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TheSonntag wrote:
So what can be done? Maybe more rules? Banned Topics? Stricter Moderation? I do not know. But something has to happen!
TheSonntag wrote:I normally don't like rants like "everything was better before", but I feel somewhat that I wanted to post this comment in Site Related.
I am an A.Net member since 2004, already reading stuff some years before. And while A.net had many stupid threads 10 years ago as well, I feel that the Quality of many postings has declined considerably in the last year. Too many kids are posting bullshit.
Also, one gets the impression A.net is getting more childish A vs B than ever before, and many Posters seem to lack fundamental understanding of how a globalised world works. With other words: Too many kids. The 40xx thread about the A380 is getting dozens of meaningless comments, while insightful discussions on new industrial developments are ignored and getting little attention.
I was young, too. But I think it is about the olders posting more relevant discussions, and about the mods stopping more irrelevant discussions.
So what can be done? Maybe more rules? Banned Topics? Stricter Moderation? I do not know. But something has to happen!
TheSonntag wrote:I normally don't like rants like "everything was better before", but I feel somewhat that I wanted to post this comment in Site Related.
I am an A.Net member since 2004, already reading stuff some years before. And while A.net had many stupid threads 10 years ago as well, I feel that the Quality of many postings has declined considerably in the last year. Too many kids are posting bullshit.
Also, one gets the impression A.net is getting more childish A vs B than ever before, and many Posters seem to lack fundamental understanding of how a globalised world works. With other words: Too many kids. The 40xx thread about the A380 is getting dozens of meaningless comments, while insightful discussions on new industrial developments are ignored and getting little attention.
I was young, too. But I think it is about the olders posting more relevant discussions, and about the mods stopping more irrelevant discussions.
So what can be done? Maybe more rules? Banned Topics? Stricter Moderation? I do not know. But something has to happen!
Ozair wrote:Pay to post like it used to be. The number of new posters has risen but I agree the quality has reduced significantly and numerous experienced and respected posters on the forum are being ridiculed to the point where many of them have left and we lose some of that great industry insight and knowledge.
qf789 wrote:I guess one thing we could do about threads that keep on popping up on things suchas the 757 is maybe have a general 757 thread, having such a thread would lead users to that thread rather than starting thread after thread and it would also be easier from our point of view to moderate
hOMSaR wrote:qf789 wrote:I guess one thing we could do about threads that keep on popping up on things suchas the 757 is maybe have a general 757 thread, having such a thread would lead users to that thread rather than starting thread after thread and it would also be easier from our point of view to moderate
Yes, this, please.
Topics that need general threads:
757 production
Is the A380 dead?
Is the 747 dead?
Keesje's fly drawings
I'm sure there are a few others
VS4ever wrote:However I am wondering if you don't take a leaf out of the existing rule book. You guys made the change to review the first post of all new members, something which i support greatly, however could you perhaps extend that to new threads as well, While it might be frustrating to have to wait for your topic to come up, especially if it's a crash or emergency topic, but it might weed out more the duplicated ones as a starting point, especially now we've stopped the MH370 part 84 threads. Mods do an excellent job of shutting down duplicate threads if they get onto the board, just wonder if cutting it off before that point is viable?
I for one would not be a fan of pay to post, I love this site and would not want it to change to cut off a huge chunk of the user base, however i am also a realist, VS want to make money from it and it would remove some of the worst offenders, but not all.
Last point, you would make the user base super happy if you could fix and return the airport code hover, i miss that greatly, even though i am pretty good with them.