I for one welcome our new moderator overlord.

#newpeoplesmod

OK guys, settle down, I will offer myself to become a mod and #cleanthemess

sorry i couldnt help myself. if joffa thinks im gonna wait till 2020 for my suspension to end then he's got another thing coming

Fucking Lol.

There IS actually a member called "nicecrackers"

Hasn't posted yet.

We wait with baited breath.

I prefer the newest on 'nicecrackers'

Looks like new members are allowed again.

'Letsgofuckingmental' is the newest member, signed up this morning, first post was in the FFA cup thread.

Now to find out whether he's COYS or not. :cool:

Also imo a database is a database, wouldn't be impossible to get two to talk to each other to do a transfer of posts etc.

Yeah you might lose some user details but it shouldn't be impossible, not in this day and age.

Many people have been willing to give up their time for free to make it happen, powers that be just need to make it happen.

-PB

There's a couple of newbies getting through. Its a good sign.

Is there a hazing ritual on here?

Looks like new members are allowed again.

'Letsgofuckingmental' is the newest member, signed up this morning, first post was in the FFA cup thread.

Now to find out whether he's COYS or not. :cool:

all modding is reactionary :lol:
That's the point of modding, otherwise we'd have to set it up to approve all comments.

Also TheSelectFew, a lot of the things you just mentioned is out of the mod's hands. That's all KA's jurisdiction. Any of the admin stuff is not done by the mods. We can only affect threads.

My understanding is that its not as simple as merely pressing the install button for newer forum software. Its the database of the current forum that is the issue. To migrate it will be a massive task or nigh impossible. Either that, or it gets wiped and we start from scratch. Many people here won't like that because of their precious post counts :lol: ;)

You say this like it's out of the ordinary

stupid reactionary modding.

You've never seen me on where? on 442 or in the Feedback section?

Bear in mind the mods do this for free, we aren't paid by 442 and as you all are aware KA is scarce these days due to taking over the Editor's role for the 442 physical mag full time.
The mods do the best they can and make their own judgement calls. Its not as if we have a skype session and decide unanimously to lock a thread or suspend someone.

The sale of the Haymarket properties and the new website launch has unfortunately caused a disconnect from the main site to the forums. We got spammed to the shit at one stage and all the IP blocking that KA tried didn't work so instead he just shut down registrations altogether to stem the tide.

Also note that any technical issues are out of the mods hands. We can only suspend users, lock threads, move threads, make a poll, sticky, announcement.
That's about it. We can't permaban, we can't IP block etc. If you're locked out of your account due to suspension, you can't contact anyone because (obviously) you can't log in to do so. But surely if you're being a dick repeatedly or post offensive material you should be prepared to be suspended and not be surprised about it when it happens.

And don't bother asking for a forum upgrade. Its not going to happen. Its too big a job for the limited resources they have and they probably have higher priority tasks to deal with in their other properties.

I understand what you're saying, but really...is this place THAT badly run that its a cesspit of crap? Compared to the rest of the internet, this place is pretty damn clean imo

An 'ignore' function would be good

Save everyone having to scroll past paulc

My understanding is that its not as simple as merely pressing the install button for newer forum software. Its the database of the current forum that is the issue. To migrate it will be a massive task or nigh impossible. Either that, or it gets wiped and we start from scratch. Many people here won't like that because of their precious post counts :lol: ;)

[quote=Erebus]And don't bother asking for a forum upgrade. Its not going to happen. Its too big a job for the limited resources they have and they probably have higher priority tasks to deal with in their other properties.

Yeah, fair enough. It's not hard though. I'd set that shit up for free. macktheknife would also be up for that.

[quote=Erebus]And don't bother asking for a forum upgrade. Its not going to happen. Its too big a job for the limited resources they have and they probably have higher priority tasks to deal with in their other properties.

Yeah, fair enough. It's not hard though. I'd set that shit up for free. macktheknife would also be up for that.