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I'm a new forum admin, say hi!

#1 Post by paulproteus »

Hello!

I'm Asheesh, and I want to introduce myself. I'm a Debian developer who wants to help out the forums. (My nick is paulproteus, and I'm paulproteus at debian.org.)

I have to make two admissions, before this goes any further: I don't have a lot of time to move the forums forward, and so far, I seem to use email lists a whole lot more than I use forums. :roll:

I have a lot to learn about the forum community, both this Debian one in particular and forums in general. And I often talk weird, as you can see from this paragraph.

But here's what I have to offer:
  • A little bit of time.
  • A lot of love for the community you guys have here! :D
  • Access to the server where the forums are hosted.
This last one is pretty neat. It means I can upgrade the forum software, and replace the silly sign-up question. I think it makes sense to replace it with reCAPTCHA. (I think a technical measure to combat automated spam is a good idea.)

So I want to say hello and ask what you guys are thinking lately.

I'm new here, and I want to help. Like basically everyone, I'm doing a lot of things, and I won't be able to spend more than a few hours a week on the forum. :|

But!

I want to help! So let's see what we can do together.

What are the most important things I can do to make this place better? Okay, so I plan to upgrade the forum and start using reCAPTCHA <http://recaptcha.net/> for anti-spam. So what else?

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#2 Post by MeanDean »

paulproteus wrote: So what else?
...get rid of the rules :wink:

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#3 Post by julian67 »

get rid of the users :D

anti-spam will be a real improvement.
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#4 Post by dilberts_left_nut »

How hi?
:lol:

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#5 Post by carlos.fonke »

Welcome, Asheesh. As said above, anti-spam is probably the biggest priority.

Also, it's always great to have a DD's opinions.
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#6 Post by Absent Minded »

Hello Asheesh,
Welcome to the forum. I use reCAPTCHA on my own tiny little forum (it was amazingly getting overloaded with spam for being basicly an unknown) and it seems to work well. I am guessing that is one of the reason it was chosen.

Although I haven't read an official announcement of your being here. I would like to welcome you aboard. I have seen you a few times this past month in the team area for the forums IRC channel. As such I believe you are exactly as you have said and that Mez just hasn't gotten around to mentioning it to the rest of us yet. I know a while back he did announce that there would be a few new admins so I have been expecting you "so to speak".

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#8 Post by gigidima »

MeanDean wrote:
paulproteus wrote: So what else?
...get rid of the rules :wink:
OK,dear Debian fan!

Hello!
Welcome!

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#9 Post by Absent Minded »

Glad to see you have your stripes (or should I say color) finely. Hope to see you around.

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#10 Post by craigevil »

MeanDean wrote:
paulproteus wrote: So what else?
...get rid of the rules :wink:
Rules we don't need any stinking rules. :P You did mean slide rules right?

welcome aboard, anything that cuts down on spam is welcome.
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#11 Post by jheaton5 »

How many of you kids have even seen a slide rule, much less know how to use one?
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#12 Post by vrkalak »

Welcome to the Debian Forums. Glad to have you.

But . . . please, be a 'user-friendly' Forum Admin.

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#13 Post by drokmed »

vrkalak wrote:Welcome to the Debian Forums. Glad to have you.

But . . . please, be a 'user-friendly' Forum Admin.
user friendly? wtf is that?

Actually, I like the spam... since we are used to ignoring the rules anyways :mrgreen: we love to attack spammers that make the mistake of creating a login here, just to advertise their wares... lots of folks here wear forum combat boots... the KICK is GOOD! Over the uprights! FIELD GOAL!!!!!! Bang, Zoom! To the moon, Alice!
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#14 Post by Pick2 »

Now now guys , ease up on the newbee , can't you see he's turned red already ! :D
Welcome aboard , paulproteus
drokmed wrote:... lots of folks here wear forum combat boots...
And a Flak Jacket ! :lol:

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ReCAPTCHA.net Now Vulnerable to Algorithmic Attack
http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/08/05/2 ... mic-Attack

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#15 Post by nitehawk »

Pick2 wrote:
drokmed wrote:... lots of folks here wear forum combat boots...
And a Flak Jacket ! :lol:
Yeah,....and that even goes for the Debian women here. 8)

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#16 Post by barriehie »

jheaton5 wrote:How many of you kids have even seen a slide rule, much less know how to use one?
:D Had to master that about 40 or so years ago...

Hello Asheesh and welcome aboard. :D

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#17 Post by mzilikazi »

Hi paulproteus - welcome.

Any time you have to offer us here is greatly received! :)
Be sure to stop by the Team Chat and Moderator Chat forums from time to time.
As mentioned, spam is likely the worst issue we have at the moment. Some may think it's fun, the rest of us think it's a waste of time and resources. :evil:
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#18 Post by swoody »

paulproteus,

Congrats on becoming an admin! I'm sure any amount of time you can focus on helping the Debian project will be a great help :) A few hours a week is much more than quite a lot of people. Keep up the good work you're doing :D

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#19 Post by AMLJ »

HEY!! How are you??????????????? :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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