Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Calis Beach Forum => Calis Beach Questions and Information => Topic started by: Scunner on November 13, 2007, 09:56:30 AM
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Picking up on a comment by Linda1953 about MyMerhaba in another thread (but by no means a direct reply to that, this is a general comment).
People moan about administrators and moderators - asking people not to type in capitals, not to have 1 to 1 conversations, to use the search facility, locking topics, deleting phone numbers etc., but you have to have rules if the forum is to survive and grow.
I would ask all members to have faith in a superb (and gentle) moderator team here. The team are all just like the rest of the members, Calis and Fethiye lovers - they don't get paid for their time, they do it because they love the subject of the site. They are better off than me though - I have to pay for the bloody thing ;)
I would like you to imagine the alternative :):
I will return all moderators to normal member status, allow typing in capitals, private conversations, guarantee that no matter how off topic, rude or personal a topic becomes it won't be locked, moved or deleted, remove the registration process to allow anyone to post even if they gave a false email address, (generally to attack someone or to post endless adverts for Nokia phones or p0rn sites etc.) and let the forum continue from there.
I am sure that in your mind right now you are thinking of what the forum would have become in just a week's time - and it wouldn't be pleasant.
Please don't see the rules as some sort of dictatorship, the fact that we have them is a massive explanation of just why we grew to this size and didn't self destruct in 2004.
Thanks.
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Here, Here, scunner!
I can't imagine why anyone would object to the rules laid down here, it would be absolute mayhem without them. I would have thought Congratulations and Thanks would be more appropriate comments to voice.
Keep up the good work guys, you all do a fantastic job, you have made a lot of peoples expedition to Turkey a whole lot easier by only allowing sensible posts and reams of invaluable information, not forgetting the jolly good company!! 'Many Thanks'
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Cheers, and I do apologise for those (including me) who jump on those who turn up and post without getting a feel for the style and understanding the rules in place - but they did turn up and post without getting a feel for the style and understanding the rules in place!
How anyone can read enough of CBF to decide they would like to join, yet didn't notice that nobody types in capitals is beyond me :(
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i agree,excellent forum,a mind of information for anyone considering coming to turkey(not just calis)for a holiday or to live, not perfect but nothing in life is, i feel the right balance between everything is and has been achieved, thanks scunner and well done to all involved...
dennis...
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Ditto all the above. I just wish I'd found it BEFORE we bought!!!!
(the caps are on on purpose!)
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Well said Scunner :) Gotta have the 'Mods' to deal with those 'Rocker's' ;)
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:DYour all ok just sack Tinx. ;)
Joking Tinx,:P
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Yes, I think the moderator team are doing a cracking job and should be rewarded for their hard work :oP
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Just out of curiosity - what is the problem with capital letters ? I've seen it mentioned a few times.
Thanks
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keep it as it is it would be a shame to change everybody is so polite and the site has helped alot
thankyou scunner and other members
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GranT, in essence capitals means your shouting rather than talking and considered plain bad manners.
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Originally posted by john0164
keep it as it is it would be a shame to change everybody is so polite and the site has helped alot
thankyou scunner and other members
:o Not everyone Grant ;)
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I agree with all the above. I know i am a fairly new member and haven't contibuted much, but I really ejoy reading the topics and responses, sometimes you get a real good laugh. I have also found the forum to be really informative. Keep up the good work.
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Originally posted by john0164
everybody is so polite
You haven`t read my posts then, :D
(http://www.telmessos.co.uk/smilies/Fuhrer.jpg)
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I'm also sorry if I have upset a few old and new members over the last couple of years. I know I jump in with the 'no capitals' myself but I do try and explain why.
The moderating on here is pretty laid back compared to some forums.
Stoop
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Apart from it being bad Netiquette, a post in all capitals is quite hard to read, especially if it is a post of any length. I agree, this forums mods are pretty laid back, we should think ourselves fortunate for that!
