Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 09:40:35 03/25/01
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Hi Sarah, I haven't read any of the other responses yet, so I can't say anything about the suggestions of the other moderator candidates but this is just what I was thinking about your questions. I think the board as it is is functioning fairly well thanks to all the members, the moderators and Tim and Steven from ICD-Chess. There will probably always be people in any community on the lookout for ways to make a little trouble. Or a lot of trouble. You could maybe turn the forum into Fort Knox or the virtual equivalent of Area 51 (You know, the officially non-existing air-force base from the UFOs and X-files stuff) but wouldn't that defeat the purpose of a public forum? If people want to make trouble there is always a way to do that. Not that I don't wish that it wouldn't be so easy to post here anonymously but bad accounts can always be deleted. I hope things won't get so bad that every message will have to be scanned on inappropriate language or subjects automatically. It seems a lot of trouble to go design such a thing for just one person who maybe just wanted to give all the members and moderator candidates something to do, liven up a bit an election where nobody can fool around with the punch-cards.. Good ideas for the forum. That's a difficult question! I do like the idea of on-line CCC-archives with a good search-function. That would also obviate the need for a Frequently Asked Question list I think. People could in their message refer to older messages in the archives. A problem might be that extensive searches could take quite some time, it shouldn't go at the cost of the speed of the message-board if that is at all possible. What I would like myself would be that the archived messages could hold their subject-headers and not just be stored by number. If that were the case I think I would search/browse more in the older lists off-line, without even having to use an off-line browser. Many people don't have flat-rate connections yet even if ADSL and cable-modems slowly are becoming more available. Some things you wouldn't have like the diagrams, but I would feed the EPDs in ECTool or EPD2DIAg or maybe some Word-macro I saw at http://www.chessvariants.com/d.font/fonts.html Also there wouldn't be any clickable links and follow-up links in the essages anymore but for the rest it would still be very usable with intact titles. Chessfun, I can't think of any more great ideas to improve the forum right now, but I think Tim Mirabile has already done a lot for us! Eelco
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