Please Read all Users, Some new rules!!

[OilyFingers]

One of the first tasks for our new forum team is to write some guidelines and rules for the forum.

We want this to be a community effort, and not just the the Forum teams ideas

One of the first things to note is the eBay widget, this causes problems with mobiles and Bandwith (Page loading speed), with this in mind one of the first new rules will be along the lines of

"Please use the Ebay gadget sparingly and keep its use limited to the EBay section and your own threads. Once an auction has finished please edit the post so that the item number is removed and replaced with a brief description and the selling price. This is to reduce loading time on mobile browsers and the space taken up on the servers. If you need to put something on another persons thread or a different section please provide the item number in the post or a hyperlink to the Ebay page as this takes up less space."

Now we are yet to release the full rule set, but we would like to know what you would like adding, removing or seen on other boards that helps keep the peace and users happy.

We also have some new boards planned, let us know if you have any suggestions

[dazzler]

Small bump to make sure this gets noticed

[majic79]

Some sensible limits on the sizes of peoples avatars, signatures etc, jaffa cakes must be eaten by sell by dates...

Keep it civil...

Can't think of much else

[mjslonergan]

I think the rule of 'Common Sense' which already seems to prevail on this forum should be rigorously enforced...

[majic79]

I think the rule of 'Common Sense' which already seems to prevail on this forum should be rigorously enforced...

Doesn't seem to be all that common (on many other forums - this one seems pretty good!) - maybe we should encourage the use of Un-Common sense here?

[fha772]

Has anyone else got any suggestions or ideas for the forum?

We could do with your input here.

(why does this worry me?)

[Relentless Rob]

Would it be possible for the hyper links to delete themselves after say twenty-eight days? So the contributer can put a description below the link and that would be left behind after the link itself expires.

Also if there's a mobile version of the site shouldn't it be possible for hyperlinks and frags to kept off the screen? Same as Twitface.

[fha772]

There's not a mobile version of the site, but there are some of us that come on the forum on our smart phones, more than on our PC's.
I know that because I'm 1 of them.

If you just post up the web address type hyperlink instead of the eBay gadget, then there's no real issues, but if you do come onto a thread that has a lot of expired ebay link gadgets, it can take an age for it to load if you've not got, the strongest of signals, esspecially if it isn't 3G as well, you also have this problem, if like me, you are miles from the telephone exchange, my broadband at times is about as slow as dial up!!

And now we are having headaches with dead ebay links filling the server as well as slowing down peoples loading speeds.

That's why we're posting this here, to find out what things are causing people problems on the forum, and what things people would like to see on here too.

We can only fix, what the members want fixing, so we need to hear what you guys think.

[bulletproofbob]

to be fair if your interested you can look on ebay for yourself.... i can't as i have no more room!!!!!

[Jaffa]

Couple of suggestions if they are possible.

Limit the size of avatars

Limit the size of photos (640 X 480 is plenty big for forums)

The ability of the author to delete replies to his own threads.
(allow the build diary author to tidy up his build diary and get rid of the out of date and dead links)

[bulletproofbob]

Couple of suggestions if they are possible.

Limit the size of avatars

Limit the size of photos (640 X 480 is plenty big for forums)

The ability of the author to delete replies to his own threads.
(allow the build diary author to tidy up his build diary and get rid of the out of date and dead links)

yes, me too!! like them Jaffa!!!

[dazzler]

The ability of the author to delete replies to his own threads.
(allow the build diary author to tidy up his build diary and get rid of the out of date and dead links)

Thats a really good idea!

[Renrut]

On the subject of pictures - fiatforum has a good way of handling it, essentially its shows pictures as large thumbnails (640x480 size) on the posts but you can then click through if you want to see it properly.

I agree with the idea of a build diary owner having effectively Moderator privileges on their diary to keep it clean and organised - a fair few of the more interesting builds have been side tracked by discussions (Bozwell's Datsun being a prime example). Obviously asking questions should still be fine as long as it doesn't get too OT (like we often do here). That would keep well within the 'un-common sense' we have here.

In terms of rules we'll probably manage with something like "don't be an Ar$e and we'll get on grand".

Sin bins (no posting but can still read) have been used occasionally on other forums too and to great effect usually when someone is being an ass and needs to go cool off but I've not really seen any need for them here.

Oh and something to block the spammers would be nice

[fha772]

...Oh and something to block the spammers would be nice

Hello, here I am!!

(3 sorted so far, did you notice them?)

[Relentless Rob]

Yep. Well done for getting two before I had chance to nuke 'em.

On the picture size issue. I'm posting my photo's on another forum then I have to copy and paste them here because the PPC forum doesn't have a Thumbsnap account. If one were to be set up you could click on here from this forum and post "Forum Fit" photographs and pictures. The size of the photo would be determined by whoever sets up the PPC Thumbsnap account itself. I believe it's free as well.