MyBroadband - Forum suggestions

Arriving at night in Joburg, stay in Kempton Park?

history — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:41:52 GMT

Hi all, I'll be taking a 14 hour flight to Joburg and arriving around 21.30 this august. I'm taking another flight to Cape Town the next morning. I know that the Gautrain shuts at 20.30 and as I'm spending so little time in Joburg, I think it would make sense to stay in Kempton Park that night? Does this sounds wise? I have to fly home from Jozi, so I'll spend a few days in the city in September.

Nail the trolls

jxharding — Sun, 12 May 2013 10:04:05 GMT

So freedom of speech yes, but does it add value if people just troll and bring nothing to the discussion? In the end the people with a valuable opinion just stay away because of the trolls and the whole thread (apart from the original post where e.g. a good question is asked) is of no use.
Trolls then come and say 'what Peter sees as trolling is not trolling to John', well ok have a vote then.
Imagine Google not adding weight to the contents of a page, and that a page full of trolling had the same weight as a page with actual useful results?

It's all good and well now, there aren't any really big/good forums apart from myBB in SA, but that doesn't mean the quality should drop down to next to nothing.

Nail the trolls - always very clever with their Captain Hindsight cap on but never really able to add to the discussion.

MyBB sister sites universal login

abzo — Sat, 11 May 2013 21:37:53 GMT

Is it not possible to have a universal login for myBB and myGaming?

Can't our myBB details be made to log in to myGaming without having to create a new account?

Sorry! The administrator has...

Blind Faith — Fri, 10 May 2013 07:16:29 GMT

...disabled the list of members

This a permanent thing ?

How do I post a custom avatar?

Picard — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:29:29 GMT

I only see the pre-defined set of avatars.

<--------- I'm tired of this stupid grey wolf.

2 questions

visrot — Wed, 08 May 2013 10:33:52 GMT

Where do I find the forum rules on the site? I would like to read it again.

How does one comment in the News and Current Affairs section? It seems to be different from other sections :confused:

Sloooooooooooow forum.

Blind Faith — Mon, 06 May 2013 16:53:04 GMT

Last night it was slow and crashed*, it is slow again tonight.

Anyone else having this?

*05-05-2013 07:39 PM:
Error 503 Service Unavailable

Service Unavailable

Guru Meditation:

XID: 575210063

Varnish cache server

Where is Pr⊕phet

GreGorGy — Sun, 05 May 2013 17:51:48 GMT

Hey, when a regular goes missing for a while I wonder - last spotted in Jan. Dude, are you out there?

Edit Signature

Dirk L — Fri, 03 May 2013 09:06:08 GMT

How do I change my Signature. Am I just dof today or what? For the life of me I can not find it...

Like button

TirNaNog — Thu, 02 May 2013 07:44:46 GMT

I want a like button under all posts :)

And what would be uber cool is that posts that get the most likes in the month be announced in a 'post of the month' thread!

Here's my nomination for May (post by sayanz)
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthre...1#post10286598

Reproducing articles from other websites

Humberto — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:44:38 GMT

I often see threads containing whole articles copied and pasted from other websites, with merely a link to the original article at the end of the article.

I feel it is wrong to do this because one is using the article from the other website without generating the traffic, with its related benefits such as advertising revenue, to the other website.

I'm sure the owners of MyBroadband would not take kindly to their articles being copied and pasted on other websites with merely a link to the original article.

I think there should be a forum policy that one may not copy and paste whole articles from other websites, except in cases where the other website specifically allows it, for example as happens with Wikipedia.

What complaints?

eehellfire — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:20:15 GMT

RPM, you've locked a few threads citing "complaints coming in".
Could you be more specific? Maybe it's a timing thing, but there doesn't usually seem to be anything drastic going on when the lock happens.
Who is complaining? Forumites or mods? and about what? Via RPB or are they PMing you the complaints?

