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An Emphasis on Quality of Content

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The internet is not always a nice place. Here at Overclock.net, we strive to provide a venue for discussion that is free of needless fighting, keeps the snarky one-liners away, and the drama out of sight and out of mind. In the past, we've used the buzzword "professional" to describe our set of goals for interactions on the site, and it is for the most part a good fit. To rephrase that goalset, we can use the phrase "quality content".

Quality content is made up of many things, but is built on top of certain levels of discourse. It is hard to have quality content, for example, if you were mixing it in with name-calling to another member. Quality content might also be hard to come by if your intent in creating content in the first place is to start a fight or get other members riled up. These type of interactions are the norm on many other parts of the internet (and its true, we all love snarky one-liners and puns every once in a while), but at Overclock.net we try to keep these to an absolute minimum.

Our core reason for existence is the discussion of 'the pursuit of performance' in computers - many different content areas have branched off of this over the years, and we support those as best we can as well. We are not here, however, to support fighting, unreasonable arguments, name calling, memes, or any other pieces of content that have become common here in recent months. The reasons for this are twofold - it is our fault as a staff for not being more clear with our expectations for content, and it is also our fault for not being vigilant enough in enforcing our rules. This thread is to serve as the first part of our efforts to clarify and communicate our rules and expectations, and the staff will begin to address issues more vigilantly.

A critical aspect of our ability to maintain high standards in our discussions is the Report Post system. Reporting a post, using the Capture.PNG just below any post on the site, is the absolute best way available to have a moderator review a post and take the appropriate action on whatever issues may be present in it. We have several thousand active members making tens of thousands of posts on a daily basis and there is simply no way a moderation staff even a hundred times larger than our current group of volunteers could review each and every new post that is made. Your input, as a member, is highly valuable. When reporting a post, there is no need to respond to the post or quote the rules or even say that you've reported it - all documentation is sent to the moderators, multiple reports are collected together and sorted, and the whole system is designed to make it easy for a moderator to quickly take action on an issue. Stating that you've reported a post to other members is not worthwhile - this only draws further attention to the issue which is not something we want to do.

To best summarize the goal of this message, I will turn to a post that admin himself wrote several years ago:

"Every post you make, consider if it adds value to the community. Whether answering questions or asking them - talking to members you know or ones you don't - please make every post work towards this goal.Keeping Overclock.net readable (using descriptive titles, proper spelling/punctuation etc.), friendly and drama free, and last but definitely not least, factual, helpful and up-to-date will ensure we continue to be the destination for the pursuit of performance."

Please keep those words in mind as you post and discuss here with other members - and as always, we appreciate your membership as we continue to refine our community into the best possible place for overclocking and computer performance discussion.
Quality content creates quality communities; please join us as we all do our part to keep Overclock.net one of the most high-quality discussion boards on the web.

Other documents for reference:
Rules/Terms of Service
The Professionalism Initiative
Keeping the Standards High and Noise Low
 
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#2 ·
There are usually only debates but I really doubt all out fighting and that stuff.
 
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Originally Posted by The Master Chief View Post
On average, how many reports a day does a mod/ whoever have to deal with?
It really depends on the sections they moderate and the current market situation. For example, being an ATI, AMD, and PC Games mod after Fermi was released I would often have over 100 reported posts a day. Considering we must deal with the problematic posts and take appropriate action, it can take easily 5 minutes to finish up cleaning a post. Other times, however, days were slow and members were civil to one another.
 
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Originally Posted by IEATFISH View Post
It really depends on the sections they moderate and the current market situation. For example, being an ATI, AMD, and PC Games mod after Fermi was released I would often have over 100 reported posts a day. Considering we must deal with the problematic posts and take appropriate action, it can take easily 5 minutes to finish up cleaning a post. Other times, however, days were slow and members were civil to one another.
Aww I don't want your day to be boring


jk
 
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Originally Posted by The Master Chief View Post
On average, how many reports a day does a mod/ whoever have to deal with?
Some days I can have 60+, and that is only in a few sections I moderate.
 
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Originally Posted by The Master Chief View Post
Thats quite a bit lol.. but thats your job

Our moderators are 100% volunteer.
They willingly sign up to deal with everybody else's mess as part of their love for the forums, and we love them for it!
 
#20 ·
Great post Chipp. I like the professional attitude goal here, it's why I joined here.

I was getting tired of seeing memes in a lot of threads lately. If I want memes I will go elsewhere, I'm here for computer related discussions.
 
#23 ·
I love it. This is what keeps me coming back to OCN. My only question is, can we extend the quality content/professional initiative to user's avatars as well? I have a very free workplace but even here I've had to really limit my usage because of inappropriate content.
 
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Originally Posted by un1b4ll View Post
I love it. This is what keeps me coming back to OCN. My only question is, can we extend the quality content/professional initiative to user's avatars as well? I have a very free workplace but even here I've had to really limit my usage because of inappropriate content.
If you encounter an avatar that is not safe for work viewing, please report it.
 
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Originally Posted by un1b4ll View Post
I love it. This is what keeps me coming back to OCN. My only question is, can we extend the quality content/professional initiative to user's avatars as well? I have a very free workplace but even here I've had to really limit my usage because of inappropriate content.
By the Professionalism Initiative, avatars are covered. If you report the avatar, i'm sure one of the mods will take good care of it.
 
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