Love help: The Future of Help - Help.com

glad to see a new dude on board to improve the site

Just in case it’s worth something, my absolute favourite feature on this site is how you can watch replies appear. More sites should have this.

Coolio.

your a voleenter mod and admin?

how does that work?

Oh, uh, why did help.com automatically put me as living in Quebec, Canada when I first signed up. I didn’t fill in that I lived in Quebec, and now I don’t know how to change it.

I like your openness to answering questions and your candid way of communicating.
I would like to see the site be a little more geared towards the actual helping part, not only a way to make new friends and online cliques, as it seems it might be geared toward with the ‘friends list’ and chat etc.

Although I might ask a question another user has posed: Do you think you’ll be able to keep up with improving the site as well as all the maintenance that is requred.. The last admin didnt seem to be able to.

neujersey wrote:
Yourabi: I’d like to have the option to turn off the auto-censorship. By default, of course, it should be on - but established users should be able to see anything they like.

hear hear

neujersey wrote:
Yourabi: I’d like to have the option to turn off the auto-censorship. By default, of course, it should be on - but established users should be able to see anything they like.

I definitely agree with this, too.

glad to have you here on help
hope you like it

going by in incompetent management of this site …. theses proposed changes with make it a wonderful sit for pedophiles and trolls

Hi…
Welcome to help.
I hope you are more talkative, would be nice to see an admin mingle once in a while.

On another note, I wanted to know how possible it would be to add a function in where we could edit our replies and not just the posts we make, I know we can preview them but maybe being able to edit them after we had posted them would be helpful :)

LazyDaze~ wrote:
Hi…Welcome to help.I hope you are more talkative, would be nice to see an admin mingle once in a while.On another note, I wanted to know how possible it would be to add a function in where we could edit our replies and not just the posts we make, I know we can preview them but maybe being able to edit them after we had posted them would be helpful :)

if they did that, people indebates would change their replies to seem right after they were shown to be wrong, and it would give everyone a headache figuring it out

Oh and on another note you may think about getting an avatar :)
Just seems for friendlier.

Ahh good point commander..
Oh well, something to ponder :)

Yay :) Go Admins!
I think we should have clearer rules and such, to stop all the arguing and what not that goes on.
And wilkommen!

I just thought though, it could be the same type of edit as with the post, where it shows what was previously posted, rather than getting rid of the old reply totally you could click to see what it said…?

yourabi wrote:

Shizuko-Sophie wrote:
going by in incompetent management of this site …. theses proposed changes with make it a wonderful sit for pedophiles and trolls

Are you referencing the discussion of turning off auto-censorship? It was not clear from your post.

yourabi, loosen up, be chummy with the community, don’t be so formal!

YAY! Welcome yourabi..I’ll soon give you my list of things to do. j/k! I know we did have a post about wanting to see the # of people on the site at any given time…

he seemed to be putting in a textbook reply of understandability and politeness. Be wild!!!! Be the “aweseme admin” not the “polite quiet admin”

cookies and cream wrote:
Yay :) Go Admins!I think we should have clearer rules and such, to stop all the arguing and what not that goes on.And wilkommen!

I agree completely.. sometimes the posts and chat veer off to arguments, criticizing and judgement long before any help is ever given.. WOuld be nice to see something set in place to facilitate actual help.. possibly daily quotes, or suggestions sponsored by the site suggesting ways to help.. something like that.

Okay… moving on from correct admin etiquette…
So does this mean now we’re going to have stuff DONE to this site? And things are going to get sorted and we’re not going to be left to run it by ourselves? If so, WOOOO!
…This is the start of a new era *sniff*

neujersey wrote:

UCreateUrReality wrote:

cookies and cream wrote:
Yay :) Go Admins!I think we should have clearer rules and such, to stop all the arguing and what not that goes on.And wilkommen!

I agree completely.. sometimes the posts and chat veer off to arguments, criticizing and judgement long before any help is ever given.. WOuld be nice to see something set in place to facilitate actual help.. possibly daily quotes, or suggestions sponsored by the site suggesting ways to help.. something like that.

