Lately, I have been seeing a lot of threads that I am not liking. In fact, the staff as whole is not liking it either. We will not accept it, as there are too many threads blasting new members about rules. The first one I am seeing is jumping all over people for spamming and advertising. This is the staff's job to regulate this not the members job period. If you think someone is spamming our site or advertising for free, then please by all means, use the link that WoodiE gave you that says report this thread. This link emails all staff, so one of us will get to it.
The other thing I am seeing too much is people telling new users to use the search engine and that their post was a mistake. In some cases they are right, but please let the new user know this NICELY. A one liner saying the "search engine is your friend" or "this already has been posted" is not the NICE way to do this. Please try to answer the users question and then at the end of the post politely remind them about the useful search feature.
This site is built upon and continues to live and thrive because of NEW USERS and veteran users alike. I will not stand for this any longer. No more jr. mods... got it? Got a problem -> let the staff know... period!
We are a online community built upon sharing knowledge and information. We are a great community and a lot of us are friends in real life. Treating new users like this is not cool and is making our site look bad. Think about how the new user will read your post, before you post it. Especially when correcting ANY of their behavior. With most of our members being lurkers or non posters, do you think this will actually encourage the shy people to post when they see people being shut down so rudely? Just think if our whole member base felt confident to post? Just think of all the information that would be here. With an online forum you are bound to have the same tpoic repeated, that is just the nature of the beast. Here we keep it to a minimum and I feel we do a great job of it. We do not want our site to end up like Traxxas, where the same 5 topics are discussed over and over again. Hence the reason to moderate spamming and duplicate topic posting, but it is not like that here and I do not see it going that direction. So... give it a break people!
The other thing I am seeing too much is people telling new users to use the search engine and that their post was a mistake. In some cases they are right, but please let the new user know this NICELY. A one liner saying the "search engine is your friend" or "this already has been posted" is not the NICE way to do this. Please try to answer the users question and then at the end of the post politely remind them about the useful search feature.
This site is built upon and continues to live and thrive because of NEW USERS and veteran users alike. I will not stand for this any longer. No more jr. mods... got it? Got a problem -> let the staff know... period!
We are a online community built upon sharing knowledge and information. We are a great community and a lot of us are friends in real life. Treating new users like this is not cool and is making our site look bad. Think about how the new user will read your post, before you post it. Especially when correcting ANY of their behavior. With most of our members being lurkers or non posters, do you think this will actually encourage the shy people to post when they see people being shut down so rudely? Just think if our whole member base felt confident to post? Just think of all the information that would be here. With an online forum you are bound to have the same tpoic repeated, that is just the nature of the beast. Here we keep it to a minimum and I feel we do a great job of it. We do not want our site to end up like Traxxas, where the same 5 topics are discussed over and over again. Hence the reason to moderate spamming and duplicate topic posting, but it is not like that here and I do not see it going that direction. So... give it a break people!
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