Comments on: DC Message Boards Delayed

By: craig

craig — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:25:58 +0000

still, all the more reason not to go there….what a cesspool.
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By: Johanna

Johanna — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:41:58 +0000

Thanks for the update, Sebastian! I’m glad to see they backed off of a bad decision. Hopefully this will give them the time they need to handle the troublemakers individually instead of trying to use some over-broad blanket policy.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 07:20:49 +0000

Just went to have a look, but: "Due to bugs in our pre-moderation system, and the impracticality of reviewing every message before it goes live, we have lifted the pre-moderation policy. All users are now free to post without review regardless of their post count. [...]" Seems to have caused more problems than it was worth even to them. (link)

By: James Schee

James Schee — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 01:41:13 +0000

Yeah, I remember when I first got online and found the old DC Boards on AOL. I was so enthused to find a place to talk comics with other fans, since I didn’t have anything like that here.

Yet while I found a number of really great people to chat with, there were a number of long time posters that just made it seem like it was their club with no new members allowed.

It just really wore a lot of my “oh, cool!” enthusiasm out after a while.

These days on the few forums I still frequent I try to make sure and be welcoming to new voices. Even if they start old ideas long talked about (how to get new readers into comics, trades vs. singles or the like) I try to be nice and even reply to their points in a very (hopefully) friendly fashion. As I remember how much it sucked to have others say “we’ve talked about that already, you should really get with things.”