Neowin: What 1 change would you make?

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12Iceman

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I would create a way for the users to moderate the moderators, so the ones who constantly closed popular threads or gave warnings for no good reason could themselves get warned and eventually demoted to a normal user.

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what would raising the age to 18?

just add a subforum for 18 or over or subscribe or better yet, find a different forum. Digg is becoming more and more a place I like to hang out

I believe one forum is for over 18s only.

The idea would be to increase overall maturity. That said, I think there are many under 18s who are not immature to the point that you want to add them to your ignore list... I suppose it may not be the greatest idea..

Ban everything religion-related. Permanently.

Indeed. Or maybe, just ban it outside of an official thread/subforum.

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The idea would be to increase overall maturity. That said, I think there are many under 18s who are not immature to the point that you want to add them to your ignore list... I suppose it may not be the greatest idea..

In the other hand there are some people over their 20s or 30s that inspire me to crack their heads everythime the comment.

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what would raising the age to 18?

just add a subforum for 18 or over or subscribe or better yet, find a different forum. Digg is becoming more and more a place I like to hang out

Well there are some users on the forum who are just 13 or 14 and that to me is a bit young to be accessing a forum where alot of adult orientated threads are mentioned.

There used to be a thing on NW where your parents had to sign a form to access the forum.

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I would create a way for the users to moderate the moderators, so the ones who constantly closed popular threads or gave warnings for no good reason could themselves get warned and eventually demoted to a normal user.

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that is probably the best idea for this forum in a long long time. The higher the moderator "warning" the lower they get on the moderator scale. Too many people who don't like the way a moderator acts towards it's people then bye bye moderator.

Well there are some users on the forum who are just 13 or 14 and that to me is a bit young to be accessing a forum where alot of adult orientated threads are mentioned.

really? That surprises me since most moderators "cleanup" the discussion, close it, or give out warnings if you try to be too adult.

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really? That surprises me since most moderators "cleanup" the discussion, close it, or give out warnings if you try to be too adult.

Well for example Members Metropolis sometimes has some Adult Themed Threads not porn but just the discussion that is open to alot of young impressionable minds.

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I would create a way for the users to moderate the moderators, so the ones who constantly closed popular threads or gave warnings for no good reason could themselves get warned and eventually demoted to a normal user.

That's not going to happen. There are always going to be clashes between staff and members, but at the end of the day Neowin is not owned by its members - the Administrators of this website decide who they want to be moderators, and that is their decision.

If you have an issue with how a moderator behaves - then for the love of god don't bottle it up until it gets to this kind of stage. Act rationally and discuss it with a Supervisor. The answer you receive back might not be the one you are looking for, but at least you will know the action will have been reviewed.

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I disagree with those who would stick an age limit on neowin, I think that generally our under 18 posters are an asset the community and generally well behaved. Those that don't get on are quickly removed by the moderating staff. I myself started here in 03, when I was barely 16 years old.

I'd have probably made a separate forum under the media room just for all the HD/BD discussion,with separate controlled area's for both formats that goes on which would have cut down on the constant arguments that happen(I'm guilty of this)

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Remove the ad-words from the news articles. Keep all the other ads. ****, add more banner ads. I don't care. Nothing is more irritating than those stupid ad-words that have that annoying popup window when I hover my mouse of them. I'm incline to NOT click on any of the ads on this site just because of them.

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I'd also change it so that there's a subscription method that allowed you to remove all adverts without incurring the wrath of the moderators.

That I agree with. Ads are for helping mantain the site but subscribers are already helping. If the coders could find a way for the subscribers group to not see the ads then I bet this site will have a lot more of subscriptions and, to be honest, more money.

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I guess it all depends on what ad revenue a user generates vs how much they can generate via a subcription. Remember that subs are those people that use the site heavily so they can make a lot of ad revenue if you get what I mean...

Somehow I doubt that Ads are generating that much of a revenue. Most of the members are tech-savy people who dont fall for ads. Im not saying that no one are using them but I just doubt that they generate more that subscriptions. There is a reason of why subs were implemented in the first place.

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Remove the ad-words from the news articles. Keep all the other ads. ****, add more banner ads. I don't care. Nothing is more irritating than those stupid ad-words that have that annoying popup window when I hover my mouse of them. I'm incline to NOT click on any of the ads on this site just because of them.

Those bring in a good revenue so I wouldn't think those will be taken off any time soon.

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