admin priveliges for members ride thread?

[PlacentaJuan]

would it be possible to give the 'owner' (thread starter) of members rides thread, the ability for basic admin funcions like deleting threads or something?

just seen a lot of crap in peoples threads that they might like to be able to clean up for a better thread.

i know a lot of people love having their threads whored (hi mr1jz) but other people put a lot of effort into making their rides thread a tech article too.

anyway its just an idea i know that you can probably pm an admin to get posts deleted but i dont see any harm in allowing the thread starter to do it to their thread only.

[river]

Hi,

Interesting idea.

I will raise it at the Board Meeting on Tuesday.

seeyuzz
river

[PlacentaJuan]

thanks you river, pls let me know how it goes.

[Dimmy]

It is possible, you can also assign it to select usergroups such as financial members only, sponsors etc etc.

Would make the mods job slightly easier, especially in the sales and car threads

[Cuzzo]

Im sure this has been brought up before and there was a good reason.

But since the searching = fail im not going to bother.

[river]

Hi,

Yes, it could be because of the limitation of our current version of VBulletin. Anyway, I'll find out.

seeyuzz
river

[puzzle man]

i think a better idar is having it like whats on http://forums.toyspeed.org.nz/index.php

you post a thread about you ride in Members Projects and only you can reply to.

then start a thread in Project Discussion then every Tom, Dick and Harry replys to asks questions and talks crap,
its HEAP nice look at a build up in the members projects and don't have to troll through 10 pages of crap talking

[Kyosho]

River: VBulletin you currently have to pay for, correct?
Why not move to one of the free forums?
I run PHPBB3 and it runs great, I've seen some large forums run it as well (Size of toymods) so why doesn't the commitee look to this, to save some money?
I understand there's some fun and games converting from VBulletin to PHPBB3 (Or to any other forum for that matter) but I beleive I was looking at something on the PHPBB site that allowed conversion from VBulletin to BB3 format which was free, and simple to run.
Possible?

[ZZE92]

Kyosho - I know one of the reasons we originally moved to VBulletin was for the fact that we could get ongoing maintenance/support for a product without having to worry about all the fiddly little hacks and one off customisations that seemed to constantly be needed with the old forums software. These weren't such a big deal when the people running the forums side of things had the time/know-how to look after it but over time as people move on it's been more important to find things that require as little intervention as possible

That being said I don't really know anything about PHPBB3 and don't speak for the Board anyway - just sharing some background

you post a thread about you ride in Members Projects and only you can reply to.

then start a thread in Project Discussion then every Tom, Dick and Harry replys to asks questions and talks crap,
its HEAP nice look at a build up in the members projects and don't have to troll through 10 pages of crap talking

That sounds like an excellent idea in theory - might require another section (or sub-section) to be added to try and keep the front page as free from clutter as possible, but I think that's definitely worth a look..

[PlacentaJuan]

yea but i want smart people to reply in my thread.

i would like to have some dickhead comments deleted though.

eg "will the motor fit under the bonnet?"

[whatthe?]

yea but i want smart people to reply in my thread.

i would like to have some dickhead comments deleted though.

eg "will the motor fit under the bonnet?"

You could just ask your brother to stop posting in there

[ZZE92]

PlacentaJuan.com/forums?

[PlacentaJuan]

PlacentaJuan.com/forums?

no coz everyone would be automatically banned