Well, I'd love to see a summary of what the forum admin overlords have garnered from this thread and what the current plans are, specifically.
1. Ruleset.
2. Name.
3. Moderation team.
4. Thread tagging?
5. Usergroups?
6. Characters/Real Poster differentiation?
This is by the way why - in that other thread - I asked for a temporary Smoke Filled Room analogue first, so we could have multiple threads for different subjects related to this topic, so specifics could get hashed out without drowning in a single thread full of different things.
No response to this yet.
Holiday season over here in the US where all but two of the mods are based. People are busy.
My current understanding of the items listed:
1) Presumably similar to the rules for the IGS, with the expectation they'll actually be enforced. Personally I would prefer a strong bias towards enforcement being dealt with IC - at least outwardly to posters - and only dealing with things OOC if absolutely necessary (ie, a pattern of behavior across multiple characters all belonging to the same player).
2) None set. We're doing a beta attempt first. Name for the actual thing can come later, whether as some IC initiative through the beta forum or a separate "offer names" -> "vote on names" thing here.
3) Backstage mods to start; I'm guessing we're going to watch the beta forum and yoink some additional people from there. This has come up though no names have been put forward yet.
4) Not seen any discussion internally about these. I don't think that they're all that useful beyond stating the obvious (if they're supposed to be used to show what is/isn't "on-topic" as I understand them to be, which should be self-evident from the contents of the thread), and I'm not sure how we'd implement these anyway, whether as space-wasting tags you put in the thread title, or some sort of checklist when posting the thread.
5) Usergroups aren't necessary if the new forum is on its own subdomain. Shouldn't really need to use them here for the purposes of the beta. The only real use for these I can think of off the top of my head at the moment is allowing moderators the ability to see when there are new reports without them having to log off and log into a moderation account.
6) If we can't find or make a tool to deal with the API so we can have some sort of single-sign-on like the official forums have (I'm looking and not having much success), people are just going to have to create individual accounts for each character they wish to post as deal with the multiple account issue. We may still add an API mod to let people link their portraits/corp/alliance stuff over even if this is the case.
Edit: I have just posted at length in the mod areas about all of these. Hopefully we'll have something more substantial to post in a day or two. Silver's got RL up the wazoo and may have time here or there to read or post a bit. Havo said he'd look tomorrow, and I'll prod Jek and the rest to go give it a look.
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