Community Mods

[Patricia]

Hi,

Hey Westie, do you want to be a mod?

I have an idea. How about we added a forum "Westside General Chat" as an alternative to "General Chat" and it be a place that Westside runs. People who feel West would be a good mod could then post in this forum where West rules. It would be a way of testing out the community mods idea without going too far in one step.

If it doesn't work, it doesn't work, but if it does work, we would extend the idea.

Community mods wouldn't have access to any private info of any other user, e.g. their IP address, but they would be able to edit/delete posts, threads and polls in their forum.

Pat x

[westside]

Hi,

Hey Westie, do you want to be a mod?

I have an idea. How about we added a forum "Westside General Chat" as an alternative to "General Chat" and it be a place that Westside runs. People who feel West would be a good mod could then post in this forum where West rules. It would be a way of testing out the community mods idea without going too far in one step.

If it doesn't work, it doesn't work, but if it does work, we would extend the idea.

Community mods wouldn't have access to any private info of any other user, e.g. their IP address, but they would be able to edit/delete posts, threads and polls in their forum.

Pat x

dont be surprised to see the stats reading,

visitors to this page,

The Sun,
The Gardai,
The SAS,
The National Defence Forces,
Crime Watch,


either that or youll have

todays vistors = 0

hahahhahahahha
Westside.

[Epsilon]

dont be surprised to see the stats reading,

visitors to this page,

The Sun,
The Gardai,
The SAS,
The National Defence Forces,
Crime Watch,


either that or youll have

todays vistors = 0

hahahhahahahha
Westside.

Westie for Mod.. Brilliant idea.. I can just picture you now.. in you best suit of to work as an E-I Moderator....

[westside]

Westie for Mod.. Brilliant idea.. I can just picture you now.. in you best suit of to work as an E-I Moderator....

hahahhahahhaha
Westside.

[Epsilon]

hahahhahahhaha
Westside.

Or Maybe its more like this...afterall you dont realy have to leave the house..

[westside]

Or Maybe its more like this...afterall you dont realy have to leave the house..

Happy snickers its Friday,
Westside.

[Quarterpoundher]

Hi,

Hey Westie, do you want to be a mod?

I have an idea. How about we added a forum "Westside General Chat" as an alternative to "General Chat" and it be a place that Westside runs. People who feel West would be a good mod could then post in this forum where West rules. It would be a way of testing out the community mods idea without going too far in one step.

If it doesn't work, it doesn't work, but if it does work, we would extend the idea.

Community mods wouldn't have access to any private info of any other user, e.g. their IP address, but they would be able to edit/delete posts, threads and polls in their forum.

Pat x

I only said that West would make a great Mod, I only proposed Mods to bring stuff to your attention but no powers to access PM’s or such, but that to has its problems so what about if E-I attached an icon to every post that people who thought it fell within the remit of what you have said is not acceptable could click on and if 5, 10, 20 or whatever different logged in members clicked on it then it would then be flagged to you or Sarah for attention and the people who flagged it known only to you, that way you would not have to read every post and there would be no conflict of interest by Community Mods and posters. If people abused it and just clicked every post they themselves could be banned for messing with it for no reason. That surely is not beyond the bounds of what’s possible as in fairness this is a very well put together site and easy to navigate and has a lot of clever features.

Then everyone would be a Moderator but be subject to punishment by you or Sarah if abusing that feature, hopefully with a cane but ideally with a trip to Holly head, bj queen of Wales.

No disrespect Patricia and I am sure you must feel like a school headmistress sometime's, but surely no one here believes that the PM system of this site is not accessible by the owner or owners or by it’s techy’s if they so wish. I doubt it’s got the infallibility and redundancy of the “Company” in Prison Break. It would be wise for anyone conversing sensitive or personal info to assume someone is looking over your shoulder. I mainly converse outside of here privately.

[Patricia]

No disrespect Patricia and I am sure you must feel like a school headmistress sometime's, but surely no one here believes that the PM system of this site is not accessible by the owner or owners or by it’s techy’s if they so wish. I doubt it’s got the infallibility and redundancy of the “Company” in Prison Break. It would be wise for anyone conversing sensitive or personal info to assume someone is looking over your shoulder. I mainly converse outside of here privately.

Hiya,

Nobody has access to anyone's PMs here. I don't, Sarah doesn't, no member of our staff ever has or would have access to that info. We have zero interest in snooping on anyone's PMs anyway.

However that is no to say, if we really needed access to someone's private messages we couldn't possibly get it. There is one easy way we could. We could re-set their password and then log-in as them. They would of course know we'd been in then, because their password would be changed, but it would have got us in.

Also the company we use for data handling could get in if they wanted to. This is a major US company that manages data for many large organisations including lots of Irish government organisations in fact. I'm sure this company wouldn't be prying on anyone here, but in theory they would be in a position to do so, if they were corrupt and had motive, which I don't think they are or would happen, but I'm just listing all possible senarios. Also, as owner of this website, I could get access through this US company's technical staff if I wanted to. I've never had to try to date, but I'm sure it is possible, though I'd have to have very good reason, as I'm sure it would be a bit of hassle.

For the record, if you delete a PM, it is then gone. There is no back up or means of retreiving it. So, if you ever get a very private PM you'd not like anyone else to ever possibly be able to read, you can just read then delete it.

I promise everyone here that we never pry into anyone's PMs. However, by all means take QPH's advice that it is wise to assume someone could be looking over your shoulder when writing PMs. It is possible, just like when you log onto Eircom webmail etc it is possible.

My personal views on PMs is that they are private and I would always respect that unless you are a paedafile or murderer in which case we have no respect for you here at E-I.

Pat x

[Quarterpoundher]

Hiya,

Nobody has access to anyone's PMs here. I don't, Sarah doesn't, no member of our staff ever has or would have access to that info. We have zero interest in snooping on anyone's PMs anyway.

However that is no to say, if we really needed access to someone's private messages we couldn't possibly get it. There is one easy way we could. We could re-set their password and then log-in as them. They would of course know we'd been in then, because their password would be changed, but it would have got us in.

Also the company we use for data handling could get in if they wanted to. This is a major US company that manages data for many large organisations including lots of Irish government organisations in fact. I'm sure this company wouldn't be prying on anyone here, but in theory they would be in a position to do so, if they were corrupt and had motive, which I don't think they are or would happen, but I'm just listing all possible senarios. Also, as owner of this website, I could get access through this US company's technical staff if I wanted to. I've never had to try to date, but I'm sure it is possible, though I'd have to have very good reason, as I'm sure it would be a bit of hassle.

For the record, if you delete a PM, it is then gone. There is no back up or means of retreiving it. So, if you ever get a very private PM you'd not like anyone else to ever possibly be able to read, you can just read then delete it.

I promise everyone here that we never pry into anyone's PMs. However, by all means take QPH's advice that it is wise to assume someone could be looking over your shoulder when writing PMs. It is possible, just like when you log onto Eircom webmail etc it is possible.

My personal views on PMs is that they are private and I would always respect that unless you are a paedafile or murderer in which case we have no respect for you here at E-I.

Pat x

Thank you for your candor, I don’t use PM here much as the 4000 letter limit is a real arse ache for me. I have to send in two parts.

[westside]

Thank you for your candor, I don’t use PM here much as the 4000 letter limit is a real arse ache for me. I have to send in two parts.

seriously,lets be honest here for a sec.If they had a word limit of 1000000000000000000 words,youd still have trouble.Send in two parts?Sure ,pm the first and throw the second part up on Marco Polos back.By the time the second would have being delivered they would still be reading the first.

Word limit?

A sever limit lol
Westside.