I'm more partial to #3, though the audio preview sounds good. I can imagine some monotonous voice saying "Pics Or GTFO", it;ll be hilarious. Then again, the sound can always be shut off.

One thing's certain about CC though, is that we need more mods. Baronic alone isn't enough.

Things like "pics or GFTO" are spam.Or crap racism,sexually explicit threads are spam too.

Yeap,thats why most of us are here.

Isnt it the Karma system same as the Good and Bad system that LYN is implementing soon?

especially mods that have real knowledge in convincing people (attitude) and sense of humour (i know which is hard to comeby ) other than a mod that seem to be like a robot which have no freindly interaction what so ever with fellow forummer other than, "your thread not related" closed, how boring is that =\

Getting a good mod isnt easy.

CC isnt the only subforum that is lack of mods.

There are a few section that is also lack of mods.

Mobile Computing suffers more than CC.

Well, if Lowyat is going to implement the Good and Bad system it's probably going to work very well in forums like health and fitness and careers, education, etc, but fail spectacularly in Kopitiam AND in here.

Reason being CC is too amorphous which is just one step above the blank slate that Kopitiam is. A karma system will probably see a troll resurgence of sorts as they see a way of increasing their e-prestige and k-influence and internet lolz.

Ever moderated a forum before? Its not easy to be both friendly and authoritative at the same time, especially when the members are so immature.

Moderators alone, no matter how many, will never be able to steer or direct a medium that is so heavily reliant on quality participation as a forum.

If we want to make a change, then we have to do it together: moderators and staff together with participating members who are willing to effect change.

We cannot just push responsibility to people in positions of power and expect them to take care of us. If we want change, then we must take on the responsibility of effecting it.

This post has been edited by Dickson Poon: Jul 28 2009, 12:31 AM

each mod will surely interact in their section. other section, no choice la we just have to attend to report and post notice if needed.

i just close a few threads in /k/ and now i got posts / threads about me already. i LOL. at least CC is not that bad, the general participants are less and we more BETTER people around to keep things in check.

Well, at the very least, mobile computing is a bit more self regulating, and people don't spam so much there. Though it could with a bit less of those "laptop A vs laptop B" threads.

Hmm. I didn't think of that earlier. I do see the logic here now.

another thing to share about MODERATOR hunting.

1. those that volunteer are generally incapable, and have track record for being nuisance to begin with.

2. those that are the truly capable people don't volunteer, it's almost always we approach them to offer the post but many rejected due to fear of commitment. so best we could do is give them the ELITE tag, you'll see that they're almost always the next moderator candidate.

Good point.

Being a moderator is a heavy responsibility. It can definitely become very thankless.

Goldfries, is it possible to move Cupid's Corner out of Kopitiam? This may be very beneficial.

Apart from moving Cupid's Corner out of Kopitiam there are also a couple of things we the members can do to make the section truly worthy, I hope to be able to develop my very rough ideas here and later get a committee or movement to implement those that we agree on collectively.

me is quite like that idea. wait for other mods to hear.

the rest of you, share your thoughts on moving it out of Kopitiam as well.

AFAIK CC was like shit la, remember that time when i moved thread around? that also was attempted clean up, Baronic not around yet i think.

I believe a great number of us agree on having CC moved out of /k; at least those who posted in this thread.

I,for one agreed to move CC out of Kopitiam entirely.

It has matured to an independent subforum of it's own.

Good point!

I agree, the forum has definitely matured. I see a lot of very good, thoughtful and wise contributors here, too many for me to list down, all of whom have a wide diversity of experiences, character, and points of views.

This makes me believe that we can definitely move this section to the next stage.

for me, i think CC should have matured people giving advice, not some shitty emo teen who couldn't even hit first base in relationship.

people who seek advice are emotionally troubled, hence we should not post insensitive remarks (like how some fellas do) as if taking people's like problems as a joke.

it hurts, and it could lead people to do worse.

when people have problem, they need right-minded people to give proper advice in order to see the path and get senses set straight.

+1!

i've always been for CC moving outta /k/opitiam. suggested before, but at the point of suggestion, admin had written CC off as a craphole, just like the mother forum kopitiam itself. but i think we've cleaned up quite a bit, and definitely enough that the forum members themselves want the change (turning self regulated, which is the ideal forum. see my Windows Mobile community. i'm so proud of it XD). So yes, its time to shift out. As for the "Is it feasible, can it be done?" question, yes it can, quite easily me thinks, reorganising the Handphone and PDA section into one was much harder. So, in the end it all comes down to greenlight from the admins

If we have a small community of people who wants to change CC to a better place,im all for improving CC then.

It's pretty much cleaner now,especially when Baronic is back.Mengsuan couldnt handle all the traffic here.

+10000 post of the day time for the CC to move to a higher lvl.