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Dear Websleuths Members and Guests,
Welcome to our new look everyone.
If you would like to go back and read threads 1,2, and 3 they are listed at the bottom of this post.
From now on anyone who is rude, demanding, makes snide comments or is overall being a jerk will be timed-out or banned. If you do not know what being a jerk entails then I don't know what to tell you.
I was sickened by how our tech guy Dave was treated on a previous thread by a group of posters. This thread is not for you to continually bi*** about Websleuths.
Bi*** about us BEHIND our backs like everyone else
We love what we do and we want to make the Websleuths experience as pleasant as possible but please remember how you feel when someone complains about you when you are doing the best you can.
OK so, below is the description of how to use our new version of private messages. This is a great way to discuss something off topic with a group of Websleuths posters without leaving the site.
ENJOY!
The first thing you should try is our new way of sending Private Messages. PM's are now called "Conversations". You can invite up to 20 other people (with you equals 6 people on a conversation) and the conversation looks exactly like a thread on a public forum. However, it is not public, no one in management can see it, and the only people who can read the conversation are those who are actually participating.
About your timeouts;
Your timeouts are all done by a point system. This will take away any guesswork.
You are allowed up to 5 points in a 30 day period before you are timed out. The timeout length depends on the number of points you end up. Say you have 4 points and you do something really horrible like call someone stupid. Calling someone stupid could be worth 4 points. Now all of a sudden you have 8 points and that means you get a 5 day time out.
Please do not hold me to these exact numbers. I'm trying to remember and to be honest, my memory sucks more than a sucker fish in a sucking contest.
You will get warnings and your warning is assigned a point value. Let's say being snarky is two points. Those two points will stay on your username for 30 days then the points drop off.
No one should be getting any points right?
Please remember if you get 5 points or more in 30 days then you are timed out for three days. As the points against you go up so does the time you spend I timeout.
You can solve the problem of being timed out by behaving and reading our Terms of Service.
There is more to tell you and I'll be coming back and answering any questions you may have.
We ask for your patience as we are all on a learning curve here.
Finally, thanks to Dave our IT guy for doing such a good job and making sure everything runs smoothly!
OK fire away my true crime angels.
Welcome Thread # 1
Welcome Thread # 2
Welcome Thread #3
Welcome to our new look everyone.
If you would like to go back and read threads 1,2, and 3 they are listed at the bottom of this post.
From now on anyone who is rude, demanding, makes snide comments or is overall being a jerk will be timed-out or banned. If you do not know what being a jerk entails then I don't know what to tell you.
I was sickened by how our tech guy Dave was treated on a previous thread by a group of posters. This thread is not for you to continually bi*** about Websleuths.
Bi*** about us BEHIND our backs like everyone else
We love what we do and we want to make the Websleuths experience as pleasant as possible but please remember how you feel when someone complains about you when you are doing the best you can.
OK so, below is the description of how to use our new version of private messages. This is a great way to discuss something off topic with a group of Websleuths posters without leaving the site.
ENJOY!
The first thing you should try is our new way of sending Private Messages. PM's are now called "Conversations". You can invite up to 20 other people (with you equals 6 people on a conversation) and the conversation looks exactly like a thread on a public forum. However, it is not public, no one in management can see it, and the only people who can read the conversation are those who are actually participating.
About your timeouts;
Your timeouts are all done by a point system. This will take away any guesswork.
You are allowed up to 5 points in a 30 day period before you are timed out. The timeout length depends on the number of points you end up. Say you have 4 points and you do something really horrible like call someone stupid. Calling someone stupid could be worth 4 points. Now all of a sudden you have 8 points and that means you get a 5 day time out.
Please do not hold me to these exact numbers. I'm trying to remember and to be honest, my memory sucks more than a sucker fish in a sucking contest.
You will get warnings and your warning is assigned a point value. Let's say being snarky is two points. Those two points will stay on your username for 30 days then the points drop off.
No one should be getting any points right?
Please remember if you get 5 points or more in 30 days then you are timed out for three days. As the points against you go up so does the time you spend I timeout.
You can solve the problem of being timed out by behaving and reading our Terms of Service.
There is more to tell you and I'll be coming back and answering any questions you may have.
We ask for your patience as we are all on a learning curve here.
Finally, thanks to Dave our IT guy for doing such a good job and making sure everything runs smoothly!
OK fire away my true crime angels.
Welcome Thread # 1
Welcome Thread # 2
Welcome Thread #3
