The future of the rugby forum

by **RDW** Mon 28 Jan - 20:41

First topic message reminder :

Folks,

For those who do not already know, Hero (the original founder of the forum) is stepping down from running the site and I am taking over from him. The first big announcement is that I’ve up-rated the rugby moderating team, with George Carlin stepping up to rugby Administrator and new mods Biggee, London Tiger and maestagmafia created. There will be an Irish/Northern Irish mod to come but they haven’t opened their PM yet asking if they want to do it!

I’m keen to get people’s opinions on the site, good or bad, and to hear ideas on how we can make the site better. I would appreciate if this doesn’t just become a moan about mods – once again worth reminding that we are all volunteers who try to do our best in our spare time. Hopefully adding more moderators will help complaints be resolved more quickly. Ultimately though if all posters treat each other with respect and act with maturity we wouldn’t have any modding to do!

So I’ll leave this as an open forum to raise any points you want to raise and hopefully we can get some ideas.

Finally, I would appreciate if you could follow our new Twitter account – we used to have one but the password for it is long gone! https://twitter.com/606v2R if you could give a retweet as well that would be super.

Cheers,

RDW (Ross)

by No 7&1/2 Wed 31 Jul - 1:36

Sent you a message then RDW.

by Cyril Thu 1 Aug - 8:26

Surely a thread for feedback on how a forum works for its users should allow for constructive criticism of moderation? I know you all volunteer, but if there are problems in an area (which there clearly have been for some time with an aspect of moderation) then it should be ok to voice them. Within house rules obviously.

by SecretFly Mon 5 Aug - 20:55

Cyril wrote:Surely a thread for feedback on how a forum works for its users should allow for constructive criticism of moderation? I know you all volunteer, but if there are problems in an area (which there clearly have been for some time with an aspect of moderation) then it should be ok to voice them. Within house rules obviously.

If you keep this up Cyril, you'll go down as one of the more intellectually superior of us motley crew of miscreants on these threads. Be careful! You have been warned.

by Cyril Wed 7 Aug - 9:32

Aye, Fly. No reply.

by Cyril Fri 23 Aug - 9:05

Cheese

by Pie Fri 23 Aug - 11:41

SecretFly wrote:
Cyril wrote:Surely a thread for feedback on how a forum works for its users should allow for constructive criticism of moderation? I know you all volunteer, but if there are problems in an area (which there clearly have been for some time with an aspect of moderation) then it should be ok to voice them. Within house rules obviously.

If you keep this up Cyril, you'll go down as one of the more intellectually superior of us motley crew of miscreants on these threads. Be careful! You have been warned.

In your delusion you forgot modest

by **RDW** Fri 23 Aug - 16:27

Sorry Cyril just noticed you never got a reply.

The key word here is 'constructive', which generally hasn't happened on this thread.

TBH I'd rather you PM me if you have specific issues. On that note 7.5 I never received one from you?

by No 7&1/2 Fri 23 Aug - 20:04

Dammit. This comes from my inability to use the other version rdw. I'll have to see if its saved somewhere.

by **LondonTiger** Fri 23 Aug - 22:54

I tried to PM you 7.5 but you are set to not receive PMs. Perhaps login on a computer at some point and play with settings?

by SecretFly Fri 23 Aug - 23:15

Pie wrote:
SecretFly wrote:
Cyril wrote:Surely a thread for feedback on how a forum works for its users should allow for constructive criticism of moderation? I know you all volunteer, but if there are problems in an area (which there clearly have been for some time with an aspect of moderation) then it should be ok to voice them. Within house rules obviously.

If you keep this up Cyril, you'll go down as one of the more intellectually superior of us motley crew of miscreants on these threads. Be careful! You have been warned.

In your delusion you forgot modest

My modesty did but forbade me.

by No 7&1/2 Sat 24 Aug - 0:22

Ta lt. Will try and have a look.

by Cyril Thu 29 Aug - 8:27

I get logged out pretty much every day on this forum even though I select ‘stay logged in’.

Anyone else get the same problems?

