Quote from: modziw on October 05, 2012, 02:00 pmQuote from: pine on October 03, 2012, 12:27 pmbump this thread if you believe Squid should have a Squid avatar :)He/She is the Squid Sheppard so the logo needs a dude in lederhosen with a big Little Bo Peep hooked staff and a squid in a meadow, no?ModziYes! I believe significant progress is being made on this front. Today has been a productive day! :)Quote from: nomad bloodbath on October 06, 2012, 01:34 amIt was like that because i tried to let the community become more involved hands on with timing being a real concern. But I stopped allowing stickies because everyone wanted one so it was a lift over morphed into a log jam. I agree with you 100% though pine. I thought about it manner times but I always decided to pick my battles around as the membership grows daily. Didnt want additional PM's claiming I play favorites around here.Yes, I can see how that could become a political issue! Seems like there should be some software based solution thing e.g. some manner of polling that determines 'stickyship' but which limits the overall number of stickies so everything doesn't seem equally important (similar to the problem where students highlight their notes... except half the book becomes highlighted!). I was thinking something like color coding for each topic, where something like tony76's rumor thread would have become red, autostickied and bumped to the top of the sticky list once it had accumulated enough views + posts + poll votes = x where x is an importance weighting.Anyhow, I don't know how far the capabilities of the forum software can stretch, but it'd be nice if the rumor mill had some different treatment to how stickies are created for the other boards.One idea (not telling people what to do, just brainstorming here) is the waterfall method where posts 'fall' off the waterfall unless they get attention, this is the method used by the chans and it is quite successful. Maybe you could have a separate store, a black list and a grey list, where once a thread is filled with enough (polled) complaints about a vendor/member the ability to fill out a form becomes possible detailing the complaint and characteristics of the scam and the vendor's name + aliases are then filed away onto the black list (grey list for suspected but unsubstantiated claims?). Then a permanent store of scammers exists, but it's not hectares worth of duplicate complaint threads on SR servers forever, and also you get the relevance and immediacy of the waterfall method. Then 'interventions' by moderators become very much rarer as the forum is able to regulate the rumor mill on automatic.I don't think this is important enough to be implemented right away to be honest, but in the future it would be a nice upgrade to have this kind of capability stapled onto the forum. I mean, with tens of thousands of users the current system basically works, if a little creaky at times. But... once you get to millions of users and scale up, you'll need something more flexible, more automatic, otherwise the moderation team will number in the dozens, hundreds!