Two suggestions for the coming upgrade
 

1) Allow Mods to put people on "probation". This means prohibiting posting privileges for a limited time due to dickishness/rule breaking. It bets the trichotomy of warning users, locking threads and banning users. The Something Awful fora have success doing this.

2) Allow posters to apply "tags" to threads in addition to posting it in the correct forum. For instance, I may post in FR-NL and provide the following tags: OOP, OESD, deepstack, 50NL. Searching tags is better than just searching text alone. dailykos.com does this with success.

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1) Allow Mods to put people on "probation". This means prohibiting posting privileges for a limited time due to dickishness/rule breaking. It bets the trichotomy of warning users, locking threads and banning users. The Something Awful fora have success doing this.

2) Allow posters to apply "tags" to threads in addition to posting it in the correct forum. For instance, I may post in FR-NL and provide the following tags: OOP, OESD, deepstack, 50NL. Searching tags is better than just searching text alone. dailykos.com does this with success.

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With Regards to #1, we do that all the time already. Its called being "temp-banned." The majority of our bans are temporary, and for a specific period of time.

Re: Two suggestions for the coming upgrade
 

Regarding #2-

T-minus ten seconds until eviljeff links to his post on the subject.

Re: Two suggestions for the coming upgrade
 

I understand that eviljeff proposes to replace the forum divisions with tags (expressed in such a way to provoke some people). I see it differently. The tags' purpose would be to sift for topics within a forum.

I calculated this thread would not be significant enough to troll, so I hope it does become a learning experience to the contrary.

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I calculated this thread would not be significant enough to troll, so I hope it does become a learning experience to the contrary.

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No ATF thread is too insignificant to troll. At least not for tud.

Re: Two suggestions for the coming upgrade
 

Bluff,

Your mom is a troll. But that's OK, I get good and liquored up first. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

Re: Two suggestions for the coming upgrade
 

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1) Allow Mods to put people on "probation". This means prohibiting posting privileges for a limited time due to dickishness/rule breaking. It bets the trichotomy of warning users, locking threads and banning users. The Something Awful fora have success doing this.

2) Allow posters to apply "tags" to threads in addition to posting it in the correct forum. For instance, I may post in FR-NL and provide the following tags: OOP, OESD, deepstack, 50NL. Searching tags is better than just searching text alone. dailykos.com does this with success.

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With Regards to #1, we do that all the time already. Its called being "temp-banned." The majority of our bans are temporary, and for a specific period of time.

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Thats not what he means about #1... when you are temp banned you cant read the site either. He i advocating a ban where you can read the site but can not post.

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Bluff,

Your mom is a troll. But that's OK, I get good and liquored up first. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

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Actually, It's really Bluff's dad that I have the hots for.

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Bluff,

Your mom is a troll. But that's OK, I get good and liquored up first. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

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Actually, It's really Bluff's dad that I have the hots for.

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LDO, IMO.

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Bluff,

Your mom is a troll. But that's OK, I get good and liquored up first. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

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Actually, It's really Bluff's dad that I have the hots for.

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LDO, IMO.

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I can fly!