Post by milky on Feb 10, 2015 22:57:13 GMT
Dear Anthony (a.k.a. Sidewinder)
As users of stadium-arcadium.com, we are writing to you regarding a number of concerns of many of us share on how the site has been run in the last few years.
You may or may not remember the “Keeping this site alive” thread from December 2013/ January 2014 in which all these concerns were outlined, but just to briefly summarise;
• Many moderators no longer post, and those that do seldom visit the site.
• Of the mods who do appear from time to time, they are completely powerless to ban spambots.
• The chat function was popular amongst many users and is no longer working.
• The site in general requires a tidy up in terms of broken links and outdated ads.
• The main homepage which once used to have several updates per week has not had a news item posted in nearly two years.
We are writing to you to ask you to allow us to help in any way we can. For starters, we would be more than happy to contribute to the running costs of the site. So for example you could set up a paypal fund that we could contribute to to help cover costs of running the site.
In terms of the forums we would like it if changes were made to the moderation team. Although you may not be familiar with many of us, we’d like to assure you that there are many good candidates that you could trust with moderation duties.
We believe 3 or 4 moderators are more than enough to allow things to run smoothly, but they must have the ability to ban users as there is no point having mods if they don’t have the power to delete posts and ban users. There are spambots with 50+ posts, which can be frustrating to put up with.
You are no longer an active presence on the site, and whatever your reasons are for that we are happy to respect those reasons, we are not looking for an explanation. You created an excellent site, all we are asking is that you allow us to play a part in keeping it running to the high standards it once set, as unfortunately it can’t be denied that the site is suffering due to neglect.
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As users of stadium-arcadium.com, we are writing to you regarding a number of concerns of many of us share on how the site has been run in the last few years.
You may or may not remember the “Keeping this site alive” thread from December 2013/ January 2014 in which all these concerns were outlined, but just to briefly summarise;
• Many moderators no longer post, and those that do seldom visit the site.
• Of the mods who do appear from time to time, they are completely powerless to ban spambots.
• The chat function was popular amongst many users and is no longer working.
• The site in general requires a tidy up in terms of broken links and outdated ads.
• The main homepage which once used to have several updates per week has not had a news item posted in nearly two years.
We are writing to you to ask you to allow us to help in any way we can. For starters, we would be more than happy to contribute to the running costs of the site. So for example you could set up a paypal fund that we could contribute to to help cover costs of running the site.
In terms of the forums we would like it if changes were made to the moderation team. Although you may not be familiar with many of us, we’d like to assure you that there are many good candidates that you could trust with moderation duties.
We believe 3 or 4 moderators are more than enough to allow things to run smoothly, but they must have the ability to ban users as there is no point having mods if they don’t have the power to delete posts and ban users. There are spambots with 50+ posts, which can be frustrating to put up with.
You are no longer an active presence on the site, and whatever your reasons are for that we are happy to respect those reasons, we are not looking for an explanation. You created an excellent site, all we are asking is that you allow us to play a part in keeping it running to the high standards it once set, as unfortunately it can’t be denied that the site is suffering due to neglect.
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