Ok. Not that it's important now, but how do i do the things that a sweeper has to do. Like make stickies, move threads and such?

What is an announcement?

When you make a new topic you should see underneath the text field some boxes you can tick if you want to:

Post topic as: Normal Sticky Announcement

An announcment is pretty much the same as a sticky really, it still goes to the top of the lists of posts but just has a different icon...

see here for eg: http://maljonicsdreams.com/phpbb2/forum-2.html


You can change any thread into a sticky/announcement by editing the first post and making the above choices and submitting again.

As for moving threads etc there's some little icons at the bottom of every thread (right under 'Watch this topic for replies') that tells you what they do if you put your mouse over them. Individual posts can be deleted in the top right corner of a posts, everyone has this same icon on their own posts by the way.

gonna need to revisit this, but just a quickie:

until we've properly finalized what a moderator is and does, I think we need to be careful about using moderator functions without public deliberation on it.

I won't even make a sticky thread in the role play forum until i've had a chance to talk to the rest of the boards about it (particularly those in the role play group).

Just my two cents there, though.

I agree with those two cents

I also agree.

Well, I made jackals big thread a sticky one.

Mostly cause I think it needs to be, for the moment at least

As it's been said elsewhere, it's not great hassle to unsticky it again if people hate the idea and want to go about burning me fior it

Very late I know but I also agree on the 6 people chosen to moderate the boards.

[quote:5ca760c755="Buzzfloyd"]OK, here are Garner's thoughts on the various matters at hand:

[quote:5ca760c755]i'm fine with that list of interm moderators. I also don't think any of that list should ever be unmoderatored. as for coventry and similar situations... coventries carry over. people who specificly declared they were leaving the old boards are not part of the new boards without an explaination. people like CJ, pepster, and mazekin who left because of the trolls are one thing, but people like tony, silmaril, dragonmother, cat, and zephyr should be barred. i think their accounts should be locked out as well, but that's probably just me.

the new boards are not a new culture. you don't get new second chances, and you don't get a fresh slate. Tony's still a psychotic madman lurking under a "please be my friend" exterior. Dragonmother's still an obsessive witch with a vendetta. jaunty angles still owes us all a long list of apologies and even at that, he doesn't have any slack to be allowed another screw up.
zephyr is still a backstabber and a trouble maker. samantha vimes should not be seen to have a position of respect, despite the fact she was never coventried, because she became an unrepentant trouble maker.

if they want to try to show up under another name and another identity, then we can't stop that at the source, but if they screw up under another name, that name gets blacklisted.

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yeah, that's probably a little heavy handed, but i'm open to negotiation on it. that's just my gut reaction.[/quote:5ca760c755][/quote:5ca760c755]

Remind me never to do anything that annoys Garner. I quake in fear.

He doesn't flame any more though.

oh no! sarcasm! my one weakness!! powers... fading... strength... ebbing...