Forumophilia - 18 Years Online!
billyellis
I happened to look at the thread listing prohibited content today for the first time in a while, and I was surprised to discover that the list is far more variable than I thought, with sites apparently being added and taken off the list seemingly every week.
I was embarassed to discover that content I recently made a PM request for is actually now on the prohib list, unbeknownst to me. There are dozens of threads with this site's content that I had just browsed, and there was nothing in any of them (i.e., a post from a mod) to suggest that that content was now prohibited.
I know the mods are fantastically busy, and I appreciate the bejeezus out of all the effort they contribute to maintaining the best forum on the web. So I really do hate to make any suggestions that might add to the workload. But in light of the fact that technically I could have gotten a warning or a ban because I requested content which is all over the site but was recently switched to the prohibited list without any announcement, I am trying to think of solutions so that I don't inadvertently break the rules again in the future.
The problem is that post edits (i.e., updates to the first post of the thread) don't bump the Rules/Prohibs threads because they are not new posts. And even if those threads were bumped with a token post to indicate an update, they would get bumped (in the Tape display at least) only to a slightly different order in the cluster of stickies, where the change is not too noticeable. I don't know how other people browse, but when I log in I immediately scroll right down to the beginning of the bumped content threads. Even if I looked at the stickies, I would have a hard time knowing whether the Rules thread had moved up or down a spot since my last visit.
In a perfect world every member would read the entire Rules and Prohibited threads every time they logged in, but in reality that just isn't going to happen. My guess is that 70% of members at most read the rules/prohibs once, and only 10% of those ever read them again. I'm just pulling those numbers out of my ass, but you get my point.
Has anyone considered locking threads dedicated exclusively to a prohibited site, or at least maybe editing the titles of any threads with a banned site name in their title to append [Prohibited] or something noticeable like that? That way anyone searching for this site's content would immediately see in the search returns that the content is now prohibited, and they would not get themselves warned/banned out of ignorance.
As an example, abbywinters.com is the site I PM-ed someone about the other day without knowing that AW was now prohibited. A quick search of "winters" shows over 30 (I stopped counting) thread titles advertising AW content. When I had browsed unsuspecting through several of them a few days ago, the last thing I suspected was that the site was on the prohib list. If those thread titles contained a mod edit as suggested above, I would have known immediately. Just a thought.
I was embarassed to discover that content I recently made a PM request for is actually now on the prohib list, unbeknownst to me. There are dozens of threads with this site's content that I had just browsed, and there was nothing in any of them (i.e., a post from a mod) to suggest that that content was now prohibited.
I know the mods are fantastically busy, and I appreciate the bejeezus out of all the effort they contribute to maintaining the best forum on the web. So I really do hate to make any suggestions that might add to the workload. But in light of the fact that technically I could have gotten a warning or a ban because I requested content which is all over the site but was recently switched to the prohibited list without any announcement, I am trying to think of solutions so that I don't inadvertently break the rules again in the future.
The problem is that post edits (i.e., updates to the first post of the thread) don't bump the Rules/Prohibs threads because they are not new posts. And even if those threads were bumped with a token post to indicate an update, they would get bumped (in the Tape display at least) only to a slightly different order in the cluster of stickies, where the change is not too noticeable. I don't know how other people browse, but when I log in I immediately scroll right down to the beginning of the bumped content threads. Even if I looked at the stickies, I would have a hard time knowing whether the Rules thread had moved up or down a spot since my last visit.
In a perfect world every member would read the entire Rules and Prohibited threads every time they logged in, but in reality that just isn't going to happen. My guess is that 70% of members at most read the rules/prohibs once, and only 10% of those ever read them again. I'm just pulling those numbers out of my ass, but you get my point.
Has anyone considered locking threads dedicated exclusively to a prohibited site, or at least maybe editing the titles of any threads with a banned site name in their title to append [Prohibited] or something noticeable like that? That way anyone searching for this site's content would immediately see in the search returns that the content is now prohibited, and they would not get themselves warned/banned out of ignorance.
As an example, abbywinters.com is the site I PM-ed someone about the other day without knowing that AW was now prohibited. A quick search of "winters" shows over 30 (I stopped counting) thread titles advertising AW content. When I had browsed unsuspecting through several of them a few days ago, the last thing I suspected was that the site was on the prohib list. If those thread titles contained a mod edit as suggested above, I would have known immediately. Just a thought.
Sugarman
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svinto
Retired Legend
As you might have noticed is the list separated into three subsections.
Posts from sites listed under 1 or 2 are usually just edited with the comment that the site is Restricted.
Mostly a PM is also sent to the poster to point out that the site is now restricted.
If there is a repeat of posting from the same site after this, then a warning could be issued.
Posting from sites listed under 3 is always a warning or a ban.
When a site becomes Restricted we don't actively search for posts or topics.
Only when they are discovered in passing by for some reason, they will be handled.
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Posts from sites listed under 1 or 2 are usually just edited with the comment that the site is Restricted.
Mostly a PM is also sent to the poster to point out that the site is now restricted.
If there is a repeat of posting from the same site after this, then a warning could be issued.
Posting from sites listed under 3 is always a warning or a ban.
When a site becomes Restricted we don't actively search for posts or topics.
Only when they are discovered in passing by for some reason, they will be handled.
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Monkey D. Ruffy
