Great Western Coffee Shop

The First Great Western Coffeeshop moderator team is meeting this weekend at a venue in Wiltshire to ensure that we continue to coordinate our approach.

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Picture - some of the team at Melksham station having arrived on the "TransWilts" services at 19:11 (on time) from Swindon and 19:47 (16 late) from Westbury.

This is posted from the opening of the meeting - we will be around even today ;-)

Yesterday, we held our first moderator's meeting, with the majority of moderators and also the admins in attendance.  As the operator of the board, I'm going to say what a fabulous team they are (even if they look a bit scary in the picture above), and I'm honoured that they're helping to supportthe Coffeeshop.

Management conclusion from the meeting:

"Pretty much where we want to be. Balanced, with the right team, but we're learning and making some minor tweaks."

Here are some of the highlights / places you'll see tweaks:

- Add in Sion as moderator (done)
- Add in Leah and Chris E / Chimetal as admins (done)
- Clarify copyright of what people post up (done)
- Add a link on main template from "posting rules" statement (done)
- Advertising policy (done - see "West but not trains")
- Add calendar / events board (done)
- no change on language / etiquette rules
- confirmed that area / region covered is about right.
- no additional board relating to rolling stock types
- Possible add censored words automatic facility
- Add ignore_user and ignore_board options for users.
- Looking forward - "We'll meet again, don't know where ...."

A lot of this is detailed / organisational - please feel free to ask if you want to know more about any of the areas or the reasons beind the decisions.   Some excellent discussions but I can't say "lively" as we were all pretty much agreed on most topics!

Ooh, yes please! (http://www.takeforum.com/forum/images/smiles/2bounce.gif)