ResetEra March 2018 Newsletter

nihilence · Mar 31, 2018

Another great month and newsletter!

Vincent Alexander · Mar 31, 2018

Great update. My least favorite part of Reset...in fact my only gripe, has been:

... less micromanagement of discussions – specifically fewer warnings issued for minor infractions and fewer preemptive Mod Posts.

Very happy about this adjustment. Good work.

Aeana · Mar 31, 2018

SweetNicole said:
This past month we’ve been listening to privately submitted user feedback and conducting surveys among representatives from many of our Hangouts. A consistent theme that came up was that people wanted to see less micromanagement of discussions – specifically fewer warnings issued for minor infractions and fewer preemptive Mod Posts. Over the past week or so we’ve been cutting back on these things and believe it has had a positive effect.

It seems to me that minor infractions are what warnings should be for. It's really easy for things to snowball out of hand quickly, especially as the userbase grows. Lots of people complained about the dogpiling problem in the past, and most methods don't seem to do much to combat it, but seeing a warned post probably does. Just my opinion, though.

Deleted member 9838 · Mar 31, 2018

Cool :)

Mister X · Mar 31, 2018

Good update ERA!

darkside · Mar 31, 2018

GiftBot is my favorite user. She gives me free stuff, I love her. Great update to the site

~Fake · Mar 31, 2018

One question: How can I send feedback? We'll have some kind of feedback tool or we already have?

SweetNicole just love your avatar.

Deleted member 123 · Mar 31, 2018

Increase in restrictions before being a normal member?! But what about the junior members who has registered before today like us, will we still need 100 posts and 1 month on this forums, before being a member?

I have joined in 6 March, and it's been 25 days, yet the admin announces changes in requirements to be a member!

I just want to know...Will MEMBERS registered before TODAY still REQUIRE 100 posts and 1 month of being HERE???? I would hate to see my requirement changed too, it's like you're also punishing the members who joined before today.

Lukemia SL · Mar 31, 2018

I can make threads now cool. 500+ posts :D

Yerba_Sutra · Mar 31, 2018

I really appreciate that y'all take the time to highlight some awesome/fun/relevant threads from the community.

Dandy Crocodile · Mar 31, 2018

SweetNicole The Alliance Alive also released this month! :)

Ferny · Mar 31, 2018

Michele said:
Increase in restrictions before being a normal member?! But what about the members who has registered before today like us, will we still need 100 posts and 1 month on this forums?

There is no way to split the difference. So unfortunately you will need to reach the new threshold before being able to make posts. Sorry for the inconvenience with the change. We know it will affect some members who were close to the older limit.

TwinsUltra64 · Mar 31, 2018

Thanks for the update :)

Ketkat · Mar 31, 2018

I definitely feel like I've seen a lot more "Fuck off"s and calling women in the news cunts getting by lately. Is that also part of the changes?

I feel like warnings for small infractions is kind of the point instead of just letting it build up in a way that the user can't see and ending up with a ban for it. If the goal with bans is to correct behavior, then I'm not sure how warnings aren't accomplishing the same thing but for smaller issues.

Mediking · Mar 31, 2018

SweetNicole said:
As always, we're looking for your feedback on how we can make this newsletter better. Don't forget to book April 20th off if you're going to be out of the office for a..."personal day." One final question for you if you've made it this far: Are you ready for a difference that's Night and Day?

What's gonna happen????

Are we getting more theme options or.....?

ShinobiBk · Mar 31, 2018

Michele said:
Increase in restrictions before being a normal member?! But what about the members who has registered before today like us, will we still need 100 posts and 1 month on this forums?

This is my exact question
Does this apply to everyone who joined before today

Lol, looking at my profile just now, I've already met the new requirements just a few days ago. Time flies lol

Luxorek · Mar 31, 2018

SweetNicole said:
At the same time we want to avoid making it easier for trolls to fly under the radar, shed their Junior status, and gain thread posting abilities. The current requirements of 100 posts and 1 month before gaining full Membership were only as low as they were out of consideration for the launch period. From now on the new requirement will be 300 posts and 3 months.

This is a great thing.

Mediking · Mar 31, 2018

Michele said:
Increase in restrictions before being a normal member?! But what about the junior members who has registered before today like us, will we still need 100 posts and 1 month on this forums, before being a member?

I have joined in 6 March, and it's been 25 days, yet the admin announces changes in requirements to be a member!

I just want to know...Will MEMBERS registered before TODAY still REQUIRE 100 posts and 1 month of being HERE???? I would hate to see my requirement changed too, it's like you're also punishing the members who joined before today.

