My Personal ProgArchives

I don't know how difficult this would be to implement, but this idea is rather a collection of ideas that make up my "grand plan".

Put simply, the "big" idea is to have something in the profile that allows members to filter the forums so that only the forums they are interested in are visible, thus creating a personalised view of Progarchives - to use Microsoft speak, a "MyProgArchives".

This way it may become desirable to add more forums with different subject areas, the downside to which is that more forums means more time spent moderating, and I'm sure maani has enough to do! However, this particular idea seems to have generated some member support recently.

As a potential solution, maybe a "Red Flag" button could be added so that if a member thought a posting was inappropriate, then it would instantly appear on a list that the moderator could use to quickly diagnose the issue. Obviously a Red Flag button would carry the same temptations as the emergency stop chord on a train, so use could be restricted to a pre-decided member group, or, taken to its logical conclusion, "trusted" members could have a subset of moderator "powers" (Lock thread, Move thread, etc.).

That's got the ball rolling - I probably haven't made it clear, or thought it all the way through, having just "splurged" the ideas from the top of my head, but I hope this is useful!

Velvet - I get where you're coming from, but the idea of a "Red Flag" button isn't to enable members to censor each other, rather a quick way of letting the Admins know exactly where a problem post might be - which gives the Admins a better chance of finding and dealing with inappropriate posts, which they would do in exactly the same relaxed manner they do right now!! Nothing would change, except the Admins life could get easier.

We've got a superlative example right now!!

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=735&am p;PN=1&TPN=5&FID=3&PR=3

Presumably we don't want to silence this person - but I find the language inflammatory (which says quite a lot, as I'm a Billy Connolly fan, have read "Ulysses" and am really keen on the Small Faces' "Ogden's Nut Gone"), and it  shows little respect for people on this forum who may not understand (most of us, I would think...). However, because we do not want censorship with a big stick, it looks like someone has to contact this person and somehow request that they communicate a little less aggressively and a bit more clearly...

I think the difficulties involved in doing that speak for themselves.

...or do you think we should just leave "him" alone and the whole of Progarchives be the silenced ones? There's possibly nothing wrong with doing that, as sometimes strong silence can say more than a reprimand, however carefully worded.