Tati The Sentinel
Group: Members
Posts: 3360
Joined: Feb. 2002 |
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Posted: June 09 2004, 10:19 |
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What MO.com forums needed to have is some rules to the users,like this one in here from a Peter Gabriel forum that I've just joined:
Rules from a Peter Gabriel Forum
and a good moderation team(I personally never considered Mike or Fanny as a real moderators since the forum wasn't their main priority thingie) to work as a "police" when necessary.In another forum that I'm also in,which had a big bad problem with some users,after setting up some rules,things have become better to all users.
Here on Tubular.net I've never seen a flame war or stuff like that in almost 3 years that I'm in here,and we have people from different countries,different ideas and points of view,and there is a respect which in a certain way MO.com forums didn't have.
About unhelpful topics - in which way it was said that? Unhelpful for Mike? For us?
Well,some topics are a lack of time(at least for me,like the one Richard C = Mike Oldfield),which I thought it was a silly and stupid(even in here I've never seen a stuff like that),and that made Mike got angry with it(as well as myself).
Some users didn't have a participation which was interesting at all,sometimes I've seen a post competition to get a higher member status,and some posts didn't have something to add at all.Well,of course I've had my silly moments there,some of the users did,but when some of them were silly all the time,it sucked.
It seems to me that Mike still hasn't grown up regarding some subjects,like all the situation of his forum.Things could be different if he stopped thinking that his community forum should be as perfect as his personal world.Some of us can't play Maestro and/or Tr3s Lunas(like me,since my computer isn't that good) as well some of us which are not interested in his computer games.The first attempt was a real mess - the philosophy stuff had become a music discussion,and I didn't see any policy like that on there.
I'd love to see the forums back,since there was some interesting stuff which wasn't discussed on here,but with a "board rules" thingie and real moderators in case things get into trouble again.Mike has said that some of your ideas have helped him on the new album,and this was possible since there was a communication thingie on the forums between Mike and us.
Mike and Fanny - you both have learned the lesson,and it's time for you to reconsider things about the forum.Most users there were not like a few ones who were silly and sucked,and please,think about the decision that you've made.
Think about a structure which doesn't demand so much of you,since the forum is not the priority for you at the moment,but a structure which doesn't lead to all the mess and problems we've seen.It was for most of the users a way to "contact Mike" in a certain way and he did express that some of our ideas were impressive for him on the process of the new album.Reconsider it.
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"But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014
"I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011
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