Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-4848837-20130630224904

Recently, the forums have become a very popular place for users and anons alike to gather and chat about Ben 10, whether it be based on speculation for future episodes, aliens, or characters or true reveals for the like. Many users have a great deal of their contributions, if not all of their contributions, made on Ben 10 Planet's forums rather than the mainspace or even a file.

Often times, however, the fun time spent on the forums chatting and discussing various topics is interrupted by the spammer, a user arriving with inappropriate behavior and using all available tools for editing on the forums to destroy and wreak havoc on threads just as one would in the mainspace on an article. There also comes the time where users don't have much control when they spot a thread in the wrong board, with content irrelevant to its title, or that just needs closing since it has turned into a place made for spam.

In these very cases, as aforementioned, most users have no control. With much of their Ben 10 Planet 'career,' they have spent their time on the forums and cannot, of course, apply for a position that may allow them to remove such spam and vandalism. In these cases, they are able to try and find a way to report an incident to an administrator, but often times, they either don't know how or an admin isn't totally present on the forum, which is fine.

The forum is as separate from the mainspace as chat is, or at least, almost, so it should be given some similar treatment. You likely guessed from the very topic what I'm going to say next, but I'll say it, anyway: the forums need their own moderators/operators/admins, people who connect with others on the forums often and can be trusted with the abilities to close, move, delete, and restore topics from the forums as well as add onto or modify the existing boards. They should also be allowed to block users, just as the moderator-esque chatmoderators are able (and if possible, only from editing on the forums). If possible, they should be prevented from closing and moving from message walls.

Well, I've managed to turn this into five paragraphs...whoops. Just, read only the last paragraph starting at the second sentence if you're in a rush.

This all came from Ben 10 Planet talk:Council of the Galvan, just thought I'd post it here for more recognition. 