mentors, please help to prevent forum abuse

[Ken Leung]

Here is what I thought about this a long time ago.

Instead of havng a forum for people asking for contact info, we should have a bulletin board or some sort, so people can go there, say that they request contact info for a certain team. Then teams can go in there and see who is trying to contact them or ask for scouting info, and reply to the right people. Teams who signed up for the bulletin board, they will get an e-mail message or PM saying "this person is trying to contact you".

Having a forum section dedicated for this is really really inefficient and a waste of everyone's time. If we have such a contact info bulletin board, we will delete ALL post on CD forum regarding asking for contact info, and have all of those happen there.

To build on top of this idea, there can be different sections for teams to ask for contact info of a certain state, regional, or city.

[ngreen]

Yeah, a bullentin board of sorts would work way better.

Another solution I was thinking of outside of CD is for more veteran or at least more wired teams to get in contact with website-less teams and offer to host either a) a full web site, b) a team information page ie yearbook page with contact address, or C) even as simple as a contact for that team. They could give that space to the team and allow them to type it into TIMS as their web address. This would let teams contact hard to contact teams better. It would give un-wired teams the chance to put stuff online. It would give the hosting team attention, ie people coming to look for other teams info going on to look at your site. I am always suprised at the amount of teams that don't have a simple web page with contact information and I think if you got rid of the numbers of teams that have no website or contact information you would rid the forums of these types of threads and everyone would be better connected. What do you think about that?