Grand Prix Rejects

Okay, now we've all settled down somewhat - and as the actual wise leader before whom you should all be kneeling This - let me just say that the board has increased in size and frequency of posts that I honestly have no idea what's going on most of the time.

If there are people out there just mindlessly bashing drivers in post after post, or post about posting, then that should indeed stop before it gets unenjoyable for people to visit here.

This site is about a love of mediocrity above all else, and not taking yourself too seriously. If we have people not posting this this vein, they should get with the program, or head to another site.

If this means more moderators with the power to email someone a quiet word, then we might have to look into this. I'm not even sure our current moderators frequent all of the forums. Perhaps we should look into a moderator or two per forum.

Although I will say, after the goings on in Japan, bashing Grosjean cannot possibly grow old..... JOKE. JOKE. Calm down.

Kuwashima wrote:If this means more moderators with the power to email someone a quiet word, then we might have to look into this. I'm not even sure our current moderators frequent all of the forums. Perhaps we should look into a moderator or two per forum.

Does that mean mad Uncle Melrose can finally get the keys to the asylum?

Kuwashima wrote:If this means more moderators with the power to email someone a quiet word, then we might have to look into this. I'm not even sure our current moderators frequent all of the forums. Perhaps we should look into a moderator or two per forum.

Of our four user moderators only two are currently active (CarlosFerreira and thehemogoblin both having left the forums a long time ago), and Mario is unlikely to visit the PMMF so that leaves only Phoenix as someone who currently patrols all of the forums. With the forum having grown so large and featuring members from all across the world from different timezones, there's definitely a need for a few more trustworthy members to have the rights to correct wrongdoings before they escalate into bigger arguments.

Considering that I've got a few years of experience working with phpBB and regularly spend multiple hours per day here, I think I would be a quite good moderator. Especially the Perry McCarthy forum, which is 100% community-driven, needs someone to organize it.

Nuppiz wrote:

Kuwashima wrote:If this means more moderators with the power to email someone a quiet word, then we might have to look into this. I'm not even sure our current moderators frequent all of the forums. Perhaps we should look into a moderator or two per forum.

Of our four user moderators only two are currently active (CarlosFerreira and thehemogoblin both having left the forums a long time ago), and Mario is unlikely to visit the PMMF so that leaves only Phoenix as someone who currently patrols all of the forums. With the forum having grown so large and featuring members from all across the world from different timezones, there's definitely a need for a few more trustworthy members to have the rights to correct wrongdoings before they escalate into bigger arguments.

Considering that I've got a few years of experience working with phpBB and regularly spend multiple hours per day here, I think I would be a quite good moderator. Especially the Perry McCarthy forum, which is 100% community-driven, needs someone to organize it.

To be honest I actually think you would be a good moderator.

I would be absolutely rubbish

If you need another mod to make up the numbers, I do spend an above average amount of time here, and look at pretty much every post.

eurobrun wrote:

Nuppiz wrote:

Kuwashima wrote:If this means more moderators with the power to email someone a quiet word, then we might have to look into this. I'm not even sure our current moderators frequent all of the forums. Perhaps we should look into a moderator or two per forum.

Of our four user moderators only two are currently active (CarlosFerreira and thehemogoblin both having left the forums a long time ago), and Mario is unlikely to visit the PMMF so that leaves only Phoenix as someone who currently patrols all of the forums. With the forum having grown so large and featuring members from all across the world from different timezones, there's definitely a need for a few more trustworthy members to have the rights to correct wrongdoings before they escalate into bigger arguments.

Considering that I've got a few years of experience working with phpBB and regularly spend multiple hours per day here, I think I would be a quite good moderator. Especially the Perry McCarthy forum, which is 100% community-driven, needs someone to organize it.

To be honest I actually think you would be a good moderator.

I would be absolutely rubbish

I'd agree that you'd be a pretty decent moderator too, considering that you are pretty level headed and have some experience in dealing with web forums. I'll admit that it might be useful to have some additional support, especially since I am going to have limited internet access and free time over the next few weeks (if not longer) to help out around here.

Myself and Nuppiz? We could play the good cop/bad cop angle on any troublemakers

To be fair, I'm not suggesting I go around disciplining people - rather, I've got a complete understanding of phpBB software, and this place needs better technical maintenance. Jamie, this means giving different rights than "Basic Moderator", that doesn't give anyone enough tools to even deal with spam never mind rowdy members. Anyone who is designated to moderate the forms needs the tools to do so, and right now it sounds like no-one does.

kostas22 wrote:Myself and Nuppiz? We could play the good cop/bad cop angle on any troublemakers

To be fair, I'm not suggesting I go around disciplining people - rather, I've got a complete understanding of phpBB software, and this place needs better technical maintenance. Jamie, this means giving different rights than "Basic Moderator", that doesn't give anyone enough tools to even deal with spam never mind rowdy members. Anyone who is designated to moderate the forms needs the tools to do so, and right now it sounds like no-one does.

