Philosophical Vegan Forum

thebestofenergy wrote: I agree, Dan is probably the most active person right now (and he has a profile of Naruto, you can't ignore that).
No but seriously, since the admin didn't come since 29/05 it'd be a wise deicision to nominate some mods (obviously trustworthy ones, that don't abuse their power). If it's going to happen that the admin has an inconvenience and can't log in for some days, there must be a mod/mods that take/s over.

brimstoneSalad wrote:

thebestofenergy wrote: I agree, Dan is probably the most active person right now (and he has a profile of Naruto, you can't ignore that).
No but seriously, since the admin didn't come since 29/05 it'd be a wise deicision to nominate some mods (obviously trustworthy ones, that don't abuse their power). If it's going to happen that the admin has an inconvenience and can't log in for some days, there must be a mod/mods that take/s over.

Or what would be even better, is to have an abuse flag system that creates automatic action on new members' posts when senior members flag them- like a probationary period, where every senior member has some partial moderator powers over them.

If it gets flagged by, say, three members, then the post gets hidden, and if they have three posts hidden, they are temporarily disallowed from posting until the admin can evaluate the situation.

thebestofenergy wrote: Altough, there's still one flaw: it can be easily abused. A senior member isn't necessarily a trustworthy one. One could flag a post just because it expresses different opinions/argues against him.

brimstoneSalad wrote:

thebestofenergy wrote: Altough, there's still one flaw: it can be easily abused. A senior member isn't necessarily a trustworthy one. One could flag a post just because it expresses different opinions/argues against him.

Right, but that's why it would need to be flagged three times (e.g. by three different senior members) before anything actually happened. So, a single rogue member couldn't do anything unilaterally.

brimstoneSalad wrote: Like just in the debate sections, maybe. Each IP address can make one guest post without registering.
Then when somebody replies, it will encourage them to register to continue responding.

Also, as I mentioned in my intro post, maybe we could come up with some challenges with rewards, to further incentivize original ideas, and advertise the forum.

brimstoneSalad wrote:Also, less is more.

It's much easier to keep track of fewer forum sections. Particularly when there's a small population of posters on a forum.
Fewer sections, with more posts per section = more activity.
Forums with low activity but a dozen forum sections tend to look kind of silly- forums only naturally build up more sections when they have the population to support it, and need to divide topics.

At the very least, it would be good to combine:

Vegan support + transitioning to vegan

Atheist support + transitioning to Atheism


General forum rules is not needed as a forum section- instead, make that a single thread in the forum support section, and put a link to it on every page at the top.


In general discussion, it would be good to merge:

Off-topic + Entertainment

Fan suggestions/requests -> merge into forum support


Doing all, or even some, of that would streamline the forum a lot, and make it much easier to read and follow all of the threads going on.


When the forum is much larger and more active, then it would be time to consider whether it makes sense and serves the community to subdivide the forum into more sections.
Otherwise, it's kind of putting the cart before the horse, and it can inhibit growth through excessive subdivision and dilution of traffic.

brimstoneSalad wrote:

thebestofenergy wrote: I agree, Dan is probably the most active person right now (and he has a profile of Naruto, you can't ignore that).
No but seriously, since the admin didn't come since 29/05 it'd be a wise deicision to nominate some mods (obviously trustworthy ones, that don't abuse their power). If it's going to happen that the admin has an inconvenience and can't log in for some days, there must be a mod/mods that take/s over.

Or what would be even better, is to have an abuse flag system that creates automatic action on new members' posts when senior members flag them- like a probationary period, where every senior member has some partial moderator powers over them.

If it gets flagged by, say, three members, then the post gets hidden, and if they have three posts hidden, they are temporarily disallowed from posting until the admin can evaluate the situation.

dan1073 wrote: A nice basis to a member report system, hopefully when TheVeganAtheist comes back on he'll see these suggestions. He just released a new video but he hasn't updated the website with it...

TheVeganAtheist wrote: Anyone familiar with phpBB and know if this is possible?

What kind of challenges, and what possible reward?

TheVeganAtheist wrote: I would consider that. Is that possible with phpBB 3 forum? Anyone know? Im new to running a forum and what is and is not possible (without intimate knowledge of coding).