Braininvat » March 28th, 2018, 11:20 am wrote:You'll have to toe the line, if you want the free toaster and set of Tweety Bird drinking glasses.
If we mess up, do we have to donate toasters and drinking glasses? (I have extras!)
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Braininvat » March 28th, 2018, 11:20 am wrote:You'll have to toe the line, if you want the free toaster and set of Tweety Bird drinking glasses.
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kudayta » 27 Mar 2018 08:17 pm wrote:So on the chat room side of things, which is still connected to this site I think, we don't really much care about the forums anymore. That said, most of the people that come to us from the website are looking for homework answers. We don't do tutoring on the chat room, since DALnet isn't for commercial use. That said, you might want to disconnect DALnet's #science from this website and set up a chat room for tutoring. Might be a good income stream for you.
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Braininvat » 27 Mar 2018 11:50 am wrote:Admin1 wrote:Adding a point system. The only purpose of it would be to give away items to our strongest community members. i.e books, tablets, etc. We get tons of free products as a company and din't use half of what we get.
First, who is "we." Second, ugh. Seriously? This is a fairly intellectual group. I don't think that will really generate much excitement here. Most of us have ready access to the books and equipment we want. And not everyone here would want to give out their personal address and related information. This is a forum of ideas, not things.
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BadgerJelly » 27 Mar 2018 12:09 pm wrote:Biv -Erm, doesn't New Posts already do this, quite effectively?? Sounds like a fix for a nonexistent problem.
My complaint here has been with the Religious discussions never showing up in new posts. That would be welcome to me because I have an interest in the history and development of religions.
I'd also prefer the time period to be extended to 48 hours or more? I regularly look on the site and even I miss some new posts.
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BioWizard » Wed Mar 28, 2018 11:38 am wrote:Hello everyone!
First of all, let me apologize for my absence the past couple of days. As some of you know, I am currently juggling a faculty position (across three different departments) with a chief scientific officer job in a biotech startup company. So to say the least, finding time is a challenge. This is primarily what lead me to the conclusion that someone needs to take over the responsibility of maintaining and developing this site. I will stay on board, however, as founder and administrator (as time allows).
Second, let me welcome you aboard - Ted! I have not met you yet, but I have been communicating with your colleague all this while and it has been extremely pleasant. I am super stoked to have your team's chops on board to help us build this place up.
I'm glad to see that you already dove into the deep end and gotten your hands wet with our forum. You probably already noticed that the character is somewhat different from other fora you may have dealt with. It comes with the territory - we have focused more on quality instead of quantity, which has been great in ways (above average level posts) and not so much in others (opinionated members [Hah just kidding guys, you know I love you], relatively low traffic etc). I think with you guys on board, however, we can finally combine the best of both worlds and get this forum steam rolling in the right direction.
Now on to forum business. As you may have already noticed, Ted, our membership is one that takes pride in being part of the forum and acts protective of it. In fact, a lot of our members operate as moderators, and are regarded with similar status, even if they don't directly push the buttons. Nevertheless, we do have SOPs for how things can be done here (for example, affecting managerial change), and they usually start in the moderator forum. That is part of the reason why this ownership change was still being discussed in the moderators forum, and was not yet announced to the membership at large. I was expecting that you would sign up, contact me, and have me introduce you to the moderators and show you the ropes, rather than shock the forum with an "I own you now" kind of message (I have to admit though, that was pretty funny!). Perhaps something more along the lines of "I will be the one developing this site from now on" would've been a little less alarming? I mean, even I got a bit alarmed when I saw it, and I KNEW about it :]
In any case, no harm done, we are all on the same team here and I am proud to see how much the members and moderators care about this place. The important thing is that we figure out how to coordinate our efforts so that we continue to proceed quickly towards our common and most important goal - growing these forums and making them truly awesome. Ted and I will try to coordinate our moves better in the future.
Braininvat, happy to see you back on board the admin team.
Lincoln, good to see that you haven't given up no the traffic issue, and hopefully we can finally make that happen here.
zetreque, thanks for always being so vigilant.
Lomax, thanks for always been a calm balancing voice.
Everyone, thanks for caring so much about our community!!!
In hindsight, I like what Ted's move has already done here :)
If anyone has any questions, concerns, paranoia, feel free to ask me directly or post here. While I may not be able to respond very quickly, I promise that I will be here for you and for the forum for a very long time to come.
Let's do this!
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BioWizard » March 28th, 2018, 11:59 am wrote:Braininvat » 27 Mar 2018 11:50 am wrote:Admin1 wrote:Adding a point system. The only purpose of it would be to give away items to our strongest community members. i.e books, tablets, etc. We get tons of free products as a company and din't use half of what we get.
First, who is "we." Second, ugh. Seriously? This is a fairly intellectual group. I don't think that will really generate much excitement here. Most of us have ready access to the books and equipment we want. And not everyone here would want to give out their personal address and related information. This is a forum of ideas, not things.
Speak for yourself brah! I need a new nutribullet. And I have like 10,000+ posts. I can probably get 100 of those. or maybe a tablet! Admin1, What do I get for 12,733 posts?
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BioWizard » Wed Mar 28, 2018 10:44 am wrote:kudayta » 27 Mar 2018 08:17 pm wrote:So on the chat room side of things, which is still connected to this site I think, we don't really much care about the forums anymore. That said, most of the people that come to us from the website are looking for homework answers. We don't do tutoring on the chat room, since DALnet isn't for commercial use. That said, you might want to disconnect DALnet's #science from this website and set up a chat room for tutoring. Might be a good income stream for you.
We don't want your a$$ over here anyway.
Good to see you kud :)
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BadgerJelly » 28 Mar 2018 11:17 pm wrote:Of course there are always going to be those that refuse to do anything but preach.
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kudayta » 28 Mar 2018 08:22 pm wrote:Keep talkin' like that, and I'll organize a raid on the forums :)
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Badger wrote:religious...refuse to do anything but preach.
BioWizard wrote:I have yet to meet any other religious phenotype on online fora.
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BadgerJelly » 29 Mar 2018 09:56 am wrote:Bio -
There are a few of them trust me :) Religious people can talk about both science and religion on separate terms (I've seen it enough.)
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BadgerJelly » March 29th, 2018, 9:56 am wrote:Bio -
There are a few of them trust me :) Religious people can talk about both science and religion on separate terms (I've seen it enough.)
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BioWizard » Sun Apr 01, 2018 3:49 am wrote:Snappy?
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