What actions can we promote that will bring back the old AO?

[PBX Ronin 23]

Thought provoking indeed. Still thinking about your post this morning, RX2.

[Lohman446]

I say we just anyone circumventing a ban

[hitech]

Okay, at the risk of sounding like an old fart, again, I'm going to comment on the "good ole days". As many people know, I liked the "good ole days". I'm not necessarily referring to AO, but the "good ole days" of paintball.

Ah yes, the "good ole days". Or were they? There are elements of those times that were better than what we have now. And there were things that were worse. I don't want to go back to shooting junk paint with splatmasters. I would like to go back to a game that was a little less how fast you can shoot and a little more how well you could play. I'd like to change the game of paintball that exists today to include what I perceive as the best of both times. I want to bring back those things that I believe we never should have changed. And there are a lot of them. However, I don't want to go back.

Same philosophy with AO. There are things that are better now. There are things that are worse. And I'll bet that not everyone agrees with what those things are. I'd like to get rid of the "what should I buy" and "look at me threads". I'd like to have a spelling and grammar filter. I'd like shartley to post more. I'd like to have more discussions about what is really covered by a paintball patent. I'd like to have intelligent discussions debating the latest upgrade. I'd like to... you get the idea. However, not all of you would like to see those same changes. Just like many of you probably don't agree with what I'd like to change about paintball today.

And who should decide? I think the owner of this forum is who has final say.

I do think the warning system is a good idea. However, that isn't really a change to the forum as the other ideas are. It's just tracking software. Like the plugin miscue found to limit sigs to once per page.

As long as AO remains viable, I'm happy...

[PBX Ronin 23]

What actions can we promote that will bring back the old AO?

Adulation for the worthy. Condemnation for the worthless.

[Lurker27]

Simply administer an entrance test. it's what the old battlebots forum did (and a smarter group of guys you'd be hard pressed to find).

Basically, a long enough test scares off n00bs who aren't serious in the first place, and also gets rid of idiots who fail the first time around. I'm not suggesting a paintball SAT II, but definately a gate to keep out the electronic noise.

[GodLovesUgly]

make a new rule disallowing "look at my new gun" posts, if you want ppl to see your gun enter it the GOTM contest... then we solve two problems!!!

my .02

[epterry]

Maybe I am wrong, but I believe that AO's intellectual decline started when the spell check was lost. This may seem strange but if someone has a well thought out opinion that looks professional then my reply will be well thought out and look professional. One of the main “features” that makes anything written look nice and professional is that it is legible and contains sentences that are not clauses. Now I personally cannot spell "werth a fllip" (ha ha very funny), But I care about anyone reading this, so I copy paste into word and use its spell check. Yes, some times things will be replaced by the wrong word but this is the exception not the normal case. Thus I believe that making people use the English language would help for a start on the road to making every one realize that we come here to talk about paintball not make primitive grunting noises about nonsense. Thank you for reading my rant. EPTerry

[Automaggot68]

Time Travel!

[Creative Mayhem]

All you little whiney brats complaining about everything and everyone need to go elsewhere and quit chasing off good upstanding members of AO that actually have intelligent things to say.



Whew... that feels better.

[Automaggot68]

All you little whiney brats complaining about everything and everyone need to go elsewhere and quit chasing off good upstanding members of AO that actually have intelligent things to say.



Whew... that feels better.

Thorums, anyone?

[CrimsonTurkey]

The council idea, that sounds like a good way to control the masses, and is the general idea of what I was getting at.

However, i think the exact system seems a bit too clumsy.

I think the job the mods are doing is fine as it is, and it is better we don't burden them with much of the irritating junk. The mods should just go about their normal buisness of keeping the "buy my sooped spyder" in the right forums and banning fools without having to worry about anything else. The officers could, and probably should, have a set number, say 19, and, in the case when an officer should want to step down due to inactivity on the forums or preference the officers, including the one who is leaving should vote to pick a replacement.

To pick the origional officers we could, have some rediculous election. (oh dear god) or have the mods pick them out. Or we could get together, in the fashion of a certain famaglia I know and tell the people we refer to as pazzo to leave while we say something along the lines of "hey paisan, being the great Ao'er you are: How would you like a spot on the council?"

This way the mods can keep doing what they are doing, being overworked and underpaid, while we can create, hopefully in a somewhat efficient manner, our new government to help allow just a bit of segregation betwixt the sane and the insane.

And really, I am amazed somebody listened to my suggestion, thats a new one.

-Turkey

[Lurker27]

Create an invite-only subforum.

[Pickle]

Beat me now but I only read the first and last pages. However, here is my worthless contribution.

The mods here do a great job (no worthlessness there). The problem as I see it is continuing to allow jerks, idiots (I like the test idea), trolls and others to continue to post here.

The litmus test for AO priveleges should be respect towards AO and its members. Mods (perhaps the #'s need to increase) need to absolutely hammer those people that are disrespectful or break the forum rules. Put a pic of your gat in the wrong thread and you get a warning. Two broken rules and a temp ban. Three and you can keep posting at PBN. No leet! The biggest complaint I see here is people being jerks. So take care of the jerks. An off topic analogy would be taking the guns out of honest citizens hand's when the crimials shoot too many people.

There is nothing wrong with banning behavior that is not currently in the rule structure. If someone wants to be a jerk then let them do it somewhere else [cough, PBN]. If someone wants to lay the verbal smack down on some newb asking honest questions, let them do it somewhere else. Being a mod here on AO must be like having kids. Treat the members accordingly. Lay down the law (moral and leagal) and then make sure to follow through.

- end rant.

[PBX Ronin 23]

Whatever suggestions that may be contemplated must keep in mind the idea that you do not want to increase the work load for the Mods. They have enough to do.

[kosmo]

OOOOO... invite only subforum. That sounds groovy. Something like Gmail, where an initial batch of people are authorized 10 invites or something. Though sooner or later I have a feeling someone would sneak by and every crap-head would get in Hmmmm... [/back to drawing board]