it's not just jotun............. but what % of the post of the top 25 are about music?
how many have ever posted anything about New Zealand Music?

ok yes only count non bar post... that could work
As for the other idea.. I'm not sure.. how would that slow them down?

eh what eh jo?

Well, not so much helping fight the general malaise, but there are some people that are just annoying - not offensive or abusive (unless, of course, you needle them sufficiently, in just the right way) so banning them wouldn't really be justified.

I fairly much gave up on worrying about the bar when a handful of people took to using it as a chatroom over the holidays. Not much worth reading, but not really worth deleting either.

I reckon also that annoying people would be less likely to re-register if they've still got a login that mostly works...

ahh now I see your point.... but......... some people are very slow.

but dust has gone........ thats what really knocked me out of the water

Sorry Aka, that was a reference to something that Heather said while she was in Welly.
(It was also an attempt on my part to chalk up another 600 posts or so to get into the top 25)

yes we had a similar discussion last year in nelson just after the list went up....... if i remember rightly emails were sent

nah ive always stayed with the same login, just took a break during a holiday and came back too it.
jotun....its taken him a long time and many, many logins to improve the slighest bit

prisonsex
kittenslayer
kittenthyler
jotun

ive got a slight suspicion there is more thou..

Perhaps they could use a measure based on the number of days that the user has posted on, perhaps? Even if you only post once or twice a day, the longer you've been around and actively participating, the higher up the list you are...new people are relatively far down the list, regardless of posting/chat sprees. The longer standing members (who we like because they've gotten over their annoying posting habits) are higher up the list.

instead of a top 25 posters, have a top 25 member, the people in the top 25 are for their contibution to topics etc

The more i think about that the more i like it... non breed how does one move up to play with the big kidds?

//the community one would be read-only for those who've not been invited to join.
I've thought of that a few times, but I really like the 'benefit of the doubt' kind of setup because it *is* so inclusive. I reckon there are a few things that could be implemented to reduce the effect of idiots and trolls - restrict them to the bar, restrict the number of posts they can make in any given day, teina's already said that bozo lists are in the works..

Also it's far less maintenance - imagine if the Morse Media guys had to approve every single person for entry into the community forum...it's a whole lot of work to restrict the movements of what amounts to just a small handful of people.

there are some people you can tell from the offset that they will be valuble

I think it could be done either by invitation or application. especially considering that someone important is sure to be forgotten when the big kids' forum is set up. it could just be done with the caveat: "if you were forgotten, it may or may not have been intentional. click here to apply..." or something like that.

so far hes doing rather well for a new comer.
hows this then

the public forum has a top 35 (to accomodate quality and the jotuns of the world)
the people seen contributing well here get invited to joing the private forums.

//I'm sure it's been mentioned that a points system is on the way. Where people's logins/comments are rated by other users.

Interesting...but scary...

//I'm sure it's been mentioned that a points system is on the way. Where people's logins/comments are rated by other users

yeah that was something tossed about in chat by that palm fella as a replacement for the topic 25.... I know it scared me at the time

It has been mentioned on Help or About Us too. I didn't like it at the time, but there needs to be some way to get rid of the Jotuns & Libelles & Lcjmacos.

Aw, Libelle's ok. Jotun's fun to hassle.