@BobRains 204753 wrote:
Dom-
, and someone; certainly not me gave those privileges the title “SuperMod”Bob
The software company for VB called the setting “supermoderator” – it’s not a title at all, it’s a software setting.
@BobRains 204753 wrote:
I don’t like most rules, and no independent thinker worth the time of day does,
That is the issue I guess, two independent thinkers in the kitchen not communicating. Spoils the soup.
Unfortunately now I think we do need to define some rules for when things need to be tinkered with – Christine and me never had to discuss anything like that because we routinely deal with messageboards and some common sense rules emerge when dealing with communities and things flow without snags for us.
They are not really rules, but they are common sense things that are based on observation on how members react to mods tinkering with their posts. People feel posessive about their posts, they don’t like to see them edited (not done without posters request unless it is spam or personal attacks/insults directed at other posters), they don’t like to see them deleted (huge no-no with the history of this board), and of course one can’t chop threads without worrying about it making sense afterwards. Locking threads is also always greeted with great su****ion from the community, and it generally is unnecessary.
Christine, got anything to add? There are a bunch more of these but I can’t thing of anything at the moment. It’s become intuitive for me.
Our membership is very fickle at this time, but I see more and more posting and things are coming back together and looking good. I see a bright future here again, as long as we treat posters with utmost respect.
One wrong edit and it will be blasted all over the net again that CAP disrespects posters and edits out their opinions and tramples all over free speech. I don’t think we can withstand even a small digression of that sort at this time, not enough time has passed for us to lose the stigma.
So I am perhaps overly protective of the integrity of the board and posters. But – it’s working, old posters (affiliate opinion makers) coming back (like gooner!), new ones chiming in, just the last week or two have given me a ton of confidence that we are coming back strong. Also my talks with program managers are much more positive re. CAP.
So, things are definitely looking up and I am quite pleased with things of late. Lets work together to make the comeback complete. Good SEO advice is a wonderful thing to add, and I am very pleased to see it added.
So let’s start over here – welcome to the group, Jason!