?!?!?! Wait... are you seriously 13 years old?

Deleted member 123 · Mar 31, 2018

ShinobiBk said:
This is my exact question
Does this apply to everyone who joined before today

I really hope not, it would be very bad to see junior members being punished too, even with the join date being early March like me..

Yoshimitsu126 · Mar 31, 2018

Oh never knew how much consideration was given in the user feedback. I do like the new changes being implemented for junior membership now that Era is quite big.

MrRob · Mar 31, 2018

The monthly newsletter is great. I really like that our board seems like a much more collaboratively run place where there is at least some democracy in how it should function. Keep up the great work mods and admins.

Deleted member 123 · Mar 31, 2018

Mediking said:
?!?!?! Wait... are you seriously 13 years old?

Sigh...yes, I am seriously 13 years old. Are you this surprised?

Mediking · Mar 31, 2018

Michele said:
Sigh...yes, I am seriously 13 years old. Are you this surprised?

Um, YEAH, I'm SURPRISED.

Toumari · Mar 31, 2018

SweetNicole said:
The current requirements of 100 posts and 1 month before gaining full Membership were only as low as they were out of consideration for the launch period. From now on the new requirement will be 300 posts and 3 months.

I'm not sure whether it was intentional or not, but it seems this applies to people who have been Junior members since day 1 of registration being open, and not working from this point onward.

Oh well, only 22 posts away.

Deleted member 123 · Mar 31, 2018

Mediking said:
Um, YEAH, I'm SURPRISED.

Tsk. You better be glad that you're seeing a member at the youngest age possible to register on this forum. It's so rare seeing someone who is aged 13, so to me, I feel like the only member at this age...

Toumari said:
I'm not sure whether it was intentional or not, but it seems this applies to people who have been Junior members since day 1 of registration being open, and not working from this point onward.

Oh well, only 22 posts away.

What? I'm hoping you're not serious. Is it like a April Fool prank?

Mediking · Mar 31, 2018

Michele said:
Tsk. You better be glad that you're seeing a member at the youngest age possible to register on this forum. It's so rare seeing someone who is aged 13, so to me, I feel like the only member at this age...

LMAO

You're not trolling?

I just felt alotta attitude in your post. I got nothing against you if you're truly 13.

transience · Mar 31, 2018

Aw man, I lost my thread making privileges. I got my tag from a thread that I made!

mattsdl · Mar 31, 2018

SweetNicole Warhammer: Vermintide 2 came out this month as well and has an OT: https://www.resetera.com/threads/warhammer-vermintide-2-ot-warhammer-cataclysm.28165/

Messi · Mar 31, 2018

Will we be able to sticky our new comics OT when it gets posted tonight? Or do we lose the spotlight?

The Artisan · Mar 31, 2018

Can we eventually get post counts on threads? It would make it easier to look at all the posts we made in any given thread and how many

saenima · Mar 31, 2018

Michele said:
Sigh...yes, I am seriously 13 years old. Are you this surprised?

Look at the bright side. You have plenty of time to reach the new threshold ;)

AstralTurfWarrior · Mar 31, 2018

Meh, I don't like trash posting or posting one liners and I'm often late for threads anyway (since I have a tendency to read them pretty thoroughly, so I feel like I'm never gonna be able to make threads with this rate.

Not a bad change in general though, I guess.

edit:
No wait, it was 100 posts before? Then yeah I'm supposed to be able to make threads I guess. Funny, didn't realize it.

Aeana said:
It seems to me that minor infractions are what warnings should be for. It's really easy for things to snowball out of hand quickly, especially as the userbase grows. Lots of people complained about the dogpiling problem in the past, and most methods don't seem to do much to combat it, but seeing a warned post probably does. Just my opinion, though.

Ketkat said:
I definitely feel like I've seen a lot more "Fuck off"s and calling women in the news cunts getting by lately. Is that also part of the changes?

I feel like warnings for small infractions is kind of the point instead of just letting it build up in a way that the user can't see and ending up with a ban for it. If the goal with bans is to correct behavior, then I'm not sure how warnings aren't accomplishing the same thing but for smaller issues.

Yeah this is how I feel too. I think warnings given for small infractions are a good thing.

At the same time though, I can see how people might take them very seriously and consider it over blown in small cases, but I don't think the warning is the problem in itself there. Instead of lessening the amount of warnings for small things, maybe it should be considered how it could be made to feel not quite so bad in such small cases (but still make it clear enough that it was indeed given for a good reason).

