Suggestions and ideas

[Naomasa298]

I seem to remember the OG sending out welcome PMs or emails with rules, various bits of useful information etc. Do we do that here? A lot of people who sign up don't post, although I realise they might be spammers or bots. Maybe some encouragement could help.

 

[Baby Billy]

I think we do... check your mail to see if you got one on day one. I remember us setting it up.

 

[Naomasa298]

I think we do... check your mail to see if you got one on day one. I remember us setting it up.

Found it, thanks!

SPAG errors though.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Whoops, I was under Baby Billy... haha.

And, yes... I just checked the backend and it's active. Or should be.

 

[Homer Potvin]

I'll be updating a lot of things over the next few months when I'm done working. I've already flipped my brain back over into regular human mode.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Baby Billy, hmm? An alter-ego, new age spiritual advisor channeled by The Boss? Who knew?

 

[Homer Potvin]

Baby Billy, hmm? An alter-ego, new age spiritual advisor channeled by The Boss? Who knew?

You could fill an entire forum with Walter Goggins characters. I didn't think Baby Billy could be topped until he was cast as the Ghoul in Fallout.

 

[big soft moose]

yep every joiner gets a pm with rules and such... a fair number reply to say thanks - those replies come to me so i know its operable

 

[Naomasa298]

Just a shame that a lot of people join up and don't post anything, but that's pretty normal. No idea how many of those joiners are actually real people though. Maybe people these days aren't sure how forums work any more.

 

[big soft moose]

its normal everywhere, the OG forum had 60k members, only circa 3k had made one post and only a few hundred had made more than ten

 

[Set2Stun]

That's so odd. I wouldn't join a place unless I intended on actively participating. You can lurk quite a bit without creating an account. I want to ask these people and find out.

 

[Naomasa298]

That's so odd. I wouldn't join a place unless I intended on actively participating. You can lurk quite a bit without creating an account. I want to ask these people and find out.

Maybe some of them just sign up to access the Workshop, then decide they don't want to, for whatever reason. I guess some of them realise it's not like Wattpad. Or they get intimidated.

 

[big soft moose]

course about 12k of that 60 were spammers who'd been detected and banned but for whatever reason not deleted... i suspect a goodly number more were bots of one sort or another

 

[Naomasa298]

Oh btw, another forum I'm on just got a tool that matches new users to IP addresses of users who are banned, and lets you approve them before they can post. No idea if that's a custom add-in, but if it isn't, maybe you might find it useful.

 

[big soft moose]

we have that too, its part of the spam filter

 

[Naomasa298]

Kewl, we only just got it recently, so I didn't know if it was a new thing or not.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

You could fill an entire forum with Walter Goggins characters. I didn't think Baby Billy could be topped until he was cast as the Ghoul in Fallout.

(Off to google Walter Goggins, Baby Billy, and Ghoul in Fallout.)

 

[big soft moose]

Kewl, we only just got it recently, so I didn't know if it was a new thing or not.

we had it on the OG forum as well but it was only accessible to admin wheras here the mods can see it too

 

[Homer Potvin]

9 out of every 10 attempted members are spammers. Sometimes in the admin logs, they'll be 15 crossed out names between each real one. I'd suspect that quite a few of them make it through the filter, accounting for a lot of zero posters.