That is entirely inimical to the free spririt of the internet, and will kill this community.

true, it would be allot more dull and dead inside

I would like to see the rules made clearer that would be better.
I mean I have seen people being warned and banned over rules being bent to fit others… but then that is another issue I suppose.

Commander Ikari wrote:

neujersey wrote:

UCreateUrReality wrote:

cookies and cream wrote:
Yay :) Go Admins!I think we should have clearer rules and such, to stop all the arguing and what not that goes on.And wilkommen!

I agree completely.. sometimes the posts and chat veer off to arguments, criticizing and judgement long before any help is ever given.. WOuld be nice to see something set in place to facilitate actual help.. possibly daily quotes, or suggestions sponsored by the site suggesting ways to help.. something like that.

That is entirely inimical to the free spririt of the internet, and will kill this community.

true, it would be allot more dull and dead inside

possibly. Im just saying that the arguments the 90% of the post turn into is also completely antithetical to what help.com is about.

Is it the general consensus of Help users that Consumating users “move on” to another site? Just wondering, because not all of us are here to troll or post rude comments. Some of us would simply like to have a sense of community comparable to what we had on Consumating.

bizzchelle wrote:
Is it the general consensus of Help users that Consumating users “move on” to another site? Just wondering, because not all of us are here to troll or post rude comments. Some of us would simply like to have a sense of community comparable to what we had on Consumating.

here here! most of those guys were pricks who tryed to change help into a piece of crap like what consumating was

LazyDaze~ wrote:
I would like to see the rules made clearer that would be better.I mean I have seen people being warned and banned over rules being bent to fit others… but then that is another issue I suppose.

Yesss :) That’s what I meant! lol

cookies and cream wrote:

LazyDaze~ wrote:
I would like to see the rules made clearer that would be better.I mean I have seen people being warned and banned over rules being bent to fit others… but then that is another issue I suppose.

Yesss :) That’s what I meant! lol

Oh lol well then I agree :D

hmmm.
seems interesting. seems like good news in my opinion.

however, i worry about what will happen to the community of Help.com.
in my opinion, (and i know little to nothing of the magical internetz, my experience is limited to running a VERY small forum) the way that Help.com works is a delicate balance. i’m referring to the actual helping, not the servers or any of that jibber jabber.
the community here is (again in my opinion) a unique one, and to see it change due to site changes would be sad.

ALSO
i think one of the most pressing issues at the moment is the fact that there is not a fast enough deletion of troll’s posts, insults and darnright unpleasant replies.

yourabi wrote:

bizzchelle wrote:
Is it the general consensus of Help users that Consumating users “move on” to another site? Just wondering, because not all of us are here to troll or post rude comments. Some of us would simply like to have a sense of community comparable to what we had on Consumating.

Bizzchell — a local! I want to be able to offer the consu crowd what they want here — without disrupting what already exists — that will take time — and there were some very angry people who were intent on making life difficult here before moving on

well consumater dudes, just intigrate into the site, but always remember
help is not
nor will it ever be
a consumating clone.
it is its own site, own community, and has its own sense of being
don’t screw with what it is

yourabi wrote:

bizzchelle wrote:
Is it the general consensus of Help users that Consumating users “move on” to another site? Just wondering, because not all of us are here to troll or post rude comments. Some of us would simply like to have a sense of community comparable to what we had on Consumating.

Bizzchell — a local! I want to be able to offer the consu crowd what they want here — without disrupting what already exists — that will take time — and there were some very angry people who were intent on making life difficult here before moving on

SO you want to change what we have to fit them in?

So they were lucky enough to have a message up for weeks saying that they were being relocated…shut down etc.
Why were we not given the same respect?
Letting us know that this was to happen?
We just gotit shoved in our face the other day with no warning what so ever…
Soone rule for one and another rule for the rest, I see how this will go.