Why are foreign members being so problematic recently?

[PersonOfInterest]

Originally Posted by MT2008

t's the message board equivalent of trying to perform root canal with a jackhammer.

Except that it's not for the message board, it's for the main site.

Set a simple criteria for submissions, minimum number of words and/or photographs. Anything less than that would be automatically detected and thrown out. It's essentially a word counter. Anything decent that gets through wouldn't even need to be read in depth by an admin. Give it a glance over and if it looks like some effort was put in, then let it through. It'll go up as a normal page and be subject to the normal editing process by the rest of the members, the new guy gets in, everybody's happy.

Toss in a spellchecker to automatically delete lengthy submissions consisting of "adsf ljs sdlkf alsdasdlfih a;sd".

You all keep saying that this is going to increase manhours spent on the site, but there doesn't seem to be any argument that can be made to back that up. It just seems to be a case of "we don't want to deal with it", even though you already are dealing with it, just in a less direct, more tedious and (for MPM) frustrating way.

[MoviePropMaster2008]

Originally Posted by PersonOfInterest

You all keep saying that this is going to increase manhours spent on the site, but there doesn't seem to be any argument that can be made to back that up. It just seems to be a case of "we don't want to deal with it", even though you already are dealing with it, just in a less direct, more tedious and (for MPM) frustrating way.

Actually WE (as in WE) don't have the administrative rights to do so. Such a thing would have to be done by Bunni for he ALONE has the administrative rights. So you're saying that WE are not dealing with it, when you don't seem to understand that WE (i.e. all the mods) don't have the power to make that sort of change to the site.

[PersonOfInterest]

Originally Posted by MoviePropMaster2008

Actually WE (as in WE) don't have the administrative rights to do so. Such a thing would have to be done by Bunni for he ALONE has the administrative rights. So you're saying that WE are not dealing with it, when you don't seem to understand that WE (i.e. all the mods) don't have the power to make that sort of change to the site.

Then ask him to do it. Ask him to do something. Where do you even think these rants of yours on the forums are ever going to go?

[MoviePropMaster2008]

Originally Posted by PersonOfInterest

Then ask him to do it. Ask him to do something. Where do you even think these rants of yours on the forums are ever going to go?

Here's an idea. Feel free to ignore ALL my rants? Can you do that? Is that possible for you to do? Just a thought.

[S&Wshooter]

Originally Posted by MoviePropMaster2008

Here's an idea. Feel free to ignore ALL my rants? Can you do that? Is that possible for you to do? Just a thought.

Yeah. No one is forcing you to read them

[PersonOfInterest]

Originally Posted by MoviePropMaster2008

Here's an idea. Feel free to ignore ALL my rants? Can you do that? Is that possible for you to do? Just a thought.

You are a very angry person.

Originally Posted by S&Wshooter

Yeah. No one is forcing you to read them

Nobody's forcing anybody to read anything so why complain about any of it?

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by PersonOfInterest

You are a very angry person.

You confuse anger with frustration. You are a very frustrating person. Personally, I'm getting really tired of dealing with you, too.

Originally Posted by PersonOfInterest

Set a simple criteria for submissions, minimum number of words and/or photographs. Anything less than that would be automatically detected and thrown out. It's essentially a word counter. Anything decent that gets through wouldn't even need to be read in depth by an admin. Give it a glance over and if it looks like some effort was put in, then let it through. It'll go up as a normal page and be subject to the normal editing process by the rest of the members, the new guy gets in, everybody's happy.

Toss in a spellchecker to automatically delete lengthy submissions consisting of "adsf ljs sdlkf alsdasdlfih a;sd".

You all keep saying that this is going to increase manhours spent on the site, but there doesn't seem to be any argument that can be made to back that up. It just seems to be a case of "we don't want to deal with it", even though you already are dealing with it, just in a less direct, more tedious and (for MPM) frustrating way.

Tell me, have you EVER heard of a Wiki that even has this sort of system? Especially one with as few staff as ourselves?

And you keep dwelling on the practicality aspect of our argument while ignoring the moral component. Treating all registered users like malicious spammers is simply unfair. If we adopted your idea, then we'd look like a huge bunch of assholes, and most of us on here don't aspire to be seen as assholes. Of course, since you clearly are an asshole (either that or someone with a serious case of Asperger's Syndrome), I guess this is a tough idea for you to grasp.

[PersonOfInterest]

Originally Posted by MT2008

You confuse anger with frustration. You are a very frustrating person. Personally, I'm getting really tired of dealing with you, too.

It's a discussion, nothing to get frustrated over. Chill.

Originally Posted by MT2008

Tell me, have you EVER heard of a Wiki that even has this sort of system? Especially one with as few staff as ourselves?

Nothing wrong with being innovative.

Originally Posted by MT2008

And you keep dwelling on the practicality aspect of our argument while ignoring the moral component. Treating all registered users like malicious spammers is simply unfair.

You mean unregistered users. If somebody's registered it means they've passed the test.

Originally Posted by MT2008

If we adopted your idea, then we'd look like a huge bunch of assholes, and most of us on here don't aspire to be seen as assholes. Of course, since you clearly are an asshole (either that or someone with a serious case of Asperger's Syndrome), I guess this is a tough idea for you to grasp.

A: I don't have Asperger's Syndrome.
B: I don't think anybody's going to get their feelings hurt because they're not allowed to edit a website.
C: "Due to a recent increase in vandalism, we here at IMFDB have decided to institute a policy of...etc." Tada, we're not assholes, we have high expectations of quality from our users. It's all subjective.
D: I don't actually care one way or another if this or anything like this is ever implemented. It's an idea for IMFDB I'm discussing on a discussion forum for discussing the daily goings-on of IMFDB. It's a discussion. An idea, a brainstorming. I'm not making a beer hall putsch here, just tossing it out into the aether and refining it as a whole as more issues are raised.