COMMENTS ON NEW RULES

[MaRKuS-DJM]

Originally Posted by JMI

Aaron does not need to and did not discuss the reasons for making the Rules as he did, but I can offer a good assumption as to why.

first of all, i just want to say these sentences shouldn't look like i want to start some discussion. i see no words that points on a "discussion". first sentence was just a short introduction, second one an example and the third and fourth why i posted: the questions why but you explained it very well. i didn't think about the FTP because i personally doesn't use it very often. two times a month or less. thanks for your effort JMI.

Greetings,
MaRKuS TH-DJM

[Michel]

May I suggest the term "Newbie" for the second class may be confused with "newbie" ?

[JMI]

A point. Maybe Aaron will reconsider and find the following less subject to misinterpretation. That's up to him. I don't really think those in the "Newbie" usergroup will confuse their "usergroup" with a general reversing "newbie" because the "other" categories are related only to "post count" and not an evaluation of the quality of the Posts, themselves. But any implication might be avoided if he wanted to use the following, instead:


"Registered"

"New Member"

"Trial Member"

"Member"

"VIP"

But, again, that is his choice to make.

Regards,

[Michel]

Perhaps "Novice" should be nice too ?

Regards and greetings to all the staff

[JMI]

"Novice" means the same thing as "Newbie".

Regards,

[TmC]

I find the new rules too much restrictive but very good and effective for this "dark age". Aaron and JMI are right...lots of people are only singing up to grab the ftp password and download even their asses if they were on the ftp. So even if they are too much restrictive I think that they will to their job for a while at least. I experimented myself in old times the ftp beeing inaccessible for "too many users".

The only thing i find without any sense(unless pointed to some good reasons) is the password change policy every 30 days. Personallly i switched on the auto-reminder feature so i don't even have to type it. It's a unuseful thing to type every time the password...also because i don't know others, but mine is 14 chars long...so not easily guessable. But I understand that maybe Aaron that is behind the administration of this board may have reasons that are not clear to me. Any Words?

I thing that it��s not quite right to forbid newly registered users to search. In my opinion a search is one of most useful features in any forum. Especially for novices!

And may I suggest to transfer ��NEW RULERS�� thread from ��General Discussion�� forum to the main page? Change in rulers is an important thing and users should see them as soon as they get into the Forum.

Originally Posted by TmC

... thing i find without any sense... is the password change policy every 30 days. ... I understand that maybe Aaron that is behind the amministration of this board may have reasons that are not clear to me.

For me too! I thing that change password every 30 days is quite inconvenient. It has sense for FTP but for user's account...
Maybe it should call for a long password instead of it's frequent change?

Originally Posted by TmC

...behind the amministration of this board may have reasons that are not clear to me. Any Words?

My guess for the reason:

If you are a member you see the FTP passwd. If one gets your passwd (s)he gets the FTP passwd in the same step.
As it is not too easy to get membership the member passwd's have to be more secure to protect the FTP pass.
Particularly when there is a commonly used remember functionality, there should be something that can limit the (most times unintentional) leakage of member passwd's.