Exactly, it's a lot easier to fend off spammers when you can actually ban them instead of just deleting their posts until they're banned by the higher-ups (not blaming you J & E, I know you have a lot of better, more important things to do than patrol the forums all the time). On the other hand, the current security measures seem to be good at fending off spambots - the most recent spammer was actually an old account that just activated itself months after registering. But you can never be too sure.

Speaking of moderating & administrating, I went through the member list and as it turns out, 1196 of the 1861 registered members (64,3%) have no posts to their name at all. A quick glance shows that about half of these are clearly spambots (advertising links in the profile etc.). Add to that that some of the one-time posters seem to be spammers as well, and you could easily cut the current member by almost half of what it currently is without deleting any human account. That could potentially decrease the workload on the forum's hosting service and through that improve its reliability (despite there not having been a crash as of late, I wouldn't be surprised if we would see at least some downtime before this year's end).

I think it's safe to say that Melrose officially has no life

Wizzie wrote:I think it's safe to say that Melrose officially has no life

Congratulations, celebrations...

Wizzie wrote:I think it's safe to say that Melrose officially has no life

Just saw your post count, holy crap

I now have 1/10th of your posts, Wizzie...and I break into quadruple figures.

Wizzie wrote:I think it's safe to say that Melrose officially has no life

I can remember when you were about 1500 posts ahead of me when I took second place in the posts ranking. It's now vitually 3000. As you suggested, get a life!

eurobrun wrote:

Wizzie wrote:I think it's safe to say that Melrose officially has no life

Just saw your post count, holy crap

The fact you have 4000 after less than a year here is quite frankly ridiculous.

4000 posts in one year? Bloody hell.

I would have a higher post count, if it wasn't for the fact that I had a grand total of 19 posts in my first six months on the forum.

kostas22 wrote:

eurobrun wrote:

Wizzie wrote:I think it's safe to say that Melrose officially has no life

Just saw your post count, holy crap

The fact you have 4000 after less than a year here is quite frankly ridiculous.

If I remember correctly Wizzie had only just hit 5000 when I registered so he has posted more than me since then.

East Londoner wrote:4000 posts in one year? Bloody hell.

I would have a higher post count, if it wasn't for the fact that I had a grand total of 19 posts in my first six months on the forum.

My first post came on the 26th June 2010. My second post was on the 21st March 2011. That's almost a Jan Lammers-esque gap between posts...

Anyway, back to more mods and spammers.
I propose a spammers subforum
I saw it on one forum I read tonight
Subforum: Spam.
Description: "If you're a spammer wanting to advertise Viagra, penis enlargement, handbags, sunglasses or just have $100M dollars to give us via a Nigerian scam, then post here!!"

Maybe they'll fall for it?



edit: Of course we would have to add shoes to that list.

Also one other forum had someone selling swim caps. It was really weird, posted like a normal person and their link was to a general guide on swimcaps and articles, not to a seller, and they even logged into chat and asked if anyone was online. Except for that activity, they never came back or were even banned, and it was a website about chillies, nothing to do with swimming. I could never work that one out.

pablo_h wrote:Also one other forum had someone selling swim caps. It was really weird, posted like a normal person and their link was to a general guide on swimcaps and articles, not to a seller, and they even logged into chat and asked if anyone was online. Except for that activity, they never came back or were even banned, and it was a website about chillies, nothing to do with swimming. I could never work that one out.

You were on a website about chillies? There are websites about chillies? Why?

(But there again, of course I wouldn't understand. I don't like chillies.)

pablo_h wrote:I propose a spammers subforum

Here ya go

dr-baker wrote:You were on a website about chillies? There are websites about chillies? Why?

Eitt, tveir, þrír, fjórir, fimm, and I'll not go on in Icelandic for diplomatic reasons.

Yes, there are websites about chillies.

dr-baker wrote:But there again, of course I wouldn't understand. I don't like chillies.

Guess what can also be bought on the internet, heretic!

dinizintheoven wrote:

dr-baker wrote:You were on a website about chillies? There are websites about chillies? Why?

Eitt, tveir, þrír, fjórir, fimm, and I'll not go on in Icelandic for diplomatic reasons.

Yes, there are websites about chillies.

dr-baker wrote:But there again, of course I wouldn't understand. I don't like chillies.

Guess what can also be bought on the internet, heretic!

Because Chillies really have a lot to do with Iceland

dinizintheoven wrote:

dr-baker wrote:But there again, of course I wouldn't understand. I don't like chillies.

Guess what can also be bought on the internet, heretic!

But a papaya isn't a chilli!!! Is it?

Eurobrun has now posted more than me, and I used to think that I posted on here a lot.

Kuwashima wrote:Okay, now we've all settled down somewhat - and as the actual wise leader before whom you should all be kneeling This - let me just say that the board has increased in size and frequency of posts that I honestly have no idea what's going on most of the time.

If there are people out there just mindlessly bashing drivers in post after post, or post about posting, then that should indeed stop before it gets unenjoyable for people to visit here.

This site is about a love of mediocrity above all else, and not taking yourself too seriously. If we have people not posting this this vein, they should get with the program, or head to another site.

