Thread: IMPORTANT: List of High Priority Town Hall Discussions You Should Provide Input on OR Review

This will be a running list of important/High Priority Town Hall Discussions. The first post in this thread will have a list of such threads, and then follow up posts will provide any specific details:

• IMPORTANT, EVERYONE READ: Some Forum Issues that Need to be Addressed
  
• Suggestions for new moderators and other suggestions
  
• Town hall discussion on procedures for banning and suspension
  
• Adding more moderators
  
• New Message Board Features -- Photo Albums and Message Tagging/Tag Cloud
  
• Who Do You Want in the New Banner?

There are a number of issues that need to be addressed. I am listing them all here and will have a link at the bottom to a thread where you can discuss any of these points if you would like.

First:

The tag system is being abused and one of two things will happen very soon. I will either disable offenders ability to post tags, but creating custom code that deletes any tags by those members every x minutes, OR I will just disable the system all together.

I have asked people to only post appropriate tags. Not to use it to to slam people or make other points, and to keep the tags appropriate for the home page, which means limited or no tags on Lounge threads. Here is a selection of tags I am in the process of cleaning up:

clay has a huge wang, wtf?, beef is ghey, lose, avatard, thongs, please no judging, dental floss, kaylore being silly, wanna play hide n go poop, lex getting owned, im with stupid, chiefs suck, generig tag, boobs, dc is a closet bronco fan.

YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, AND YOU ARE ABOUT TO CAUSE THE ENTIRE TAG SYSTEM TO BE DISABLED.

I consider it extremely unfair of the members creating tags like above to force me to review and manually delete (or create auto-delete code for certain users) their tags that are abusing the system.

Second:

Some of the polls in the Lounge are getting out of hand. Please read or re-read the sticky in the lounge that describes what is and isn't ok to post, and that states it isn't an "anything goes" forum. We loosened up the modding and rules in there, but that doesn't mean that posters, and especially thread starters, no longer need to retain some semblance of good taste in their posts and polls.

Please help me out by reigning in some of the crude, nonsensical stuff. I know it is the off season and there isn't much going on and polls/threads like that have a snowball effect, where one person creates one and then there is a game of one upmanship, but it is time to pull the plug on those threads.

Third:

Sexual content outside the lounge. Again, please read the sticky in the lounge. You will see that the following was one of the reasons for creating the lounge:

Also, one of the goals of this forum is to give those that want it, more freedom, but also to keep the other forums even cleaner, more G/PG rated than they currently are. Keep the risque stuff in the Red Light District, don't take it out into the regular forums.

One of the reasons for having the lounge was so that when people wanted to talk about midget sex or cup sizes (or worse), they had a place to do it. Comments like that in welcome threads doesn't create the impression we want people to see day one of joining Broncosforums.com. Not everyone enjoys that type of humor, which is why we have an 'opt-in' forum.

Many of these type comments are borderline and not 'technically' against the rules, but again the reason I created the Lounge was so that we could have the best of both worlds. The Lounge is a place you can make sexual and more off color comments with a fair amount of freedom, BUT the compromise was that we clean up the non-Lounge forums. Lately, we have been dragging more and more of Lounge worthy comments into the general forum.

Town Hall Discussion Thread

Thanks in advance for help in addressing these situations.

T

Please review first Post in this thread see a list of current "High Priority" Town Hall Discussions that you should review.

Bumping for those that didn't see the new list of high priority Town Hall Threads.