RDW, re. comments about the forum, there seems little point if you take weeks to reply to any concerns. There seems little or no interaction considering you asked for feedback. I would say that criticism of moderation is fair game (within house rules). If you just want slapping on the back for running a forum then you won’t improve the site.

by No 7&1/2 Thu 29 Aug - 16:17

Tried messaging you LT. I'm guessing it hasn't worked.

by Cyril Thu 29 Aug - 17:01

I don’t get replies either. I don’t think the PM system works. Quite a lot of the forum features seem to be broken or disabled.

by **RDW** Thu 29 Aug - 17:08

If you use the desktop version everything works - the issue appears to be the mobile version.
Alas we can't do anything about that as it's a feature of Forumotion who are the overlords that we host this forum from.

I've checked both your settings and you have PMs enabled.

by **LondonTiger** Thu 29 Aug - 18:08

No, I got nothing from you, 7.5.

RDW, I seem able to PM Cyril but not 7.5.

Even though I access here from my phone most of the time, I still use the desktop version. Sure it means things are small, but the Mobile/Simplified version has too many issues.

by **RDW** Thu 29 Aug - 18:14

Strange - I've got no issues PMing 7.5 and as I said all his settings are set to allow him to use PMs.

7.5 - have you tried from the desktop version?

I actually prefer the desktop version and have no issues with text size!

by No 7&1/2 Thu 29 Aug - 18:26

I do have to use the desktop version to get to pm s but I have tried using it and get nothing. Just a heads up when I'm getting my knuckles wrapped! You'll have to do it in public. Which to be honest is better as everyone can see what is acceptable. I wont get into my gripes again though.

by maestegmafia Thu 29 Aug - 23:11

Try deleting messages from your inbox and outbox this may be full.

by **RDW** Fri 30 Aug - 6:48

Folks we've said several times now that this thread isn't for comments about individual mods.

We do have an email address if people's PMs aren't worked V2forum.606@gmail.com - monitored by me and I share with the Admins.

by BigTrevsbigmac Fri 30 Aug - 6:55

Ok thanks RDW

by BamBam Fri 30 Aug - 7:02

Without even seeing your post Trev, I already know that I agree 100% with what you said because I had the same thought

by No 7&1/2 Fri 30 Aug - 14:13

Ok ta rdw. I think I'll leave it anyway as it wont change anything. Communication and fairness are key. Wagons are circled.

by **RDW** Fri 30 Aug - 17:44

No 7&1/2 wrote:Ok ta rdw. I think I'll leave it anyway as it wont change anything. Communication and fairness are key. Wagons are circled.

That's what we strive for 7.5 although I know we don't always get there, but it's not for want of trying. Part of the reason for that of course is one poster's view of fairness can be very different from another's!

by No 7&1/2 Fri 30 Aug - 17:59

Hmm. Do me a favour. Go and have a look at the locked england wales thread from march. Last 2 pages. View the last message I got a ban for. If you doubt why I've been so vocal about this issue that will tell you why.

by Collapse2005 Fri 30 Aug - 18:01

No 7&1/2 wrote:Hmm. Do me a favour. Go and have a look at the locked england wales thread from march. Last 2 pages. View the last message I got a ban for. If you doubt why I've been so vocal about this issue that will tell you why.

7.5 everyone cops a ban at some point. Don't take it so personally. I think most people appreciate your posts, I do anyway.

by **RDW** Fri 30 Aug - 18:30

No 7&1/2 wrote:Hmm. Do me a favour. Go and have a look at the locked england wales thread from march. Last 2 pages. View the last message I got a ban for. If you doubt why I've been so vocal about this issue that will tell you why.

I'm not sure what you're referring to 7.5 as I've looked at the forum log and you were last banned on 9th August by Biggee for your 3rd strike - the England thread you mentioned was 2 weeks after that

by No 7&1/2 Fri 30 Aug - 19:36

March rdw. All my annoyance stems from that. I want aware I was banned recently. Should have clocked a 7 day ban for that which I didn't get. I assume next time I'm out.

by No 7&1/2 Fri 30 Aug - 19:45

Ah the lip comes.out if I think I'm hard done to collapse.

by Collapse2005 Fri 30 Aug - 19:52

No 7&1/2 wrote:Ah the lip comes.out if I think I'm hard done to collapse.

