the sooner we have threaded view the better and just by pass all the crap.
If Mako had been moderating this thread, how many people would have been sandboxed?
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- Started by bobn2 on May 2, 2023.
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This isn't an argument - this is abuse.
Seems like I was beaten to that.
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I could not care what your friends Mako would do, nor would I lose any sleep if you yourself thought it fit to ban me, delete my posts, or take other drastic measures. It's your ship, you're steering the course, you do as you see fit. I'd probably see it as a positive, enabling me to be a bit more productive, and wasting less time with my nose up close to a computer screen.
Edited for sh!t spelling courtesy of spell check. May the person who invented that roast in p!ss
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Speaking of drifting into obscurity, lets hope these waters remain free of the horse-shark thou speaketh...
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Apologies in advance...
...all's been quiet on the Western Front for 3 days and I had to jump in.
I initially only read the thread because it does seem to speak to those who have funny walks or who are lumberjacks.
Anyway, I only read about 300 or so responses and jumped here to the end.
What prompted me to keep reading was the initial poll and since subject of same put me in a sandbox during the so called "final hours" (which confused the heck out of me because if the jig was up, what was the point)?
I spent a number of weeks over in another wanna-be replacement after thinking that I liked it due to its appearance but this actually seems to be quite a bit better than the one-man band version.
“Be excellent to each other.”
or put another way:
“All we are is dust in the wind, dude.” -
Useful feedback. My own thought is that the success of this kind of site depends on the people here - which is one reason I'm not keen to pressure everyone into one conformative mould in the way that Mako, on behalf of the DPReview admins, used to.
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Never judge a book by its cover :-)
I was over there at the start as well as here.
It wasn't long before I locked horns with the admin guy there.
Long story short, I pushed him to close my account there as it became very clear it wasn't the type of forum I wanted to be at.
Here is much better and is looking good to continue getting better over time.
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Why?
I haven't seen any problems here.
DPR went many years without them.I don't see people complaining about the pre-mod days.....I see people complaining about the mods.
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There are widely divergent standards of what people see as problems. Some people want to see this place like a Sunday school, others like watching pub brawls.
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Well....good point. Lol
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The problem with “pub brawls” is that, if one wishes to avoid being dragged into the unpleasantness, one has no means of expressing oneself in the conversation. Thus they are not a good thing here. I see this as a justification for having judicious moderation, which must tread the middle ground.
David
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I agree in general but the tricky bit will be where to set "the middle ground".
To be honest, I have been pleasantly surprised at how well these forums have been going so far with no official moderation. I haven't seen any unpleasantness apart from when DonaldB and I lock horns and get carried away a bit. But then I don't visit very many forums here.
Hopefully most of the "riff-raff" and trolls are still over at dpreview in denial of the inevitable or have gone over to the other site.
I suspect that dprevived will largely self-moderate as has been happening so far with the aid of facilitators to calm things down when a thread's temperature rises too much.
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And some folks want this- UGH!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFgEyJ5D-8
