Newly Adopted Community Forum Guidelines

Jeez, AM, lighten up. The guy has a good point - as do many posters in this thread (and the dozens of others it spawned) - about how popular rep has been with posters. Do you know how many times have I been to other threads on other boards and wish there was an "Add to reputation" button? Tons... It was a great system, or so many of us thought.

His making fun of BS for choosing to do this in-house and yet ask us to rate the mods is funny. If you don't think so, you might be "too close" to the situation lol

 

I never cared or thought much of the rep system to begin with and I'm still that. When I joined BS 5 years ago, the titles were based on post counts and I thought that was just fine - Newbie, Member, Senior Member, Adict, etc.

 

Okay, so the standard response when someone points out a valid operational/business concern is that they should "lighten up."

Maybe you should "get a clue."

We can both play the platitude game.

 

Reeeeeped!!!!! that was a quality post my friend.




wait,




what the hell for?

How long are we gonna have to wait for their "last and final step"(getting rid of rep completely)? paging BSX!!! paging BSX!!!

 

i was never a fan of getting more points off someone with a lot of rep and getting less of somebody else.
i think the rep system confined me to the madrid forum. once whilst in the arsenal forum i was crucified for making reasoning for their dip in form. this resulted in me getting vast amounts of neg rep and nearly pushed me over the edge into gettin red nips as opposed to green.

i always thought it was a bit pointless. you walk into a bar or club, you dont have green nippled on your forehead saying how you are viewed in that bar.
same with post count, you walk into a bar you try and pull a hot looking lady, but she has none of it because it is your first time there. in essence thats what was going on here. people were not being treated similarly because they were newbies etc.

having said that i dont know why rep is now ineffective and about to be scrapped. i always didnt like it, but some people thrived of it and enjoyed the challenge of getting points, others h8td it. could those who h8td not jus ignore it??

 

Ditto. A good crack in WR could boost you two nipples.

 

Nice point. So why is join date still there?

 

I've just realised that you have increased the size of profile pics to 300x300 and 293 kb and avatars to 125x125 and 35.2kb....why?

Surely it would make more sense to have this the other way around. How many people actually see a persons profile page? It's not a case of requesting you use more space, just simply swap the limits around.

 

On the issue of newbies posting new threads:

I can see the point of making them contribute first before starting a thread. Usually newbie threads are not well-thought out. But..we've probably all seen a thread started by a new poster who lurked around enough, and has enough soccer knowledge, to post a good new thread. Also, not every post can fit into an existing thread without going wildly off-topic. How about if a new thread by a newbie has to be looked at by a moderator before it goes live?

Practically speaking, maybe newbies trying to start a new thread should get the suggestion to PM the moderator to suggest a topic.

 

Of course not, why would any business want to consult its customers before changing a popular product?

 

Repped.

 

Holy crap, you had to go back over 20 years to find an example.

Gee, you're really kewl.

 

I think the 300x300 profile pics was a bit big, mine is huge at the minute.

Good job with the increased avatar size though, 125x125 seems to be perfect.

 

Well could they not just change the size of the files allowed?

 

This reminds me... I do recall suggesting, shortly after it was implemented, that rep would best be "forum specific".
I don't think I need to highlight why...
Makes even more sense now.

 

I think he meant the size of the file, that it should be the other way around.

If I'm right, he meant should avatars not be 125x125 and 295 kb, with profile pics being 300x300 and 35.2 kb.

300x300 on the every post would be crazy, that's why I dont believe that that is what he meant.

 

I agree that newbies should be allowed to start new threads in some form. As was alreadt stated they may be knowledgeable and just not have time to post often on BS. Besides this reason though, newbies should be allowed to post because they often casual or new US soccer fans looking for information about American soccer. This is one of the few places where such a person could go to get detailed answers to questions about American soccer.

I know that sometimes a newbie will start a thread like "How come Tim Howard doesn't start for Man U..." and everyone will get all anoyed and say we've gone over this a million times and then the thread becomes a newbie bashing fiesta and that this is what they want to prevent.

Isn't this site supposed to be about helping the American soccer fanbase grow (in both numbers and knowledge)? Instead of restricting the newbies, we should encourage more restraint of the senior members and educate that person about the situation or point them to the relavant thread on the subject.

If these threads are too many or too annoying to the other members then we could have a new forum like "USA Men Q&A"

 

i think its a terrible idea not to allow newbies to post a new thread.
when i joined BS 2 years ago it was because i was going to madrid and was seeking advice. to do this i had to start a new thread as at that time there were no stickies on the topic.
the info i received was invaluable, and like me many other members actually join BS for that purpose, but then stay as members and continue to post.
i think it will certainly decrease the number of people that use and join the site. i myself wold not have done if this rule was in place 2 years ago.
i suggest this rule be changed back. i thought the mods were in place to control the startup of new threads, so if one was really started out of stupidity it can just as easy be closed.

 

I agree, but that's just what I got from Toon² post.

Profile pics need a bigger kb size due to the fact that they're mostly digital images, right?

 

BS has gotta b careful, the rate of ppl joining could decrease if they cant join to ask a Q.
also, will it not encourage newbies to make numerous amounts of pointless posts in other threads, so they are able to start them themselves??

i think its got 'bad idea' written all over it!

EDIT: has the ability to delete a post gone too??
i posted the same message twice by acident in another thread, but since the 'improvements' have taken place i cant seem to be able to delete one of them

 

I agree. The repetitive annoying posts are a small price to pay in exchange for allowing people to ask a relevant question that may be all they came for - we can always lock/ignore the crap threads.