's why there are mods.

Off-topic forum: Not really needed again.

Sticky of what you may post: No, this can be said in rules. And there are already a descriptions for the forums.

What should be done:

A sticky feature and threads like ModPack, XPack, Modding Resource, Skinning Resource sticked to the top of forum. So no one needs to bump them and they would be "easier" to find.

 

^Thanks for your feedback. ;)

Section rules are needed to tell users what to post and what not to post in a section. Eg. In the Armies forum you can only post about recruitment and not about help regarding TT.

Suggestion forum is needed so that the General forum wont be jammed up with suggestions and they will only be seen in the suggestion forums.

Forum Emergency are needed so that users can tell a moderator if there is an offender or spammer. This will allow the moderators to do a faster job of locking the thread or post before more spamming is added to it.
Here is an example of the Runescape Forum Emergency Sticky:

 

 

Off topic forum is needed so that any discussions not regarding TT will go in there and not all of them will go ito the general section.

Hope I have explained more clearly. :)

 

Hello Kamikaze, I'll now give you feedbacks on your proposal:

 

 

LW wrote some good guidelines:
http://supra.planetthinktanks2.com/archives/comm-thread.asp?forum=4&thread=7367&page=7
A 'sticky' thread could be good in making it more visible, or a separate Forum or link.

 

 

This is overkill. It's like creating a committee to review the existing committees =) General Forum can handle that - your post is the proof. Plus this is where the majprity of PTTers hang out and post.

[quoteThird, a banning system. Users who misuse the forums should be entitled to a banning after 3 warnings.[/quote]
LW did a good thread on this (same as above), approved by the moderators and clearly spelling out the rules. It's all common sense after all.

 

 

Ok The way it works now, and it works well, is that whichever mod who is online will be doing some editing if he chances to see an offense. Often other PTTers point to us any incidents, bad topics, flaming wars, obscenities, etc. For a prompt reaction. We also have an admin forum where we debate the merit of some thread, the level of editing, etc. So that in dubious cases we take a group decision (re. Bong thread, etc.),

When it's REALLY bad we pass it along to 56k - only he has the power to boot.

 

 

This is a good idea, however the General Forum does just that. What I'm saying is - it's easy to get a good cross-section of what's happening on PTT from the first page of the General Forums, as opposed to go to too many separate forums. If something occured, it certainly will be there on p1 of the General Forums.

 

 

That's the General Forum. =) Ever been to the Strategy and Tactics forum? ;)

 

 

Once again this may be overkill. Once should be enough i.e. A one-page general rules for all PTT.

The general idea of moderating is not to stop the spontaneous nor the initiative, but simply to stop a few rampaging morons, and also to correct minor infractions or effusions (mini-spamming, etc.). The big fishes get caught up pretty quick now... And get the boot right away =)

I passed along the Sticky proposal though. To have stickies would address several of the above without creating too may redundancies. Now to have 'stickies' we have to 'bump' threads!

Thanks for your suggestion! I have no idea what -Z- will implement or not. But I'm passing it along.

PS As I'm writing this KBC wrote a very good PTT rule page! Look! It's moving!

^ Thanks Hugo for reading my post. Yes its up to -z- and the other admins though, hope it will come through! ;)

PS moderators can make this a sticky if your want. :)

Last edited: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 at 2:51:33 AM

It would at least be nice to have a sticky with forum rules. Then people can't complain that they didn't know about the rules.

How about we all just move the whole forum INTO the runescape forum? We can pretend we're a clan called "thinktanks" or something and sponge some free bandwidth off them. I'm sure with a rug and sofa and a few pictures it would look just like home.