Me too sometimes. I reckon the best thing to do these days is just ignore the wallys and report posts rather than get into a melee. That's the approach I took when I was set upon by a mod (who is no longer here) anyway.

by No 7&1/2 Fri 30 Aug - 19:54

You cant report posts on the mobile app. Hence the recommendation to do that rather than complain to mods on the thread isnt there.

by Collapse2005 Fri 30 Aug - 19:56

No 7&1/2 wrote:You cant report posts on the mobile app. Hence the recommendation to do that rather than complain to mods on the thread isnt there.

You can still use the "classic version" on your mobile in a browser. Thats what I do. Didnt realise there was an app.

by Collapse2005 Fri 30 Aug - 19:57

Haha someone didnt like my post. Can win them all.

by No 7&1/2 Fri 30 Aug - 20:02

Just very very clunky on my phone. Never go for the cheap ones! Wasnt me by the way as you cant vote on posts or see if your posts have been down voted!

by BamBam Fri 30 Aug - 20:03

Have a green to make up for it Collapse

by Collapse2005 Fri 30 Aug - 20:07

BamBam wrote:Have a green to make up for it Collapse

Thanks BamBam

by LordDowlais Fri 30 Aug - 21:04

Guys, complaining about why you get your collar felt is not the answer. Perhaps you should review your style/approach/mannerisms on here.

I have, and I find this place a lot better for it. Although, I do not spend as much time on here anymore as a result. But constantly pointing your finger outwards, instead of at yourself is not the way to enjoy this place.

Please remember, that it is not one MOD taking action, it's a team of MOD's. They all look at the evidence together, and as a team come up with a punishment to fit the crime.

It is not one MOD with an axe to grind against a particular member.

by No 7&1/2 Fri 30 Aug - 22:38

No you're wrong LD.

by Pie Sat 31 Aug - 1:33

No 7&1/2 wrote:No you're wrong LD.

always has to be special

by No 7&1/2 Sat 31 Aug - 3:38

Does he?

by mikey_dragon Sat 31 Aug - 4:06

What is he wrong about?

by No 7&1/2 Sat 31 Aug - 4:11

As he was presumably talking about that first ban the need to point a finger at myself.

by mikey_dragon Sat 31 Aug - 4:21

I’m still not sure which part of his post was wrong though? Try using the web version and quoting it? Or just stay off the forum, this thread and others continues to be ruined by the same English posters. I’m not sure why the mods are so easy on these guys when the rest of us get comments edited/removed and cop bans.

by No 7&1/2 Sat 31 Aug - 4:24

Yiu have a very confused posting style mikey. Are you talking about me or to me?

by mikey_dragon Sat 31 Aug - 4:27

7.5 I was replying to you, and I’m not sure why you’re confused. You tend to always do this though, someone asks you a question and when you can’t answer you sidestep it by exhibiting child-like behaviour. By doing so you’re just ruining the forum. So answer the question or just move on.

by No 7&1/2 Sat 31 Aug - 4:31

So who are 'these guys' mikey?
The point of LDs post was that I needed to change my style from my banning post. Hes wrong. Theres nothing about it which broke the rules here or even the initial warning LT gave. Which part of the warning did I break which the post I referenced didn't? Why was I banned and the initial post wasnt. I assume you've read it else your post was based on what exactly?

by mikey_dragon Sat 31 Aug - 4:36

These guys? I literally alluded to them just two posts ago Rolling Eyes

- you must be doing it again.
I would definitely say that you need to change your posting style. You don’t have to of course, but continue to annoy enough posters and action will be taken. Your other questions should be sent to the mod team via a PM. If you’re unable to do it due to your insistence on using a different version then that’s your problem.

by No 7&1/2 Sat 31 Aug - 4:38

Right you are mikey.

by mikey_dragon Sat 31 Aug - 5:53

Mods, what sort of process do you follow when reviewing a complaint that’s been made against another poster? I only ask due to being targeted. There have been a few attempts to ruin the forum by certain English posters and I’ve replied with facts, which is on topic - so it is obviously them targeting me. I would suggest taking some sort of action against them, I think their continued and unchecked wumming is due to Wales being ranked No.1, as silly as it sounds. Thanks.

by No 7&1/2 Sat 31 Aug - 6:06

Facts like ludlam is 1st choice. He speaks the 'truth'.

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