Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback
Well, firstly, some of you may not like this suggestion, and may think it's hard core since this is a chat line. But I feel there have been some accounts that have been created that look a little suspicious -- take for example bod. I wonder if we could implement something where people can only join this place by invitation, like blink nation is set up. Again, some of you may not like this idea, and I can understand why.
I oppose this suggestion, because many visually impaired people are isolated. They have few offline friends, and few online friends. It is unlikely that most Visually impaired people who are new to computers will know a Zone member. However, such visually impaired people may feel that joining the Zone would benefit them, because if they have gone blind or are going blind, they could share experiences, or read about the experiences of others in many aspects of life. Why deprive people of this opportunity, just because they don't know somebody who is already on the Zone?
can you elaborate?
Well, to elaborate a little more, there is a person that a lot of us on here know, and he's created about 10 accounts to try and disguise himself. It's very hard to catch him because he's on a proxy server, and when he's on here, he harasses a few people that were his former friends. Yes, there are some pros and cons to my suggestion, and if some of you don't understand this, that's fine.
How about an intelligence test. That way, not only would we filter out the stupid people who feel the need to create more than one account, we might also never have had to read you're special board topics, and you're positively "dribble on a window" qn's.
CL's and admins deal with accounts and such, so if you have concerns, talk to them, don't post a board about it. Also, you appear to have the sense of a brain damaged ameba, tripping on acid, so it's beyond me how you know when you need to shit, never mind who's got another account.
i don't like this idea. this ite is for everyone who ay want o join it, and et f e did it like that we'd have lot fewer members
Well, at least you can spell, and that's a good thing.
No, I don't particularly like this idea because it would change the fact that the zone is open to anyone (at least until they act stupid, and I mean really stupid). If we adopted your idea, the zone would become a social clique (kind of like high school). And it's enough like high school already.
Bob
okay, this probably won't go down too well. but in a way, i actually think this is not a bad idea. i mean, this site, to some people anyway, looks like a small little community where everyone knows each other and your basically "locked out" of the community. and also, you do have to "play it right" on here (especially if u participate in public qn's or the boards) otherwise u'll be constantly harassed forever with leaving the site the only option. just look at the cases of joshua.bozac and pocket_PC. yes, accounts would still need to be verified by a cl or admin as existing members would still be able to abuse the system. we have just over 5300 registered users now (though at least 1000 of those are abandoned or disabled accounts), so we have a somewhat "active" community already.
Cameron, I think an intelligence test is a proposal that cannot be taken seriously. People should be able to join websites regardless of their intelligence. It is wrong and unfair to negatively generalise against all people who are not intelligent. There are intelligent people who do nasty things, and unintelligent people who do nice things, and vice versa.
Though I disagree with Harry Potter's proposal, I don't disagree with his right to post and discuss it, and I don't believe that posting this topic gives us any information about Harry Potter's intelligence.
I disagree with the Professional. Communities shouldn't reject new members, new members should be welcome. Who each user knows varies, as does the extent to which users feel that they know each other.
In effect, you're saying that somebody who goes blind, or a visually impaired person who doesn't know any of the members of this site, should not be allowed to join, just because that visually impaired person is a stranger to everybody. If people go somewhere for the first time, where other people know each other, they don't expect to be totally isolated and shunned just because they don't know anybody. They expect to be able to make new friends and develop new relationships.
If a user is behaving inappropriately towards other users, the user's actions should be dealt with by the community leaders and site administrators. Other people who have done nothing wrong shouldn't have to suffer.
I side with the majority. Sites who go invitation-only usually are running low on database space or bandwidth, neither of which appear to be a scarcity here.
Cameron, instead of running those worthless fingers of yours on that keyboard, could you go and find something else to do, aside from posting a bunch of bull crap on a board suggestion? I'm getting absolutely sick and tired of drama on a board like this. And the only reason why I posted this suggestion was because there are people on here that create a billion accounts on here, and I'm sure that the CL's get tired of it. I don't like this idea myself, but I just had a feeling that that would make things inbetter when it came to someone creating duplicate accounts.
Sure Potter, i'm off to carve out hilarious and thought provoking qn's for everyone's entertainment. I think i'll start with, rofl! said a spoon.
And I see wayne hasn't pulled his thumb from the depths of his rectum since his college days. Wiggle it around son, you might find you're sarcasm flakes stuck in their somewhere.
who cares,
That's what the ignore feature is there for. If the cl's get tired of it they can quit and other cl's can take there place. that is one of the reasons for being a cl you know!
Other than that, who gives a shit, if your harassed there is a ignore feature and it's really not as hard to use as you all might think! The zone has been a pretty free and open place, sure that has cracked down a bit since it's inception but I am sure there was a little bit of cover your ass going on there.
Not that I care much about what people do here, but the cls and the admins can probably find out soon enough who is real and who is not. (Smile) By testing people on certain things or whatever they feel right to do.
oh this sis just so funny when your'e drdrunk! cam, i love you. like a farm bopy horse boyter loves his horses!
Hi, all. I see what Michael (Hary Potter) is trying to do. He's simply suggesting a way for us to try and stop the problem of duplicates. He is right, that is a problem, and this is the Zone suggestions board, after all. So, he has every right to post it, and this is the correct board to post it in.
I see the merits of the idea, actually, but still think it has more cons than pros to it. Most of what we do as CL's is work on catching the duplicates, and most of the time, we do, whether that be sooner or later.
Cam, your messages are usually witty and crack me up, and you're usually right on target, which is what makes your messages even funnier. However, this time I have to respectfully disagree with you.
Cameron, it's probably best for you to go and take an inteligence test before posting on these boards, especially on this one. I explicitly stated that I don't like this idea myself, but I suggested it because it is becoming a problem.
what would be cool is a box when signing up, " how did you find the site?". that way, there could be a combo box, and people can choose from search engine, got refered, etc. if they got refered, maybe they could say who refered them, that way i think duplicates will be less of a problem, as you could ask the original person if he knows who ever is trying to sign up. i love the idea, actually
what if they put their other account as a referrer, will they be asked if they referred themselves then? of course they'll say yes... i don't see that working so well honestly
Well, Dan, there's two sides to that one. One might argue that that might not work, but on the other hand, I can see how that would work.
Ok, why would it and why wouldn't it? We aren't going to that type of a system, since all the invitation component would do is give the users who create duplicates another step to doing so. So they just give invites to other accounts that they would like to create and so this solves nothing.