Super Bad News – Brace Yourselves! No More Forums Coming?

[Brian Schmidt]

Folks, there are no plans to close the Trains Magazine forums now, as long as they remain relatively trouble free. If you want to ensure the long-term survival of the forums, then you all need to take a role in them. Post quality content. That means your own thoughts and ideas, and not mindlessly sharing links to other sites without any description or context. Be respectful of each other. That means to discuss the ideas and not the people who present them. Ignore obvious trolls. That means just what it says.

[nyc#25]

Thanks for the heads up.  I've been a subscriber since 1957.

[Electroliner 1935]

Thank you Brian,

 

[usmc1401]

I for one would not worry about this forum. A computer guy told me once that this is a low cost service. so unless the web gets more expensive than cheaper we will all be OK.

[ericsp]

Murphy Siding

    For fun, some enterprising person should start an internet forum for and about trolls. The entertainment value would be built into the forum and it wouldn’t require much in the way of moderation.

      It should be in the bylaws that no one can use their own name and each member has to have a two screen name minimum.

      I can think of an appropriate sponsor right out of the chute- Pissed Off! Energy Drink. (a real product)

They would have to suspend members for insufficient trolling.

[Murphy Siding]

ericsp

 

Murphy Siding

    For fun, some enterprising person should start an internet forum for and about trolls. The entertainment value would be built into the forum and it wouldn’t require much in the way of moderation.

      It should be in the bylaws that no one can use their own name and each member has to have a two screen name minimum.

      I can think of an appropriate sponsor right out of the chute- Pissed Off! Energy Drink. (a real product)

 

 

 

They would have to suspend members for insufficient trolling.

 

Would you also have to report to the moderators if someone was being too civil and courteous?

[Uncle Jake]

Thanks Brian.

[7j43k]

desertdog

Some readers may remember that at one time there was an Atlas model railroad forum. Every thread turned into a battle of some kind or another. Finally, Atlas got fed up with constantly having to moderate, suspend offenders, etc. and got back to their primary business of making model railroad equipment. Kalmbach is different in that they are in the media business and forums are media. Nonetheless, if they pull the plug on this forum, they can easily justify it based on the number of warnings and locked threads over time. John Timm

 

 

 

I will note that Atlas has kept their old forum as an archive.  As opposed to dumping the data.  I find myself occasionally going there.

I thank Atlas for keeping it available.  Good on 'em!

 

Ed