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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: MailMaxDev on March 11, 2012, 10:12 pm

Title: Forum format suggestion
Post by: MailMaxDev on March 11, 2012, 10:12 pm
I think we should change the discussion and market sections of the forum from this

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Discussion:
  -Silk Road discussion
  -Security
  -Shipping
  -Drug safety
  -Off topic

Market:
  -Product requests
  -Product offers
  -Rumor mill

to this

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Discussion:
  -Security
    *Digital security
    *Shipping security
    *Physical security
    *General news and intel
  -Drug information
    *Benzos
    *Cannabis
    *Dissociatives
    *Ecstasy
    *Opioids
    *Psychedelics
    *Stimulants
    *Others
  -Off topic

Market:
  -Silk Road discussion
  -Product requests
  -Product offers
  -Vendor reviews
  -Rumor mill

This would make the forums better organized and would make finding the information you're looking for a lot easier. Thoughts?
Title: Re: Forum format suggestion
Post by: kremlin on May 17, 2012, 07:46 pm
we desperately need something like this to happen.  in fact forums for specific popular drugs need to exist - how the fuck is anyone supposed to parse a 300 page sticky to figure out whats going on with a particular segment of the market?
Title: Re: Forum format suggestion
Post by: cerealbox on May 17, 2012, 08:56 pm
I don't like this idea. It'd make the forum far less social.
Title: Re: Forum format suggestion
Post by: kremlin on May 17, 2012, 09:07 pm
doesnt need to be exactly in the format in of the OP but there needs to be some better structure to deliver useful information :)  feel like that could be accmplished without losing social aspects
Title: Re: Forum format suggestion
Post by: GreenGiant on May 17, 2012, 09:23 pm
I actually passed a format over to vendor support/Digi yesterday, as it's sad to see the forum so cluttered.
They said they were going to pass it over to DPR so we shall see what happens.

Ideas for keeping decreasing trolling

1. Require new forum accounts to be activated by a MOD - Don't activate accounts with wank names like SRSCAM or bobstolemyBTC

2.Require users to verify the accounts via email at registration, longer log in process will deter trolling.


3.Organize the forum more, with more sub categories(see next PM, I am currently working on this)

4.Limit which sections new user ranks can post in.
really new accounts mostly come to ask a question about a vendor, BTC, security or how SR works in general

5. Create a simple set of forum rules and standards




SR DISCUSSIONS
>Market & Forum Updates & news(section should be locked for posting apart from MODS)
>General Silk Road Questions
>General Silk Road Discussions
>Silk Road In the Media
>requests & ideas

SECURITY
>Gpg
>Tor
>Encrypted drives
>Encrypted OS
>Live CD
>Virtual Machines
>VPN & Proxy
> Miscellaneous


SHIPPING
>Sending
>Receiving
>Problems
>Subcategories would progress over time with moderation

VENDOR DISCUSSION & REVIEWS
>There would be many subcategories like SR market, it doesn't have to be as broad as SR market though, then vendors could create threads.

VENDOR COMPLAINTS(independant rules for dealing with these situation should be a sticki & possible even a complaints templait )
>this would start of with some subcategories and progress more over time with moderation

PRODUCT REQUESTS & OFFERS
>Subcategories would progress over time with moderation

TECHNICAL SUPPORT
>SR market place
>Tor
>BTC Purchasing
>BTC selling
>Misc
>Subcategories would progress over time with moderation


DRUG SAFETY
>Subcategories would progress over time with moderation

OFF TOPIC
>Music
>Film
>Etc
Title: Re: Forum format suggestion
Post by: kremlin on May 18, 2012, 12:37 pm
cool, hopefully this will get implemented.  current structure was okay a year ago but we have outgrown it!!!!!
Title: Re: Forum format suggestion
Post by: PlaneMode on May 18, 2012, 05:04 pm
I like MailMaxDev's idea.
Also, would RC's be in others?
Or would it depend?
2c-X 25X would go in psychedelics? etc etc
Title: Re: Forum format suggestion
Post by: cerealbox on May 18, 2012, 09:24 pm
We need a forum devoted entirely to "complaining about the prices on SR."

But we shouldn't split off-topic into subforums. On every forum I've been a single off-topic does the best unless you're trying to sift out specifically boring stuff that comes up again and again. Unless you're going for a culture something like 4chan. Even then, /b/ is essentially the "off topic" of the board.
Title: Re: Forum format suggestion
Post by: bleep on May 19, 2012, 12:04 am
We need a forum devoted entirely to "complaining about the prices on SR."

But we shouldn't split off-topic into subforums. On every forum I've been a single off-topic does the best unless you're trying to sift out specifically boring stuff that comes up again and again. Unless you're going for a culture something like 4chan. Even then, /b/ is essentially the "off topic" of the board.

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26802 Posts
2277 Topics

could do with being sorted out a little ;) even just Media, Experiences & Misc
Title: Re: Forum format suggestion
Post by: MalkNowWithVitaminR on May 22, 2012, 04:46 am
I was actually about to post something about this before I saw this thread. I completely agree with this idea. It just doesn't make sense to me to have half the front page of the Rumor Mill clogged up with stickys. Make separate subforums for all of the major types of drugs and then the Rumor Mill can be for more general vendor discussion/actual rumors.
Title: Re: Forum format suggestion
Post by: kmfkewm on May 22, 2012, 10:11 am
I agree entirely I think this forum has a poor layout , things are lumped together
Title: Re: Forum format suggestion
Post by: supersecretsquirrel on May 22, 2012, 06:04 pm
2.Require users to verify the accounts via email at registration, longer log in process will deter trolling.

I understand why you want this, but I am worried that it will lead to more new users deanonymizing themselves. Just take a look at the "Paste your public PGP key here"-thread.