Over the last few days I have had some members provide some feedback on the forum. After considering what was being said I have to agree that the forum is/was heading in a direction I didn't want. I'm not looking to make a complete 180 to a forum where everyone supports each other and is touchy feely, but it has gotten quite abusive at times. I do want to encourage growth on the site and I agree with the members who provided feedback that this will help.

As of this moment... there are clear posted rules in each forum area. If anyone has any questions or feedback on them I am all ears, but post it here in this thread.

I could not agree more.

Hey Founder,,, I have an idea for your forum.
Since the name of this forum is "The Voice of Maine" it is only fitting that Maine people, as well as people from Maine, have the opportunity to let their voices be heard.
I'd like to suggest a democratic way of keeping the "Crits and Bloods" under control.
Let them serve a probationary period. At the end of their probation, we set up a Poll thread, and vote on weather forum membership will/will not, be granted to them.
This will keep the "Voice of Maine" in the hands of people who actually care about Maine and its people. It will also help keep out the riff-raff without making The Founder look like the bad guy.
Whaddya think?

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Originally posted by True Mainah:
Let them serve a probationary period. At the end of their probation, we set up a Poll thread, and vote on weather forum membership will/will not, be granted to them.

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The Founder is the founder...who should feel the hurt but him?

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Originally posted by times:

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Originally posted by True Mainah:
Let them serve a probationary period. At the end of their probation, we set up a Poll thread, and vote on weather forum membership will/will not, be granted to them.

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I have tenants who I'm about ready to evict who showed up 3 months ago and were the most polite and respectful people I've met in a long time. I thought I had really hit a home run with these 4, but I was wrong. Now that they've moved in and nested everything has gone to hell. My point is that everyone will be on their best behavior for the probation period then when it goes to hell Founder will still have to ban them. Might as well just let them do whatever they want and ban them if they get out of line. Screw the probabtion period.

Anyway, nice rules. Is it just me or was today really quiet around here? Seems like nothing got out of hand from what I'm reading

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Originally posted by Essyllt:
The Founder is the founder...who should feel the hurt but him?

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To the Founder, deep is where they can roll my body off the boat.

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Originally posted by Essyllt:
To the Founder, deep is where they can roll my body off the boat.

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never mind

I have no idea what some of those rules mean. What is "bumping a post"?

I asked the same question.
When someone posts a new topic, and nobody has replies to it , it moves down in the list of posts. When a person responds to his/her own post to get it back to the top of the list they are bumping it.

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Originally posted by True Mainah:
I asked the same question.
When someone posts a new topic, and nobody has replies to it , it moves down in the list of posts. When a person responds to his/her own post to get it back to the top of the list they are bumping it.

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Oh, I guess I never noticed that. I've heard the term "trolling" used a lot, but I don't know what that means.

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Originally posted by Essyllt:
Oh, I guess I never noticed that. I've heard the term "trolling" used a lot, but I don't know what that means.

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Originally posted by Essyllt:
Oh, I guess I never noticed that. I've heard the term "trolling" used a lot, but I don't know what that means.

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