jimmy_jim

Come to Queensland!

Come to Queensland!

He wished I posted it, then sadded when he found out I didn't.

Closed on request

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMfrLFirGWc

I live in the south east part of Queensland@@

When you get to 3,999 pages I'm going to go through the whole thread and merge every double post.

Triple posters lose, sorry Dax.

Heya, There's a thread dedicated to advertising 'your thing' which you can find here.. If you have any questions about this feel free to private message me. And welcome to Tip.It! Thanks!

Please don't quote posts unless there's a reason to, and don't reply to the thread unless you have something constructive to add. Thanks.

Hey, moving this to Help & Advice as you're asking for help so it seems to be the best place :P If you think it should stay in general discussion reply to this post or PM me

I'd love if it this could work, but it's been shown in the past that people can't vote on things properly and a lot of people abuse the system. That's one of the reasons we've never opened up the option to give positive or negative reputation to users/threads.

Australia!

wat wat

Banned

o u guys

I do not dare browse recent posts :(

Heya, RuneScape Media is meant for artistic RuneScape videos/images. If you'd like to get the word out about your channel you can post guides here or advertise your channel directly in this designated topic. You should also post any pking videos here. Also, welcome to Tip.It :) Thanks!

I don't think the section would have much activity, and we can't always be sure people answering the questions are going to be correct. You could always ask for homework help in this thread. Or if it's not something too silly and could generate some nice discussion you can always create a new thread in off-topic. I wouldn't want to see people here doing homework for other people, but rather guiding them in the right direction!

[spoiler=Quotes] If the system was more transparent, facts such as who did the banning wouln't need to be questioned, saving moderator time. The question I'd like answered is, what good would that do? Making the whole thing transparent actually sounds counterproductive, since now not only do you have to pass along information about a particular user's ban, you also have to deal with people who think/feel that it was unfair. This leads me to believe that, instead of transparency between staff->users, there should be more information available to admins about who was banned and for what reason. In my mind, moderators are free to disagree with the bannings, but doing so in a public forum usually leaves a black eye for the entire process. Kind of like this. The passing along of information wouldn't require more than a one off effort as this information is already stored for mods to review. In response to the claim that mods would have to deal with people thinking bans are unfair, they've already had to do that, did you miss the uproar earlier? Plus, the threads which contain discipline history could be limited so only the person who it concerns and mods would be able to post there. The prohibition on discussing bans in other threads could remain. Also it's quite frustrating to make a post in response to a mods question then have the only person who responds not actually be a staff member. There's no need to complain about it, it hasn't been very long since you posted...I was writing an in depth response but had some studying to do first, we're all volunteers remember? I do apologise though as I replied to someone else before you even though you posted first. As we've said before, bans are very rarely reversed like this, and the system has been in place for close to 10 years now without any major problems, which is quite admirable considering the size of the forum. About discussing bans at a length, that's a fair point. A large amount of the time we do discuss them, especially if they're going to be lengthy bans on users who have contributed a lot to the community. Unless the ban is very obvious (spambots, graphic pictures) there usually are discussions between at least 4 or 5 Super Mods/Admins and Local/Global mods. As I said, this was a one off and won't happen again. Thirdly about someone who's spamming, trolling and posting graphic content..If they're posting graphic content (i.e. Pornography or Gory pictures) it's a straight ban, no matter how long they've been on the forums. Also, with people spamming/trolling we're not going to go ahead and give them a ban on their first offence, we almost always give two warnings first before then giving a repeat offender a 3 day, or week long ban. Which they can appeal without logging into their account. I don't see why they'd need access to their account to get to the message center. This would also make it harder for Super Mods to ban, because we don't have complete access to the Admin Control Panel. With the current team I can't see a case happening where all of us leave then a whole new lot needs to be brought in, we're all fairly active. With the previous ones the activity was so low that the administration had to organise so people could apply for a moderator position, which is how I became a mod, and another 9 current mods did, I'm sure there will always be enough experienced mods to teach and guide any new ones. I'm curious though, what type of change in policy to you propose? The reason we remove them is because they shouldn't be seen by other users. I don't see why another user would have to refer to a post which someone was warned for? There's no reason for users to track bans and warnings when they have nothing to do with them. A lot of the things we warn/ban for are personal attacks as well, so allowing people to have access to them could cause hurt feelings, and this is the whole thing we're trying to avoid. I'm sorry, but I don't support everyone having viewing access to removed posts. It's important that all mods have access to removed posts, (it's not possible to completely delete posts from the forum) and we do, and that's the way it should stay. Also, it's not only rule breaking posts removed. Sometimes posts are removed from private boards, such as from the staff forums which can have sensitive information which there's no reason for users to have access to. If the system was more transparent, facts such as who did the banning wouln't need to be questioned, saving moderator time. Who did the banning shouldn't need to be questioned, and I'm not questioning them, and no one else should, the moderation and the admins that work together as one team, I don't like seeing people singled out. It's a bit late for that now though, and looking back I wish it had been approached differently but it was hard to know what exactly was going on. If every single person on the forums knew who has banned who it doesn't really solve anything. A lot of the time it will be a group decision on the ban, then someone will send the email, it's not 'them' who banned the person, it was a team decision. I think this is where we went wrong with these bans, but it won't happen again, as I've mentioned previously.

Spent the last few days re-watching the Monty Pythons! Love them

We also do a lot of in-thread moderating but in most cases, if the posts aren't removed and a moderator just comes in asking people to stop, people will continue the discussion anyway because the posts are still there, taunting them to reply. This is particularly true if it's a flame war and people are insulting each other or jumping down their throats. But by removing the posts, people don't feel inclined to respond to each other anymore since the posts are no longer there. I still feel like this solution is like cutting off your finger if you get a splinter. What is the big deal if people keep responding to each other? If anyone is put off by the discussion they can just leave the thread. I think if people are choosing to participate in a flame war it is the moderators job to resolve the dispute, not simply hide it. The problem is that it takes time and patience to resolve a dispute. It takes seconds to click "move to the black hole forums" or whatever it is that you do with the posts. We see a lot of posts such as "No, you're an idiot because it's meant to be like this. Get outside nerd." Leaving it in the thread would just leave it open for more arguments, people just can't help but reply to a post such as that. In cases where it isn't so bad we do leave an in thread warning but it doesn't always stop the flaming so we have to remove the posts, then it stops. And if two users, or a group of users are having a large dispute we will private message them and try and work something out, but users having large disputes does not happen too often thankfully! We also generally try and leave threads for users to sort out problems between themselves, unless it gets serious with personal attacks/threats.

I read that first and was like wat. Then I read the whole post and understood :shades: EDIT: YEAH DAX, NICE L PLATES