Take more action in the MEP forums

[Otohiko]

I'd suggest that if possible, let the person who started a thread moderate posts in it. Only in the MEP forum of course. That would let the project head, who is almost always who starts the topic, set the line for how much offtopic stuff they want to allow and police the topic themselves. If someone abuses this, I'm sure another user would bring it to mods attention and that situation could be dealt with.

Actually that is an interesting idea. I could see SOME problems with that in practice, but if that can be done from the software standpoint, that'd be something I'd support.

[Emotive]

I think part of this is that we need better, more specific rules to apply to what is "good" content for the MEP forum. There aren't really any specific rules for it at the moment - perhaps some should be designed, defining the forum's purpose a bit better, and positively if possible. I'm certainly interested in suggestions on that.

The problem is different MEP heads tolerate offtopic crap to different degrees. Some are hardasses, some are pansies, some are incredibly relaxed about it all. Hell, half the times the reasons people give for being glad to have taken part in a MEP involve friendships build during it, in other words all the offtopic stuff in the MEP thread. So a universal rule probably wouldn't work all that well.

I'd suggest that if possible, let the person who started a thread moderate posts in it. Only in the MEP forum of course. That would let the project head, who is almost always who starts the topic, set the line for how much offtopic stuff they want to allow and police the topic themselves. If someone abuses this, I'm sure another user would bring it to mods attention and that situation could be dealt with.

That's an excellent idea.

[Bauzi]

Yeah it's a great idea. I like it. Everybody can take as much flame, spam, trolling as they want to. It's probably less work than reading threw tons of thread pages (*insert random Project Gateway joke here*)

I think there might be also a room for a new rule in the MEP forum to spare us a lot of annoying moments:
Set up simple standards for announcing a MEP or for an interest gauge thread in a sticky guide. Which contains that you should have at least some sort of clear concept to start something. What's the point in a: "let's make a MEP to the genre X" without even suggesting some bands or songs? Things like that.

[Dar]

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[Enigma]

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