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New Supporter member group and Image Share section
To start with I have created a new paid for member group known as a "Supporter". Supporters are either people who have paid a one-off fee of £1 to become a Supporter of the site or are past Premium Members whose subscription has expired. They're essentially a mini-Premium member with a few additional features over normal member accounts but with less features than a full Premium Member, Premium Members get these features and more.
Perhaps the most prolific of these features is the ability for Supporters to manage the comments of their own files and images. Supporters can remove any comments they desire from any member (except a staff member) who has posted on their file or image comment topic essentially making them the moderators of their own files and comments. This will be a welcome addition to any file owner on the site who doesn't like to turn the file comments off but likes to have control over what is said within their comment topics.
My plan is to further compound this functionality in the near future with a digg.com style "negative reputation" system to allow members to down-rate posts they believe to be in poor taste, or trolling, thus sending the post to the bottom of the pile, hiding it or deleting it entirely. Imagine someone posts on a great file that they think it's absolutely rubbish. An obvious troll post from an idiot. Five people read the file comments, they don't like that particular comment, and they each neg-rep it. That post then becomes hidden from view. That's the plan.
As well as comment moderation Supporters and Premium Members will now have access to a seperate Image Share section (it's on your right navigation bar under "Image Share (Sup)") that is just for them. This Image Share section has more relaxed terms and conditions, allowing nudity within the realms of legality and similar adult-only content that was recently disallowed from the main Image Share section. While I regret to add this Censorship to the main Image Share section this choice was mine to make and while I appreciate that a "behind closed doors" philosophy isn't great I am much more comfortable with this arrangement, as are the majority of the staff here.
The file database will remain unchanged and untouched.
Finally the private message storage capacity of Supporters has been increased from 100 to 500, inline with the Premium Members. Great for authors who receive a lot of communication via PM.
If people find any bugs then please send a report my way so I can take a look at it.
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Great is a relitive term. Like beauty, color, or taste. If one person doesn't like a file they should be free to say so, as long as they do it politly. They should not have their comment forcibly removed by other posters for simply expressing their opinion.
a Nexus Supporter!
I like this change, though I don't have any mods released and only one of my images has any comments.
Supporters have been given this ability as a priviledge, a thank you for their support. I've been monitoring the reputation system closely and so far I've seen some good even-handedness from the authors using it.
I would imagine the majority of those hosting mods here are free members. Now we have to pay for the ability to control what idiots do to our pages?
Forgive me. I'm a little irked but I wanted to offer my opinion on this.
Crash
@ kloka123: i didnt even noticed that lmao
Not necessarily. If another member is severely breaking the rules, report away. Even if it gets hidden due to downvoting, the mods will see it and act accordingly.
But for the times when an idiot opens his mouth but still treads that fine line between trolling and just kinda being rude... that's when the people can shine.
if i understant, trolls posts will be deleted by the negative reputaion system.
but the problem is they won't be reported, so they won't risk to be banned even after a serious rules violation.
i say that because there's always a lot of trolling in my files topic, and i'm not very happy to think people who insult me or my work will continue to be here with complete impunity.