05-03-2013, 11:18 PM
M A V I C wrote:
[quote=Black]I am also not getting very far in understanding what resources we're talking about here, or what is meant by "sponsors," or why the sudden need for changes.
I think a few things Larry has said might help answer your questions:
OWC Larry wrote: That said - the 'political' forum side currently has no sponsor, use is limited to a single digit percentage... [...] it also has a very disproportionate percentage of Mod time spent on it. With lots of other forums more appropriate for that kind of discourse, going to see a poll on it's future. Certainly it's going to need a sponsor for it to continue imho.
OWC Larry wrote:
it's not monetary... That being said, we're supporting the 'main forum' as a sponsor, but the politcal side drains resources from our support that could go to the main forum.
Sounds like mod resources is a big issue. As far as "sponsor", I noticed this board has a "sponsored by OWC" at the top right, whereas the political side does not.
Not sure if the need for change is "sudden" or not.
MAVIC, either I'm not communicating well, or you don't quite understand anything I type. Not sure why you think I haven't read those things.
The ranting side is a part of this forum. Threads get moved from here to there. There's one registration process for both. If the forum were broken out a-la dealmac, would new sponsors need to be found for each subforum?
Threads are auto-hidden with a certain number of user reports. Why does the ranting side need to be moderated at all? Just make a decision not to devote resources, and let the users effectively 'flag' offensive posts down, like on craigslist. The system is already in place, nothing to do.