Tom, You posted a message in the 'Announcements' section soliciting responses to your thoughts re. restricting Private Messages to only unmoderated users. It is not possible to submit a reply in the 'Announcements' section. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/06/2011 11:55AM by tomzap.
You can comment here or email me. Here is the original announcement: There have been a few complaints about PMs that have been received on the tomzap forums. A PM is a personal message that is sent from one forum user to another using the tomzap.com forum system. There is a software module available that could be used to restrict the sending of PMs to only those members who are approved to bypass the moderation system. To date, the complaints we have received concerning unwanted PMs have been from users who are not approved to bypass the moderation system. New users are by default not approved to bypass the moderation system. We typically move users to the bypass moderation group after they have posted several times and demonstrated that they are not drawing complaints and are positive contributors to the forum. We sometimes move new users to the bypass moderation group on request. Users are moved out of the bypass moderation group when there is a valid report of mis-use of the forum against them. So if we implement this PM messaging restriction, there will be a large number of users that won't be able to use the PM system. Most of them will be able to use it if they request to be added to the bypass moderation group. On the positive side, it should eliminate most unwanted PMs. What do you think? Should we do this? Tom Penick "tomzap" tom@tomzap.com Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/06/2011 11:58AM by tomzap.
I go with sooner or later I will be guilty so the fewer laws there are the better off I am. On a more serious note, I think that there are really no children on this board so why moderate anyone. If a poster is out of line just let the members sanction them and tell them what an idiot they are. It's beyond me why any moderator would want to be a hall monitor. Move irrelevant threads and lock down threads when they get to being crazy but otherwise let the members handle it. The board lets members "hide messages from this user" so if anyone is offended by another member just turn them off.
most if not all the cchildren, ages 10 and up have heard every word that could possible be used as a cuss word either at home or at school, so the idea it may offend some seems rather silly if you dont like what a poster says put HIM OR HER ON IGNORE, YOUR EYES WONT BE OFFENDED ANYMORE i believe if a poll were to be taken on tomzap, % wise they would not have moderated forum, but the few carry the big ax so just grin and bare it, adios bible thumpers, im sure you must know who you are
Some PM's break federal laws...
info 1,,whould that be u.s. or canadian federal laws, or is that mexican fed laws? Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum. Lo siento, sσlo puedes enviar mensajes si estαs registrado.
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