Well....I thought a little farther on the idea, and it could be as follows:
- We set up moderators beforehand. Seeing as the moderators will be picked
in the beginning, there could end up being a probationary period for them.
- The job of the moderators will be two fold. It will take time, but that's
what it takes to be a Valve moderator.
- The moderators will upkeep any usergroup requests. The requests
will need to contain some info about the server they run. (i.e. Server Name,
IP, company or community if applicable). If the server is only up sometimes,
maybe a link to gametracker.com will show us how legit the server is.
- And then, of course, the moderators will, in fact, moderate the
forums.
- Server admins will be required to keep at least one of their server IP's
within their signature to stay on the list. This will allow moderators to
purge the list, if need be.
- A PM to a moderator with the request of being removed from the
list....will be the easy way to be removed.
I think there's a certain harmony with this. Linking email to the forums is
a good idea too....but I don't think it's possible. I've not heard of this
before, and I think it would be a big "security breach" within the Steam
forums as well. (i.e. not having to be logged in to make a post, etc.)
Aaron Rapp
-----Original Message-----
From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com
[mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Micheals
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 6:53 PM
To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
Subject: Re: [hlds] Important notice regarding the HLDS mailing lists
the membership idea sounds good to keep kidies away but it also sounds
like it can be bad also what method will be used to allow a members
access to the section.
i'm all for keeping idiots out but not making it hard for admins and
server operators to get access.
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Burton Johnsey <bur...@valvesoftware.com>
wrote:
> Given the feedback received from the list, we are holding off migrating
the mailing lists to the forums.
>
> The intent of migrating to the forums was to leverage the benefits and
features of the forums to further strengthen the community, giving us a
central spot to gather feedback. The forum software is continually being
updated by vBulletin and is flexible enough to also allow us to add our own
features.
>
> To address a couple of specific concerns about the forums:
>
> - Membership - We can keep the membership in the DS forums private so that
random forum users cannot post.
> - Moderation - We can assign moderators for specific forums. Moderators
would be volunteers from the current mailing list participants.
> - Forum server performance - We have upgraded the system that runs the
forums and we do not experience the lag we were experiencing in the past
> - The forums are accessible to more people than the mailing list.
>
> We want to make things better, not worse. We appreciate any further
feedback you have to offer.
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