A few weeks ago I asked EVERYONE here stop abusing this forum with offtopic messages. I didnt see any results of this request, moreover other forum members insisted that "live conversation" is what keeps this forum alive. I said okey, if thats you want let it be. As a result of it right now it turned into a some meaningles chat room. There is no reason to blame few newcomers in abusing the forum if other people kept doing it as well long before them. The way you guys act here-its a guidance for a newcomers on this forum.
The only way to keep it clean is to swich it to moderator cenzorship mode, when message will not be posted untill it is read by administrator.
Personally I'd hate to do it that way. But if it is what we have to do-we will do it. Just note that in this case moderator will be the only one to decide how much this message meets the forum topic( since other forum members seem to see no difference between chatroom and site-related forum).
I would greately appreciate your understanding on this. Just stop fighting with each other and ignore those who abuse it. It will give moderator a chance to delete those postings aftewards, without ruining the whole thread.
Olga, how about locking all of the current topics and allowing us to start relevant topics all over again? I do not see any real hot relevant topics going on - except he the one started by Crash on his return from Russia (entitled: "What happened to this place") I think the censorship mode would really render the forum obsolete. I think that a little chatter is ok. But you are right, there is way to much other stuff here.
This froum has been a great source of help to me, and to many. But censorship mode seems to severe. Maybe e-mail warnings to repeat offenders with suspensions to follow would work.
Actually cenzorship would be the last measure Im was going to use, but hopefully we will find other ways to fix this problem. It doest has to be anything special-just following the rules by all forum members is the only thing we need and only thing Im asking for.
So we'll see the next couple of days how it goes and if nothing happens will start cenzoring all posts here.
"censorship mode would really render the forum obsolete"
Not. The Forum will survive, the chatters won't.
Dietz sums this site up quite properly whilst he calls himself a newbie. But even oldbie's can't find heads or tail when they have to wade through the rubbish, and searching amoungst crap nobody likes doing anyway.
Without change such would render this site user-fiendly hence non-effective, and indeed a chatting-breed of visitors would be attracted (has already) instead of the more mature kind this site is aimed at - and if you take this remark as an insult then it's meant for you.
Yes Toad, his name suggests Deutsche Grundlichkeit, just tell me what's wrong with that. You want English? Then some Order in the House, and if you don't like the German way then let's all settle for the Russian one.
I think the site's Matriochka made her wishes clear already, polite however urgent, read above. I'd hate to see more of her appearance-forms - for the smile might have been replaced by a delete-button.
Thunder...
No, I do not like the structured, compartmentalized, arbitrarily categorized german way to which you make reference.
I don't think the russian way, whatever definition you chose to give it is the only alternative, either...
What the heck, I like it my way, lol....
(Frank Sinatra would agree with me)
Yeah, let's do things MY way, damn it..:))
I always said my way is the best way!!
off-topics are usualy created from the on-subject topics.
private forumchat rooms are on the way to be implemented.
I think we shoudl be able to chat here about other subject. some people retun to this forum just to chat with the croud:)