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I think you might have too much time on your hands, JS.

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Someone wants to be a mod.

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Originally posted by @Fatso

Someone wants to be a mod.

This is presently a mum and dad operation, in which bletch takes the role of responsible mother and I take the role of wayward reckless poster abusing father with a drink problem.

We are naturally suited to the roles :lou_sunglasses:

I say all that, because despite Jack Schitt’s verbose and glowing analysis of this place, there are still a lot of things I think we can improve on. On the development front, I have been trialling the next upgrade of the forum software. tbh, many of the improvements they’ve made are ones that I had to make when this place was crawling on its arse performance wise. The text editor is an off-the-shelf jobbie, so we can probably get some improvements there by just upgrading. Preview is definitely do-able, even if it has to be custom developed.

Forum-wise, I’d like a bit more poster retention. We’ve got loads of the old crowd that have signed up, said hello and disappeared into the ether. I’m glad they’ve got accounts, like - but it’d be nice to see them around a bit more.

This place has got constraints and I’m definitely one of them. There are some people that’ll never sign up because I run the place, and I can generally live with that. They probs wouldn’t be too constructive. There have been people that I’ve pissed off, have sworn off and that’ll happen too. Soz.

However, I’ve also seen (through the admin panel) people that have got a load of downvotes and sworn off the place too, so voting may not necessarily be the self-moderating panacea Jack has painted it as. I definitely think it does more good than ill, though.

There are two other huge constraints. First, it’s the choice to allow really bad language. Some people have plenty of answers to Cartman’s brilliant question “What’s the big fucking deal, bitch?”. “It’s rude. I don’t like it. You can use better words, y’know.” Fuck 'em. If it’s good enough for RAWK, we can do it too.

Finally, and I make no apologies for this, it’s the barrier to entry. We’ve got a lot of quality contributors that write some fairly intelligent shit. That can be intimidating for some people, but again, it probably does more good than ill. Probably deters people from joining up just to start shite.

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Whilst I’ll accept pap painting me as the mum to his dad, I should stress that we sleep in separate beds.

Jack, fuck off you creep.

Fatso, fuck off you twat.

I think we’ve quite some way to go, but I think the machinery is in place.

No offence to Mr. Bulsara, but I think having him around and not having everyone either leave or lynch him means something is working.

I’m not sure whether that is simply serendipitous self-selection of the ‘right’ type of poster, or if it is due to some community moderation/voting.

Or both.

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It may be due to the fact that the people on here can’t be arsed to try and pick an internet fight at every opportunity and realise that if they do start one the likely hood of winning (actually achieving an outcome in their favour) is low.

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Come over ere and say that.

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I want to hear more about ‘mother’ Bletch

I think Pap, you have to accept that you simply ‘cant please all the people all the time’ - If posters get huge numbers of down votes and fuck off, well not sure changing things to keep them is the right way. On the langugae thing? Well I dont use it at home, or in front of children, but I like being able to feel comfortable to use very bad words for effect here… and yes there are better words, but I am not such a pretentious cunt to go dig them out to try and impress the scrotes on papweb :wink:

Maybe the change should be to show who is downvoting… why? because there is a difference betwen 1 person continually downvoting someone in a virtual stawking way, and loads of folks agreeing that something is in poor taste or out of order.

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1/ For the benefit of some of us dumbasses, can you smartarse cunts give the reason for the link on The Music Fred if it isn’t 110% bloody obvious.

2/ Not enough Top 3 or 5 lists of things, especially biscuits and crisps!!

3/ All in all not a bad effort.

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Originally posted by @Goatboy

Originally posted by @PhilippineSaint

It may be due to the fact that the people on here can’t be arsed to try and pick an internet fight at every opportunity and realise that if they do start one the likely hood of winning (actually achieving an outcome in their favour) is low.

Come over ere and say that.

Are you paying for my ticket to the Man City Beer fest then ?

:lou_facepalm_2: downvoted for? Some cunt’s got no balls

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Well it can’t be Phillipine Saints then … many of the “ladies” out there actually do have balls :wink:

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Maybe it was Lou ?

Are you calling Lou a cunt?

