What things don't you like about the Forum?

[Artisttyp]

The forum is great I only wish I could contribute more than what I take.
However Im amazed at the arguing that takes place over nothing but the joy of sex. Who needs those types to spoil a good thing.

Thanks,

Artisttyp

[LatinBull]

And the best of its kind.
I would like to suggest a new section for uploading videos.
Of course, that means more space and bandwith, thus a premium fee.
Saludos.
LatinBull

[El Austriaco]

that's my vote. if i was really nitpicky and had to point out a thing or two, then for me, it would be primarily the way serial antagonists are dealt with. a while, ago, i suggested the following:

"i know that in the past, you’ve relegated whoever you deemed to be the (a) serial antagonist to a separate thread. i don’t think that this approach is very fruitful, as shown by the proliferation of separate threads in many country sections. in addition to uselessly wasting bandwidth (and your money) and cluttering up the individual country sections, i think that many of the guys relegated to their own thread actually feel some sort of weird pride about it, which actually might even contribute to the problem rather than solve it. almost like a twisted sense of recognition.

i think the most effective way to prevent similar incidents in the future would actually be to downgrade senior members to regular members and ban regular members that violate the forum rules regarding serial antagonism. all of us can engage in heated discussions at times, but those who do so on a constant basis should have their posts reviewed again and re-earn their senior member status by actually posting useful information in accordance with the stated purpose of this forum. people that fail to provide actual information that helps others should certainly not enjoy the privilege of being able to instantly start, engage in, continue, further, or fuel flame wars. senior members who have made and continue to make contributions who abuse this privilege should be relegated to regular member status again until they improve their signal-to-noise ratio."

http://www.internationalsexguide.inf...5&postcount=60

senior members that are relegated to regular member status would have a real incentive to comply with the forum's rules (rather than being allowed to go on posting with total disregard until the third strike comes) as they are stripped of their privilege of instant posts. if possible, maybe a special membership category could be created for these "yellow-carded" members so that jackson will pay special attention to their contributions in the future.

on second thought, a "newbie questions" thread in the individual country sections would be nice, too, as a central place for all questions posed by those that just don't rtff and that have been answered over and over again.

on a final note, yes, i do agree that the moderation delay for regular members' reports can be frustrating at times. i liked the old system, where senior members could suggest regular members for instant senior member status based on the quality of their reports. that way, those who make significant contributions to the forum in the eyes of their peers would get instantly rewarded whereas those newbies who only ask questions and comment on photos would still have to wait until finally achieving senior member status (and really, those members shouldn't complain in the first place).

but really, those are only very minor quibbles or suggestions on how to possible improve the status quo a bit. thanks for a fantastic forum, jackson.

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[Nefarious]

I think the forum is amazing the way it is now in most ways. I noticed that many of the respondents wanted to change the delay in posting regular member reports. When I was a regular member, I was annoyed by that too at times, but even then I could see how it is needed to avoid filling to forum up with posts that would just waste our time or defeat the purpose of the forum.

If Jackson allows the posting of gay or transvestite information, I think he should consider making a special thread for that. Some members are just to old and set in their ways to accept anything other than man-woman relations.

[1Ball]

I wonder if a chat room by country is possible, and if there would be any interest?

[HarryR]

I have no problems with this site as it is and has been an excellent site for me. I just wish every one has a PM function.

Many thank, Jackson.

Harry.

[Finrod]

I'd like to see improvements in the thread search function. As it stands, it doesn't appear that I can do searches by multiple keywords or searches for exact phrases. So it's a pain sometimes when doing my due diligence on something, then I'll have to execute the thread search a number of times with different words in the phrase or keyword list and hope that I can find what I'm looking for. Thanks.

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Hi Finrod,

I agree with you that the search function could be improved, but that's beyond my ability to modify. I do think that the publishers of the VB software need to rewrite this function.

