the membership idea sounds good to keep kidies away but it also sounds like it can be bad also what method will be used to allow a members access to the section.
i'm all for keeping idiots out but not making it hard for admins and server operators to get access. On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Burton Johnsey <[email protected]> wrote: > Given the feedback received from the list, we are holding off migrating the > mailing lists to the forums. > > The intent of migrating to the forums was to leverage the benefits and > features of the forums to further strengthen the community, giving us a > central spot to gather feedback. The forum software is continually being > updated by vBulletin and is flexible enough to also allow us to add our own > features. > > To address a couple of specific concerns about the forums: > > - Membership - We can keep the membership in the DS forums private so that > random forum users cannot post. > - Moderation - We can assign moderators for specific forums. Moderators would > be volunteers from the current mailing list participants. > - Forum server performance - We have upgraded the system that runs the forums > and we do not experience the lag we were experiencing in the past > - The forums are accessible to more people than the mailing list. > > We want to make things better, not worse. We appreciate any further > feedback you have to offer. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