Close threads due to complaining

Nicko — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:45:27 GMT

WAIT DONT LOCK THIS THREAD. Has nothing to do with that whole debacle, and no-one dare mention the d, r, or t word!

Can I really close any thread I want if I just complain about it? So there can be nothing wrong with the thread, but just cause a couple people don't like it, it will be closed?

Spamming and rules of http://itjobs.mybroadband.co.za/

nfbs — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 05:37:39 GMT

I looked at http://itjobs.mybroadband.co.za this week and it is full of the same copied and pasted jobs by recruiters that they paste it on all jobs sites they can. This was not the case in 2009 when I used the job site before. I don't have a problem of recruiters posting jobs but there should be a limit on them and not unlimited which is open to abuse which SA IT recruiters are renown for with their generic ads for CV mining
Any normal companies pasting jobs or non generic developer jobs will get lost in the recruiter noise.

I would like to make use of itjobs but to have it spammed like it makes it just a poor copy and paste version off the exact same jobs that post to pnet, careerjunction and the tens of other jobs sites.

Some of the big culprits are:
Studio 29 – Posted by Studio 29 (Posted 22 job ads on Monday 22 April )
1st AIIM Recruiting – Posted by Marina (posted 14 ads on Monday 22 April)
e-merge IT Recruitment
Navy Blue Suits
SkillsGalaxy
The Corporate Hub
Brett Jones – Posted by Key Connections
Parvana Strategic Sourcing (PTY) Ltd
Pitzer International
EOH MS Services

How to improve MyBroadband: your feedback needed

rpm — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 05:03:05 GMT

Hi folks

There have been complaints about the MyBroadband forum and enforcing the forum rules. It will be great if you can share your views on the following:

Are you unhappy about anything on the MyBroadband forums? If so, please give details.
In which of the forums do you think most of the problems happed? Do you think different forums should be moderated slightly differently (like Off Topic and Threadkiller, for example).
What do you think can be done to rectify the problems? Do you think new, clearer forum rules are needed?
What else do you think can be done to make MyBroadband’s forum better? This relates to anything else, like design, themes, apps and the like.

Please try to stick to the questions as it will make it easier for us to record your feedback.

Follow up post with more clarity

Thanks for the all the feedback. We are currently discussing the best way forward, which may include quite a few changes.

Personal opinion: I think there are ways on which we can improve MyBroadband (there always are), and I am trying hard to find those ways (with the help of the mods and members). It is very challenging to keep everyone happy (I would say impossible, but that has not been proven ), but we definitely work very hard to run MyBroadband as well as we can.

Another note: Every time a senior member is banned (or whenever else they get a chance) the same guys climb in and slate us, trying their best to put us in the worst light possible (it can obviously be hurtful as it is nearly always completely untrue, but we accept it as being part of running a forum). The fiercest critics (nearly) always claim to have the best for MyBroadband at heart. I think we can all agree that the admins and mods also want MyBroadband to be the best it can be. Hence the following invitation:

If we all have MyBroadband’s best interests at heart, the only discussion really is about how best to manage and moderate the forum. This includes technical issues like templates, hosting, apps and plugins, as well as forum management issues like which forum sections we should have, how moderation should be done, forum rules and the like.

The best way for us to see what to do is concrete suggestions. This is NOT comments like ‘have better moderation’ or ‘we need un-biased’ mods. Of course this is true. What will be very helpful is to give feedback like ‘PD needs a dedicated mod, and ‘Member Name will be a great mod in the PD forum’. Or maybe ‘Have a very strict invitation system only for the PD section, creating a ring-fenced area to discuss controversial topics’.

Concrete suggestions will help everyone to see if they agree with it, and will also give the community a chance to give their input on these suggestions. If implemented it can be trialed. If it works, great. If not, we gather more community suggestions and then test another system until we find the best solution.

I hope this was not ‘Too Long, Did not Read’ We are really trying hard to address any concerns and ensure that MyBroadband remains the best place to spend your Gigs online!