I appreciate your comments Sawell, however let me offer some rebuttal;
I'm not entirely sure what the reasoning behind the announcement is, better ask beachy
. However your opinion on putting members down is purely that, an opinion. It is NOT our aim to put members down in any shape or form.
Were not showing our backs whatsoever. Would it not be worse to pick a larger moderation team to filter every useless non-contributing post? Some users would never be able to post anywhere at all if that were the case. You are right when you say it may never pick up, and thats a very real possibility, however at least its there if there is a wish to use it. How are we neglecting the forum is everyone has the oppertunity to contribute and therefore become a VIP? If anything its an incentive to help, a reward for doing something good. Are you implying thats its wrong to reward users for good work?
More opinion without factual evidence. Its true we've offered positions of moderation to contributors in the past, and this is obviously not a sustainable reward. However, we do actively seek ways to reward users. All our teams do at the moment is manage users, we rarely recognise achivements... is it not time we should?
We already know this, but we don't see a reason why those that can be angels should be consistantly penalised by those than can't.
Again, I don't see why anyone need rise above anything, its still there and it still interupts the threads flow. Just because one user is able to 'rise above' it doesn't mean other posters will be able to. (Server advertisments threads are a brilliant example of this).
Whose 'we'? Is that some sort of anti-establishment comment that was the main 'in thing' before spam and gfx'er groups? We have not run away from anything, melee trying to enhance the quality of service the forum offers, aswell as offering incentives for furthur MIR development.
Although a lot of your comments are fair Sawell, I find that it contains subtle hints of unfounded opinion worded as fact with a distinct tint of antiestablishment comments. Please understand that our aim is to improve the forum, not to purely solve a problem and isolate users. Whats wrong with providing a form of recognition for the people that deserve it, they get nothing else. All walks of life offer rewards for good things, yet we've never had a recognised reward system. If anything, this should be looked on as an incentive to help out a little, and a way forward for the LOMCN teams. Most of our time is spent punishing users who have broke rules, we don't have anything to the contary. Personally I think its about time the teams did.
/Leo