LOL! Would be nice. But sadly, he doesn't see any of this as he doesn't even come here, at any rate at the moment. But let's hope Jorge's absence won't last too much longer now or he'll break his own record of absenteeism.

I have now sent the draft of the proposed provisional forum rules etc. to my fellow moderator DesertDwarf for consultation. However, any new comments/suggestions etc. will still be taken into account provided they are posted by Sunday midnight BST/11pm GMT.

I hope we can have the rules etc. posted (in the 'Announcements' forum - ultimately, they really should be in a separate forum of their own) by around the end of next week.

A thought just occurred. In amongst the Guidelines and Hints & Tips, or the Rules themselves, should we have something about registering an account (preferably) only if someone intends to become actively involved in the forums, and perhaps also that inactive accounts may be deleted after a certain time, etc.? Any thoughts, anybody?

(This subject itself has been discussed here already, just not its inclusion.)

I wouldn't post anything abut not registering without Jorges input, whenever he comes back

Some potential users/customers may view this negatively.


This makes sense, especially with the *may* qualifier.

Yeah, I wouldn't include that first bit in Jorge's absence, and not in that exact wording anyway. And I agree, it might be viewed negatively by some potential users. (I have seen pretty much that on a few boards before, though, but then they were not concerned with selling software or anything else. ) Also, the number of spurious new account registrations (who never log in afterwards) has declined just recently, so that may be a somewhat positive sign anyway.

Yep, I think the "inactive accounts may be deleted...." bit should definitely have a place.

Allowing for a bit more consultation with DesertDwarf, I will be finalising the Forum Rules and Guidelines and Hints & Tips in a day or two and then we can probably have that up by the end of the week.

Final draft is finished and now with DesertDwarf for final consultation, so I hope we can wrap this whole thing by the end of the week.

I'll try to turn in my homework tonight (Pacific Daylight Time).

Oh goodie! :8 Time to get this out of the way - might even help reduce posting in the wrong topic or forum, and the like....

And still waiting for DD.....

As my fellow moderator DD has been AWOL the last two days and not been in touch re: any alterations etc., and I'm having a busy few days ahead, I intend to post the (provisional) forum rules etc. some time today in the 'Announcements' forum. I may have to make adjustments some other time.

My apologies for the delay. I had some stuff come up (taking a sick roommate to urgent care plus a short road trip I had to take).

I am re-proofreading the document right now. I'll email if I need to make any changes.

Ah well, shit happens DD_Ric. Hope everything turned out alright at your end.

Anyway, glad we got it all sorted and the rules are now there, so there're no excuses any more.