A quick question:

Who does the job of moderating this forum? Are there written rules of conduct posted anywhere?

Regards,

-mm-

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* Wisdom is ability to get important things approximately right most of the time.
* Breakthrough is seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.
* Cogito, ergo sum.

Unfortunately there are no "official" moderators.
Some of us my self included, are trying to keep the
posts on the science board on topic by reminding users
to post science only. It's been working good so far
with cooperations of all.

I don't think there are any written rules though.

Regards
Marc

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> A quick question:
>
> Who does the job of moderating this forum? Are there written rules of conduct
> posted anywhere?
>

No, but there should be.

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WE do need some moderation, and now Guido is back we need it even more.....

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Semper Eadem
So long Paul, it has been a hell of a ride.

Park your ego's, fire up the computers, Science YES, Credits No.

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> > WE do need some moderation, and now Guido is back we need it even
> more.....
> >QUIET ;-))) or
;-)
>

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We could certainly do with an admin.
Top of the todo list would be the banishment of Guido.

I realise that Guido isn't the full shilling but my patience can only stretch so far.

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> We could certainly do with an admin.
> Top of the todo list would be the banishment of Guido.
>
> I realise that Guido isn't the full shilling but my patience can only stretch
> so far.
>
>
>

I agree on this one. Guido is really annoying and no matter how often you advise him to restrain a bit it just seems like he don't care and continues.
And this i a cross-prject problem.

And Guido I don't think it's funny anymore even if you do hundreds of those smilies you use.

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I'm thinking about writing a forum filter.
You see that little text at the bottom of each post? "ID: 37494 / Rating: 0"
People would then be able to give completely irrellevant posts a negative rating and in your forum prefs you would have a threshold for how negative a post can be at most. When a particular post is more negative than your settings allow it will be filtered away and become a single line (ie "Janus - Posted: 17 Oct 2004 11:05:24 UTC in response to Message ID 37478, message filtered, press here to show filtered messages in this thread")

This way the community itself helps keep the forums in order and people decide for themselves where to put the limits.

Comments?

Comments?
YES
bei aldi gibts guten dänischen käse ;-)

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> This way the community itself helps keep the forums in order and people decide
> for themselves where to put the limits.
>
> Comments?
>
Janus,

This sounds as if it would be an effective means of "controlling" problem posters without forcing you and your coworkers to spend precious time on trivia. I for one would welcome such an addition.

EDIT: It also answers a question I've had about what that "rating" bit was all about.
ANOTHER EDIT: Re-read your original post and have a question. If I understand what you're saying this would be be done on a per-post basis. Does that mean there is no way for the community to rate an individual and thus all posts from that person? - Thanks -

Regards,

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I agree on this one. Guido is really annoying and no matter how often you advise him to restrain a bit it just seems like he don't care and continues.
And this i a cross-prject problem.
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Yes, over at the LHC Site he has gone into almost everybody else's Team Invite Thread and put his own invite to his Team...What a Jerk Off ...

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poorboy ???
NENNE er ROSS und REITER oder verziehe er sich mit seinem ganzen GEWÃœRM ;-)))

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> > A quick question:
> >
> > Who does the job of moderating this forum? Are there written rules of
> conduct
> > posted anywhere?
> >
>
> No, but there should be.
>
That's realy true!!

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(WARR - scientific working group for rocket technology and space travel)

@basti
mal am Rande
wie habt ihr eure Team Page gemacht.
Alles selbst gemacht oder etwas als Basis genommen und erweitert.
bin stetig auf der Suche nach allem Neuen in Bezug zu PHP und MySQL

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> I'm thinking about writing a forum filter.
> You see that little text at the bottom of each post? "ID: 37494 / Rating: 0"
> People would then be able to give completely irrellevant posts a negative
> rating and in your forum prefs you would have a threshold for how negative a
> post can be at most. When a particular post is more negative than your
> settings allow it will be filtered away and become a single line (ie "Janus -
> Posted: 17 Oct 2004 11:05:24 UTC in response to Message ID 37478, message
> filtered, press here to show filtered messages in this thread")
>
> This way the community itself helps keep the forums in order and people decide
> for themselves where to put the limits.
>
> Comments?
>

Go for it Janus we need it, oppps you did say irrellevant post hmmmmm must rethink my posting tactics;;;;;;;o)

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Semper Eadem
So long Paul, it has been a hell of a ride.

Park your ego's, fire up the computers, Science YES, Credits No.

@janus
ein typischer fischkopf
zuerst schmiert man den leuten leckere sachen ums maul und hinterher haut man sie in die pfanne.machst du das immer so!!!
gott sei dank gibt es noch leute die das rechtzeitig merken und ihre Konsequenzen ziehen.

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>Does that mean there is no way for the community to rate an
>individual and thus all posts from that person? - Thanks -

Yes.
Personally I think that people can change - and should be allowed to. The idea is not to filter persons but filter what they write. Relevance was the key idea when the rating system first was put to use (in the questions and answers part of the website). This is also what I would use it for in this case if my idea is going to be realized. This way people always have the chance to write relevant stuff and aren't deemed "out" already before they write anything.

So that's why my suggestion is filtering on a per post basis - and keep in mind that each user defines exactly how much he/she wants to be filtered.
My point is, that everyone are given a fair chance in the first place and the feature is optional.

At the same time it could also be used the other way around to emphasize posts of great value or posts containing important information.

> @janus
> ein typischer fischkopf
> zuerst schmiert man den leuten leckere sachen ums maul und hinterher haut man
> sie in die pfanne.machst du das immer so!!!
> gott sei dank gibt es noch leute die das rechtzeitig merken und ihre
> Konsequenzen ziehen.

Well, first of all I didn't have anyone in particular in mind when I came up with the idea of filtering. Actually the idea must have been made by the original writer of this forum software way way before most of you people joined the betatest.
Also I haven't even talked to the BOINC project administrator about this yet, so nothing is certain.

I don't think I'm a fishhead, but obviously I'm going to be biased in that question. In order to establish this as a fact you will probably have to get other sources than me...

I know that filtering is a topic of many opinions which is exactly why I post my idea here to allow people to discuss it before starting to actually implement it.

I don't consider this "putting someone on the frying pan" as it is fully up to the readers what they consider appropriate or not. Each individual has different thresholds for what they care about reading. I for one would choose to display everything... Furthermore it is based on the content and idea of the posts, not who posts them and the default would be not to filter anything at all.
In the same line it is also important to point out that the post is not deleted - it is simply temporarily "hidden" or "collapsed" into a single line.

As you can see most of the paragraphs in this post start with "I" which is a very strong indication that this is my personal opinion - not the one of the dev team or anything like that. And as stated earlier it is not even sure if this is going to be implemented or not.

[I hope I read you post correctly - please do try to post in english as well, I feel we may be talking past each other in some points]

@Poorboy
=)

> I'm thinking about writing a forum filter.
> People would then be able to give completely irrellevant posts a negative
> rating and in your forum prefs you would have a threshold for how negative a
> post can be at most.
> Comments?
>
Yes. Go for it!

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