If I were Wouter Melissen these are the changes I'd do to the forums:
1) Review the moderators and see who is doing their job and who isnt. Take out the useless ones and replace them with someone who can do a better job.
What do you think moderators will have to do? Is there a proper task description?
2) Moderators Names must be in
BOLD and must be in
RED to make them more easier identified.
I think it would be more worthwile to know which moderator moderates which thread, it now looks like all of them jump into the same discussions from time to time, which is fine, but do they do that as a mod or as a forum member
3) Here is how the forums position would go: Junior Member - 0-500 posts, Member - 500-1000 posts, Senior Member - 1000-1500 posts, UCP Resident - 1500-2000 posts, UCP Citizen - 2500+ posts. This will be increasing after a selected period.
I don't care
4) Making a paid membership into UCP. Current members and future members will have to pay a very small fee of $1US a month to keep their membership active. It will go up to a total of $12US a year. That is a very little amount and will help ease the financial stress on UCP.
Transaction costs will melt away any revenues coming from such a system
5) Remove the rating system.
Agree
6) Offer a R18+ place in UCP, where things like porn etc is accessible for members who are 18+, they will pay a small fee of $2US a month for subscription and receive daily mails of porn pictures/stories etc. This will further ease the financial stress on UCP.
Totally disagree, if you want I can give you addresses for free porn sites, but UCP should have nothing to do with it. Can you imagine the administrative checks required to see whether people are over 18? In some countries the rules are that watching porn during working hours will result in immediate firing. Watching UCP during working hours then becomes very dangerous
7) Try to get more members into UCP. Each member will get a reference number and if they get 50+ people to join UCP they will be given a 1 month subscription for their membership in UCP FREE!
50+ relates to age or number of new members.
Well those are just my views.