Forum Security Survey

Fidel

Of my own volition and without the knowledge or approval of the site creators and webmasters I have created a quick survey off the site for forum members to express their opinions on whether or not the site should require registration prior to posting, whether there should be moderators, and for suggestions on who the moderators should be.

Feel free to answer or not. This is done completely away from this forum and all answers will be completely anonymous.

I'll let the survey run a few days and will post the results here. I don't know if it will do any good, but at least we can let the moderators/webmasters know how the general users feel about this after we have been on this new format a couple years and anonymous posters have begun to become a problem again.

Anyway, if you want to participate, click here:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8NPCTZG

Boilermaker Ben

Good idea Fidel. I have voted. No need to discuss preferences here...we've been over that time and again. But it will be good to get some numbers on members' preferences.

Fidel

I should have been more clear. Even as the survey creator I cannot see who voted or how you voted. It is completely anonymous and it should be limited to one vote per person.

All I can see is how many people have voted and what the results are for each question.

FlaPoolman

Great idea and thanks for taking the time to set it up.

Little Steven

Rod,

Good idea. This would work for throwdown voting as well.

Steve

Misippi Egger

I think this is a great idea - I have expressed my anonymous vote.

Little Chef

Thanks Fidel! I remember this battle before....it will be interesting to see how the numbers fall out this time.

fishlessman

it would really sway my vote if they could find a way to make registration easier, smoother. still seeing eggers unable to register from time to time.

Big George's BBQ

Good idea Thanks

Celtic Wolf

Depending on email verification in this world of Spam filters is going to be tough to make easy. I had to white-list the forum email address to get forum email.

They are using Captcha for the anonymous post why not use it for the registration.

fishlessman

maybe you or someone could help them somehow with it, gotta get that troll off yer back. a feature that i like on another forum is a hidden forum that is only available to registered users with a certian post count.

Celtic Wolf

I have offered my help several times only to be placated.

They want my help they will have to ask me this time..

Mickey

Good idea. Can you post the how the vote is tolling?

Fidel

I can Mickey, but won't until the survey ends. Keeps from influencing the votes.

So far there have been about 35 responses. I'll wait until there are a couple hundred before posting results. That should be a sufficient sample size to show a clear trend in preferences.

RVH

fishlessman wrote:

it would really sway my vote if they could find a way to make registration easier, smoother. still seeing eggers unable to register from time to time.

This is my only issue with forced registration. It took me almost two years before the process was complete. I always got an email informing me the super-secret code needed to complete the process would be forthcoming but it would never arrive. During this time I was still able to ask for and to receive advice on BGE cooking.
People cowardly attacking members, as was done the other night, while hiding as a "visitor" is enough to make me think it might still be best to enforce registration. It is sad that little punks can mess things up for others to this degree. Hopefully this will not continue.

Bacchus

I like the idea of requiring registration, and disallowing anomynous posts, but do not like the idea of giving selected forum members the right to edit or remove posts that he/she finds unpleasant.

I completed the survery also.

Thanks for putting this together Rod. Good Idea.

Frank from Houma

Good idea. I listed several that I wouldn't mind having "THE POWER". Maybe it could be rotated or have a half dozen.

Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker

i've always thought there should be three or four mods. WMK can't be here all the time. so you'd need three or four level headed people, not predisposed to flights of pique, or given to drinking heavily after 4 pm.

sadly, that pretty much eliminates most of the forum, and is likely why it hasn't been implemented already.

nature boy, wood doggies... they are level headed, but not here as much as they used to be.

fishless never gets involved in stuff, and would be a good choice, but he 1.) drinks heavily after 4pm and 2.) skips town during fishing season which 3.) is all the time for him

troutman

Smart move. Thanks Fidel. I voted even though my post count is small (sniff).

Spring Chicken

Here's an idea for handling those pain-in-the arss peepses.

Mayve we can set up a committee that will serve as "Regulators" who have the same authority as the gunfighters of the old west. When a no-good comes along we just sic the Regulators on his arss and be done with it.

There might be a little 'rub' among those who don't take kindly to real life action figures taking care of business, but I don't care. It might solve the problem and the majority would be happy. That's the ultimate goal anyway.

Spring "Pain Pain Go Away" Chicken
Spring Texas USA

loco_engr

Good idea Fidel . . . and I assume the little light blub lit up after some of those eggnogs from the other night!

2Fategghead

done and done

Carolina Q

Thanks, Rod, for doing this. I have been extremely disappointed at recent events and, regardless of how much of a pita registration may be for some, I think it is the only way to go.

I have been a member of other forums where mods were used. One had mods who were out of control - went to their heads, ya know? So I left. The second (same "hobby") was actually formed as a reaction to the first. Many of the same folks - different management and attitude. The mods made it a point to be fair and even handed. We had mods in all time zones too. We even had one from Austria so we were covered for a great percentage of the time. In fact, I WAS one for a year or so. No, that was not me volunteering. To do it well, you have to be willing to spend quite a bit of time online. And you have to read a lot of posts!

I know many of you have been around for awhile, except for stripsteak who has only 100 or so posts , and I'm just the new kid on the block. But I wanted to offer my perspective. If I was not a member and started poking around the forum and I came across some of the posts from the last couple of days, the LAST thing I would want to do is to sign up in a place where this behavior was allowed to continue.

Buster Dog BBQ

I don't know that it is really necessary. Reason being is anyone can setup an email address and register to post whatever. There are plenty of free email services. There doesn't seem to be that many issues

Zippylip

Disagree on the disallowing anonymous posts, I slithered around here for years before joining, albeit never with troll-like nefarious intent, but the ability to do so eventually led to becoming a member, & I would hate to dissuade good people from joining because they don't want to immediately join the forum before getting to know what its all about.

Agree on the moderators however, with more people able to stomp out the idiots all problems would be more quickly addressed

Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker

looks like someone got himself a word-a-day calendar as an early christmas present.
'disallowing' , 'nefarious', 'albeit', 'dissuade'...

what have you done to our zippy?

Rib Bones

thanks for taking the interest and time to do this. our 9 year old granddaughter loves to read the forum with us. had to really monitor things when she was here this weekend.

Zippylip

this is what happens when I don't drink beer

EggTurner

As a rookie I can not overemphasize the value of the forum. I hope that the jerks don't ruin it; I also hope that over-regulating (or setting up an elite forum) doesn't ruin it. Democracy is messy. Maybe ignoring the jerks is the best approach. Thanks for the help all of you give us. I completed the survey and look forward to the results.

Little Chef

Zip....Understand, this is not stopping LURKing....it is stopping the anonymous BS posting from trolls and those with intent to say something they are not willing to post under their "real" handle. It's not as though there is a "fee" for joining. Just my two cents... (and BT's three cents )

Little Steven

Marc,

What? No beer? I hope you have corrected this unfortunate situation.

Steve