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Also capital letters LOOK LIKE YOU ARE SHOUTING OR ANGRY
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Originally posted by Crabbit
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Originally posted by john0164
everybody is so polite
You haven`t read my posts then, :D
(http://www.telmessos.co.uk/smilies/Fuhrer.jpg)
8) Very 'Respectful' Mr Crabbit :D ;)
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I think you're all ace! It's a thankless task I'm sure.Having recently found an un-moderated site for a Spanish resort which is flooded with p0rn references and advertisements for Viagra I can definitely see the benefit of mods.
In fact you could be even stricter for me . Why stop at caps? Pick people up on grammar, punctuation and not using the spell check!
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I have to say that I whole heartedly congratulate Keith and his team of moderators. It is very hard to keep a 'handle' on something that grows so quickly. Look at any business where it starts small and intimate and there is merry banter between those who all know each other. As the business/company grows the perspective changes. Before you know it you are suddenly just a number in a big organisation with no face and the pleasantries and intimacy diminishes. People get hard and horrid. I have been a 'reader' of this forum for three years now and am constantly in awe of how the site is 'marshalled'. I love looking and reading posts, often left grinning to myself at the computer. The site remains as fresh as the day it was launched, with good information, jovial banter and real homely feel about it. This is very hard to achieve. Given how big this site has grown since it was first launched, I say a hearty Well Done to Keith and the moderators. May the spirit of the site remain unchanged.
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FANKS AND THAT IS A BIG FANK YOU TO KEITH AND ALL THE TEAM.: :)
Makes us all sit up and realise how much being part of this Forum means to us all.
(We know what side our bread is buttered on):D
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You know, somebody could have accidently had the caps lock on, you really have to look at the text before calling judgement on that person whether he was using capitals as shouting. We are here to help each other,
regards sue
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Yes I do agree that there have to be rules and regulations or there would be anarchy but sometimes Scunner its the way its done and unfortunately when you are new somewhere and you are jumped on straight away it can get your back up and you think well I didnt do that on purpose. I actually find large threads of lower typecase hard to read and my eyes cant focus on all that is there my eyes go gozzy or they get tired reading and half the time I dont read the thread because my eyes are exhausted by the first couple of paragraphs and I become blinded by typecase and end up squinting. I am also conscious of typing large threads myself because I wonder if others have the same problems with reading whats there?
Of course Ive been on forums for quite some time now having been booted off one or two in the past for reasons best known to themselves and sometimes I can be ultra sensitive due to past treatment on them. I still make thoughtless mistakes but its not done with bad intention or to be a maverick on a forum. I got into the habit of typing capitals for speed of typing on a turkish keyboard and so I could read what I had typed not because I was shouting or being contrary or trying to flout the rules on a website. Ive had websites of my own and I have ruled them with a rod of iron so I know what its like. I perhaps did not pay attention to reading various rules that I should have done.
However I will try and behave myself in future LOL
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Originally posted by dizzy dora
You know, somebody could have accidentally had the caps lock on, you really have to look at the text before calling judgement on that person
No you don't have to look at the text before calling judgement, this is the whole point. If anyone accidentally has the caps lock on, they will see what they have typed before they post it and have the opportunity to change it.
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Agreed. We have the chatroom for the random spouting off, backstabbing and swearing. See you there!:D
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:D I wish,but will keep on trying. ;)
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I know Keith will not have posted his comments to fish for compliments but I value this forum and appreciate what the moderators do. Of course I don't agree with every comment they make but they police this bit of cyber space well. My only criticism in the past was that one thread was locked a bit too soon - but hey what we all get premature ejaculation sometimes in our life. Well us blokes do - so the sex guides says - according to my friend!
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:DYes Twin my husbands got a mate like that. ;)
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Premature ejaculation? Sex guides? Do you visit 2 forums, Stuart? I'm sorry to say you're on the other one ;)
You are right, I don't do it to fish for compliments, I know how good CBF is :)
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to much information :-\ :o