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Complaints, Changes, Moderation etc.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:03 pm
by Darren
Some of you will notice the mods have been removed from the list of people "moderating" the forums. This is because I'm putting a new moderator system in place to more effectively work on discussions/moderation (minimal) where appropriate. Ideally, I would prefer that this forum does not require any moderation because I would hope everyone would be grown up enough to work things out for themselves.

However, on occasion that doesn't happen and someone needs to step in to mediate.

The current process allows changes to a thread or post prior to impartial group review. Although I implicitly trust the moderators in their job and more often than not they do a grand job, I think it's also important that users also trust the processes we have in place to ensure moderation/changes to threads are fair, on topic and the right thing to do and I put that at the highest priority.

As such the process is changing such that only specific mods can change posts, but only on approval from a mod group.

Problems with the site forum or complaints re: posts should be reported to http://www.advanced-driving.co.uk/contactus/ which will be passed for a short review by the team.

Upon a decision being reached, the user responsible will be informed any action to be taken (e.g. deletion, modification etc. etc.)

Re: Complaints, Changes, Moderation etc.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2015 7:08 pm
by ROG
How come I now must sign in to view any posts whereas before I could see most forums without doing so :?:

Re: Complaints, Changes, Moderation etc.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 6:56 am
by Gareth
I imagine it might be related to moving the forum from running on a database under Darren's control to a database under Rob's control.

After all, if the real value of Rob's acquisition is the high number of page hits, and the forum is what's been triggering a page hit count for the non-forum part of the website disproportionate to its content, then it wouldn't make much sense to hide the forum away from casual readers for any longer than a transitory period.

Re: Complaints, Changes, Moderation etc.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 9:01 am
by Advanced Driving
Gareth wrote:I imagine it might be related to moving the forum from running on a database under Darren's control to a database under Rob's control.

After all, if the real value of Rob's acquisition is the high number of page hits, and the forum is what's been triggering a page hit count for the non-forum part of the website disproportionate to its content, then it wouldn't make much sense to hide the forum away from casual readers for any longer than a transitory period.



It's all my fault..!!!!!!!

We are working on the problem :-)

Re: Complaints, Changes, Moderation etc.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 6:27 pm
by Advanced Driving
It should be sorted now...

Re: Complaints, Changes, Moderation etc.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 1:19 am
by waremark
I am seeing this on an Android tablet. The new look is much less clear and the FB and Twitter etc links on the left get in the way. Sorry to sound so negative.

Re: Complaints, Changes, Moderation etc.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 6:58 am
by stv
On a windows phone there are some empty green squares on the left hand side which get in the way.

Re: Complaints, Changes, Moderation etc.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 8:30 am
by Advanced Driving
Hi - thanks for feedback, could you possibly email me a screenshot to rob@driversdomainuk.com

There are still a few issues to sort

thanks
Rob

Re: Complaints, Changes, Moderation etc.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 7:22 pm
by waremark
Much better already, well done

Re: Complaints, Changes, Moderation etc.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 8:08 pm
by MGF
It's a bit green. :?

Re: Complaints, Changes, Moderation etc.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2015 4:42 pm
by Advanced Driving
waremark wrote:Much better already, well done


thank you :D

Re: Complaints, Changes, Moderation etc.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2015 4:45 pm
by Advanced Driving
MGF wrote:It's a bit green. :?


I should make a facility where you can customise the colours....I know its an option

Re: Complaints, Changes, Moderation etc.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2015 5:36 pm
by Angus
Should the green boxes on the left of the screen have images in them? I can see from the links they're supposed to go to facebook/twitter/traffic/widget but a proper icon might be better (Win 7/IE 11)

Re: Complaints, Changes, Moderation etc.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2015 6:52 pm
by Horse
Browsing on a Samsung Tab, so Andrioid, they have icons.

Re: Complaints, Changes, Moderation etc.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2015 11:16 pm
by Angus
Actually Chrome & Firefox show icons too