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Posted By G-man
With all the recent talk of abuse on the forum, and the mention of not knowing whether people are actually a professional/member/school kid on for the windup/justandidiot.
Would it not be better in the long run to move up in the world to a more modern style forum.
These tend to have a lot more available features, such as under the users names exists a further title, which generally indicates a persons level of membership, non-member/member/contributing member/TechIOSH/GradIOSH/CMIOSH/Idiot/ETC.
I am not trying to cause a big debate, i just believe there are more up to date, better formats of forums available that would create a much better view of things.
Benefits would include being able to tell the professional stand point of an individual between 'just signed up, non professional, non member, no qualifications, here for the windup' and a 'Professional, CMIOSH, BSC/MSC, ETC', who's knowledge and experience can likely be relied upon and trusted.
Hope all that made sense.
Cheers
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Posted By Jim Walker
I think placing your post nominals here is a bit pretentious.
Anyway, we all know of a Charter, Fellow, PhD etc whose opinion is a bit ropey.
Any advise you get from this forum needs confirmation.
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Posted By Peter Leese
Agreed Jim. This is an informal chat forum, but with some rather quaint ideas about keeping people in line. I suppose it goes with territory.
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Posted By GSPaterson
Perhaps access should be tightened then to create a more professional forum that all can read, but have maybe one sub-forum for general public and people out for the wind up.
Its a real shame, as some people on here clearly have the experience and knowledge to answer questions and solve problems.
Yet there is a large number of people on here that clearly don't really have any idea, and are in fact completely wrong and against legislative/regulatory requirements.
And the fact that they can continue posting utter rubbish and false information i find worrying.
It doesn't look good for IOSH, people connected to IOSH or people such as reporters coming on here for ammo for news stories (which does happen i know a reporter that has quoted idiotic comments off here).
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Posted By andymak
Personally I really like the retro bulletin board feeling that this forum has. It's quite like the old fashioned boards from the 1980's and 90's.
The only thing I would like to see additional would be an edit post feature, as sometimes you may want to change wordings to make things clearer, or correct things that the spell checker hasn't noticed.
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Posted By Jim Walker
Or to take back a comment made in the heat of the moment!
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Posted By Alan Hoskins
A recall feature would be great...
I have occasionally pressed the Post button before really putting my brain in gear and regretted it.
Usually someone steps in and points it out though (mostly good natured) and that is one of the strengths of the forum.
Alan
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Posted By sagalout
G-Man,I agree entirely that some form of mandatory member profile would be very helpful in giving the open forum a better base for discussion. Not necessarily saying status based but interest based, the reason you are using the forum. Date of registration, number of posts etc. fairly common stuff on lots of open forums these days I think. I am sure a short list of recommended titles could be identified. Not sure that idiot should appear on it though because I might be duty bound to select it.(chuckle)
I do not think that accuracy or competence is a huge issue for an open forum like this since it is that, not a professional advice centre or necessarily the best forum for an exchange of professional views or technical advice between H&S people looking for peer group support. I am not saying we dont get it just that there are other ways to do it and make it better and more trusted/respected.
We have the IOSH internal forums which languish grossly underused. In fact I have just realsed that there is an argument that says this thread probably belongs there since we are talking about IOSH matters, interesting thought?
So in summary I agree that changes would improve my enjoyment of these fora and will send my suggestions to the webteam for inclusion in their reviews.
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Posted By Anthony Slinger
Having a green or red "blob" to rate a thread would be useful.
To quote from another site I use, Yorkshire Divers:-
"you may find a small menu on thread pages which allows you to 'rate this thread' with a number between 1-5.
Casting a vote for threads you view is entirely optional, but if you think that the thread is superb, you might rate it as a 5-star thread, or if you think that it's unspeakably dismal, you might choose to rate the thread with a single star.
Once enough votes have been cast for the thread rating, you may see a set of stars appear with the title of the thread in the thread listings. These stars reflect the average vote cast, and can allow you to quickly see which threads are worth reading if you are on a very busy forum with a lot of threads."
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Posted By Jim Walker
Come on lads, you are all living a fantasy here!!
It took us near ten years to get a spiel chucker
Now you want bells & whistles
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Posted By Alan Hoskins
Wow Jim!
What a good idea - bells and whistles would really enhance the experience...
A
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Posted By sagalout
Jim, I have a constant ringing in my ears, is it tinnitus or just the clammer for change for the better.
Gotta keep demanding it otherwise otherwise we perish.
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Posted By Jim Walker
Saga,
I'm beginning to think you are actually just a young lad.
Why are you not a world weary cynic like the rest of us?
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Posted By Tony Brunskill
Saga,
I was going to to suggest that might be presbycusis but I have changed my mind as it will fall on deaf ears.
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Posted By sagalout
Jim, I am not sure, it wouldn't be the pills my GP is giving me would it?
Tony, I bet that made the spellchecker cough?
Keep it up lads, us old 'uns need the buzz. Ooh is that a moderator checking thread variations?
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Posted By Ken Taylor
It used to be a 'free for all' here but you do need to register these days. Isn't that an opportunity for some measure of control to be exercised over potential contributors? For all the post-nominals and grand titles, there will still be those who think they are right when they are clearly wrong - but it does make the forum interesting and successful.
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Posted By ian (fingaz)
I find in a lot of cases that the person who usually think they are right (maybe they are) but in some cases have never had hands on experience, just office jargon thrown in their face on a short training scheme to make them right.
dose that make them a professional?
It takes all sorts to make a forum otherwise it would be a boring place to be.
nobody to moan about. oh dear..
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Posted By Christian
hi all
if you are seeking more bells and whistles to augment (but not replace!) this priceless source of occasional wit and wisdom , then email me and i'll send you a link to a new website a friend of mine is launching on monday, free to join, which aims to help safety people communicate better - he hopes it will be the best thing since HASAWA etc 74. or his bank manager does.
have a great weekend all
regards
Chris
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