Thanks,

Jackson

[Excess]

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Hi Jackson,

Is this what you mean by the PM button ????

If so, it does appear on Tenderfoot's post.

If not, could you point it out as I don't see it - not that I am seeing that straight after 7 hours on the PC - and no not all on ISG !!!

Sorry Tenderfoot, no offence intended - I just used you as an example.

Greetings - Jackson and All,

I have made my high level of satisfaction with ISG clear in both Posts and in PM.

Here is an area where I believe a simple change would bring improvement:

Designate on Posters' Nicks if they have PM rights or not.

It is slightly annoying to go through the clicks to PM a poster, create a message, send it and then have the response back that the Poster does not have PM (most likely), or does not wish to receive PM's (less likely). The suggestion would eliminate this up front.

Human nature being what it is, it probably would also encourage the use of PM's for communication that is not especially useful in the threads themselves

Finally, this also provides an opportunity for a bit of marketing, Jackson. :-)

Thanks and keep up the good work.

ADDENDUM: The PM also tries to block out urls - I do not see the sense in this as it is a PM. Looking at the behaviour of the software, it appears that PM's are handled much like any other post. To make this change might be significant work, if this is the case. Possibly not worth the effort if a major change - this too is annoying though.

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Hi Excess,

Regarding your suggestion regarding having the Forum indicate if a person can receive PM's: I've considered the possibility of adding a line below the forum member's title (Regular Member, Senior Member, etc) that would indicate if they were forum subscribers, which would mean they could use the PM system. My concern is that it's possible that some members would believe that this would be a identification issue. The idea is open for discussion.

One easy way to identify if a member can receive PMs is to go to one of their reports. The Send PM button is only visible when the member's PM is activated.

Regarding your observation about the URL's in PM's: I have no problems with URL's in PM's. It's just the way the software functions, but I'll see if I can change it.

Thanks,

Jackson

[Vincent Van Ho]

This web site has been a great source of information for me.

At the top of this page are the words, "InternationalSexGuide" in a large font. Since I sometimes use the web site when others are around, I often try to position the page so that the title is hidden.

So, my suggestion is to have a more discrete header such as "ISG".

X

I too often read the site at a local university. A more discreet home page would be great. Thanks Jackson,

Tenderfoot

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Hi Tenderfoot,

If you purchase a subscription, you will be able to view the forum in Stealth Mode which displays only the text, with no banners, headers, etc.

Thanks,

Jackson

[X Man]

This web site has been a great source of information for me.

At the top of this page are the words, "InternationalSexGuide" in a large font. Since I sometimes use the web site when others are around, I often try to position the page so that the title is hidden.

So, my suggestion is to have a more discrete header such as "ISG".

X

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Hi X Man,

If you purchase a subscription, you will be able to view the forum in Stealth Mode which displays only the text, with no banners, headers, etc.

Thanks,

Jackson

[Excess]

Greetings - Jackson and All,

I have made my high level of satisfaction with ISG clear in both Posts and in PM.

Here is an area where I believe a simple change would bring improvement:

Designate on Posters' Nicks if they have PM rights or not.

It is slightly annoying to go through the clicks to PM a poster, create a message, send it and then have the response back that the Poster does not have PM (most likely), or does not wish to receive PM's (less likely). The suggestion would eliminate this up front.

Human nature being what it is, it probably would also encourage the use of PM's for communication that is not especially useful in the threads themselves

Finally, this also provides an opportunity for a bit of marketing, Jackson. :-)

Thanks and keep up the good work.

ADDENDUM: The PM also tries to block out urls - I do not see the sense in this as it is a PM. Looking at the behaviour of the software, it appears that PM's are handled much like any other post. To make this change might be significant work, if this is the case. Possibly not worth the effort if a major change - this too is annoying though.

