Mo87 forum to close down

[Christian]

I know some of you are also members on the mo87.de forum. If you do not speak German you might not have understood what all the commotion over there is about: Michael has decided to shut down the forum on Sunday (tomorrow). While there are plans to continue in some form (invite-only and identification via passport are among the suggestions thrown about) the forum as it currently appears will cease to exist. The posts will be archived but interaction (also via PM) will no longer be possible. Their main website with the news and reports is unaffected.
The reason for this drastic step is trolling and generally destructive behavior by a few members.

And even if you are not a member, it's big news as this forum has represented one of the largest and most influential communities of our small 1/87 scale world.

[geco65]

Christian,

Thanks for the news and translation. I am a member, though a lot is in German so you need to translate most of it, but it was quite useful for finding out some details when announced before translation to English often some days away and views of course.

It is a sad day when forums like this close due to mis-use.

I would also like to think that some of the manufacturers read this forum and got a few ideas/views too. That will be missed if the case.

Thanks again, Gary

[Cor_DutchArt]

It's sad indeed that some people can spoil it for the rest.
Will it become an informative site or is it a total stop?

[Cor_DutchArt]

The forum is not clothing down.
They announced a number of changes: (Translated by Google translate)
The changes will be as follows :

1) Registration for the Forum will be converted to an application.
This has a few personal details included by which we create the access or not.
I thank you here at Andreas Plogmaker and Jürgen Mischur us relevant information have send as is done in other forums.
We will assume from this information, those which appear to us most appropriate.
The registrations will be placed under special observation.
If it is suspected that there could be a potential troublemaker there is a one-time warning.
If these are not followed and behavior change, an immediate ban and exclusion from the forum.
If, after the registration and activation for the period of four weeks, no contribution can be written,
we assume that there is an Alliance Partner, the forum would just read along.
There is a switch to read-only permission.
A write enable may at any time be granted.
Please refer point 2

2) All previously registered members of this forum who have not yet written a post will get a read-only status.
If they wish to leave a comment they receive an immediate write enable.
There is here, then the same procedure as new registrations.
Observing caution, if necessary, blocking and exclusion.
The is no punishment for the users.
Who wants to read only this forum can continue to do so.
To make but possibly applied in the run double Accounts locate us, this approach makes the most sense.

3) Everyone can have a bad day in the forum, should there be a failure of the ability of civilized communication takes an admonition.
If the part of the admonished should be no give in because of this admonition, an immediate cutoff of 24 hours.
When admonished by this 24 hours still shows no insight by an amendment provocative passages of text or
an apology follows that lock and the subsequent expulsion from the forum will take place.
With the 24 hour barrier, we allow each to make once thought to be the offending text.
There will be no Stepwise lock more.
The moderators of the forum will be equipped with the right to express locks.
A deletion of the account is carried by the Administration.

4) The changes will be incorporated in the Terms of Use of the Forum.
Each registered user receives after changing a call to recognize the revised Terms of Use.
Those who do not agree with the changes the new use rules confirm not easy.
Access is then automatically locked.
A deletion is done in the short term.
Board members who are already doing more to know this procedure already from the switch to real names.

For the changes to terms of use and access rights may lead to a short-term closure of the forum.

We hope that we can keep the forum more alive with these changes.

[Cor_DutchArt]

I hope such rules will never be nessesary on this forum.

[geco65]

Cor,

hear hear.

Good news and thanks for info, Gary

[Christian]

Feb 23, 2014 17:32:08 GMT 1 Cor_DutchArt said:

I hope such rules will never be nessesary on this forum.

They will be when we'll have 800 active members, like they do.