In case it’s not clear yet, here the walk through of this forum:
When you register here, you are put in a limited membergroup.
The only category you can post in, is introduction and it’s important to introduce yourself, for the following reason.
Only after introducing yourself, one of the mods gives you clearance to the whole forum and you become unlimited member.
We do this for the obvious reason, to delete a spam account because it can’t do anything beyond one topic. If we see a new member post a porn link in the intro post, we know it’s spam and we pull it out by the root.
If there any questions, some things not clear. Ask away in this thread.
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I feel like it should be made more clear what the Introduction post should be, and not be. I generally find a lot of posts that should perhaps rather be in “Share” or “Advice”
Yeah true, but on the other hand we moderators could move some posts to the right category.
Well, I don’t think some overlap is bad, especially with the share-category. We want an introduction mostly to weed out spam accounts right away, so as long as whoever posts sounds human enough, we let them in.
I get that, but it makes peoples posts harder to find if they are in the wrong category and have a title like “Hello friends”.
If they then actually pose a serious question, asking for advice say, it might not be read by the people ready to answer…
I understand the concern, but at the moment, I think we’re doing good with introduction posts being how they are, and they generally get a lot of interaction, too.
If we had a list with three bullet points of what we want to see in an introductory post, I feel the system would be easier to game. When it’s a free-form essay, so to speak, it might be easier to weed out the bad actors.
But maybe you have something specific in mind for the introductory posts I’m not considering?
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That’s really good point with the bot-accounts. I wont fret about it more if you don’t think its an issue. Cheers
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Do feel free to make any and all suggestions! It’s just in this case, I think, that we have different priorities. An orderly forum on your end (which is totally desirable) and using the intro posts as intended to weed out spammers on our part.
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Totally agree. When conversations have to be moved to another section it disrupts conversations, and tech-challenged Boomers like me will simply withhold comments and thoughts to avoid the additional effort. That makes interactions on social media tedious instead of enjoyable.
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Considering the current action on the forum, I think we’re not doing bad at all.
I understand that some posts were better put under share or some other category. But people are writing, information is being shared. It’s better then it has been in many years.
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