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not in so many words as that and it would be disrespectable to a female member

or does being a member make her male and maybe she does have balls

I am getting confused here now

Erica of Arabia how would you know that?

Originally posted by @pap

Originally posted by @Fatso

Someone wants to be a mod.

This is presently a mum and dad operation, in which bletch takes the role of responsible mother and I take the role of wayward reckless poster abusing father with a drink problem.

Sorry Pap but I must take exception, Bletch is a vainglorious, curmudgeonly old git.

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I read it in a book :innocent:

On the topic of females on here, I don’t think there are enough, so I’m thinking of doing a bit of multiposting (don’t tell Pap though) and opening an account as EricasLabia, and posting saucy little double entendres to get you all worked up. Should do my up voting a world of good and maybe Lou will make lezza moves on me via PM. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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Originally posted by @ericofarabia

1/ For the benefit of some of us dumbasses, can you smartarse cunts give the reason for the link on The Music Fred if it isn’t 110% bloody obvious.

I do not understand. I come from Barcelona. I learn English from a book.

Seriously, though, is this about posting YouTube vids? Via phone/tablet/what? Let us know and we’ll try to sort you out.

2/ Not enough Top 3 or 5 lists of things, especially biscuits and crisps!!

Well, here’s the thing. I can’t really countenance doing a top 3 or top 5 of things, because that’s really the UI’s thing, and I don’t want to step on Nick’s toes. What we can do is nick the general concept, retool it a bit, and pretend the idea was ours in the first place. I probably shouldn’t have said that out loud.

Anyway. It’s a great idea, but I’ve taken the liberty of putting a Sotonians spin on it. I’ve created two new sub-categories under “Sotonians position on…

Introducing “Best Ever” and “Worst Ever”. You can see them on the categories page immediately and also create new posts in either. They’ll show up in the sidebar in a bit. And I suppose if you can’t pick just one, 3 or 5 or more choices would be acceptable. Why limit yourself? :lou_wink_2:

If they take off, does sir fancy a “Plunder of Uiarabia Badge”? :lou_sunglasses:

3/ All in all not a bad effort.

Thanks. Hasn’t always been smooth sailing, there’s still room to do a lot more, but as this incarnation of Sotonians (we had a mailing list, back in the early 2000s - I was very glad to get the domains back) hits its first birthday, I am generally very happy with what it is, and the community we’ve got.

Top fucking effort, all.

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Originally posted by @TheCholulaKid

I think you might have too much time on your hands, JS.

Too true. Been sat around for most of the afternoon with fuck all to do after a meeting was cancelled. :lou_eyes_to_sky:

No Hants cricket Championship game to keep me occupied either, or I’d have been busy in another thread calling Tom Alsop a useless cunt.

Originally posted by @Fatso

Someone wants to be a mod.

Haha, far from it. I love that we simply don’t need any here. (sorry Bletch, not that you’re irrelevant or anything). :lou_wink_2:

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Originally posted by @pap

Originally posted by @ericofarabia

1/ For the benefit of some of us dumbasses, can you smartarse cunts give the reason for the link on The Music Fred if it isn’t 110% bloody obvious.

I do not understand. I come from Barcelona. I learn English from a book.

Seriously, though, is this about posting YouTube vids? Via phone/tablet/what? Let us know and we’ll try to sort you out

Nothing you can do Pap, unless you impose a Down Vote Injunction on people who post on The Sotonians Music Chain Thread!! Some of the Links, nay, many many of The Links in the Chain are beyond my comprehension, although I sometimes think that there really isn’t a Link at all, and it’s like The Emperors New Clothes, and nobody has the balls to say Oi whats the link then cuntyface!!

The Top 3/5 bit was all tongue in cheek, but if The Best / Worst Ever idea is a success, I will of course only be too glad to take credit for it :wink:

Cheers.

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Originally posted by @ericofarabia

The Top 3/5 bit was all tongue in cheek, but if The Best / Worst Ever idea is a success, I will of course only be too glad to take credit for it :wink:

Yeah, but they’re very decent icebreakers, and I’ll reckon we’ll get slightly wankier answers :lou_sunglasses:

Better answers. That is of course what I meant.

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