Can't post an intro?
- Papus79
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Can't post an intro?
I did what I could to work the title out in a novel way on my second try as well and I was warned that my intro was similar to other posts in the forum. I hit send and I see my post count still at zero.
Are the first few posts a person submits reviewed first by forum admins? I just ask because it's confusing - if you say something in the introduction rules about that it would be helpful.
Thank you!
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Never mind. Based on this this it appears you are done with admin talk and ready for some philosophy :)Papus79 wrote:I just didn't know what I didn't know.
Alas, I have not the power to do so, Gertie. Scott hired quite a few not so long ago but almost all soon left the forum.Gertie wrote:Maybe you need to recruit more mods Greta? The board rules mean a lot of work.
Anyone who wishes to volunteer to be a mod here - especially regulars who are less likely to soon disappear - by all means let me know and when I have enough names I'll chat with Scott about it.
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If you don't get paid for this job, then the system is doomed to failure.
-- Updated February 20th, 2017, 11:31 pm to add the following --
In addition to my post: experience has shown over and over again that a job done by volunteers which should command remuneration causes burn-out in volunteers, and a general systemic failure in operations, if lacking in a large and sufficiently large supply of new and fresh volunteers.
It is easy to identify those jobs that should be financially compensated: any degree of unpleasantness about them must be compensated. Repetition and a lack of satisfaction of doing a good job (lack of inherent satisfaction or of praise or other benefits) are both reasons to pay for the performance of the job.
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Go to the Introductions forums and look for my post.Josefina1110 wrote:I don't understand the topic, "Can't post an intro?" Intro to what? Does it refer to a story about something I missed? Please clarify.
What post?
Exactly.
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-- Updated 2017 February 21st, 12:14 am to add the following --
It refers to the story of how for sure to attain eternal youth and everlasting happiness. Those who missed it, will never get it. It is one of those things, like the Philosophers' Stone, or the New Testament, or the Holy Grail. There is just one of them, and everyone wants it. "The Intro."Josefina1110 wrote:I don't understand the topic, "Can't post an intro?" Intro to what? Does it refer to a story about something I missed? Please clarify.
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I have at least two posts still hanging out unapproved from Sunday night and one from yesterday morning.-1- wrote:Maybe the system could be adjusted to require fewer than 20 posts of new users by mods. If the number was reduced to 10 posts or to 5 posts, the workload would become halved or quartered. A tremendous improvement in the lives of mods, a small step for mankind.
They might be able to do that or they might be able to build something like a member sandbox, like the intro area and maybe one other general folder, where after that and possibly after a certain number of quality posts a moderator okays a person to post at liberty in other parts of the forum. If approving 20 posts is getting untenable (assuming my introductory and other posts complied with forum rules) something like that might be the better option.
The other possibility I might want to address is whether the approval folder is showing that I have zero posts pending approval right now. That would be a different problem altogether.
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