Wall of shame ? -Rule of change

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Wall of shame ? -Rule of change

Post by brian » Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:49 pm

There is a forum rule that prevents this forum for being used as a wall of shame.
This is not the place to settle a commercial disagreement for custom development or to be a 'wall of shame'. Any posts deemed to be of this nature will be removed. Settle your disputes in private please.


As a general rule I agree 100% with this rule but...

There have been several cases recently of people using these forums to solicit commercial work etc and then not to deliver it.

As a service to other forum users is there "perhaps" some way that users are warned.

At the least as we currently have a "professional servicces" forum http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/board,177.0.html

Perhaps a sticky should be added to this forum that clearly states that people should always seek references etc

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Re: Wall of shame ? -Rule of change

Post by MMMedia » Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:57 pm

Moving to the Sites and Infrastructure forum.
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Re: Wall of shame ? -Rule of change

Post by brian » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:00 pm

Doh - Sorry shoudl have posted there in the first place

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Re: Wall of shame ? -Rule of change

Post by ChiefGoFor » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:01 pm

brian wrote:Perhaps a sticky should be added to this forum that clearly states that people should always seek references etc


I can agree with that. I will see what I can come up with. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Re: Wall of shame ? -Rule of change

Post by brian » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:03 pm

Dont know if this is possible or not but is there a way to force reading of the "sticky notice" before posting in that forum section.

judging by the number of people who dont read sticky posts in other threads....

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Re: Wall of shame ? -Rule of change

Post by ChiefGoFor » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:11 pm

I hope this will work for you. (This might get reworded over the next day or so, but the meaning should stay the same)
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... #msg312467

brian wrote:Dont know if this is possible or not but is there a way to force reading of the "sticky notice" before posting in that forum section.

judging by the number of people who dont read sticky posts in other threads....


I do not believe this functionality exists. That is just something that users will have figure out. We can not spoonfeed everything. I "hope" that people looking to hire someone would read the stickies.
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Re: Wall of shame ? -Rule of change

Post by GreenBoy » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:15 pm

brian - this would be a great suggestion for all forums - especialy if you could turn it on or off for each forum....
If it dont look broke... say nothing!

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Re: Wall of shame ? -Rule of change

Post by brian » Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:33 pm

ChiefGoFor wrote:I hope this will work for you. (This might get reworded over the next day or so, but the meaning should stay the same)
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... #msg312467




Maybe add something along the lines of

"Please note that Joomla cannot get involved in any dispute/negotiation between developers/designers and clients. It is recommended that you clearly define exactly what you are contracting for to avoid and confusion/conflict etc"

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Re: Wall of shame ? -Rule of change

Post by brian » Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:49 pm

ChiefGoFor wrote:I do not believe this functionality exists. That is just something that users will have figure out. We can not spoonfeed everything. I "hope" that people looking to hire someone would read the stickies.


Perhaps this mod will do it.

Redirection Boards http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=38

Also see http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... #msg648532


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