03-07-2017, 07:14 AM
I want to add a more detailed expalantion.
This is my opinion and as usual we the staff will decide together after studying the issue.
1. Many years ago, we decided to downgrade users with less than 5 posts. Every user with still a lower number of posts after surviving and continuing after so many years to do nothing will be downgraded.
2. Some users have many posts but all or almost all are requests or problems. I think that everyone (mainly the users receiving a lot from others) can sometimes to post a new link or to answer to a request of another. So even if you have 50-60 posts you can be downgraded (I know one with 164 counted posts, 6.5 years in forum, 99% are requests and his problems but he saw himself as a moderator candidate). The same users with many posts but inactive for years (I saw one with the last post dated somewhere in 2011 and with about 50 posts before) are candidates for downgrading.
3. We have a new warning for useless posts so don't flood the forum with posts only for not be downgraded. Old and inactive users beginning to post only for posting will be banned without warnings. We don't like spammers but I like to ban they. You want to be inactive, is your right but or you leave the forum or you become a subscriber.
4. Why? I gave this answer to same users in the past. We are a forum and not a store and of course not a social aid organization where people take free and return home. A forum (especially an engineering forum) is a place where engineers communicate and help each other. Not all engineering forums are the same and if you want I will give you the URL of others where you can register and you can do nothing.
This is my opinion and as usual we the staff will decide together after studying the issue.
1. Many years ago, we decided to downgrade users with less than 5 posts. Every user with still a lower number of posts after surviving and continuing after so many years to do nothing will be downgraded.
2. Some users have many posts but all or almost all are requests or problems. I think that everyone (mainly the users receiving a lot from others) can sometimes to post a new link or to answer to a request of another. So even if you have 50-60 posts you can be downgraded (I know one with 164 counted posts, 6.5 years in forum, 99% are requests and his problems but he saw himself as a moderator candidate). The same users with many posts but inactive for years (I saw one with the last post dated somewhere in 2011 and with about 50 posts before) are candidates for downgrading.
3. We have a new warning for useless posts so don't flood the forum with posts only for not be downgraded. Old and inactive users beginning to post only for posting will be banned without warnings. We don't like spammers but I like to ban they. You want to be inactive, is your right but or you leave the forum or you become a subscriber.
4. Why? I gave this answer to same users in the past. We are a forum and not a store and of course not a social aid organization where people take free and return home. A forum (especially an engineering forum) is a place where engineers communicate and help each other. Not all engineering forums are the same and if you want I will give you the URL of others where you can register and you can do nothing.