Changes in the next few day on BT.

**Nøz** · #1 (**permalink**) 03-14-2008, 11:59 AM

Ok here's a heads up for everyone.
Currently the Mod Team is working on a few changes. They will take place to hopefully improve BT and bring it up from the ashes.

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Update:

Girl,Synith and I are now Admins.
We are working on the merging of forums.
I Have made Opu a super mod seeing how he is always on in the A.M. hours.
I have changed the color of the super mods to Purple
I have added a strick out and color change to the banned users.
I have added a 3 infractions with in 30 days will lead to a temp ban for a week.(this can be changed or added as a point system)
I'm trying to figure out how to make the mods mod everything but at the moment I am missing powers in the Admin CP. (I sent a message to chad to see if he can fix.)

To do:

Forum merging.{DONE}
Fixing Mod rights(so they may mod all sections){DONE}
Applying new rules to the site. ~>http://www.tsewebdesign.com/filez/be...st/btrules.pdf {DONE}
Creating Admin, and Super Moderator/Moderator Guidelines.{DONE}
V bulletin update.{WAITING ON CHAD}

There will be no more Marriage theards you may still marry and put it in your signatures.
The Piss N Moan forum will be renamed, if you need to complain about something use the blogs.
The Adopt a nood rules have changed from 10 post to be adopted to 50 post, and from 400 post to adopt to 1,500 post to adopt a noob.

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Forum Tasks::

The Arts: The whole Creativity section, with a subsection for Art and a Subsection for Literature (Art and Poetry & Literature,General [Creativity], and Roleplaying [make this a sub-subsection of Literature) {Done}

Technology: Automotive, Technology {Done}

Sports: self-explanatory {Done}

Entertainment and Recreation: TV & Movies, Games, Comedy {Done}

Food, Fashion, and Fitness: Food and Life & Living {Done}

{Done}The General [main] and Gibberish sections should be merged.

{Still working on}
The religion section needs to get everything except Atheism, Christianity, and Paganism (and perhaps New Age) rolled into Other. 'Ethics' and 'Existentialism' should be rolled into Philosophy. This is because they are simply not active enough to warrant an entire sub-section devoted to them.

everyone's favo · 03-14-2008, 12:05 PM

What about a warning system? I know people told me before that there is one, but I have yet to see one used or implemented. Just simple bannings and temp bannings.

It could be something simple like 3 warnings for a temp ban, and your 3rd temp ban warrants the boot.

**Nøz** · 03-14-2008, 12:10 PM

Taken From the rules being made now.

Quote:

Moderation-Explained
1. BeastToast operates a three strike policy. Users will be warned a maximum of two times for any
and all offences in a one month period. If the need arises for a fourth warning a temporary ban
will be put in place of between 30 to 90 days.
2. Arguing with team members after having received a warning will lead to an immediate additional
warning. Should this exceed three strikes a temporary ban will be put in place as above.
3. Users who feel they have been unfairly warned are welcome to contact the relevant team leader,
e.g. if warned by a moderator you should contact the Moderator team leader. If they feel you were
treated badly they remove a warning.
4. Any attempt to circumvent a temporary ban will lead to that ban being made permanent.
Circumvention includes re-registering under a non-banned username, changing IP addresses to
evade an IP ban, registering a new email account of evade an email ban. Circumvention includes
posting as an anonymous user.
5. An exception to the three strike rule applies when users contact team members personally (via
any method) and post insulting, indecent or vulgar material. Such users may be subject to an
immediate permanent ban.
6. Permanent bans are a last resort and thought is given before implementing them. While
BeastToast may consider lifting permanent bans from time to time this is a rare occurrence

**Arcángel** · 03-14-2008, 12:14 PM

Only 1 problem with the IP ban. Most clients get their IP addresses through DHCP, meaning that once their DHCP lease is up from their provider, their IP address will change. That can prove problematic for a user and a moderator who are within the same subnet mask or DHCP pool.

**Nøz** · 03-14-2008, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by El_Subestimado

Only 1 problem with the IP ban. Most clients get their IP addresses through DHCP, meaning that once their DHCP lease is up from their provider, their IP address will change. That can prove problematic for a user and a moderator who are within the same subnet mask or DHCP pool.

True, I have delt with trolls that just reset thier modems and are back on BT, also Chad is the only one that can IP ban.
So that might be throwen out.

**Ristaron** · 03-14-2008, 12:24 PM

I've had to deal with that before in my administrating history. I usually found that banning someone's entire IP line would get rid of trolls who used a rotating IP address.

**Arcángel** · 03-14-2008, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Ristaron

I've had to deal with that before in my administrating history. I usually found that banning someone's entire IP line would get rid of trolls who used a rotating IP address.

IP line...like banning by the first 6 octets?

EDIT: I see. Another drawback though, if you ban by subnet or by DHCP pool, you might be banning prospective members from signing up too.

**Ristaron** · 03-14-2008, 12:30 PM

pretty much.

Then again, my forums were much smaller than BT, so the chance of banning another prospective member by doing this was much slimmer than it would be for BT.

**Nøz** · 03-16-2008, 06:09 AM

Read the update people.

--------------- Added 16 Mar 2008 at 06:10 am ---------------

Update:

Girl,Synith and I are now Admins.
We are working on the merging of forums.
I Have made Opu a super mod seeing how he is always on in the A.M. hours.
I have changed the color of the super mods to blue
I have added a strick out and color change to the banned users.
I have added a 3 infractions with in 30 days will lead to a temp ban for a week.(this can be changed or added as a point system)

I'm trying to figure out how to make the mods mod everything but at the moment I am missing powers in the Admin CP. (I sent a message to chad to see if he can fix.)

To do:

Forum merging.
Fixing Mod rights(so they may mod all sections)
Applying new rules to the site. (Yes, they are done you can take a look here REVISED BT SITE RULES
Creating Admin, and Super Moderator/Moderator Guidelines.
V bulletin update.

I'm still wondering about how we should approach the TAN problem, my brother made a suggestion but I need to know what the rest of you think.
Also, should we remove the adopt a noob and marriage stuff? I know some want it gone and others want it to remain, so lets talk about it.

**Opunaya** · 03-16-2008, 09:06 AM

Thanks for the boost. Hopefully it won't turn out to be a waste.