Please reply to this topic with any admin tasks you would like me to take care of. If it is urgent, then please also send me a PM.
For request types that occur frequently, like perhaps requests to change usernames, I plan to look into finding a way to give you all the ability to take care of those requests on your own.
One of the users says he is being threatened by another poster. This is the PM he sent me:
I don’t think any of us have the ability to look at other people’s private messages and I’m not sure you do either, but I would really appreciate confirmation that this is going on.
I don’t think Admins even have the ability to look at PMs (unless they reset the password of a user and then login as that user). However, as a webmaster it is possible to access the database directly.
I briefly investigated the threat, and the exchange they sent you by PM did take place. However, there were a lot of back and fourths going on before this exchange happened and it was kind of a two way street. For example the user who was threatened in the excerpt you sent had earlier sent a mini threat of their own which I quoted below.
You’re a low life piece of shit. Don’t know why you think I would ever tell you more about myself, when the whole reason you asked is so that you could out me.
I know who you are because you outted yourself on Facebook. Don’t make this get ugly.
Perhaps a good approach might be to let them know that if they feel the need to report it to the authorities then the TLS webmaster will provide the authorities with all the information we have to help the authorities with their investigation, but if you want TLS to do its own investigation then the TLS webmaster will take the time to provide you with the entire private messaging exchange between the two of them so you are able to decide the best course of action. My guess is they will say the investigations aren’t worth the effort.
Would it create problems to paste the exchange here? The complaining poster already invited me took at his PMs (probably under the belief that the mods have more access than they do), and if they’ve both been threatening to out each other, I could see a scenario where I’d like to kick both of them off the site.
I didn’t see your post before I posted about it here.
http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=181612&start=1575#p6528971
What do you think about my suggestion for how to handle these types of issues?
Hey, since we’re all gonna be the same color now, can you make us all red? I’m not asking for admin powers, I just think it would really blow the entire board’s fucking mind if suddenly there were 10 red mods.
I’m fine with whatever color the mods want. Let me know if/when there is a general consensus among the mods and I’ll go ahead and change the mod color to red.
I don’t have objections to the mods changing color as much as you want. It would be something I’d be happy to program a way for the mods to have control of.
The only thing I care about is I would like the forumadmin and TLS usernames to use a different color from the mods, but that is pretty easy for me to do.
Minor request: can you let us change user taglines (e.g. “Modship is Magic” for vw)?
Came here to ask this.
I don’t give a shit what color we are.
Thanks for bringing this up. I thought I enabled the mods to change ranks, but I see now that I only enabled you to create/edit/delete ranks, but that you currently have no way to manage which users get which ranks. I plan to make a way for mods to do this.
Name change request:
ncterp → R1chardParker
The username could out him to people he knows IRL.
I made the change. Until I find the time to give all the mods this ability I’ll try to be as quick as possible with admin requests.
I don’t know about anyone else, but when I click close report, I’m always sure I want to close it. It’s no big deal, but getting rid of the “are you sure?” screen would make moderating a little more convenient, especially when dealing with a spammer whose posts get reported many times.
You can close them as a batch from the mod panel.
I just added a way to do this now.
http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=204913&start=25#p6575712
Name change please (original is his real name):
dmosser → bdmizzo
I’ve updated their username.
It looks like there’s a plugin for phpBB to block spammers/proxies/Tor users:
https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/mod/advanced_block_mod/sid_46c3dd5cc35727eb5f95856350538ca9
It can be setup to automatically update itself from various blacklists (including “Stop Forum Spam”, which looks good to me, and “Block Disposable E-mail Addresses”) so that it stays current. It looks like you can add additional lists on your own; while it blocks proxies and some Tor exits, you can add additional Tor blacklists if you want. Might be worth looking into.
http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=102108
This guy’s requesting a name change to “Cobretti,” on account of his username being a combination of his first and last name.