A new forum - just for me!

i concur, a good idea...but...some forums you cannot even mark your respect with a thumbs up, thats clearly done by being, for example, a twitter follower....unless your name is joey7barton et other such scum. then its car crash x factor tv style entertainment. an interesting guy who joins twitter....then gets 100k followers soon becomes a megalomaniac cnut, perhaps thats the point.
 
rsh01 said:
i concur, a good idea...but...some forums you cannot even mark your respect with a thumbs up, thats clearly done by being, for example, a twitter follower....unless your name is joey7barton et other such scum. then its car crash x factor tv style entertainment. an interesting guy who joins twitter....then gets 100k followers soon becomes a megalomaniac cnut, perhaps thats the point.
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yer well, n0fink is purfect.

but

maybe you could have like everyone with 2 "statistics"... % of followers that are followed, and overall followers. or summit like that. so like a pie chart and a bar graph in the avatar bit. or maybe "number followed / number following" and "number vendors / number following"

actually that second one could be good

so like if you get someone only following vendors, you can tell. or if a vendor is only followed by other vendors (reciprocal arangement), you can tell. or if like there is "number nn-vending following = nukber non vendor followers" you can see liek its a "qlique" of forum buddies, or if "number non-vending following << number non vending followers" then obviously gt summit interesting to say, be it lulz or trading.

or if you get someone that is following 0% vendors but has LOADS of followers then is either good lulz or good trading.
 
you're on the right track.

the 'greeks' of the vendor market cld be the new financial instrument....say the gamma of vendor followers...how gd wld that be? how quickly do noobs follow/unfollow vendors? a great stat. no idea where the others come into it.

i mentioned some other dayz prev, there shld be a vendor index....inc a scammers market - to hedge with, start an open outcry for known scammers with direct access to forums like t2w/babypips noobies who have already signed up....stay with me...

actually still early days, not sure how it will work.
 
scammerdaq. a weeky comp.

srsly, shows how out of touch t2w "officials" are...

... 'cos, like, short sterling was a full tick, then it was half tick, then it was full tick again. thats a proper exchange changin the rules to suit their "customers" (cough cough).

LIFFE changed their algo as well!

HFT is gonne bring new regs 4 certain.

see, Steve, you got 2 stop looking for "ultimate forum" solution, and just deal wiv the pr0blems u got now. like vendors >> trading stuff >> lulz. make inentives for solving that and deal with noo prblems when u get 'em.
 
It's a shame there is no minimum number of posts required before one is allowed to start threads. It would cut so much rubbish and it's easy to implement.

For example there is a new member (member from today) and he's already managed to start 7 new threads (so far) asking to contact him on Skype
 
ZEN archer said:
It's a shame there is no minimum number of posts required before one is allowed to start threads. It would cut so much rubbish and it's easy to implement.

For example there is a new member (member from today) and he's already managed to start 7 new threads (so far) asking to contact him on Skype
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yes with 100% guaranteed managed account with 100% signals no less (y)

i'm in, are you? :whistling :D

i believe it safe to say that the poster wouldn't have lasted as long as they have if anyone was about.
 
Lightning McQueen said:
i believe it safe to say that the poster wouldn't have lasted as long as they have if anyone was about.
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They don't have to be here all the time - just do it automatically. Also they can limit number of posts per day at the beginning (for anybody below a certain number of posts) - that would eliminate lot of rubbish.

Maybe just leave few for teh lulz
 
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We did this a few weeks ago and there was an outcry. The result of having a post limit before starting threads was even more garbage, lots of one line posts just to get over the limit. So we changed it back due to popular demand.
 
Steve said:
We did this a few weeks ago and there was an outcry. The result of having a post limit before starting threads was even more garbage, lots of one line posts just to get over the limit. So we changed it back due to popular demand.
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Seems that there is a middle ground here.

Nobody wants to see someone making 15 spam posts just to start a thread, and nobody wants to see a bunch of pointless threads.

A new poster should be allowed to create ONE thread until he has reached a posting amount. I don't think anyone minds one thread being created.

Typically a genuine person wants to ask some question. So let them. If they are genuine they will respond in their own thread, and may post elsewhere. If they don't, no more threads for them.
 
I'm all for middle ground, any more thoughts on this from everyone else?
 
Shakone said:
Seems that there is a middle ground here.

Nobody wants to see someone making 15 spam posts just to start a thread, and nobody wants to see a bunch of pointless threads.

A new poster should be allowed to create ONE thread until he has reached a posting amount. I don't think anyone minds one thread being created.

Typically a genuine person wants to ask some question. So let them. If they are genuine they will respond in their own thread, and may post elsewhere. If they don't, no more threads for them.
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Thats a good idea S..........I was all for the system Steve has put in........ but clearly the mentality of people intent on posting spams knows no boundaries.....:innocent:

N
 
Steve said:
I'm all for middle ground, any more thoughts on this from everyone else?
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From my perspective it depends on the modding resources. With enough eyes there need be no restriction whatsoever because mods can pick up dodgy stuff pretty quickly and deal with it almost before anyone notices. Or in response to reports if people keep hitting the button.
 
Some of the suggestions being made are more difficult than may appear as they are not standard options for the forum software and would require specialist coding.
 
nobody pushed the button yet in regard to the swiss outsourced ukrainian managed account spammage then jon? you can't always rely on reports on vendor stuff, or indeed dodgy pm spam. keep em peeled :) the only way surely?
 
some of the forums out there requires new members posts to be reviewed by the mod before being published ...
 
tar said:
some of the forums out there requires new members posts to be reviewed by the mod before being published ...
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Already got that, tar. Most held in the mod queue are because of links in the posts.
 
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