I am tired of all these off-topic posts!

Question

I have grown sick and tired of all these off-topic posts! Maybe a few C# / VB questions here and there or people thinking this is the forum for small, basic simple questions is acceptable but the ratio of on-topic to off-topic questions has skyrocketed since I first joined. It is nearly every day I see off-topic things here. The final straw for me was the blatant advertising about some NFL streaming service posted here this morning (though thankfully moved shortly thereafter).

Enough ranting and raving: I propose that someone get in touch with an MSFT admin for these forums and get this forum to be called the "Microsoft Small Basic Language" or something other than the somewhat vague "Small Basic". Can anyone help with this? Maybe Litdev?

Answer 1

I agree!

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-Noah J. Buscher "Nothing is Impossible Until Proven Impossible."

Answer 2

I have no contacts with MS and cannot do anything more than keep moving them off topic.

Answer 3

Hi,

My suggestion would be to start a topic inside the "Forums Issues" forum which can be found at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/reportabug/threads

If that does not get the attention of Microsoft litdev could try to send an email to Ed Price (That is a Microsoft Employee that is active inside the MSDN forums in some way. He might be the wrong guy for this topic but at least he could hopefully point us towards the right direction.

Another idea could be to writen an announcement that explains the usage of this forum further. But I am unsure how much success something like that could have.

With kind regards,

Konrad

Answer 4

Good idea Konrad. 

gungan37, do you want to do post on the forum issues page, saying what the issue is, and put a link to your post on this thread so we can see if it gets any response.  If not I will try to chase someone up.  I have tried before for other reasons to do with this forum and got nowhere.

I considered an announcement before, but thought anyone clearly not reading anything on this forum would not read that either and it would just waste space on the forum main page.  Can't hurt to give it a try and get rid if nothing changes.

Answer 5

Sorry, LitDev and Konrad, been at school all day and unable to reply to y'all. Great ideas , and thanks for making the forum announcement! I hope that helps. 

If it is possible, I could move threads too since it seems there aren't many people on here on my time-zone (GMT-6 / Chicago, US) that are able to help when I am. What permissions do I need to do that?

Answer 6

I am in the US Central timezone and would be willing to help as much as I can!

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-Noah J. Buscher "Nothing is Impossible Until Proven Impossible."

Answer 7

Hi,

I think it is great that you want to even participate in this forum as moderator.

There is no formal process of becomming a moderator. Litdev could suggest you inside the moderators forum (in case he wants more assistance moderating this forum and thinks that you could be a good moderator.).

But please do not be disappointed in case you are not getting the moderator rights. There could be multiple reasons for that but none should be seen as a personal rejection or so:

- People could say: It is just a small forum and litdev is already doing a great job keeping this forum clean! (Yeah! Good job litdev! Thank you!)
- Peope might say that a longer participation inside the forums is required. (I have no idea about that! But I see good participation and if I saw it correctly even on the wiki! That is really great! Thank you very much!)

I am outside of the process and have no clue what the responsible people might think and what is important for them. Just please do not be disappointed in case you do not get moderator rights.

And I am also just a simple moderator in some other small forum on msdn.

With kind regards,

Konrad

Answer 8

My information seems to be outdated. Please see the following link on how to get moderator rights:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/5843.how-to-become-an-msdn-or-technet-forum-moderator.aspx

With kind regards,

Konrad