This comes about as a result of the thread suggesting sub-dividing the classified ads.
As I said in that thread there are many more serious needs than fixing what is not broken. Here are a few ideas:
For a start a FULL set of forum rules is much needed. They should be published in ONE place and be available to all on the pull down site menu bar.
Proper moderation is also needed but I suspect difficult to implement on a site such as this. There are far too many posts in the "I've had a few jars and now I'm going to inflict my sense of humour on the web" category! Off topic posting which interferes with a thread needs dealing with and those who use someone else's thread to have a chat with one or two mates need to be told to phone/message them direct.
The general behaviour of posters is quite good and the people who need 'dealing' with are few - but so painfully obvious. I suggest that use of the 'report a post button' is used more often and that persistent offenders are given a sin-bin sentence. Those who persist after a warning and a few spells in the cooler need to be banned.
Other sites which I use have a policy which strictly prohibits posts with political, sexual or race comments or purpose. Despite the present Election thread having - at last - come around to sensible debate, I do think that these are areas which need to be monitored more closely.
As I said in that thread there are many more serious needs than fixing what is not broken. Here are a few ideas:
For a start a FULL set of forum rules is much needed. They should be published in ONE place and be available to all on the pull down site menu bar.
Proper moderation is also needed but I suspect difficult to implement on a site such as this. There are far too many posts in the "I've had a few jars and now I'm going to inflict my sense of humour on the web" category! Off topic posting which interferes with a thread needs dealing with and those who use someone else's thread to have a chat with one or two mates need to be told to phone/message them direct.
The general behaviour of posters is quite good and the people who need 'dealing' with are few - but so painfully obvious. I suggest that use of the 'report a post button' is used more often and that persistent offenders are given a sin-bin sentence. Those who persist after a warning and a few spells in the cooler need to be banned.
Other sites which I use have a policy which strictly prohibits posts with political, sexual or race comments or purpose. Despite the present Election thread having - at last - come around to sensible debate, I do think that these are areas which need to be monitored more closely.