Tag Archives: paid

Inflammatory Posts

Posted on by
2

Today I posted on a tweet on Twitter.

I slightly cry every time I see an inflammatory post on a forum and it remains there not removed by administrators.

What I should have added as well is that the post remains there while users respond to it, explaining to the original poster what the flaw is in their logic, while not considering at all the provocative nature of the post.

Now I’m looking at this for two reasons.

Reason #1: I don’t like having forums of which I know that are awesome get pulled down by a bad administrators.

Reason #2: I did some moderation for Patrick O’Keefe years ago on his plethora of communities and have learned to love his way of administration.

I am in no way being paid or influenced by Patrick to write about him or his ways, I just think the way he does things is awesome. I’ve written about him once or twice before on an old blog (which sadly no longer exists – I should stop doing that).

Now, I could write a lot on how the forum does a lot of things wrong in my opinion, but doing that would get this post off topic.

I guess the main point of this post is that if you’re going to run a forum, at least do it well. Organize your administrators. Have a visible set of guidelines. Keep things simple.

Dragon*Con

Posted on by
Reply

Yesterday I bought a Dragon*Con badge/pass/ticket thing. Not exactly sure on the terminology. I’ve never been to a convention unless you can count Oshkosh AirVenture.

So, yep, there it is. I will be attending Dragon*Con this weekend. Not exactly sure what I’m going to do there as I have never been to one, but there seems to be quite a bit of Doctor Who, Eureka, Warehouse 13, Steampunk and a few other things to interest me. Oh! Adam Savage will be there so I’ll definitely have to check that out. He’s hilarious and a great guy.

As I got at one of the large hotels to get my badge/pass/ticket there were volunteers yelling out “Pre-Paid” and “On-Site” and motioning which way you had to go depending on whether you ordered your badge/pass/ticket online or was like me and had to get it on-site. The line for the pre-payers was quite long which is ironic as it was supposed to be short as only the die-hards would register online. Guess the organizers thought wrong. The line for the on-site registration was about five people long inside a giant open room where they had lines that mazed around like the lines at Six Flags. Seriously took about five minutes to get from the beginning of the line to the people waiting in line.

Anywho, I might drop by today just to check out what is going on and how to not get lost at the five or so hotels that “the con” is made up of. I’ve got the “pocket program” (which is as large as a paperback book) all highlighted with the stuff I wish to see. I’ll be posting a picture or two on here of interesting things I find.

Oh yes – one more thing. I am attending the Georgia Tech and South Carolina State game tomorrow, thus making it the first large football game and second football game ever that I’ve ever attended.