Mods, do you now have some power?

I've noticed two rather pathetic threads have dissapeared since yesterday, have we got active mods with powers now?

Thanks, the place needs a bloody good clean up

Well obviously nothing's been done to increase powers or even do anything at all about the site......

But I've spent several hours yesterday and today going through some of the threads, trying to weed out the spammers and getting rid of the contentious and inflammatory.

Tim wrote: Well obviously nothing's been done to increase powers or even do anything at all about the site......

But I've spent several hours yesterday and today going through some of the threads, trying to weed out the spammers and getting rid of the contentious and inflammatory.

we got spammed while you wrote that

ShugZV wrote: We only have powers in our allotted forums. Bit of a c@#t really. Espescially with some of the pish that's been on here in the last few months.

Someone really needs to moderate your use of the c-word, Shug...

Snorri xxx

can we have alist of who mods which forums so we can contact the appropriate person about spam?

if you could give me the power to do it I would. (I know it's not that simple though)

I think it's time we got NOOL back on track, the band are (in some form) back together so we will possibly get new members, would be nice to have the place looking decent.

Nobody can do anything without Nicos, and he never replies to anything these days. We're stuck with the decomposed version.

must say, don't contribute as much as one would like, especially as nearly every time I try to log on it doesn't recognise my password and can't be to arsed all the time in changing it.

but as it appears that there are some serious noolers contributing regularly, shall make more of an effort.

anyway shugz, keep the word cu*t flowing as I am sure them that complained of Barneys use of, will avoid any thread where they think such words are in use.

Mods:

If we are not going to use the Ceremony (for live new order) and Music For Pleasure (for projects like The Light) forums, can we just delete them?

We can't amend any of the forum structures, only Nicos could do this as he's the only one with code access. All we can do is delete posts. If I had my way everything would be closed down besides Digital Republic and BCD, and I'd create a separate Light board for people to wind Jack up

So, did Nicos get hit by a bus or something? ;)

Can't he pass the admin powers to someone else?

Tarbox23 wrote: So, did Nicos get hit by a bus or something? ;)

Can't he pass the admin powers to someone else?

Not very nice comment! the place wouldn't exist without him. He's a very busy bloke and doesn't have time for this anymore, he's got to earn a living instead.

Jed Stephens wrote:

Tarbox23 wrote: So, did Nicos get hit by a bus or something? ;)

Can't he pass the admin powers to someone else?

Not very nice comment! the place wouldn't exist without him. He's a very busy bloke and doesn't have time for this anymore, he's got to earn a living instead.

Yeah, I have met him - and i've been here since the beginning - I KNOW how much he has done here - and I miss him - and I think he'd chuckle if he read that...

christ these forums are uptight these days! wtf!

MODS AND rockets

HE LIVES!!!

Great to see you chime in, Nic!

Spotnick wrote: Well, there is so much work to do to update this site that I just get discouraged every time I see the amount of work I would have to do.

I'm unsure where is located the code of the current NOOL, so I would have to rebuild the whole forum system from scratch in order to give more power to those who needs it.

Either that, or I reset the forums from scratch with a better forum system... or find a way to import the old stuff.

In other words, it's a bit depressing just to think about it.

But, but.. there is a new website design pattern I'm learning right now at work, and revamping NOOL might be a good learning school (for the techies, it's ASP.NET MVC3)

Who knows.. with the new activity going on, might be worth it.. I got a bit discouraged when the band decided to stop.

build or setup a temporary board, test that, and tell people to transition over to that one...

archive this board, and let people still access the posts as read-only.

later -1

kill the fatted calf, spotty returns!

Spotnick wrote:

-1 wrote:

archive this board, and let people still access the posts as read-only.

later -1

This would probably be the best idea. It takes a HUGE amount of time to build a good forum system (not that this one was ever good), there are several good ones on the market.

i think with the renewed interest and touring this whole year, there will be many new people joining and coming to the forums.

yeah, please look around before switching, it's not like this has to be done anytime soon.

however, it would address a lot of the forum issues, and bring it up to date with other boards. that have more modern things like captchas to weed out new users/spam.

and also add better posting, editting capabilities.

this current one has managed. but is starting to show its age.

especially with the search, and the messaging.

good luck.. will keep checking back.

later -1

Spotnick wrote:

-1 wrote:

archive this board, and let people still access the posts as read-only.

later -1

This would probably be the best idea. It takes a HUGE amount of time to build a good forum system (not that this one was ever good), there are several good ones on the market.

Dunno what's wrong with this forum meself. Seems to work just dandy.

UpDownTurnAround wrote: Dunno what's wrong with this forum meself. Seems to work just dandy.

it might work for you..

but have you noticed all the spam? (joka ona - fake passports) everywhere!

and there's a lot of unused thread/ categories..

finally, if we really wanted to straighten things out.. all the peter hook/light information would be moved into a separate area with the the side groups..

and only new order posts would be in 'digital republic' area.

later -1

Watch this space.....