I have already seen average users take actions, for instance moving posts to a more suitable area, so the self-moderation is already starting.
For some time forward I will continue to post about the forum and how it works in topics/threads which are actually about something else but where a question has popped up.
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This is a great summary of the way new forums operate. Thank you!
Mario
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No, can’t say i like it. i’ll see where it goes but i don’t like it. i would prefer no one except a moderator touch or move something i posted. too many hands in the cookie jar sort of thing. i liked the rankings on the old site, i worked my way up to captain and was looking forward to advancing. it didn’t bother me it was meaningless because with the old system everyone was equal whether they had 100 posts or 1,000,000. here now i feel that may not be the case i don’t think it is fair that someone who practically lives on the site and can pump up their numbers can come along and have a say about a lesser member and move their post, it’s just not right. if i don;t spend as much time as someone else and i know where i left my post the last time i was on ( it is mine, i own it) and some fly by night decides to mess around and play jokes or maybe they don’t like the other or what ever the reason may be, messes with my or someone elses content or moves it what happens then? it’s like you park your car in a spot at a store but an employee who is there all the time doesn’t like where you parked so he moves it. how are you going to feel when you come out and you car is not where you left it? there’s going to be a fight. it is not fair to the people who don’t spend a lot of time on here? they end up with less rights. i feel you are creating a hierarchy and i really don’t understand the need for this “class” system. i think you may end up seeing a lot of bickering and arguing. i know i would be a little upset if one of my peers moved my post because he didn’t think it was in an appropriate spot and i did. THE AVERAGE USER should not be allowed to take actions Robin!!!
i can see people taking retaliatory actions against someone they feel messed with their post. things have a possibility of getting messy here if it is not stringently monitored. which causes more work for the special moderators. but you guys do what you want and lets see what happens.
I find it hard to believe no one else on this site isn’t warry of this and find it a little disconcerting.
I can appreciate what you are trying to do, take pressure and stress and responsibility off the moderators as in a typical site and distribute it to all in an effort to make it easier to manage the site.
I tried something like this in a fantasy football league i ran and all anarchy broke out. everybody wanted to be in control. even the people who didn’t pay up yet thought they had the right to make rules and make demands. it was a real mess. i hope this is not an experiment that ends the same way. And i don’t want nobody but a moderator to touch my stuff.
yeah that’s what i’m worried about md72. how about this saying- absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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I feel like this is sort of obvious, but I’ll say it anyway. Users who misuse or abuse these kinds of powers won’t have them very long. It’s not like we have never had moderators or staff members who haven’t abused their powers. It’s been very rare but it has happened, so there is no guarantee just because someone is a ‘moderator’ that they will always do everything right either. What matters is that there is a system of checks and balances to makes sure that people have confidence in the system.
However if you are going to get upset because someone moves your topic into a more appropriate location (which I believe you will be notified of) or corrects a link or spelling error in a title, well… so be it. Can’t make everyone happy about this change and I am not going to try.
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Sorry, Joe, I was just being a smart ass. 
I’ve been around Kitmaker for a whiles, only managed 4,944 posts before they pulled the rug out from under me. Never found a post that was so offensive that I felt that I needed to say something. So this self moderation is not anything I’ve ever paid attention to. 
I have felt myself forced to lock a thread or two in the old forums when they were going totally off the rails. I know that other moderators have done it too.
I have posted in bickering threads and asked people to cool it, it failed once so the thread ended up being locked.
I have moved many threads from Modeling in General into Armorama to give the poster a better chance at an answer.
Those who participate a lot sometimes volunteer for a moderator role, others don’t. The occasional visitors can’t be expected to take an active role and nobody does.
This forum, which is not designed or coded by anyone affiliated with Kitmaker, has some design decisions made by others and we can’t change them. They don’t care what we think about it.
Some things can be tuned a little and others are what they are.
We can take it or we can leave it.
The old forum is dying from not being possible to maintain anymore.
Rebuilding it from scratch isn’t feasible.
All things considered I think this new forum is an improvement, some things were better in the old forum and many things are better in the new forum.
@Bomber14 For your information: I was just an average user and I raised my hand to volunteer for the duty of killing off spam accounts. This meant that I was given siginificant power but I was still an average user but with a lot of punch. Why was I considered suitable for the job? Probably because I had shown interest, was present almost daily and maybe that I was considered to have some common sense.
In the new forum average users can rise to “power” in a similar way.
A very small number of users will actually use these new powers and possible one or two of them will misuse it. The remedy is simple, I can bust a user downwards in “rank” and lock them on that level. Others can “flag” a user to complain about misbehaviour and moderators can take action.
All in all I consider this new forum to be an improvement.
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It really doesn’t take much effort or time to surpass the ‘average user’ level. Just perusing the forums and threads that hold your interest and making a few comments advances you quickly.
@Bomber14- I’m pretty sure that any movement of postings is well documented in the system and anyone abusing the “power” will be found out pretty quickly. I really find your concerns in that area to be much ado about nothing.
Cheers,
C.
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How can I keep my old logon name of hetzer44? Currently, it’s now hetzer on the new forum site and I’d like to keep the old one.
Thank you,
chuck
It sure looks like hetzer44 to me?
Yeah I thought maybe you had fixed it already. 
I didn’t do it.
Chuck - see my email response.
Thanks,
Jim