Hello. A select bit of mods have been deliberating for a while on how to improve the forum experience, and we've discussed the idea of implementing Forum Rules. This is something that we want to include the community in, so your feedback/opinions are worthwhile.
Here's a rough draft for what we have in mind.
Every subforum that isnt OT is going to be moderated more heavily for off-topic posts, and moderators will reserve the right to delete your post. Don't ruin threads with your banter, go to OT for that.
We're going to try and be harder about flaming/harassment on the forums. We want to try and make the place more friendly and while it might be a bit of a change we're asking that you be patient with us and what we have in mind is merely things to be discussed.
Negative and constructive criticism is fine. We're not going to silence your opinion for disagreeing or being abrasive, just never make it personal. That's all we ask. We understand that mafia is a competitive game at it's nature and that things are bound to get heated, but that doesn't mean we have to let things get out of control.
Trolling will be treated as the same as trolling in-game. A user has a right to report you if he believes that you are trolling them or their thread. Punishments will be handed out accordingly after we readjust what the repercussions will be for forum trolling.
OT will be moderated lightly, and GD will be at the discretion of the person making the topic. All rules are going to be in effect for all other subforums.
All mods reserve to delete your posts if they are off-topic.
deletedover 10 years
Nothing relating to the OP at hand? I'd feel pretty alienated from the community if someone derailed my topic about abortion 10 or so pages in.
because mods have no bias, and will never, ever, abuse their powers, we're just going to give them the right to delete whatever posts they deem fit
deletedover 10 years
friendlier in years =/= being friendly
deletedover 10 years
theres a psychic in town and his name is kyle hyde.
deletedover 10 years
people in the survey vote that they don't think the forums are friendly despite them being friendlier than they've been in years, and the mods come up with some baloney bull hockey new rules to fix another problem that isn't there. knew it, knew it, knew it.
How about having a F62/speakeasy sub forum where there's no harassment/trolling rule
deletedover 10 years
The forums will only be as moderated as you want them to. The only thing you need to worry about is not making off-topic posts in the Epicmafia/Complaints section. I think that's pretty reasonable.
deletedover 10 years
lol
deletedover 10 years
this was obviously coming, the survey wasn't so much a genuine attempt to get opinions as much as an attempt at an excuse to shoo in the new rulesets 5-6 mods thought up in a skype group
deletedover 10 years
i knew this would happen.
deletedover 10 years
I don't think there was any reason for Demod Jericho Now to get to 100+ pages of nothing. I understand that the forums serve a niche right now but we're trying to make it more open to more people who actually want to discuss Mafia or whatever else without feeling dissuaded or alienated by the circlejerk. Again, if you feel that there's a better way of handling this then by all means tell us.
"This extra power might be more work for me, but if I have to delete posts I don't like, that's a burden I'm willing to bear for the sake of the forums."
deletedover 10 years
Obviously it can't be too much worse than how they are now
i think making the forums more welcoming is a cool idea, but i don't think deleting every off topic post is the way to go about that. cracking down on harassment is fine, but the majority of this sounds like we won't be allowed to derail anything. topics get naturally derailed and cracking down on that won't really solve anything
deletedover 10 years
It might be a heavier workload on us but It's something we're willing to do to overall improving the attitude of the forums.
deletedover 10 years
"We're going to try and be harder about flaming/harassment on the forums."
Flaming shouldn't be an issue, if you take away a user's freedom to vent on the Forums after a bad game, they're likely going to die
