COTB What is the solution?

[blut wump]

Let's see some serious suggestions about how to make EF a fit place again for the leet and the lame.

1) COTBs should be reddable. The post was created for business members and crappy red Karma might upset them but putting a member on ignore will remove the red messages from their profile page. In the interests of the Plat members, COTB should be reddable.

2) Diffusing COTB bombs. The stickyness of COTB bombs is making Plat members seem like trash to the board. Maybe make them double or triple cost to diffuse but many members are here for serious purposes with serious advice in the other fora. A non-diffusable bomb can cause harm to their reputation and be of great inconvenience to other serious posters seeking help, advice and information.


Any more?

 

[redguru]

Elite Mods should have some form of control over the threads of COTB, Or there should be at least one person with that control here 24/7. By the way, why not fauna?

 

[Elitedollarstore]

How about this, you don't like it, get a life off of EF. There are plenty of other boards, dont let the door hit you in the ass on the way out

 

[Lestat]

I think the soultion is much simpler.

Don't let douchebags become COTB. They were supposed to be by special invite. The Invatation criteria should be more than a simple "do we think they will pay for it?"

 

[the-short-one]

or - the COTB should be for sponsors with actual products, a business to promote, a website...

I thought that was what it was supposed to be in the first place.

 

[hamstershaver]

1 only

 

[SoKlueles]

or
we shouldnt have any cotb

 

[Elitedollarstore]

I think the soultion is much simpler.

Don't let douchebags become COTB. They were supposed to be by special invite. The Invatation criteria should be more than a simple "do we think they will pay for it?"

Are you retarded? If you believe that BS about special invite then you are an idiot, the only criteria is someone dumb enough to pay to post on a chatboard, you were dumb enough to pay for lifetime plat.
If you don't like it, then leave or shutup and go nonplat to prove you arent just a windbag full of hot air!!

 

[blut wump]

The post was pretty clearly created for business purposes but now that it's opened up to any member to purchase it needs to be seen as a Super-Plat.

Maybe there needs to be a two-tiered COTB. One version with the current powers for sponsors only and responsilble only to Admins and Elite mods and some cut-down version for general members to buy.

 

[Lestat]

Are you retarded? If you believe that BS about special invite then you are an idiot, the only criteria is someone dumb enough to pay to post on a chatboard, you were dumb enough to pay for lifetime plat.
If you don't like it, then leave or shutup and go nonplat to prove you arent just a windbag full of hot air!!

are you stupid? did you not read my post?

The criteria for that special invite seems to be "anyone who can pay" that was my original point, they are not very discriminating with who they will invite.

And i went lifetime plat because it made the most sense for me from a cost standpoint.

There is no point to be going non plat, doesn't hurt anyone but me.

 

[the-short-one]

it's a good thing this isn't the weekend. BRR would have a

 

[H_T_]

or - the COTB should be for sponsors with actual products, a business to promote, a website...

I thought that was what it was supposed to be in the first place.

"Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl
With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there
She would merengue and do the cha-cha
And while she tried to be a star, Tony always tended bar
Across a crowded floor, they worked from 8 till 4
They were young and they had each other
Who could ask for more?"

you make a fella wanna sing.....

 

[blut wump]

I'm in agreement with Hammy that #1 might be enough. The cost of a COTB is around 10x that of a Plat so it's not unreasonable that a dozen or so Plats fighting back the oppression should be able to restore parity.

Mods need to be able moderate, though. Elite mods at the very least, as RedGuru suggests.

 

[the-short-one]

"Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl
With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there
She would merengue and do the cha-cha
And while she tried to be a star, Tony always tended bar
Across a crowded floor, they worked from 8 till 4
They were young and they had each other
Who could ask for more?"

you make a fella wanna sing.....

I understand that Barry is hung like a horse. That's the rumor, anyway. Big nose and all.


"At the Copa, Copa Cabana...."

 

[redguru]

I understand that Barry is hung like a horse. That's the rumor, anyway. Big nose and all.


"At the Copa, Copa Cabana...."

