Hi everyone,

Our goal for the JustSayHi forums has always been to provide a safe and friendly environment where all of our members can meet and get to know one another. To date, we hope we've been at least somewhat successful in achieving this goal while still allowing the freedom to discuss almost any topic you wish, even those more difficult or controversial.

As the site continues to grow and the number of topics and posts skyrockets, however, it's become harder and harder for just Vanchau and myself to moderate all of the forums as closely as we'd like.

So today, we'd like to introduce you to the new moderators of the JustSayHi forums...

All of you!

That's right, every member now has the power to moderate the JustSayHi forums. As long as you've been a member for at least a week, you'll have the ability to nominate and vote on topics for deletion. Our hope is that this new system will help ensure that bad topics are quickly removed from the forums while still maintaining the free flow of discussion that we have always strived for.

Here's how the new system will work:
1) All members who've been on the site for at least a week now have the ability to moderate the forums
2) When a new topic is posted, for a limited amount of time you can nominate that topic for deletion.
3) Once a topic has been nominated for deletion, other members can then vote on whether they agree. If 7 out of 10 people vote for deletion, that topic will then be removed.
4) Members who have too many topics deleted risk having their posting privileges suspended, or may even be banned from the site.

There are a few important rules and safeguards that you should also be aware of:
1) Only topics that violate our forum rules should be deleted. If a topic does not violate the forum rules, it should NOT be deleted, even if you disagree with the content or dislike the member posting the topic.
2) Vanchau and myself will periodically review topics that have been deleted and may undelete them if we feel they were deleted erroneously. We may also delete topics that members have voted to keep on the site. Basically, we reserve the right to make the final decision on all topics.
3) Members who continually vote incorrectly, i.e. deleting topics that should not be deleted or vice versa, will lose their moderator privileges. So if you're not moderating the site in the same manner that Vanchau and myself would, you won't be able to continue to moderate the forums.
4) The moderation system should NOT be used for your own personal agenda. Anyone who abuses the moderation system in this manner will be banned from the site.
5) If you feel the moderation system has been abused, please the Report Abuse button to notify us. We will investigate and take the appropriate actions.

We're very excited about this new system, but we also realize that there may be some hiccups initially. We're going to be watching the forums closely over the next few weeks to make sure the moderation system is working as planned. If you see any issues, please just let us know - we would love to get your ideas and opinions so we can make sure the moderation system is working as well as possible.

And of course, if you have any questions or concerns at all, please just let us know. We always love to hear your feedback, good or bad.

Thanks everyone for all of your help in making JustSayHi the best dating site on the net!

Sincerely,
Mike and Vanchau

This is a Wonderful Idea, Mike..I dont get in the threads as much as i used to, but when i do, i've seen some pretty unneccesarry threads that dont need to be up. So, this might work out..thanks

Thanks I hope that this will work out

and quite a few rude people too that dont belong here..this is a place for making friends, not being idiots

Hi Peg...

I agree with the girls on this one .. ( I know so unusual for me .. lol ) .... but the site is everything I expected it would be ... thanks again ...
TTO

very interesting idea!!!! hope i dont poke the button on accident

hi sweet
I agree there are some rude people

cheers awsome idea.!!!!

i hope it works

but how do you know when a thread has been targeted for deletion

and if so say you are having a battle to save it as well

what if you have 5 delete and 5 save and then get two more save

does the process stop

or if you get 2 more delete does it go

this seems a bit controversial but hey maybe it is just the bugs

but hey what do i know

As soon as there are 4 "Do not delete" votes, the voting ends and the topic cannot be deleted any more. In a similar fashion, as soon as there are 7 "Delete" votes, the vote ends and the topic is deleted. There can't be more than 10 votes on any topic.

We will be adding a link where you can see all the topics that need moderation, i.e. can be nominated for deletion or voted on.

And hopefully, there should never be a "battle" to save a topic - the main goal of the system is that only topics that should be deleted get deleted, and vice versa. We'll continue to try to tune the system to achieve that goal.

thanks Mike

like i said

i hope it works

i must give you guys a thata boy award

for your vigilance in always trying

to keep your members in the forefront

of the site

thanks again

"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."

Aristotle

"Be moderate in everything, including moderation."

Horace Porter

Interesting concept...I hope it works out well......and I love this site, rarely go online anywhere else at all now.......Keep up the good work.

We'll see how it goes - if it's not working out well, definitely let us know what the issues are! We'll be watching it ourselves, of course, but we'd love to hear from you guys how it's working for you.

Great idea Mike....Maybe when we vote it's a good idea to say why the topic should stay or go...That way people can highlight what rule it breaks...So if they can't say what rule it is...Then it may not be justified to be a deletable topic!!!!!!


Just an idea...Thought it might lend more credibilty to the voting process and stop those more inclined to hit the delete button when they shouldn't be!!!!!!!!

Yup - when you nominate a topic for deletion, you have to state the reason why you think it should be deleted. This reason will be shown as everyone casts their votes. Once you see a topic that has been nominated for deletion, I think you'll be able to see how this works.

OK, I am not clear on how to nominate a topic I am sorry. And does everything remain privet to everybody else?

I think it will work out ok!!!!!!!!!!

Good Idea!!!!!!!!

All votes do remain private - no one knows who voted for what except for Vanchau and myself.

Only topics that have been recently created can be nominated for deletion. The controls will be very obvious on those topics that are eligible. After a short period of time, the topic can no longer be deleted.

Really, at this point, we only want topics that clearly violate the rules to be deleted. You should be able to assess that immediately which is why we only allow them to be deletable for a short period.

Sometimes, though, a topic will start off on a good note, but then a few posts in someone flames another person and it degrades into personal attacks, etc. This system currently isn't designed to handle that, but we're brainstorming other ideas that might help address that like being able to report bad posts, etc.

Hopefully you'll see some improvements in that area shortly, but we'd like to first see how this initial set of improvements work.

Thank you for clearing that up Mike.