GO
The New Member badge often makes it easier to spot the idiots in the conversation and therefore allows you to belittle that member as such. A Vintage Member badge would carry with it a sense of knowledge and prestige but of course there are many undesirables who have been on TV Forum for many years and bestowing such a badge on these people would make it more difficult when you're trying to assert your superiority and correct someone who thinks that a TV programme was filmed in a different studio or an ident was introduced half a year earlier than they suggested.
An IBA-style quality threshold for such badges might, however, be worth considering.
Why are new members rewarded with a 'New Member' badge? New members deserve NOTHING. It should be the long standing members who get a 'Vintage Member' badge instead. Please consider my views.
The New Member badge often makes it easier to spot the idiots in the conversation and therefore allows you to belittle that member as such. A Vintage Member badge would carry with it a sense of knowledge and prestige but of course there are many undesirables who have been on TV Forum for many years and bestowing such a badge on these people would make it more difficult when you're trying to assert your superiority and correct someone who thinks that a TV programme was filmed in a different studio or an ident was introduced half a year earlier than they suggested.
An IBA-style quality threshold for such badges might, however, be worth considering.
GM
I wouldn't say 'Vintage Member' as such but something like...
New Member
Member
Established Member
Insider
But I do agree with Gottago's comment about belittling the idiots...It makes me feel warm inside when I've done it!
New Member
Member
Established Member
Insider
But I do agree with Gottago's comment about belittling the idiots...It makes me feel warm inside when I've done it!
BA
We used to have something like that long long ago, but it made people cliquey and was quickly dropped.
Bail
Moderator
Why are new members rewarded with a 'New Member' badge? New members deserve NOTHING. It should be the long standing members who get a 'Vintage Member' badge instead. Please consider my views.
We used to have something like that long long ago, but it made people cliquey and was quickly dropped.
WH
First of all, your attitude is uncalled for. Don't be so bloody rude.
Secondly, you can change your time settings here.
OK. First of all, I'm really sorry for my attitude earlier. I was in a bad mood because of another, personal issue.
Back to topic. I had no such issue before neon, and I didn't touch time settings since I joined here.
I'm at UTC+9 timezone with no summer time applied. Fix this.
First of all, your attitude is uncalled for. Don't be so bloody rude.
Secondly, you can change your time settings here.
OK. First of all, I'm really sorry for my attitude earlier. I was in a bad mood because of another, personal issue.
Back to topic. I had no such issue before neon, and I didn't touch time settings since I joined here.
DT
The whole New/Established Member issue is something interesting my proposal would be upon becoming a new member you can't...
Put mocks on the Gallery or Request stuff for 6 months.
Recently there have been too many p*ss-poor graphics mocks on The Gallery most of them revolving around Good Morning Britain or one of ITV's new shows, I've also noticed that the 'Old' New Members are now acting very cocky towards 'New' New Members. - Maybe if you got less than three stars on your last mock you can't upload one for either three months or before it goes towards a committee of the admin staff.
The Requests thread really needs rules or some reform - some new members just go onto the requests thread and ask for one thing for say a University Dissertation and then are never seen again. The BBC News Themes Index seems to be abused now as some members (often those who don't contribute) just add and add requests onto it which defies my original intentions for the thread.
The main forums used to be bustling with useful information and updates as well as insiders posting well-informed knowledge but these days the forums have devolved into some kind of running commentaries on the latest half-past the hour titles sequences or camera positions. The BBC News Channel Presentation thread would be half as long if someone took out every mention of a camera error. It's almost as banal as that forumer who posted updates on the female newsreaders outfits (before he was uncovered to have two accounts).
This forum used to (up until about a year ago), to quote Reith, Inform, Educate and (Occasionally) Entertain , but these days it's just rotas, camera errors and 'GMB'. Just a few ideas on how to sort new members (in addition to some I have previously mentioned).
6 Month Evaluation Period
Age Limit (i.e. none of these evident children who go on powerpoint and come out with BBC Logos using Arial or whatever and form little vengeance circles)
Although I'm opposed to this with immigrants - How about a cap on the number of new members?
Put mocks on the Gallery or Request stuff for 6 months.
Recently there have been too many p*ss-poor graphics mocks on The Gallery most of them revolving around Good Morning Britain or one of ITV's new shows, I've also noticed that the 'Old' New Members are now acting very cocky towards 'New' New Members. - Maybe if you got less than three stars on your last mock you can't upload one for either three months or before it goes towards a committee of the admin staff.
