ALL users: Please Read

Dear JoviTalk users,

After a lengthy discussion with fellow moderators, we have decided to create a opinion poll for the users of this message board.

As many of you will have noticed, the forums has become increasingly unwelcome of late, due to a certain amount of users spamming, talking about sex, throwing insults, amongst many other things. A lot of users have suggested that they should take their chats to PM's or to MSN, if they want to chat about things. They have clearly ignored this request, even from moderators, so this is a poll for YOU to decide the best course of action.

Please Note: Any spam in THIS thread WILL be removed.

Please select one of the two options above, and feel free to post your opinions on the matter. Your votes will NOT be shown to other users.

Which would be the best way forward for YOU?

Thank You for your time.
The Moderator Team.

Sorry to create more work for you guys, but I voted for posts being moderated.

I also voted to clean up the board. I don't think the mods need to be harsh about it but I do think something should be done to contain the thread hijacking. Clearly nice suggestions like "take to to pm or msn" don't work.

Thanks Kev

I'm abstaining from voting, mainly because it's way too black and white for me.
Those two options make it seem like the board has to be either a police state, or the lawless Wild West.
While I don't like the thread hijacking, and think something has to be done about it, but eliminating every single bit of incidental personal conversation isn't the answer either IMO. That would eliminate a lot of what makes this board special in the first place.

I agree.

I know I'm been doing the "hijacking" too. But like I said, I'm trying my hardest to stop - and have pretty much stopped it all. So, might seem a bit cheeky to some people for me to say my opinion on this. But in all realness, personal sh!t aside - I agree with this comment fully. I think the board should be moderated more. I think if threads get ridiculousy off topic, than yes, delete some posts. But it would be silly, and a shame IMO, to just delete any thing that may be slightly personal or off topic. It would be silly to say, nobody can say anything that is off topic, or personal, and that's that! This board is nice because of the freedom, I think. We're known to be able to be more free with what we say. Unlike some other boards (Backstage for example) that is very much rescricted. I think it would be a shame, to make it become something like that...it really would. And I think going too far that way, would also put people off coming on here, certainly. But, I also think people need to start listenign more. I did as soon as Mousebounce asked me nicely to stop. It's obviously annoying a lot of people, and if I can tone it down, so can other people. It's quite offensive to me, when I'm trying, but then there's still 2 or 3 others still going at it.

There's my unbiased views!

What Kev posted says that spam will be removed - I interperet that to mean that not all conversation will be removed but at the point it takes over the thread (becoming spam) in an off topic manner then it will, or if it is offensive then it will. I think we trust the mods enough to use common sense, they haven't let us down so far.

I love democracy

Seems like a big job to moderate all spam, but if ya can do it, it would have been much appreciated.

yeah i agree with you there , like when the thread about "why was hey god dropped" turned into Always Vs Bed Of Roses im sure that would be fine but it's more the "off off topic" things

OK OK, I quit. Even Jade is getting pissed off by it now. I feel so ashamed

Mods don't have to worry, Oli won't spam if he's got nobody to spam with Unless he and his fans get together and take over... in which case, may God be with you all.

Politely asking them to stop should be the first step.