[serious] Off Topic Moderation Input - Part 2

[Jon Miller]

The 'serious' thread tag is absurd.

I thought that was the purpose of the tag.

JM

[snoopy369]

Actual tagging is a feature; it was enabled for a short period of time a while back, shortly after the upgrade. However, it's hard to maintain and lends itself to substantial abuse.

[SlowwHand]

I personally guarantee you that I'll mistitle for the fun of it.

[Ming]

First... it would creat more work for the mods. And from seeing how much the mods "like" work, probably not a good idea.

Second, there are many users here who would purposely mistitle threads just for the "fun" of it.

While there are some that are or act like children here, the bulk of the users are adults, and they can filter what they see just as easily without no stinking tags

[Lorizael]

I have no idea if this is possible with the forum technology that exists today, but I'd love to see a way of tagging threads (nsfw, politics, spam, etc.) and letting users sort and filter the threads they see.

[rah]

Who would support creating a subforum either for "serious" threads or for "anything goes" threads?

That was considered many times and it was always laughed down because..
1. How could you tell the difference on a lot of threads.
2. Someone would have to judge every thread to make sure it was in the right place.

But times are different.

I'd still say no.

[Lorizael]

Given this forum's attitude, that would fit perfectly in the "anything goes" box.

[Wezil]

I support creating a subforum for Ben Kenobi.

All Ben and only Ben.

[Lorizael]

Who would support creating a subforum either for "serious" threads or for "anything goes" threads?

[SpencerH]

I appreciate the intent of the tag but it's doomed to failure.

[rah]

Because no one pays any attention to but you.

[Lorizael]

The 'serious' thread tag is absurd.

Why's that?

[SlowwHand]

So what? It's in good company.

[SpencerH]

The 'serious' thread tag is absurd.

[Zevico]

Problem is when people start replying to the spambot, or quoting them (and their links). For threads that the spambots start, it works great. For threads where the spambot replies with some crap, its a (little) bit more work.

Current spambot fetish is to post soemthing like:

Thanks for your reply. Very informative.

with the actual advertising in the signature. Pain in the arse. Ban all new accounts from having urls in the signature is the best bet.

Thanks for your reply. Very informative.