BF2S Forums The future of BF2S - By Nostradilbert

Yeah I'd say the data is pretty spot on in fairness. And I hate giving Dilbert credit.

Nailed it

Should get warman to PM Laura

uziq wrote:

orange hound you probably did more than any other staff member during bf2s's peak hey-day to sour the milk and generally pooh-pooh the community's fun (what there was left of it).

you made bf2s feel like a quaker community at times.

this

Teenage-me should definitely have been a mod. I was clearly a very responsible individual.

i don't really care about the mod drama and petty disagreements, that's as old as internet forums itself. there will always be moderators who let it all get to their head and there will be silly dramas. my point was more about orange hound slapping perma-bans on some of the forum's most active members for relatively small infractions, as if the forum has a bountiful supply of active members. and then for years afterwards you had the forums most frequent and high-output posters limited to these moronic one-post-an-hour accounts that could only use, like, 2 sub-boards.

for like 40% of this forum's life it was the same 20-30 people hanging out, shooting the shit. the admins were still policing it as if there was a huge member-base that would take offence or be upset at the forum drama. it was like pandering to an imaginary audience. bizarre.

Hmm, yeah, was never sure about those limited accounts. Especially because mods have no ability to "promote" people as touted by the user title, (as far as I'm aware,) and OrangeHound only pops his head in a couple of times a year so couldn't exactly keep tabs on how things were going. I think this place suffered from a bit of absentee landlord-ism. I remember a while back it took a Facebook post for Chuy to even be aware his server was down for a long time.

It could have used a person who was here enough to keep their eye on things. A caretaker more than an administrator but nonetheless someone who had the ability to make sure the place ticked along as well as possible. Someone to re-tool things a little from a site in its prime to one in it's autumn. I think OrangeHound tried that a bit, Post Limited was a lot better than the old approval process given the circumstances in my opinion, it's problem was that no-one but OrangeHound as the only active-ish Admin had the ability to promote anyone.

I still think the server crashes did more to clear out the population and halt the activity but your criticisms are fair.

Meanwhile forum moderation has been altogether unnecessary for a long time as most people know enough about each other to be able to sort out their own problems. Aside from deleting the odd spammer which is pretty rare, (thanks to steps taken by OrangeHound to a large extent.) If this was a company I'd have been made redundant long ago.

Last time I had to actually sort out of a problem was when Lavadisk went insane in around September 2012. I banned him until until 2013 so he'd stop harping on about the end of the world. Turned out his brain was addled by DMT and he was subsequently institutionalised. He came back briefly at the end of 2013 to blame me for that which is how I know. Like I said, most of you have no idea the kind of crap we've had to deal with over the years...

Look how many banned people...

I have to wonder how many of the posts were only one word.

11 bravo was marine. Eleven bravo was gunslinger.


Eleven bravo is the military classification for infantry specialist in the U.s. military

Last edited by SuperJail Warden (2015-05-17 18:13:06)

Almost 20k posts by me.

what a time to be alive.

lol butts indeed.