.:Brian:.
Sep 6 2007, 06:03 PM
| | Well I have been here at astahost a while now, and after being a member of the forums, there just seems something about them that doesn't quite make them as enjoyable to be in.
To me it seems like the forums contain a lot of posts that are very repetative, even many topics that seem to repeat themselves... To me it seems like maybe there should be some more moderators, and the moderation should be stricter than it is.
I just don't find it as fun to participate in a community where a lot of the posts seem to be spamish...
Does anybody else feel this way? |
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Mark420
Sep 6 2007, 11:50 PM
Well if the moda pruned more spam topics there wouldnt much left at the moment. I have been around for over a year and I have noticed the forums go downhill since then.At the moment I am even having a hard time staying hosted becuase of the lack of good posts to get involved in, if I make a new post just the same old faces reply or read it.The new members that have come here recently seem to post the bare minimum all the time to jsut about stay in positive for credits. For me all the old faces are gone and there really doesnt seem to much new blood that is interested past getting the required credits to stay hosted. I dont know if its becuase of the summer holidays taking effect but there hasnt been many hosting request these days also. IF you look at turbos hosting script it shows about 35 sites active on here. It used to be hundreds, now were down to about 50 people. Myself I will probably switch my account to paid hosting at Computing Host in the next month orso, I am relying on my website here to bring me work, which it does  ) and I should really payback the guys at Xisto and go paid hosting with them.
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WeaponX
Sep 7 2007, 01:21 AM
I have no idea what happened here, but the number of quality posts and visitors definitely seems to have diminished. I don't remember it being like this before in the past around the same time. There were actually interesting topics to participate in. Lately I come in here and have seen some topics that look familiar and don't have much to contribute to it either. If we as Moderators, delete these similar topics, then we might as well deny them hosting because they won't earn the credits and probably will be penalized if we delete their posts. I don't think we need more Moderators for this. Spamming is not high as it's usually reported quickly and a Moderator takes care of it from there. Having a forum with more Moderators doesn't necessarily mean more order...there are forums where the Moderators abuse their power Moving to ComputingHost is a great idea. I have never really used astahost for my live work. I use it for production purposes and don't mind paying for better support and up-time. Been using ComputingHost for a while now and have no complaints 
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xboxrulz
Sep 7 2007, 01:27 AM
My post counts are slipping from my high of 45 days and I spend my time daily on this forum. This is my home for my forum traffic, aside from my own forum of course. Sadly, I don't have money to pay for hosting as I'm just a student who has spare time for an interest in building a website and maintaining it. I'd move to paid hosting if I had a choice. xboxrulz
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Sten
Sep 7 2007, 02:16 AM
i can never find much to post in any more. its really hard finding something relavent to what i want to post about these days.
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Quatrux
Sep 7 2007, 05:52 AM
QUOTE(Sten @ Sep 7 2007, 05:16 AM)  i can never find much to post in any more.
its really hard finding something relavent to what i want to post about these days. Same here, sometimes I just look through topics and can't find one to post something more than three lines or if I do, I would repeat myself, as if we are out of words.. I also noticed some posts which isn't relevant from new users, some of them are even spammy, but if a moderator would be strict and would delete them, it would be hard to be accepted hosting from astahost, furthermore, if it is "hard" to post for old users, it is hard to post for newbies too, because of the lack of really good topics.
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BuffaloHELP
Sep 8 2007, 06:37 AM
This is a troubling news... I don't know the remedy for this one. What do you guys suggest AstaHost to revamp? Obviously, AstaHost needs revamping..but to which direction, more categories? Please suggest how we can improve our forum. AstaHost is well known that professional topics are present. However this may have "scared" other potential forum members along the way. Instead of loosening up the forum rule, perhaps we can add more categories? I don't know.
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Sten
Sep 8 2007, 06:42 AM
maybe a new coolies design lol maybe not? umm... this is just something that i want: a directory of web scripts, cms's, forums, poll scripts etc. id like that but other people might not.
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pyost
Sep 8 2007, 09:39 AM
The new IP.Board version brings a better (or at least more professional) design, but it is hard to upgrade, since the credits script, as well as many other modifications need to be changed in order to work with the new version.
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dserban
Sep 8 2007, 10:20 AM
I personally would like the ability to very easily donate credits. I know you can transfer credits to someone else, but you have to jump through a lot of hoops, and it's not integrated within the forum system. Sometimes I have small graphics design type tasks I need to get done, and I would like to "outsource" this work to other forum members who have more graphics design experience, in exchange for ... oh, I don't know ... 10 or 20 days worth of AstaHost credits, as a "thank you" gift. Otherwise it's a great forum.
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.:Brian:.
Sep 12 2007, 03:19 PM
One suggestion I have is that the 'voice your review' section should be removed.... It seems like time and time again...there are posts about how great astahost seems to be....and over and over people just reply to them....Seems like getting rid of this area or posting a rule against that would fix this issue. I'll look into some other categories too, and see what else might be able to be done. Honestly though...sometimes I am confused as to where to post a new topic because there are so many categories...in many ways I think we should look at combining them... (it'll also make the forums more active) But yes, a new theme would definitely spruce things up a little for astahost... Edit: Another thing, a ton of posts are going into the announcements area...and I think that is unnecessary. I think that maybe that area is one of the ones that shouldn't have any credits given....after all it is for announcements...and a billion posts saying "wow this is good" sort of thing (only drawn out longer so that people get more credits) seems to get really annoying. Edit2: Could there be a rule that you can't bring up old topics, unless it is for a valid reason? (Obviously it would have to be described better than that) I mean the number of topics that are brought up that are so old, and they are brought up for pointless reasons...just seems like it is causing issues...some 'new technology' thing that has already been out for a couple years and is old technology now, should in most cases not be brought up. I just think we need to work at enforcing some rules around here to make things a little stricter on what can and can't be posted...
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xboxrulz
Sep 12 2007, 02:57 AM
I would contribute more if the games area was more "significant". I'd say the best way is to have a better theme installed for Astahost. The default theme looks bland, and it's not good looking. Also, I think it's better if we had other mods to make this place a little more fun, like the gallery mod or random picks of the day (of topics). Yes, professionalism is obviously important at Astahost, but we need to be a little bit more laid back around here. We're not in those old-fashion office here where it's boring and bland. xboxrulz
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.:Brian:.
Sep 11 2007, 09:09 PM
I would say the idea of having games is not very good. The problem to me seems that a lot of the posts are going into the support area, and not anywhere else on the site. And in other areas the topics are just repeating themselves over and over again, and new ones are not being generated. I'll take a look at the categories (i don't know if new ones are necessarily needed, but maybe just renaming some....as some of them seem to overlap quite a bit and make it hard to determine where a post should go)
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kelvinmaki
Sep 11 2007, 01:14 PM
QUOTE(dhanesh @ Sep 11 2007, 11:45 AM) I'd say games  , prolly ones that you can earn extra points or if you win against a member in a challenge you get awarded say 10 credits ? Say how about changing the forum theme ( i am an eyecandy lover, so its just me ) but its worth a thought. It's a good idea on implementing games to earn extra points and challenging members, but I personally feel that as a forum, it should stay as a forum. Maybe extend the categories to not so computer & science related. Something like places or something, since everyone from different part of the world. What do you guys think?
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Chesso
Sep 11 2007, 12:14 PM
Yeah I feel that way a bit too, about being busy, busy going no where though lmao. Games are a nice idea, maybe some small flash games (like one of those arcade mods), just uhh only allow some of the smaller ones (to conserve bandwidth), and allow them to always be playable, but have strict ruling concerning any credits gained through it.
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