I've had enough...

[Sakunyuusha]

There will always be people who violate rules, but their existence and their actions do not necessarily mean that anarchy is the one right way for human beings to live on this planet.

Akiba-Online is one of the millions of social communities which (in concept) challenge the hypothetical supremacy of anarchy. A-O has an owner-leader who can be likened to a monarch. It has administrators and moderators who can be likened, respectively, to Royal Ministers and to county lords. And then it has many, many common members. Akiba-Online is monarchical. Whether or not you believe a monarchy is the best way to govern isn't the point: the point is that you don't try to run a monarchy by playing by the anarchist's rules!

I say try the multilingual stickies. They won't take very much time or effort to create. If they succeed, then they'll pay off handsomely. If they fail, then they won't cost the community that much. A mod will just de-sticky the thread and life goes on as usual.

Click to read more about the sticky idea.

[hide]Suggestion for the title for the sticky? "日本語 | 中文 | 한국어". Inside the sticky, have three paragraphs. The first is the Japanese paragraph, the second is the Chinese one, the third is the Korean one. (Think of it like a Rosetta Stone of sorts.)

You can add or take away languages as deemed necessary. Thai? Indonesian? Spanish? Russian? Arabic? German? French? Whatever people are willing to contribute and whatever the mods think is worthy of being included in the thread.

Suggested message? Keep it brief! Something like this:

1. Please attach torrents directly to the forum. When you write a post, click on "Attachments" and upload your torrent file.

2. Please do not use or link to cashlink websites. They are against the rules.

3. Please do not post new threads for videos which have previously been posted. Instead, first locate those threads by using "Search" at the top-right corner of the page. Second, reply to those threads instead.

If you have any questions, please contact the staff. English is preferred, but if your English is poor, the staff have friends who are ready to translate your posts for them.

Three simple rules. Also, you encourage members to ask questions regardless of what languages they speak fluently. There are enough regulars who speak non-English non-Japanese languages, and there are many staff members who speak Japanese, so this really shouldn't be a problem, I would think.[/hide]

 

[elgringo14]

I don't want a sticky. I want some message that they HAVE to go through before posting torrents, at least once. Maybe my idea doesn't work at all.

 

[Sakunyuusha]

I wasn't trying to come up with the idea you want. lol

Your method has some functional limitations. These can be worked around, but it would probably take more effort than it's worth. (?????, just a guess.)

1. If the message is triggered by a member posting his very first thread in the Torrents section of the site, then how many members who post request threads will see the message, dismiss it quickly -- because it doesn't concern them at that time! -- and submit their request? I'm willing to bet the answer is, "a lot." Their request will be locked or relocated to the proper forum and life will go on. Then six months to a year later, this member may decide he wants to start posting torrents here. And by that time, he's long since forgotten that message he once-upon-a-time saw.

2. If the message is triggered by a member attaching a torrent file to his post for the very first time, how will it affect those who post links to their offsite torrents? and how would you implement a counter for the vBulletin attachment code?

3. If they only see the screen once, it's easy to forget the details as time goes by. If they see the screen more than once, it's likely to become a nuisance if they see it mandatorily. If they see the message more than once and they do so by their own choice, they're less likely to be hostile about it or in a rush. They're more likely to patiently read it. And that sort of interaction is going to be more likely with a sticky (or a thread in general) than with a one-time message.


I don't care for stickies, either. (Remember the thread I made recently? The one which got over half of the stickies in Hentai Discussion de-stickied? Yeah.) But I do think that they have their time and place, and this is one of those times. If there were no other sticky in JAV Torrents, I would want it to be this one. This is the one sticky which would have the greatest benefits for that forum in the long run.

 

[redrooster]

reg. stickies or announcements - announcements are fixed on top of a section, so the same as a sticky thread...

There were/are stickies and announcements about stuff which may not be uploaded at A-O, this is written in the rules and the FAQ too, but who cares...

1st you have to read it, then you have to check databases or other sites whether it´s banned material or not before you start a new thread, nobody does...

There are announcements reg. forbidden cash links, it is in the rules and the FAQ as well, hardly anyone cared...

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There is no rule (yet) that torrents must be attached to new threads in the torrent section. There are no problems with this in the anime or hentai torrents sections though, but in JAV torrents, IV and Junior Idols there are...

There are 3 ways to try/manage - admin(s) have to decide that, not mods...:

1st a rule change (s.a.)

2nd a software routine blocking threads in the torrent section where no torrent directly is attached...

3rd the sticky thread or a window (automatically displayed and needs confirmation once a user starts his 1st thread) in different languages, or even both...

the 1st would be the tool mods would need to act, 2nd needs some programming effort and is ultimate, 3rd would need some progamming effort too but hardly would change anything, I believe...

 

[Sakunyuusha]

"admins have to try that, not mods"

Instead of having that attitude, though, why not go ahead and do it anyway? Or is it the case that the mods don't have the account-based privileges required to make it happen? 'Cause if it's all a matter of not stepping on people's toes, indecision will get us nowhere. But I think it has to be that -- because I know for a fact that you can make sticky threads, Red, so I don't see why you'd need an admin to do it for you.

 

[redrooster]

I only wrote that admin(s) have to decide...

We are having an internal discission in the secret bunker about this since about 3 or 4 months already, so the contents of this thread is not new for us - and I just wrote what could be done because of being discussed or thought about already...

I think it will not take a long time period anymore until there is a result we can make public...

...so please be patient.

 

[Sakunyuusha]

That's like asking if people still drive automobiles and then bragging about how you're in the know because you travel by horse and buggy. :dunno:

 

[Kenpachi God]

no matter what happens in these forums i will forever stay loyal and gomen for being away too long

 

[Rollyco]

I wrote a little feature that blocks new threads without torrents, and gives a spiffy multilingual error message as well. Shows up both when you "Submit changes" and "Preview changes".

It's currently activated on all of the IV and AV sub-forums. This should take make life a lot easier for everyone, except the spammers.