The light hand will continue, but I feel a formal moderation process will be more needed with the influx of new members. I want to be prepared. I also don't want to be in a situation where I have to make judgement calls against certain people. People write me PMs all day on why I let certain people do this or that - and this is something I don't have time to deal with - especially when they don't listen to my advice of "just walk away". Really, only a handful of people have caused me headaches recently, and it would be nice for me to be able to offload the responsibility of breaking up arguments and diffusing anger. Also, I've seen TheGame's moderation at work, and he is very very good. His performance is an A. In contrast, Currawong's moderation ranges from a D to F-, although I am sure is his hands are tied because he has to follow orders from his master.Also, when the new forum starts, I am sure the habitual troublemakers who have already been banned from other forums will try to sneak their way in.What's more important is keeping up with good content and leading the discussion. People like Hands, Ultrabike, Atomicbob will be able to help do this on the measurement end. Anaxilus, TheGunner, Clemmaster, Keanex, OJ, Nergura, Audiofrk, Bill-P (the list is really too long) will be able to fill us in on the subjective side of things. We have a lot of "discussion leaders"... all based on merit, not number of posts.
I agree. Can't lose all that data there has to be a way to preserve what is important. I know from other forums I have participated in that most of the time the old forums stay up for say a week then it's up to the users to add all the information onto the new forums.
Nothing will be lost, just that old content will be on the old server.
The idea is to run keep a copy of this current website running on a lower performance server that I will run from a home business class Internet connection. The legacy content can be running on the same SMF forum software or served via web server from a static copy extracted from here. There are +/-'s associated with each method and I will be consulting someone on the best approach. Nothing will be lost, just that old content will be on the old server.Also, some old content will be slowly migrated. The measurements will definitely be moved over for the sake of completeness. Good quality popular content will be rewritten into a digest format and also moved over.
Thad, I've always believed that irreverential genuineness is the bedrock of CS in whatever avatar. Now that I write this, I must stop saying thank you after every question I ask
The transition will be a bit tricky, but I'm sure everything will return to normal. (What's normal here).
What are the seven pieces of nine?
