I thought "Wow, cool - I gonna sign up".
And then I saw their sign up form. 10 fields is a bit too much.
And then I saw their sign up form. 10 fields is a bit too much.
I assume no filter is perfect and mistakenly filter out "good" quality people too, so if this method isn't good that suggest there's a metric and a more efficient method out there. In your personal experience what worked better?
Observation is probably the best method. I rarely have found form options to be effective. A good chunk of 'good' people tend to get filtered out from my observation.
Generally the approach that has worked for me having a tier system. People who meet your criteria get greater access etc over time.
> How are "good" and "bad" quality of people categorized?
Generally, "good" is anyone that helps your community prosper. "Bad" are typically people who cause unwanted conflicts, create a toxic environment etc.
The picture database of all the postcards is still around [https://freeshell.de/postcards/] .
This is a fair criticism. There is a bit of a barrier to entry here. I think pengaru is unnecessarily harsh in his response.
The server has a limited number of admins (really only a single main administrator with a handful of volunteer helpers), and the process of adding an account is mostly manual at the moment, I believe (with some helper scripts, of course). There are efforts underway to improve this.
In the end, though, this is just one person's fun little side project. We're along for the ride, and I would like the admin to keep enjoying his project so I can share in that joy. If they don't have the time to address signup process improvements, I figure that's OK ... we're not in this for money or fame or anything, right? It's just ... fun (IMO).
As soon as a user hits x amount of minutes CPU per minute, you kill all his programs.
Not nice but effective.
Maybe we can work together and create a lightweight admin framework.
It's pretty defunct right now but I'd like to have some actual users ;)
No need for any personal info besides your email address.
Once that's working again you'd just have to give a fake mail address, but you won't be notified if we created an account for you this way.