A Serious Discussion on a Serious Problem

[Hedrachi]

UTC-08

[madmonk]

Hi

After a lot of discussion amongst the mods we have decided to appoint Final Master (his fault for complaining about the Spam ) and Grey as the new moderators.

Thank you both for being willing to stand up and help keep the forum clean, friendly and fun!

There will be a short period of vague instruction and then on to the final step in our clean up...

[Hedrachi]

Poor mods...


errr, grats Grey and FinalMaster!

[Grey]

I promise to try not to accidentally delete everyone's accounts ;)

[greycat]

Grey is green... my mind reels!

[Final Master]

....... *my emotions ran the gambit*

[madmonk]

I have now taken the last step in my plan and have activated the newly registered user group.

New accounts are automatically added to this group and have to go through a process of having posts approved by a moderator. The posts will not appear until they are approved, but you may see a place-holder if it is a reply to a thread.

Hopefully this will trap the spammers and allow us to remove them without their spam being seen.

[madmonk]

I forgot to add that you may see a madmonk_test account logged in from time to time...

That will be me testing things!

[fearoffours]

Impressed you've taken steps to rectify the problem, let's see how it works out, thanks to all concerned for their willingness to help fix this problem.

[madmonk]

Impressed you've taken steps to rectify the problem, let's see how it works out, thanks to all concerned for their willingness to help fix this problem.

Thanks, but I am still not sure we have fixed it...

Only time will tell.

[Grey]

Grey is green... my mind reels!

I don't like it actually :( Don't suppose I could be grey instead? ;)

Edit: In fact I don't like standing out colour-wise at all. I only want to help with the spam problem, I don't care about any moderator hat. We're all mature enough here that real moderation is quite unnecessary.

[Hedrachi]

I don't like it actually Don't suppose I could be grey instead?

Might it instead be possible to rename Grey to Green? Would be more fitting for his present post and would help differentiate between Grey and greycat.

*hides under a mod-proof rock*

[madmonk]

I don't like it actually Don't suppose I could be grey instead?

Regretfully in order to allow you to fight the spam I have to join you to the moderators group. At which point a change in colour is also part of the deal!

[Napkin]

He could still be in Moderator group but have e.g. Registered User as default group, which defines the color. But I agree green looks way better!

[Canderel]

I believe that color is customizable, but I think they name will still be bold in which case it'll still stand out.