Ask Maverick, he'll know.

 

[the-short-one]

"Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl
With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there
She would merengue and do the cha-cha
And while she tried to be a star, Tony always tended bar
Across a crowded floor, they worked from 8 till 4
They were young and they had each other
Who could ask for more?"

you make a fella wanna sing.....

Wait. You're not holding something, are you?

I was distracted by that award winning song...

 

[heatherrae]

I missed why everyone is angry at one COTB, in particular. I have been asked to ignore someone in particular, but I'm not going to be rude or mean to someone who has been really kind and nice to me, always. What did he do that is so bad?

 

[H_T_]

Wait. You're not holding something, are you?

I was distracted by that award winning song...

uh, yeah. what'd you think that was a microphone?

 

[the-short-one]

uh, yeah. what'd you think that was a microphone?

that's hot.

 

[H_T_]

that's hot.

His name was Rico, he wore a diamond
He was escorted to his chair, he saw Lola dancin' there
And when she finished, he called her over
But Rico went a bit too far, Tony sailed across the bar
And then the punches flew and chairs were smashed in two
There was blood and a single gun shot
But just who shot who?

you should hear me sing Neil Diamond....

 

[blut wump]

I missed why everyone is angry at one COTB, in particular. I have been asked to ignore someone in particular, but I'm not going to be rude or mean to someone who has been really kind and nice to me, always. What did he do that is so bad?

Lestat can probably tell you best.

From my point of view he's shown that even the members prepared to part with lots of cash need to have checks on their interactions with the board.

 

[redguru]

His name was Rico, he wore a diamond
He was escorted to his chair, he saw Lola dancin' there
And when she finished, he called her over
But Rico went a bit too far, Tony sailed across the bar
And then the punches flew and chairs were smashed in two
There was blood and a single gun shot
But just who shot who?

you should hear me sing Neil Diamond....

How about Gordon Lightfoot or Neil Sedaka?

 

[the-short-one]

Lestat can probably tell you best.

From my point of view he's shown that even the members prepared to part with lots of cash need to have checks on their interactions with the board.

oi. This is very true.

Omega has been our COTB limit tester. Thanks to him, we've found a few kinks in the system.

 

[eat big]

Bombs should have the ability to be diffused but should cost a member 15,000.

 

[H_T_]

How about Gordon Lightfoot or Neil Sedaka?

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call GitcheGumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early

 

[StickFigure]

Hi!

 

[wootoom]

it dont matter nothing changing

 

[samoth]

The post was pretty clearly created for business purposes but now that it's opened up to any member to purchase it needs to be seen as a Super-Plat.

Maybe there needs to be a two-tiered COTB. One version with the current powers for sponsors only and responsilble only to Admins and Elite mods and some cut-down version for general members to buy.

Well said. Agreed.

 

[samoth]

it dont matter nothing changing

With that kind of defeatist attitude, it sure won't.

The mods and admin are willing to listen... so long as the argument is presented in a respectable, presentable manner that does not include attacking other members.

 

[Razorguns]

Fix the COTB bombs and that'll elimiante 90% of the drama.

 

[digger]

I like Musclemom's idea of a Zocalo (my word, but her idea), a marketplace zone where business can be cleanly separated from drama.

If someone is feeling picked on, I think it's great to have an option to shield themselves; let the bullies drive themselves crazy trying to find a way to beat up someone who can't be given red or bombed. That should be enough. Once you've bought that package, you don't need (and shouldn't have) the ability to also drop bombs that can't be undone.

If your style is to go on the offensive, and it's more important to you to drop the bombs than to block them, then you should be able to buy that instead, not in addition to the shield against them. Who wins when a unblockable bomb is dropped on an unbombable person? Make it an auction, highest bid wins?

There are solutions to all of this, people. But we have to work through it, not just freak out and start making wild threats. George needs ideas that can be implemented, not a bunch of three-year-old kids holding their breath to see who can turn the scariest shade of blue.

 

[novamanms]

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call GitcheGumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early

I see you got a lot of practice in Frisky's attic.