Hi Art, On 31 July 2013 18:28, Art <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to give an overview, why moderation of the forum often sucks. > > The rule, that users have to provide a reasonable real name, makes the > moderation and in specific the approval of new users kind of a tedious task. > I have always to write to people a short message, that they should change > their name according to our rules. Then I have to wait for it to happen and > only then, if everything seems fine, we as moderators, approve the user and > his/her messages. To be honest, I even sometimes just not write to new users > anymore, especially if their first message is of very non descriminative > nature. In the back of my head, I always say, that this is kind of a nice > filter of users, who do not respect the community. > > Unfortunately only a few "newbies" do put a valid realname when registering > on the forum. I would say, that only around 10 percent of newbies, do that, > all other, just put their usernames again there. It even became ridiculous > when these new users, without proper realname, start to blame us > (moderators/admins) of inproper job. > > I wonder, how you want solve this issue with google groups or any other > alternatives.
I think it's partly a cultural thing - on mailng lists it's normal to use human names and rarely do you get daft and inhuman names used, while forums they abound. In the case go googlegroups if users have to have a google account to use the forum then it's likely they will end up with a more reasonable name. I would expect we'd still need to moderate it though - it just depends on how burdensome this might be. Even on the mailing list I and others still have to ask how to address users that just blurt out a bit of tex and don't sign it. In discussions with many participants being able to attach name to helps the human mind track the various threads of conversation, without it the community and communication ends up being a grey blurr. However, you can't catch stupid every time and we really do get quite a few questions that are answered with very basic view of the docs or a search on google. In these cases I try to guide the person to asking better questions or just point them to go an find the answer out in the appropriate place. One can turnaround poor communicators into being positive community members with a bit of nurturing, Cheers, Robert. Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
