New Users & Homepage Spam Options

[Tigawoods]

I know its not a new subject but I thought I would bring it up again because there are a couple people I am talking with who are at "pending" status, which is hindering them from posting or replying.
Was there ever an explanation as to why Coomer isnt able to upgrade the Mods to have more power on the forums?


Homepage Spam. There is an ungodly amount of spamming happening in the comments on the Car pages displayed on the home page (the featured cars not the recently added cars, they may not be on the page long enough to get those)
Weekly I clean out the giant comments of gibberish code script. Usually comes in around 15 or so a week on my page. I checked Stephs BEAMS page and they have over 1900 comments.

[richee3]

Coomer was going to look into why new members weren't getting promoted from the trial members group to full members after a couple of approved posts, figure out why some new members weren't getting their registration emails, and disable spam bots from commenting after they are banned from posting. Unfortunately, he didn't have time to get around to it

[Tigawoods]

was this back in 2015? I remember there being a discussion

[cheela]

yeah i agree. Mods do need a tiny bit more power around here. the page might be slowly dying because of this as well...

[njccmd2002]

yup. this forum is dying, but lets face it not just because of this registration process. But because bunch of celica owners now a days want their crap spoon fed period.

Registration hinders new users, but old users rather post crap in facebook than to post here. And thats ok, because who gives a rat's a....

anyways this registration process will not change. And the spoon feed system wont. A lot of god stickies are created, nobody even comments. People are more interested in spending 5 bucks to get 300hp.

[ClevelandGaint]

yup. this forum is dying, but lets face it not just because of this registration process. But because bunch of celica owners now a days want their crap spoon fed period.

Registration hinders new users, but old users rather post crap in facebook than to post here. And thats ok, because who gives a rat's a....

anyways this registration process will not change. And the spoon feed system wont. A lot of god stickies are created, nobody even comments. People are more interested in spending 5 bucks to get 300hp.

PREACH

[Tigawoods]

yup. this forum is dying, but lets face it not just because of this registration process. But because bunch of celica owners now a days want their crap spoon fed period.

Registration hinders new users, but old users rather post crap in facebook than to post here. And thats ok, because who gives a rat's a....

anyways this registration process will not change. And the spoon feed system wont. A lot of god stickies are created, nobody even comments. People are more interested in spending 5 bucks to get 300hp.

So the forum is basically becoming a web reference guide. Not an actual place for interaction and discussion.

Part of that sucks, but as long as useful information keeps getting added to advance peoples knowledge (for those who actually research and read) I am alright with the new Encyclopedia-Celica.net

[njccmd2002]

In a few years this will be our site

[ClevelandGaint]

In a few years this will be our site

I really hope it doesn't become that way

[njccmd2002]

No sense in keeping a site with no traffic

[cheela]

Someone needs to download this whole site for backup.
So much info would be gone forever.

[trdproven]

a lot of people are getting out of the 6gc especially in the US or the cars are dead or junkyarded or whatsoever, I still have mine and still putting thousands on it.

[ClevelandGaint]

How much does it cost to run? How can you buy the rights to keep it on going?

[PegGTS]

As useful as the forum is and the amount of great information there is on here, sometimes I prefer the Facebook page for asking questions that I need a quick answer to or for selling things. For the most part things sell easier on the Facebook page since it's more active.

That being said, the forum is super helpful and most of the time I'm able to answer my own question by searching it. Would be a shame for all that info to be lost.

[cheela]

ew... selling on facebook. i don't like it. at all.

[njccmd2002]

lets post this thread on the facebook page

[PegGTS]

ew... selling on facebook. i don't like it. at all.

I just like it because it's quicker. Most people check their messages on there much faster than on here so it's nice.

[Tigawoods]

looks like the donate option is a bit more out there now

[njccmd2002]

Yup

[Batman722]

I donated.

[Tigawoods]

I donated.

it took me about 7 minutes to find the perfect gif.
so worth it

[Batman722]

This post has been edited by Batman722: Jun 17, 2016 - 7:46 AM

[Tigawoods]

hmmmmm so many contradictions going on in that post





This post has been edited by Tigawoods: Jun 17, 2016 - 8:20 AM

[njccmd2002]

Lol

[Batman722]

You're a contradiction

[BonzaiCelica]

I donated.

x2.

[The_enD]

http://www.6gc.net/celicas/endworks-gt-four-15534

spam

[Rusty]

cheers, though at the moment we/mods do not have the tools to fix the comments

[cheela]

http://www.6gc.net/members/Krismatera

how did this guy get through??? please remove them.

[Box]

http://www.6gc.net/members/Krismatera

how did this guy get through??? please remove them.

That's the softest Celica I've ever seen.

[richee3]

We can't do anything outside of the forum, sadly. All we can do is ban members from posting, edit/move/delete posts, etc. but we can't do anything to a member with no posts or take care of any comments anywhere else on 6gc.net.

[Bushmatic]

This thread is slightly stale but can someone send me the link to the facebook group, or PM me so I can be added if it's "secret" or whatever? I used to have a Saab and being in the Facebook groups was great for finding random little parts I needed, much better than a classifieds post in a forum asking for a specific bolt or bracket or something.

I may be new to the 6gc game, but I am not new to online forums like this. If you want one big suggestion on making the site appear more active (and then become more active as a natural consequence), change the default forum view to show threads from all time, not just in the past 30 days. Since the "My Project" section sees a lot of activity, more threads appear by default, naturally encouraging users to browse and participate more than in other forum sections. When you click on the Exterior Styling forum, you are greeted with only 6 threads by default (at the time of this posting). But at the bottom of the page is a little menu where you can see threads from all time, which is a much more inviting (and logical) view for people to click around and offer advice on slightly older threads with no responses. I'd imagine some users don't even know this view exists. I would love to be able to make new threads without them being sent to purgatory when nobody posts in them for 30 days. On a forum geared toward technical advice rather than current news/trends, this kind of view would be a huge advantage to everyone involved. The only risk is an increased amount of posting in "dead" threads, which is certainly not a horrible thing in the grand scheme of things, especially considering this is the only car forum I have ever seen that hides old threads. This is probably a job for a site admin, who appears to not really be around much, but I figured I'd post for posterity purposes. Ironically, this post will have to be approved by a mod because I'm still in the "trial" period. Fixing the little things like these would really bring this website to a new level.

[richee3]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2366728359/

I don't disagree that seeing more threads would encourage more activity. When I joined the forum in '06-07, each sub forum had 2-3 pages of active threads. Then the Facebook page came around and now that's where most people hang out, asking the same basic questions multiple times per week. I honestly avoid that group.

[Bushmatic]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2366728359/

I don't disagree that seeing more threads would encourage more activity. When I joined the forum in '06-07, each sub forum had 2-3 pages of active threads. Then the Facebook page came around and now that's where most people hang out, asking the same basic questions multiple times per week. I honestly avoid that group.

Well, regardless, I sent a request to join. If you are an admin look out for a member request from someone named Mitch

[richee3]

Approved.

[Box]

I avoid book of faces in general.