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--EDIT--
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 5:19 am
by tar
Submitting just one recording gives you several rights as a member.
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 5:30 am
by mahlemiut
Note that this only affects General and Regulation Play forums.
Submitting just one recording gives you several rights as a member.
Like the right to delete posts 30 seconds after it's been posted?
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 5:40 am
by tar
sorry Mahlemiut - technical difficulties
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 5:51 am
by Weehawk
Unfortunately there were two members who abused this privilege and ruined it for all of us.
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 5:55 am
by tar
Oh , I thought you meant me. I worked on this question a few times before I submitted it. I was worried about making a mistake.
You mean someone else is causing mischief. Right?
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 8:30 am
by LN2
Let's turn the edit back on...and if those members abuse the forum feature again then deactivate their account for a month or so.
I'm a little confused how editing existing posts can get to a point of abusing the forums though...unless you are referring to that thread that ended up getting screwed up from tons of animated gif spam in the thread?!?
That has little to nothing to do with the "edit" feature IMHO.
All it does is make these guys that want to abuse the forums just post again anyway.
These forums do have an anti-spam feature where you can only make 1 post every minute or 2 minutes or whatever the admin sets it up as.
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 11:04 am
by gamerya
LN2 wrote:Let's turn the edit back on...and if those members abuse the forum feature again then deactivate their account for a month or so.
Do you own MARP? or the forum? you sure sound like you do.
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 11:11 am
by DRN
Rick was just making a suggestion, that's all
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 11:18 am
by QRS
gamerya wrote:LN2 wrote:Let's turn the edit back on...and if those members abuse the forum feature again then deactivate their account for a month or so.
Do you own MARP? or the forum? you sure sound like you do.
No he doesn´t. He was just making a suggestion. Seymour is the boss here.
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 11:31 am
by gamerya
My bad...misunderstand, english mine is poor
No hard feelings LN2.
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 1:33 pm
by LN2
gamerya wrote:My bad...misunderstand, english mine is poor
No hard feelings LN2.
ok. no problem.
I was only showing/revealing my vote to everyone...and why I voted that way.
Why should a couple be allowed to spoil it for the rest of us?
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 8:43 am
by tar
edit is back
2/3 of the vote in favor
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 5:18 am
by seymour
tar wrote:edit is back
2/3 of the vote in favor
Even though I'm not bound by any poll in regards to whether to allow post editing/deleting on these forums (they are semi-seperate from MARP itself), I'm going to allow it again for now. Mostly because I don't have the time to properly set up a mod or custom usergroup to remove editing abilities from certain people.
If it continues to be a problem, the editing ability WILL be removed again. I hate to have to resort to such things, but it's better than the alternative of banning users from posting at all. This forum has been relatively civil, compared to other emulation forums. And I'd like to keep it that way.
I can be pretty tolerant, but you don't want to test my limits.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 3:20 am
by LN2
seymour wrote:If it continues to be a problem, the editing ability WILL be removed again. I hate to have to resort to such things, but it's better than the alternative of banning users from posting at all
I totally disagree here.
If someone even after being warned continues to abuse the forums or members etc., they should have their account deactivated.
Perhaps(these are just suggestions..nothing more) the first offense can just be an e-mail message or private forum message warning them.
The second offense could be a 15 or 30 day deactivation of their account.
The 3rd offense could be a longer term deactivation or permanent deactivation of their account.
Most forums I participate in have something along these lines.
Why would you give in and allow a couple to spoil the forums for the rest of us? Whether you can edit or not, an abusive member will continue to be abusive. Without the edit feature it could actually be worse where instead of editing their previous spam or abusive post they post a new one...so now instead of just 1 bad post there are 2.
A member who sees they can be abusive to others or the forums and the consequence is that ALL are punished by something vaguely related like deactivating the edit feature for all users will continue to be abusive. That isn't a deterrent at all. It's not a solution to the actual problem.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 5:35 am
by DRN
I'd just love to know what's been going on, I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary.
How has this facility been abused and by whom? Name and shame 'em...