Lately there has been a lot of blogging about the problems with the community at large. See <a href="http://64digits.com/users/index.php?userid=Arcalyth&cmd=comments&id=11549">this</a> and <a href="http://64digits.com/users/index.php?userid=REZ&cmd=comments&id=11224">this</a>. That's just the stuff I could find in a two-second search, but yeah.
I want to address mainly the people who:1) complain about new users2) complain about moderators3) complain about game acceptance4) complainSo here is my opinion, mainly in reaction to the comments in arcalyth's blog (first link).There should be 1 game moderator. Game acceptance should be community based, centered around a vote system and weighed with community participation. That way, standards are incorporated through the common belief, and users are motivated to become active in order to be able to lend a stronger vote towards acceptance. The one game mod only serves to handle users who abuse voting rights or to weed out imitation games.The same goes for blogs on the front page. Let users gather together to cast some sort of "off the front" vote. If enough vote, it's off. Blogs wouldn't have to be censored at all that way, because if they were short/rant/unwanted, they would be confined to the user page.Frankly, the main reason that I can see for people's current discontent is that they are not used to the site as a large community, and instead of treating it as such, they just place the blame on arbitrary reasons. If any problems lie in the way the site is moderated, it is a reaction to the way users act. And users, especially new ones, act based on what they perceive to be the norm.Thus, no one- old users, new users, mods- should have special blogging/commenting privileges. We tend to overlook stupid comments by old members because we perceive it as old hat, but new members see it as how they should comment.Basically, yes, there are problems in how the site operates on the moderator level. However, these problems are exacerbated by the actions of people who would rather critique the site than lend to it, and these people are pushed to extremism by the very users they influence.
I agree with everything you just said.
-FleaYou're lucky you can use HTML. =(
Also, with 64bb, html here has almost no use except in very specified cases. The very great majority of the html I see used is completely extraneous, not to mention ugly.
Yeah. I've thought about a system like that before as well.
What you could do is have the users vote, but let the moderators have a much, much larger say, since mods are supposed to be unbiased.
Hmm, that sounds good.
Also, I realize that this plan is very idealistic in its approach. Users who gather group distaste definitely could be abused.Perhaps another layer of acceptance, where the game mod approves/vetoes the user decision?PM, that'll also allow people who are hated to have their games on the front page, like Kafei's, for example, NINE of his games have been accepted O_o
Even if they're annoying, they're still pretty decent. At least better than some of the crap that's been getting accepted lately.
I personally enjoyed Kafei's Halloween game.