Post Your threads

[Recursion]

HELLO.

YES IT IS THAT TIME AGAIN, THE YEARLY DEBATE ABOUT POST YOUR THREADS.

Anyway, caps lock off now. Seriously I think we should keep them BUT any posts from say, when an announcement is posted onwards shouldn't count towards your postcount. I'm sure there's a plugin for vBulletin to do something like this on vBulletin.org.

Thoughts?

[Nicola]

When these threads are moderated correctly I have no problem with them being there.

I think recently there's been a bit of uncertainty when it comes to dealing with them therefore I'm going to post up a new thread for the mods to remind them of how to deal with these kind of threads. Sometimes it can be a hard one to judge, especially with what action you need to take.

[Hecktix]

Moderation seems to have softened up over the past year, back in the day when I was a mod if people did this we warned them then cautioned them if they continued, nowadays much less cautions etc are given out for spamming/pointless posting - I suppose some could call that a good thing however I think there is such thing as too much of a good thing

Nicola's reply is reassuring and I imagine she'll be whipping the smods into being a bit 'arder as it were!

[Recursion]

Good to hear

There's a fine line between spam and posting constructively in these kinds of threads, so it'll be nice to have a clearer idea here.

[AgnesIO]

I agree with this - the POST YOUR threads such as watching, listening and eating generate VERY little discussion. But why is this? Because nobody gives a damn about what people are eating or listening to. The threads are simply there for postcount and I do ocassionally post in them myself if I am say 10 posts off an extra star.

The only thread that ALWAYS generates discussion is the POST YOUR SETUP thread - because people like discussing what different people have in their computers etc. The POST YOUR DESKTOP thread I can't really speak fo,r as I rarely post in there. I don't care what picture people have in tbheir desktop!

[Wig44.]

Moderation seems to have softened up over the past year, back in the day when I was a mod if people did this we warned them then cautioned them if they continued, nowadays much less cautions etc are given out for spamming/pointless posting - I suppose some could call that a good thing however I think there is such thing as too much of a good thing

Nicola's reply is reassuring and I imagine she'll be whipping the smods into being a bit 'arder as it were!

How is moderating softer now than it was at any point in the past? You get cautioned or infracted for the tiniest things now. Calling someone an idiot for example. Moderating has never been in such a bad state on habbox as it has been the past year to year and a half.

[AgnesIO]

How is moderating softer now than it was at any point in the past? You get cautioned or infracted for the tiniest things now. Calling someone an idiot for example. Moderating has never been in such a bad state on habbox as it has been the past year to year and a half.

Believe me, moderating is softer.

[Catzsy]

How is moderating softer now than it was at any point in the past? You get cautioned or infracted for the tiniest things now. Calling someone an idiot for example. Moderating has never been in such a bad state on habbox as it has been the past year to year and a half.

I have seen no evidence of excessive cautioning at all since I came back. As far as calling somebody an idiot - the person would have had at least pm telling them not to be rude to others, followed by a warning. If the person hasn't got the message that being rude to people is against the rules by then they deserve the infraction. Calling somebody an idiot is not acceptable as far as I am concerned. If you are talking about calling somebody's post idiotic you are criticising the content and not the person concerned and that is a different matter.

Moderation seems to have softened up over the past year, back in the day when I was a mod if people did this we warned them then cautioned them if they continued, nowadays much less cautions etc are given out for spamming/pointless posting - I suppose some could call that a good thing however I think there is such thing as too much of a good thing
Nicola's reply is reassuring and I imagine she'll be whipping the smods into being a bit 'arder as it were!

The problem is these threads are very historic and I doubt if they would be 'stickied' nowadays.
Take the 'What are you listening to thread.' You can listen to a track of music every five minutes. You may suspect that the person is posting just to get the post count up but the fact is that is it possible so how can one penalise that? The same applies to most of these threads in that if the time gap is there or in the case of 'What are you watching' they could have changed the channel? Also there has been a great emphasis placed on getting the posts on the forum up in recent times which I do believe has contributed to this particularly in posting pointless threads which does seem to be under control again now. What's the way forward as you say making sure that there is no abuse in the threads that can be positively identified but they will always be the
easiest threads to raise post counts.

[Jordy]

I actually think the moderation of these threads in recent times has been near enough spot on, not as soft or strict as they have been at times in the past.

This thread however is crossing a line, who gives a **** how many sugars people have in their tea? :p
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthrea...=681710&page=1

[Calvin]

I totally didn't get this thread yesterday haha, then I finally realised just now. Anyway, you should rename Discuss Anything to The Questionnaire as it's just full of threads with simple questions that you can only answer yes or no to.