Topic: Ideas for the site.

@Fight_Teza_Fight Yeah, I was listening to a random podcast a month or so ago and they referenced a Push Square article.
If we made it a free-for-all in the comments and forums then it would risk becoming another toxic environment like several other sites and forums I could name. I feel more comfortable keeping it controlled and if that means keeping stricter rules then I can get behind that.

At the end of the day, its these rules that have helped PushSquare to become such a great community and why it doesn't have quite the toxic environment that other sites do. I do think that maybe there ought to be some stricter rules for 'newcomers' - especially as a number of those only seem to join to create Spam, ask a question (like why has Sony banned me, can you fill in this survey, can you watch my youtube video) and then you never see them again so having some 'buffer' could at least be prevented at source rather than being reactionary and dealing with things 'afterwards'. Those that are 'genuine' can be helped by the moderator who is assessing their post in the buffer - direct them to the rules, direct them to the correct thread to ask for help etc and that also helps 'long term' too as these newcomers are helped and the 'bad' don't get to disrupt or annoy the regulars.

I know that may require more 'work' and, as @Tasuki points out, they cannot moderate the site 24/7 as it is, the other options is that PushSquare has more moderators to be able to cover the site 24/7. This would 'share' the workload as the next moderator shouldn't be dealing with 'hours' of posts because the moderator before them has dealt with things that cropped up. You wouldn't necessarily need a 'buffer' either because the site is constantly being moderated, they can still be reactionary and deal with it instantly rather than 'hours' later. Even with the 'buffer' though, the workload wouldn't 'increase because you don't have 1/2 people having to go through 'hours' of posts when they do get online - just the posts made during their watch because they are taking over from someone else who has dealt with all issues during their watch.

Anyway, its up to the owners how they want to progress but as far as the rules themselves go, I think on the whole they are big contributor to the fantastic PushSquare community that has built up - long may it continue!

@Fight_Teza_Fight Again that's why we have the signature space so if you would like to post a link to your YouTube channel by all means that's what it's there for. (Hope that didn't come off rude).

@BAMozzy Honestly the amount of new users we get vs Spammers is quite low. We get alot more users who just want to be part of.the community or want to ask a simple question. As for spammers we don't get a whole due to Ant's measures he takes. I mean yes we did have a rash a few weeks ago but prior to that we didn't have too many. Just like any sercurity system though people will find away around it.

I really appreciate the feedback guys.

@Tasuki Not at all. I don't actually have a YT channel, but some time ago I wanted to share a gameplay video, but thought it might be against the rules. Doesn't matter now anyways, as I lost that footage :/ .
Anyways...
Site is great as it is. The rules exist for a reason and they obviously work.

@Tasuki @get2sammyb @antdickens I'd like to request an IM (Instant Messenger) category in Account/Profile settings under Social.

Either that or please add "fields"/entries for Skype, Discord, and Telegram.

Source: https://www.pushsquare.com/user/settings#tab-group-social

@ToddlerNaruto I actually have no control over the design of the site, that's more @antdickens department but I will pass the word along.

If you like however you can post that sort of information in you signature for now.

Thanks, I will consider that if the answer is no.

@Tasuki In the rules I thought that homebrew and stuff was allowed for previous generations? Wouldn’t that mean the guy’s thread who was asking for help falls under the rules? It’s constructive and I think trying to fix your console falls under that purpose.

@Jaz007 Not here I am afraid. And because he broke the console trying to hack it discussion is not allowed here because it's going into that area. If for example he was trying to swap out the HDD or even say like it stopped reading discs that's fine but breaking the console because of attempting to hack it isnt open for discussion.

@Tasuki @Jaz007 if it's for the previous generation of consoles then it's fine by us. As long as we keep links to sites with copyrighted content out of it.

@ToddlerNaruto there's so many different IM systems I think it would be overkill to list them all, therefore probably best to add it in your forum sig

@antdickens Okay thanks. Could I also create a forum thread/topic for the purpose of sharing IM IDs if people so desire to?

Like the PSN ID thread/topic, but for IMs like Skype, Discord, Telegram etc? Would love to hear @get2sammyb and @Tasuki 's thoughts on this as well.

@ToddlerNaruto Honestly I would prefer it if you just put that sort of thing in your signature. The reason being then we will get a flood of people just posting Hey Join my Discord Channel posts. I then couldn't very well close there threads while leaving yours open and having double standards.

But in the end it's up to Sammy.

@Tasuki I meant a master single thread to share IM IDs, just like the one for PSN IDs.

I don't see people going out of their way to make duplicate threads for that, so what would be the problem with making a similar one for IMs?

@ToddlerNaruto Is it really necessary? Is this something a lot of people will want to do?

@ToddlerNaruto I do have to agree with @get2sammyb. I really wouldn't want my IM information where anyone can see it. But again if you feel different and don't mind you can just put that info in your signature.

@Tasuki @get2sammyb That's the thing about the IM thread though, it's completely optional to share your IM info.

If you don't want people knowing your IM info you don't have to post, just like the PSN ID thread.

So is that a definite no on me creating a "What's Your IM Info?" style thread?

For what it's worth, we did have a Skype sharing thread on NintendoLife. But it died a few years ago...

Well of course it did, Skype is ancient and most people have jumped ship to Discord or Telegram for IMing.

Once we introduce private messages between users it should negate the need for this feature anyway. I would suggest just using forum sigs for the time being