[DENIED] 'Senior Member' Suggestion

[kfcSmitty]

I suggest that anyone with over 1000 posts, and has been a member for over a year, should be able to modify users posts.

I have been turned off 4 times today from helping a user because they didnt add vbcode tags into their post, and the code was all ugly.

nothing is harder to read than jumbled code without any alignment.

What does everyone think?

[sevenhalo]

I concur.

I just having a feeling that could be insanely abused...

[kfcSmitty]

which was why I was thinking 1000+ posts..

Maybe have a req for like 50-100 rep points as well?

[big blue alien]

I just having a feeling that could be insanely abused...

Only a feeling?

[MartinLiss]

I suggest that anyone with over 1000 posts, and has been a member for over a year, should be able to modify users posts.

I have been turned off 4 times today from helping a user because they didnt add vbcode tags into their post, and the code was all ugly.

nothing is harder to read than jumbled code without any alignment.

What does everyone think?

I've found that most of the time when you tell someone about vbcode tags they'll do it the next time and/or edit their post. I have an htm file that allows me to post the following with a right click.

You can make your code easier to read if you surround the code with VBCode tags as in this example.

[vbcode]
'Your code
[/vbcode]

which will cause it to show up like this.

' Your code

[kfcSmitty]

Shot down

[Kasracer]

Honestly, in an ideal society this would work well. In today's world, this would be so heavily abused it wouldn't last more than 10 minutes.

I'm currently an administrator and moderator of several other forums (not this one but that's not a surprise since I was banned here once when I was immature and stupid(years ago), lol) and believe me, you give someone power and they get bored or mad at someone, chances are they will just totally mess up their posts.

Maybe some of the mods could edit the posts, but then that might cause others to get lazy and start a trend of even more not using vbcode tags.

[kfcSmitty]

Thats why I set the bar so high..

1000+ posts -> Could be achieved by spamming
1 year+ -> could be achieved by laziness
50-100+ Rep pointed -> means you're actually a contributed to the forum..

Its mainly only the helpful, more mature people that get their reps that high anyways.

[Kasracer]

Thats why I set the bar so high..

1000+ posts -> Could be achieved by spamming
1 year+ -> could be achieved by laziness
50-100+ Rep pointed -> means you're actually a contributed to the forum..

Its mainly only the helpful, more mature people that get their reps that high anyways.

That's not really a high bar. 50-100 rep points are not much. If you get lucky, you can get them quickly (it's taking me forever just to break a hundred and I always help, lol).

Besides, I've been here for almost 3 years and am about to hit 3,000 posts. Under your idea, I would be able to edit anyone's post. I don't think the administrators would want me to do that. While, when I first joined I was immature and stupid and got banned and now I'm the opposite (I'm in charge of several forums, have a professional job, etc...); my immature days are over. But I was still banned at one point. I don't see them giving anyone who was banned and then allowed back powers to do much of anything but post, lol.

[MartinLiss]

Maybe I can bring this discussion to an end by saying that the forum software has options that we could turn on that would allow a specified group of people and/or specific people to edit posts without them being moderators but we have decided not to implement either of those features at this time.

[kfcSmitty]

Maybe I can bring this discussion to an end by saying that the forum software has options that we could turn on that would allow a specified group of people and/or specific people to edit posts without them being moderators but we have decided not to implement either of those features at this time.

The 'real' convo was over when you said no the first time . But thanks for the extra heads up

[brad jones]

If you see a post with code that is truly hard to read, then feel free to 'report it' with a comment asking that the code be put into code tags. In a lot of cases, the moderator can do this easily. I would ask, however, that you dont' abouse this and only do it where it is really, really needed.

In many cases, the mods and I are doing this anyway.

Brad!