Ferny · Mar 31, 2018

Toumari said:
I'm not sure whether it was intentional or not, but it seems this applies to people who have been Junior members since day 1 of registration being open, and not working from this point onward.

Oh well, only 22 posts away.

There was a bug. You should have your privileges now tho.

Deleted member 123 · Mar 31, 2018

Mediking said:
LMAO

You're not trolling?

I just felt alotta attitude in your post. I got nothing against you if you're truly 13.

I'm not trolling. I'm just trying to tell you that it's a bit rare to see members aged 13 like myself.
I only want you to feel a bit lucky - you're seeing peoples with different ages, and I'm thinking you have never seen someone aged 13.

transience said:
Aw man, I lost my thread making privileges. I got my tag from a thread that I made!

Are you joking? Try creating another thread as a test. I bet it doesn't apply to members like you; You're a member, so I think you still have access.

SweetNicole or Ferny Could I please have a clarification about the updated restriction, does it applies to everyone who has either less than 300 posts or less than 3 months for the restriction to be lifted, or does the new restriction apply ONLY to members who joined today?

I'd hate to see members like us being punished only because we've either joined less than a month ago or we've got less than 100 posts.

transience · Mar 31, 2018

Yeah, this is what I see now:

(You have insufficient privileges to post here.)

Deleted member 123 · Mar 31, 2018

transience said:
Yeah, this is what I see now:

(You have insufficient privileges to post here.)

Ferny confirmed, it's a bug so in a moment your privileges should be restored.

transience · Mar 31, 2018

Cool, thank you! (It's not a big deal if I have to wait until I hit 300 posts, but it's nice to be able to if something comes up.)

The Artisan · Mar 31, 2018

SweetNicole said:
The tool was disabled due to technical issues. We'd like to get it back in the future, but we have no ETA for when that will happen.

arite, cool. good to know it is being addressed

FF Seraphim · Mar 31, 2018

Hmm so will the warnings only be more lenient in the Hangout sections or forum wide? I agree with Aeana on its usefulness in certain threads.

ibrahima · Mar 31, 2018

Ketkat said:
I feel like warnings for small infractions is kind of the point instead of just letting it build up in a way that the user can't see and ending up with a ban for it. If the goal with bans is to correct behavior, then I'm not sure how warnings aren't accomplishing the same thing but for smaller issues.

Having not seen the feedback that led to warnings being dialled back it's difficult to know how that decision came about outside of what's been said here.

I personally appreciated the presence of warnings and to myself there seems to have been a rise in the kind of conversations that lead to bans, but perhaps I'm just finding myself reading those threads at the right moment.

On a separate note, and apologies if this isn't the best place to ask but would it be possible to add some kind of service to privately flag certain accounts.

I recognise that the ability to ignore people already exists and this essentially overlaps the same problem but I'd appreciate being able to just make a note that someone might not know what they're talking about but still be able to see their posts as they come up in a particular thread.

Colbert · Mar 31, 2018

Great updates!

RedRum · Mar 31, 2018

Great updates. Keep up the good work guys.

Mediking · Mar 31, 2018

Michele said:
I'm not trolling. I'm just trying to tell you that it's a bit rare to see members aged 13 like myself.
I only want you to feel a bit lucky - you're seeing peoples with different ages, and I'm thinking you have never seen someone aged 13.

Yeah... pretty sure I never saw a 13 year old on a site like ERA before.

And the way you sound.... lol. Well, you got a grasp on proper sentence structure amd stuff. When I was 13, I didn't care.

Santerestil · Mar 31, 2018

300 posts for member status? It's a lot to write, are you sure it will not incentive more short and stupid comments to get it?

This, and the fact thart for a slowpoke poster like me means at least a year as junior...

Deleted member 123 · Mar 31, 2018

Santerestil said:
300 posts for member status? It's a lot to write, are you sure it will not incentive more short and stupid comments to get it?

This, and the fact thart for a slowpoke poster like me means at least a year as junior...

I agree with you, another method would be to spam short comments. But you don't need to beat yourself up, you can stay forever a junior member or be a member right now.
But I've been also wondering, does the new restriction only applies to members registered today or does it also applies to all junior members? I'd hate seeing old junior members being punished..

The Poochy Kid · Mar 31, 2018

While I believe forcing users to wait three months before being able to make posts might be overly-restrictive and somewhat discouraging to legitimate users who have joined within the past month, I understand that it will help keep trolls off the forum and it's probably for the best.

Just as a clarification though, users who already passed the previous requirement, but not the new one, will retain their Member status, yes?

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