1. If you can read my other posts in this thread i have mentioned lot of info about upcoming plans about preventing fights, spam, abuse, fake IDs etc.. So i am not going to repeat them here again.
2. About moderators well i like to tell some untold story. In any popular forum the extremely key factor about the popularity is the administration and moderation. If you miss 1 step members will lose the faith. If your support staff did something wrong still you will make some group of people disappointed.
As you all know before we start elakiri their were some popular forums, some are over 8 years old. Some are like 6, 4 years old etc.. So what happened to them?
They all had big management and staff. I know some forum had something like 25,000 members and around 400,000 posts. Those days it was the largest forum for srilanka. So what went wrong?
If you select moderators you should think who to give. There are tons of members who helped elakiri from start so if i gave 1 then others will be disappointed. Those are our key members if i disappoint them that will be a huge blow. I can't give mod posts to 500 people.
Secondly most of the moderators are bias towards their friends or thier point of view. So they make other members disappoint and leave the community. You will not even notice that coz you dont even know what happened.
Most don't have skills to take a proper decision. They are bound by religion, race, society or some social connections. So taking wrong decisions will be really harmful for the community.
Most of the people will stop posting or supporting the community as they get the mod post. They will create some big ego and try to rule others. That will surely make normal members disappointed and leave the site.
So i am thinking about a new way to mod the forum. Giving the better ranks to Certified Members and higher rank for quality of posting. And site wide moderation system which any certified member can use. So there will be no moderators but members helping the community. So thats about spam and abuse.
But about fights i am trying my self to solve them or give some board who understand the concept to solve those issues. Personally i have seen lot of members reporting me and talking with me about certain issues and going wild or totally in wrong path when they take decisions about problems. I don't like the thinking pattern of some key members here. Its no problem but its too ordinary. we need something special here. You should be able to create a point and make others feel you and your decision. You should be able not to insult others but make them understand your logic. Then most of the fights can be solved without making none of the parties disappointed. That's really essential coz we need all of them as elakiri members in the future too.
About my self i never really engaged with elakiri forum after mid 2007. I was so busy and i was not really with the members too.
Now I have really low communication level with elakiri family comparing to 2006/7.
Due to that I have lost the mighty grip i had back in 2006 and 2007. So i dont like the way it went after mid 2007 and whole year 2008. I don't wanna be an Admin here but a person who engage in the forum.
When there will be very less spam and fights it will be a very nice place to talk about all other interesting subjects. So lets see how we can resolve all these issues and make it a nice place agian
