Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 22:47:50 09/28/04
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On September 28, 2004 at 20:41:22, Steven Schwartz wrote: >On September 28, 2004 at 20:33:31, Aaron Gordon wrote: > >>On September 28, 2004 at 10:39:58, Steven Schwartz wrote: >> >>>As of now 87 members have donated a total of $2538 to CCC. >>> >>>There are links at the top of the message board if you feel you >>>would like to help defray the expenses of operating the club. >>> >>>Thanks, >>>Steve >> >>What would take some time off your hands is upgrading the board to something >>more modern. Built in search, tons of features, etc. I believe I emailed you on >>this once before, here is the webpage. http://www.vbulletin.com/ >> >>A board I go to often that uses it (so you can see an example of it) is at: >>www.rimfirecentral.com >> >>As far as using this software, I don't know how much easier it can get for you. >>All you'd have to worry about is paying the internet bill to keep the site >>operational and thats about it. Let the assigned admins do the dirty work of >>keeping out the spammers/trolls. > > >But what about the dirty work of doing nominations, weeding out trolls from >nominations, doing elections, weeding out trolls from elections, notifying >people who are nominated to create bios and moderation philosophies, posting >same, responding to loads of emails asking for lost passwords, changed email >addresses, answering questions from moderators, being concerned with possible >legal liabilities, dealing with the ISP when there are technical problems, >correcting problems on the board, reading all posts that are complained about, >and perusing others to keep a handle on possible problems, etc., etc., etc.? >Steve Thats why you assign 'head' moderators. Get other people who are in good standing that wouldn't mind doing this stuff to do it. Have 2 or so mods take care of the more frequent problems, have 2-3 more admins running the board and keeping the peace so to speak, as well as planning nominations (which isn't that often). The message board software can handle the lost password problems as well as the change of email address issue. Should allow you to kick back and take it easy while keeping an eye on everything. I really would like to see the search feature of the new board in action here. It would help out a LOT. There have been countless times I've wanted to look up old posts but couldn't. This would easily solve that.
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