New Forum Permissions by benheck himself

Post by **benheck** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 11:38 am

I've had some complaints about spammers, dumb threads etc. While I think the forums should be open to everyone it's also important that we keep things in order.

So I've changed the permissions. They are now as follows:

View/Read stuff: All
New topics/posts/replies: Registered Users
Edit/Delete posts/topics: Moderators
Vote on polls: Registered Users
Create Polls: Moderators

Hopefully this will encourage people to look for answers to things before posting the same kind of questions over and over. Again, here are the basic rules of the forums:

No discussing religion or politics!
No pointless bandwidth-sucking un-videogame hacking realted topics (only I get to create those

No flaming other users!
Please keep topics in their appropriate game-specific forums
Reasonably sized avatars and sigs

This forum is growing and of course there's going to be some growing pains, but I think we can all work through this together. Thank you for your time.

-Ben Heckendorn

peppers · Post by **peppers** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:26 pm

aww I no linger have the abitlity to edit my posts but I nerer get it right the first time

Lucretius · Post by **Lucretius** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 1:34 pm

Thank you for your time and effort. I sure hope this does the trick.

tom61 · Post by **tom61** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 1:48 pm

What was the problem with editing? It's a feature a lot of users depend on...

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 1:49 pm

Yes, editing should be allowed.

soundwave · Post by **soundwave** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 1:52 pm

I always get the posts wrong the first time, I edit 4 out of 5 posts. None of the other things really bother me, I could care less for polls and that other stuff, but no editing...

MajorLag · Post by **MajorLag** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 2:41 pm

No discussing religion or politics!

Best. Rule. Ever.

And yeah, editing would be nice...

shelter pitfall · Post by **shelter pitfall** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:06 pm

Editing back please!
Why was it taken out?

Post by **benheck** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:07 pm

Ok, I'll turn editing back on. What about post deletion?

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:09 pm

Deletion would be cool to add, and change the upload thing. Uploading avatars would eat up more bandwidth!

peppers · Post by **peppers** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:10 pm

^agreed

Nes Man · Post by **Nes Man** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:56 pm

Well, I'm going to miss the polls.

(On the other hand, I don't make many polls.

)

SgtBowhack · Post by **SgtBowhack** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 5:50 pm

Good call. I think this is about the best we can hope for as far as "fixing the problems." Thanks, Ben.

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 6:54 pm

benheckc wrote:Ok, I'll turn editing back on. What about post deletion?

Anyone can delete another person's post, even guests

seriously, I like it how it was, where you can delete your posts as long as it was the last one. That works out well

Also, how did you like that leet eliminator idea I had earlier? Very few people around here really like the stuff, ya know

Post by **benheck** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:48 pm

Yeah I figured people might delete posts they don't like or something. So if you write it, you're stuck with it but can change it. But only mods can delete something