Stan Kern and his recent activity on the forum as a new member!

[Lee Roberts]

Hi,

Thought it was a good point for me to step in and do some moderating, below is how Stan's arrival to the forum unfolded for me and what I've done next to help keep the forum a great place for all.

I can confirm Stan is telling the truth about first arriving at the forum and trying to register as his personal self, the anti spam system's I've got in place stopped him at the front door and rejected his email address, with that Stan then got in touch with a friend and acquired an alternative email address he could use for registration and sign up to the forum.

He then went on to post a new member introduction here: Hi from Stan in Ontario Canada and jumped in with starting a few threads about what he gets up to showcasing his work with the logic trace software and products.

Whilst doing this Stan had also emailed me requesting support regarding his failed sign up and asked if I could make things right for him and how he originally intended, this info was available at the time in his new member introduction and the discussion went on a little after a welcome and hello from some of you but ended quite quickly with Stan being all fixed up and ready to get stuck in to the forum some more.

One of the things Stan asked me to do was add a Login Trace sub forum in the cad/cam section, with the idea being he wanted to make multiple submissions all focused around the same software and thought it best to have them all in the same relevant place. I agreed and moved his threads over to that section for him.

Discussions took place over 3 different threads and talked about how you felt about Stan's submissions and advice was given and received on suggested etiquette.

Stan then contacted me again to ask if his post's are ok with me, I didn't get time to reply and in the mean time the discussions above continued to move on.

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My thoughts for completeness

Having looked at everything that has been said in those discussions I'm quite happy that things have been balanced, though I did note that some assumptions have been made and we all know what can happen sometimes when people start assuming things...

I also don't feel it's fair that an individual member should be held accountable for the way in which another member use's the forum and its features, I fully appreciate the frustrations mentioned as arising from Stan's actions but I don't feel its acceptable for any of us to ask him not to continue in the way he was just because we prefer it that way.

Lets not forget that the Trending Now list is nothing more than a simplified, unfiltered Latest Posts list. When I added this to the home page it was with the intention of it being a "quick view / at a glance" type of widget and not a direct replacement for the built in forum search system, the All Activity, New Posts or the Unanswered Threads quick links.

If you really want to customise your experience don't forget the Advanced Search page, you can use it to drill down and find the content your most interested in, you could even bookmark the results page so that search criteria becomes your "go to" on first visiting the forum.

Like I say, I use the trending now list in pretty much the same way as described by some of you, I live in the moderator control panel most of the day but I do visit the home page for a quick glance 2-3 times a day. However I'm also very aware that discussions move quite quickly some day's so its quite easy for that list to be come redundant if I want a full list of all threads that have new posts I haven't read yet.

The point i'm trying make is that asking him to stop just because that's the way you would prefer it, isn't really cricket, especially when we've got more than enough choice and/or options available to us if we truly prefer a customised viewing of whats new on the forum.

We are a big group of people all living under one roof, remembering to accommodate each other is what makes it work well.

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What I've done to help

Stan:
I have merged all of your logic trace related threads into one thread and given that thread a new title here: Stan Kern's creations and work examples using the Logic Trace software

I would ask that you please keep all of your post's of a similar nature in that one thread, please feel free to use it like an on going log or journal of your work, when you post something new to that thread it will still show up to everyone else.

Everyone else:
I've moved relevant post's to this thread your reading now, I've also renamed this thread to: Stan Kern and his recent activity on the forum as a new member!

and moved it to the General section, the post order has changed, there was a few posts made in Stan's new member intro and I've moved them here as well, as such M_C now owns this thread and its open again if you would like to continue discussing...

Thanks for your patience and consideration.