The Requests thread really needs rules or some reform - some new members just go onto the requests thread and ask for one thing for say a University Dissertation and then are never seen again. The BBC News Themes Index seems to be abused now as some members (often those who don't contribute) just add and add requests onto it which defies my original intentions for the thread.
The main forums used to be bustling with useful information and updates as well as insiders posting well-informed knowledge but these days the forums have devolved into some kind of running commentaries on the latest half-past the hour titles sequences or camera positions. The BBC News Channel Presentation thread would be half as long if someone took out every mention of a camera error. It's almost as banal as that forumer who posted updates on the female newsreaders outfits (before he was uncovered to have two accounts).
This forum used to (up until about a year ago), to quote Reith, Inform, Educate and (Occasionally) Entertain , but these days it's just rotas, camera errors and 'GMB'. Just a few ideas on how to sort new members (in addition to some I have previously mentioned).
6 Month Evaluation Period
Age Limit (i.e. none of these evident children who go on powerpoint and come out with BBC Logos using Arial or whatever and form little vengeance circles)
Although I'm opposed to this with immigrants - How about a cap on the number of new members?
BA
Bail
Moderator
All of these things have been happening pretty much forever, the summer holidays are always a "busy" period here, that always annoys the forum "elders" but my view on how I do things is that we want TV Forum to be a open and welcoming place to all of our members, young or old, new or ancient.
As was mentioned in the TVF birthday thread a lot of the now old 25+ members stated in their mid teens and were just as annoying and the new ones, but we grow out of it and learn the forum etiquette and things progress. We've had a "this is the end of TV Forum as we know it" style threads seemingly annually, but we're still here, members come and go and that's normal.
As was mentioned in the TVF birthday thread a lot of the now old 25+ members stated in their mid teens and were just as annoying and the new ones, but we grow out of it and learn the forum etiquette and things progress. We've had a "this is the end of TV Forum as we know it" style threads seemingly annually, but we're still here, members come and go and that's normal.
JB
Recently there have been too many p*ss-poor graphics mocks on The Gallery most of them revolving around Good Morning Britain or one of ITV's new shows.
This forum used to (up until about a year ago), to quote Reith, Inform, Educate and (Occasionally) Entertain , but these days it's just rotas, camera errors and 'GMB'.
This i have to agree with. Whenever there's another relaunch of daybreak the mocks forum goes in to overload with usually bad mocks that claim to have been worked on for "the last few weeks" There's only a few designs in the gallery that i actually like and one of those is Whataday's Big Breakfast 2014 mock (which still hasn't had general discussion about the show split from it might i add!)
I also have to echo comments about the GMB thread. It's like watching a bunch of school kids in the playground and making a big fuss over nothing just because the backdrop behind the sofa looks different.
I joined at a young age in 2003 and i am now in that age group Bail mentioned (25+) but i don't recall being THAT annoying.
Recently there have been too many p*ss-poor graphics mocks on The Gallery most of them revolving around Good Morning Britain or one of ITV's new shows.
This forum used to (up until about a year ago), to quote Reith, Inform, Educate and (Occasionally) Entertain , but these days it's just rotas, camera errors and 'GMB'.
This i have to agree with. Whenever there's another relaunch of daybreak the mocks forum goes in to overload with usually bad mocks that claim to have been worked on for "the last few weeks" There's only a few designs in the gallery that i actually like and one of those is Whataday's Big Breakfast 2014 mock (which still hasn't had general discussion about the show split from it might i add!)
I also have to echo comments about the GMB thread. It's like watching a bunch of school kids in the playground and making a big fuss over nothing just because the backdrop behind the sofa looks different.
I joined at a young age in 2003 and i am now in that age group Bail mentioned (25+) but i don't recall being THAT annoying.
ET
I don't agree at all with age limit's, really it shouldn't matter what your age is as long as your not causing a hassle. From personal experience, I've known quite a lot of people around the age of 10-14 on the internet, and whilst I've encountered my fair share of troublemakers, most of said people have conducted themselves in a very mature and friendly manner, probably more so than some of the so-called "veterans" on here.
DT
Sorry I should have not put it there - I didn't really want to make that point but more one of people who are just acting like children like the squabbles and revenge down marking between the Good Morning Britain Mockers. I am only 16 (17 at the end of the month) but eeuuh. I was wrong there.
I don't agree at all with age limit's.
Sorry I should have not put it there - I didn't really want to make that point but more one of people who are just acting like children like the squabbles and revenge down marking between the Good Morning Britain Mockers. I am only 16 (17 at the end of the month) but eeuuh. I was wrong there.