If this means more moderators with the power to email someone a quiet word, then we might have to look into this. I'm not even sure our current moderators frequent all of the forums. Perhaps we should look into a moderator or two per forum.

Although I will say, after the goings on in Japan, bashing Grosjean cannot possibly grow old..... JOKE. JOKE. Calm down.

Quite. There's a few drifted away in the last little while (myself included) & although Carlos (in particular) &
Goblin are heavily committed elsewhere the little contact I have with other members yields a perception that the forums in general have changed character.

eagleash wrote:

Kuwashima wrote:Okay, now we've all settled down somewhat - and as the actual wise leader before whom you should all be kneeling This - let me just say that the board has increased in size and frequency of posts that I honestly have no idea what's going on most of the time.

If there are people out there just mindlessly bashing drivers in post after post, or post about posting, then that should indeed stop before it gets unenjoyable for people to visit here.

This site is about a love of mediocrity above all else, and not taking yourself too seriously. If we have people not posting this this vein, they should get with the program, or head to another site.

If this means more moderators with the power to email someone a quiet word, then we might have to look into this. I'm not even sure our current moderators frequent all of the forums. Perhaps we should look into a moderator or two per forum.

Although I will say, after the goings on in Japan, bashing Grosjean cannot possibly grow old..... JOKE. JOKE. Calm down.

Quite. There's a few drifted away in the last little while (myself included) & although Carlos (in particular) &
Goblin are heavily committed elsewhere the little contact I have with other members yields a perception that the forums in general have changed character.

I completely agree with you eagleash, despite not being here since the beginning. And when you drifted away I was afraid you were turned off by these changes. I am now glad you are back!

DanielPT wrote:
I completely agree with you eagleash, despite not being here since the beginning. And when you drifted away I was afraid you were turned off by these changes. I am now glad you are back!

Thank you. I can't say I'm a regular contributor again....

Yes certain changes were a bit off putting......(there were other things..forum related, but best not discussed here )

Kuwashima wrote:BaconLettuceNinja - do you actually wish to change your username? I can do that for you...

I don't mean to be a pain in the arse, but please can you sort this whenever you get a moment? Just PM me or something and I'll give you the name.

Thank you

BaconLettuceNinja wrote:

Kuwashima wrote:BaconLettuceNinja - do you actually wish to change your username? I can do that for you...

I don't mean to be a pain in the arse, but please can you sort this whenever you get a moment? Just PM me or something and I'll give you the name.

Thank you

If it's not too much trouble, could I also get my username changed, as well, please?

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:If it's not too much trouble, could I also get my username changed, as well, please?

Change it to EvilTheCat or AndyAsteroids, or similar...

Completely unrelated to the above discussion, I am actually near the top of the 5th page when it comes to posts!! PARTAYYYYYYYYY

Some people may remember when my sister was going to be on Hollyoaks, but then her scene got cut and she wasn't on. Well she finally made her overdue TV debut last weekend with a leading role in Casualty. Her character was called Bethan, and I believe the episode's available on the iPlayer until tomorrow.

Ah well, it was nice being in the top 20 posters. With the post count inflation thread up and running, and four A-level exams coming up in early January, I expect Pasta and FMecha to breeze past me in the near future.

Of course Jeroen returns from his year and a half-long absence right before I would have passed him in post count.

Whee, if this was F1 I would be driving the second HRT according to my posting rank. Next target is Cynon in 23rd (who is currently 22nd but will likely get overtaken by pasta_maldonado soon).

Nuppiz wrote:Whee, if this was F1 I would be driving the second HRT according to my posting rank. Next target is Cynon in 23rd (who is currently 22nd but will likely get overtaken by pasta_maldonado soon).

Then I would be nearly in GP3 (currently 79th, 77th would be the last GP3 cockpit)

BTW, would you use the order F1-GP2-GP3-Renault 3.5 or F1-GP2-Renault 3.5-GP3?

If we use the first one, I would have the second Tech1 car in Formula Renault 3.5, if we use the second one, I would get the first Lotus car in GP3.

East Londoner wrote:Ah well, it was nice being in the top 20 posters. With the post count inflation thread up and running, and four A-level exams coming up in early January, I expect Pasta and FMecha to breeze past me in the near future.

Speaking of which, why Wizzie have yet to post in the word association thread?

pi314159 wrote:Then I would be nearly in GP3 (currently 79th, 77th would be the last GP3 cockpit)

BTW, would you use the order F1-GP2-GP3-Renault 3.5 or F1-GP2-Renault 3.5-GP3?

If we use the first one, I would have the second Tech1 car in Formula Renault 3.5, if we use the second one, I would get the first Lotus car in GP3.

I'd use F1, GP2, FRenault 3.5, GP3, F2 and FRenault 2.0 as the order. In my opinion that is pretty much accurate to the competitiveness of each class.

FMecha wrote:Speaking of which, why Wizzie have yet to post in the word association thread?

Maybe he thinks that his post count is already large enough.

Me: overusing the word assosciation thread before it was cool.

A helpful reminder to everyone, but particularly some of the younger forum members:

There is more to life than post counts.