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Old 09-28-2013, 09:41 AM   #1 (permalink)
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I know I bust people's balls here about the length of time it takes to approve journal posts, but it really hasn't got any better. I also know I've been submitting more entries at once and so that makes the work that much harder, but as I mentioned, my policy of submitting, waiting for approval then submitting does not seem to be working as even one post is taking up to three days to be posted. As a result my journal now has, today, three posts saying, in order, "five/four/three days to Metal Month", which looks silly.

Annnyhooo...

My possible solution. Is it at all doable to make certain people "semi-mods", or even mods, simply and solely for the purpose of allowing us to approve our own journal posts? I know this was brought up in another form in another thread, discussed very briefly and dropped, the contention being that it would have to go through the admins, who never allow any changes. But if certain people were allowed the "powers" or "power" of mods, to only approve their own journal requests, would this not alleviate the workload and also stop annoying bastards like me hassling yiz all the time?

Is this possible? Acceptable? Off the wall? Out of my tree? Any comments?

My post count is only going to get more regular from next week as I plough into "Metal Month" and I really don't want to break the flow, so if it's possible to set this up by then it would be great. Other than that, it's back to asking whoever has taken on this responsibility to please try to ensure journal posts are approved in a timely manner, say 24 hours after being submitted.

See, you can say "why don't you do this and see how hard it is?" but I'm actually saying I will, or would, if given the powers. I don't want to be a mod --- and I know a lot of people would prefer I wasn't one --- but if I, and others who need the authority, could do this, would it not be worth looking at?

Thanks for listening; hope to hear some replies back.
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Old 09-28-2013, 09:51 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I'm not sure if that's possible or not, but we can look into it.

Sorry you've had delays that long. I can't speak for other mods, but I'll personally try to make an effort to check the approval queue on a daily basis moving forward.
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Old 09-28-2013, 10:55 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Thanks Jansz! Appreciate it.
It wasn't just me though: a whole slew of entries just appeared there about two hours ago, with nothing prior to that since about three days ago. I know it's tough and everyone has their priorities, I'd just like to see my entries come up a little sooner.
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Old 09-28-2013, 10:59 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Thanks Jansz! Appreciate it.
It wasn't just me though: a whole slew of entries just appeared there about two hours ago, with nothing prior to that since about three days ago. I know it's tough and everyone has their priorities, I'd just like to see my entries come up a little sooner.
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I'm sure someone checked the queue and approved them all at the same. That's why they appeared all at once. If I'm checking once a day everything should at least be approved with 24 hours of being submitted.
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Old 09-28-2013, 01:09 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Oh yeah, I understand that. I'm just saying it wasn't just mine that weren't being approved, there was a list of them. I guess others aren't so anal about their journals, but I'm a little obssessive about mine!
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Old 09-28-2013, 04:21 PM   #6 (permalink)
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The easiest solution would be to make Trollheart a mod just for the journals. He lives in the journal section and is there all the time. So it seems logical that he should be the one to approve the entries, which would be done asap.

I agree with what he's said regarding journal entry delays. There have been times where I've posted a journal post and then a few days later have prepared to submit another, only to delay it as the previous entry still hadn't be approved.
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Old 09-28-2013, 04:57 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I'm sure someone checked the queue and approved them all at the same. That's why they appeared all at once. If I'm checking once a day everything should at least be approved with 24 hours of being submitted.
That was me, lol. I don't normally check on Fridays because I'm at work and not supposed to be lingering around here, and I was in class the previous two days. I don't worry about it because I know there are other mods who can check the queue, but evidently not...
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Old 09-28-2013, 08:04 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Old 09-29-2013, 07:51 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Why is it not possible to create a new usergroup, edit the permissions for the usergroup (so for example here, your posts wouldn't need to be approved) then just put members over a certain post count into it? Trusted posters go in to it. Don't see the problem tbh.

I'm not really arsed but it seems like a proper ballache for TH and I know creating usergroups with specific permissions is possible, I'm just unsure if it's possible on this forum.

You don't need to make anyone a mod and users can't abuse any power by being put into the new usergroup.

Win-win imo.
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Old 09-29-2013, 08:27 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Why is it not possible to create a new usergroup, edit the permissions for the usergroup (so for example here, your posts wouldn't need to be approved) then just put members over a certain post count into it? Trusted posters go in to it. Don't see the problem tbh.

I'm not really arsed but it seems like a proper ballache for TH and I know creating usergroups with specific permissions is possible, I'm just unsure if it's possible on this forum.

You don't need to make anyone a mod and users can't abuse any power by being put into the new usergroup.

Win-win imo.
I don't think it's hard to do, like we could make a new user group for people who have 500+ posts or something. It's a suggestion we would have to submit to the admins as that is their domain.
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