While I don't use twitter, (hey it took me over 10 years to warm up to cell phones!) I think this makes some sense. Also the point about too many sub-forums, breaking up the community.

 

we need more people to help maintain instead of one person in charge...i didnt mean to break the state up into sections and add more sub forums, every area needs someone in charge not just the 1 person in charge of the state. The smaller the groups of people the easier it is for a mod to help and keep people in line

 

I suppose there is some common ground on the whole locking threads debate. I wouldn't have even brought up the whole locking threads issue if (1) everyone had equal power to lock their own threads, and (2) the COs/MODs only locked a handful of threads over five years. In fact, just in the past few weeks I can recall at least three threads including this discussion that have been locked (unnecessarily IMO) all relating to changes in the UMW. Not only that, but this isn't the first time similar issues have come up (there seems to be similar drama whenever a CO leaves or new COs are appointed/elected). It's getting harder to make suggestions regarding the community and encourage participation if particular voices are shut down. Now, Paul has suggested prunning threads which I almost mentionned myself, I agree that threads can be prunned, but I would hope that a simple PM would cause people making personal attacks to appropriately recant them and edit their own threads appropriately. I think that sets the best example. It's much stronger to have the person you believe made the personal attacks to either recant or explain him/herself rather than lock the entire thread. I don't disagree with the rule banning personal attacks. I do disagree with the approach I see used to deal with personal attacks -- it just seems inadequate.

 

[QUOTE=ruexp67,Mar 30 2010, 12:04 PM] I fear lots of segmentation. I think too many sub-forums will prevent interactions. Kamron mentioned his first meet in WI, I am afraid he would never have come if the board was too broken up. If we were going to have regional sub-forums, then why not give those regions full-blown regional communities?

I still believe that communication is key to the success of the community. Charlie floated the idea of a Twitter feed with links to events and popular interest threads. That could be worth a shot. I think the calendars need to come back as a resource for the community.

 

[QUOTE=Kamron,Mar 30 2010, 02:26 PM] I suppose there is some common ground on the whole locking threads debate.

 

I totally agree on setting up some rules during the meets. It can be taken as a friendly reminder to ALL the members, since we sometimes forget what the rules are. I’m all about making this community stronger and better. We all know that we have some good members in here. We must remember that we ALL have the same passion and that’s why we are all here. I am here to share, learn, help and most important to have fun. After all the S2000 is fun to drive, so let’s not take the fun out it by not getting along or whatever.

Every so often a new member joins the board. Why don’t we make it a mandatory for ALL to post to the “Introduction thread” and maybe even move this thread by the FS section on top? This will give everyone a chance to know at least whom he or she is dealing with. And I think CO’s should be first and the rest of the members can follow. This can also make things easier for everyone during the meet since everyone will atleast have an idea who’s who from the “Introduction Thread/Forum” rather than just talking to the first person that approaches them at the meet.

Meets/Events, small meets on Thursday’s big/small group I think should continue. As for myself I’m planning on keeping my Thursday night open for future local s2k meets. We can try hosting a meet every last Saturday of the month. Having a set day every month can maybe give everyone to attend since we all have different work/school schedules. Here are some ideas that we can do in the near future. Tech day, lunch meet (restaurant), bbq meet (can be held at a local community park), sport meets (basketball, tennis etc. I’m sure some of us can show some of our talents through playing some sports. No UFC fights), photo shoot meet (A good time to show the rest of s2ki community what UMW is all about).

 

I've never figured out how to, nor do I think I have the ability, nor do I think guests have the ability.

 

If you open any thread that you've started, scroll down to the bottom and you'll see a drop down box which says "Moderator Options" if you click on that, you can click on "Close Topic". I know members have the ability, I would assume that guests do as well. Only a CO or Mod can move a thread, but an OP can most certainly close their own thread.

 

Pretty close in terms of who can do what.

In a nutshell:

OP controls their own thread in terms of opening and closing their thread.
CO can open/close and edit threads in their community.
Moderator has the same rights as a CO does in their respective forum.
Site Moderator can open close and edit in any forum on s2ki

Only an Admin can ban/suspend a user.


Every community handles editing differently and that's perfectly ok. I think that balance is something that needs to be maintained by the CO. I can come in to UMW edit something that I perceive as a personal attack, but then find out later it is an inside joke or a reference to something that occured at an event. Not saying that it's appropriate behavior, just saying that it's best handled by someone "in the know"

 

Original poster has the ability regardless of status