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Hi Excess,

Regarding your suggestion regarding having the Forum indicate if a person can receive PM's: I've considered the possibility of adding a line below the forum member's title (Regular Member, Senior Member, etc) that would indicate if they were forum subscribers, which would mean they could use the PM system. My concern is that it's possible that some members would believe that this would be a identification issue. The idea is open for discussion.

One easy way to identify if a member can receive PMs is to go to one of their reports. The Send PM button is only visible when the member's PM is activated.

Regarding your observation about the URL's in PM's: I have no problems with URL's in PM's. It's just the way the software functions, but I'll see if I can change it.

Thanks,

Jackson

[Adhin]

Would it be possible to start a forum for the girls who provide services--without their being allowed to advertise or solicit. Just some comments by them?

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Hi Adhin,

Women are welcome and encouraged to participate in the Forum, either by advertising or simply as a contributing member.

Thanks,

Jackson

[Panya]

Hi Jackson,

Congratulations, and a big thank you on a great job!

From the list of complaints you provided, I could not find any that applied -- just proves what a good job it is.

My only request is to make the navigation for Private Messaging easier. Right now, it involves 2-3 clicks of the mouse to get back to the "Main Page" of the PM area. <I wouldn't say that I "dislike" it at the moment, though.>

Other than that, I think I enjoy the "freedom" on the board very much, and also the fact that the level of monitoring you are doing is just nice, i.e. not too strict, not too loose.

Best,
Panya

[Knuckhead]

Greetings Jackson!

You know as well as anybody else that I LOVE the forum. You asked what I DON'T like about it, so here I go:

To emphasize the point, I am only sticking to one aspect of the forum. It is not specifically a criticism of your forum, rather, a general problem with any chronologically indexed forum. There really is no good way to go to a given country's thread and quickly gain the "basics". Basically, good information gets mentioned at a point in time, and over time it gets burried under page after page of new posts. If one is not following any given thread regularly, he will end up searching through sometimes thousands of posts to come up with a "mongering 101" for any specific city.

Over time there have been a number of attempts to help with this situation. The search function, of course, is very useful. The FAQ sections as well as reports of distinction sections are also helpful. In the Brazil section, Bubba boy's guide is fabulous. In your sister board, Argentina Private, the Moondog's guide as well as the Buenos Aires tip sheet sections are welcome additions.

It would be great to have uniformity between different sections, either a "tip sheet", "FAQ" section, or a "newbie" thread. I would imagine that this would be worthwhile at the city level for major mongering venues such as Rio, Prague, Amsterdam, Bangkok or Moscow. In the case of small countires or those with a low key mongering scene, obviously the whole country could have a single FAQ, or nothing at all. Lichtenstein, I'm sure you will agree, does not need and FAQ, for example.

How to do this? I'm sure it will not be possible in each and every case, but wouldn't it be great, for example, to have a Carioca monger edit the FAQ for Rio or a Porteño edit the FAQ's for Buenos Aires? Those of us familiar with the "Andres Reports" in old WSG can remeber that this section was just that!

I would love for others to throw in their ideas, but how about opening a FAQ section for each major city and inviting volunteers to post links of the essential, information packed reports in that section? After about a month or so when the thread is populated with useful links you could designate a single person to edit it. This person could either be a veteran monger of that particular city, or better yet, maybe even someone local.

All of this, of course, takes an immense amount of time. The process above naturally seeks volunteers and distributes the work among those with an interest in each section.

Sexplorer

[Admin]

Greetings everyone,

I think there's a lot to like about the ISG Forum, but there's always room for improvement, and so I decided to do a survey to identify what it is about The Forum that the members do not like.

Every Forum rule or limitation is there for a reason, but there are no sacred cows, so this is your opportunity to let me know what bugs you.

This is a multiple choice survey, so you are welcome to select all of the choices that you believe are applicable. In addition to the survey, you are welcome to post your criticisms in the thread. Be cool, no personal attacks.

This survey is setup not to display your individual votes so as to encourage objective participation.

Thanks,

Jackson