Why did you close my thread, move it and give me an infraction?

Finally, maybe some sanity will return to the directories section!!!

 

It would be great to see more attention to this forum. Absolutely!

It was so often "gang rule" around here, followed by a period of spam, followed by a period of posts that are of little value. I think people who actually care about directories were turned off over the years, so it would be good to see that there is actually an REAL EFFORT being made to get the members who offer thoughtful yet kind replies back into the forum. Without a sense of real effort over a period of time, I don't think there is much hope.

Give infractions to mean people and spammers, and then have some "community outreach" people who help to create thoughtful threads and even pm or email people that they know can help revive the forum. I truly would love to see this TLC, but again, I have my doubts this will ever happen, but hope you will prove me wrong!

Look at forums like Warrior where there is some member moderation going on (enough people who make an infraction kill the post, but moderators make sure there isn't gang rule). Or look at how SitePoint does it with Mentor's where they have a little private mentor area, and they encourage content production. Will DP do something special like this? For the third time, I have my doubts, but would love for you to do your best to make me look foolish for doubting you.

 

I have read some useful things on the section but it is like all of DP you weed through piles of spam to find anything halfway useful. A lot of the problem is 99% of the posts on here have an agenda so they are basically just spam of some sort or another.

I guess someone selling directory scripts might spend some time moderating this section but they would just turn it into a huge directory script sales forum.

 

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People with an agenda can be the best assets. They just have to be kept in check. Without an agenda, why be here?

 

Mikey, i thought you become a moderator a long time ago, you would pay attention to the directory section to get it back to the old days but that never happened and most of the big name folks hardley ever come in this section because it's unmoderated.

Yes, we can report threads but it would be nice if 1 moderator would actually read the threads in this section and other directory section everyday like a moderator should do. A moderator shouldn't sit in the mod section and wait for threads/posts to get reported because not everyone reports threads/posts because they think a moderator actually reads new threads daily. I understand you all have personal lives and family but as a moderator myself on a webmaster forum, I don't sit on my butt in the mod section waiting for people to report threads, I manually read new threads when i'm online to catch the idiots red handed and make it known it won't be tolerated.

How about create new sticky threads and dumb it down enough for people to understand at least.

I know shawn has custom mods in place to weed out spammers and all with automatic bans but the moderators in this section if there is actually any of them who pop's in here daily, to read the threads, call out spammers and actually manually ban them for good. Not let the infraction system automatically ban someone after so many infractions. How about dish out perm. ban's and if you have to do this to a well respected member then so be it. The mods not strict enough on this forum which is huge.

I don't report that many threads anymore on here because it's useless and also hard to spot moderators in threads because most of them don't have MODERATOR in there usertitle or a different colored username.

 

Thank you very much for your reply. I'm glad to know you will be around more. What would also be great is if we can work to increase the number of people helping to watch over the Directories section. That makes for a more permanent solution that is more fail safe, such as if you can't be around for a while. Look forward to watching things progress!

 

"dumb question brigade"....

Now those really deserves an infraction!!!

 

Welcome back here Mike!
We need someone to refresh this directory forum honestly.

 

If the drivel goes, as well as the personal link spamming, I'm sure others would return. But as of right now, it's *ugh*

 

I agree. I would love to see it "built" back in the direction of benefiting people.

However, time will tell.

 

@Mikey1090: Does the moderation include the S&A forum as well. Cos this thread has 10 spam/nonsense posts by the same person one after the other... and that sort of thing happens A LOT. That and people reviving literally 7 year old threads that are meaningless.

If you are willing to tackle the spam head on, I'm sure there are those of us who will be willing to write proper articles for the forum instead of just lurking and correcting the endless misinformation that is allowed to propagate via the spammers.

 

The thread revival could be stopped by simply auto closing threads after x amount of time.. 1 year should suffice.

 

Sarah, almost every other forum I am on or mange does something similar. It really cuts down on the clutter! It's not going to eliminate it, but it will knock it down.

 

Can we assume silence is an answer?

 

Because someone else has made one nearly identical. Probably a week ago. You were just too lazy to read back a few pages, or worse still, search. It's no big deal that you didn't see the other guys post, but you're just giving every member around that needs their post count increasing the opportunity to write "nice post", or "yeah I agree". And then I have to take my time to dish out infractions to them too. So i'll likely just close your thread to stop everyone writing junk in it.