11-08-2025, 06:58 AM
@admin,
Thank you for your reply. I am happy that the suggestion meets with your approval; and, I am happy to help here. Please allow me at least a few days, possibly a week, to prepare an initial draft. I will also comment on some features of this older Board software that might be abused. I don't know what you can do about those issues, but I will bring them to your attention because otherwise we should deal with those potential abuses in our Forum Rules if they cannot be changed in the Forum architecture.
My preference is NOT to create these Forum Rules for review in private messages. The Hasleo reputation should continue to be accountability and transparency. When I reply back to this topic with the first draft, all current Forum members should be able comment, if they wish. Clearly, more weight will be paid to the comments of the senior Forum members, of which I am not one ... yet.
When the drafts have been fine-tuned to meet the needs of these Forums, then I suggest that this entire topic can be archived, but available in an Archive of this subforum, for future new Forum members to review, so that they can see for themselves that the development of the Forum Rules was a collaborative effort by the Forum Administration and the-then current Forum members. It should be noted also that the Forum Rules can be amended in the future, if there is a consensus to do so. That would completely negate any potential criticism that the Forum Rules were created solely by Hasleo for its own purposes, and imposed "from above."
The new Forum Rules, once approved, should be pinned as the first post in this Forum.
So give me a few days, possibly a week, and I will see what I can draft.
Have a great weekend.
Regards.
Phil
Thank you for your reply. I am happy that the suggestion meets with your approval; and, I am happy to help here. Please allow me at least a few days, possibly a week, to prepare an initial draft. I will also comment on some features of this older Board software that might be abused. I don't know what you can do about those issues, but I will bring them to your attention because otherwise we should deal with those potential abuses in our Forum Rules if they cannot be changed in the Forum architecture.
My preference is NOT to create these Forum Rules for review in private messages. The Hasleo reputation should continue to be accountability and transparency. When I reply back to this topic with the first draft, all current Forum members should be able comment, if they wish. Clearly, more weight will be paid to the comments of the senior Forum members, of which I am not one ... yet.
When the drafts have been fine-tuned to meet the needs of these Forums, then I suggest that this entire topic can be archived, but available in an Archive of this subforum, for future new Forum members to review, so that they can see for themselves that the development of the Forum Rules was a collaborative effort by the Forum Administration and the-then current Forum members. It should be noted also that the Forum Rules can be amended in the future, if there is a consensus to do so. That would completely negate any potential criticism that the Forum Rules were created solely by Hasleo for its own purposes, and imposed "from above."
The new Forum Rules, once approved, should be pinned as the first post in this Forum.
So give me a few days, possibly a week, and I will see what I can draft.
Have a great weekend.
Regards.
Phil