Hello,
Welcome to the yearly thread, "How can DEF CON be made better?"
For some goons, DEF CON started last week. Several more arrived on Sunday and today to prepare for what comes next.
Soon, I will be away from the forums. I am not sure if any other admins or mods will be staying home this year, but I have no plans to shut down the forums during DEF CON this year... in fact, I don't plan to do much on the forums except maybe one or two check-ins on Tuesday, and Wednesday. Beyond that, I'll probably not visit these forum unless Jeff asks me to.
What is going to happen:
1) I am going to alter the waiting period for new accounts to give them immediate promotion from "Member" (with no access to post) to "L3" a user that can make new thread and reply to existing threads. (This should now take 1 hour or less. You may need to navigate around on the forums once or twice in that hour-period as your logged-in self to trigger the process that does the promotion.)
2) I'll be doing another backup and off-site store of the DB in case the server dies.
3) If spammers or lamers find the forums and trash them with junk, the mods can deal with that silliness when we get back. (Again, please do not reply to spam. I state in the rules that I remove all spam and replies from public view, so please don't reply to spam so I don't have to move your post with it.)
4) Forum use in other ways will be more restrictive, and you may notice limits in place that were not there before... some will include timers that allow you to try your action a little bit later after taking other actions.
Now that DEF CON has started, what do you see that you think sucks, and what would you do to make it better?
Is there something missing? Is there something that seemed out of place? If you were DT, is there some decision you would have made different, and if so, how? Any comments for speakers, or speaker tracks? Security goons? Help/Info Desk? Those jerks that run the forums? ;-)
There are several ways to make DEF CON better:
1) Volunteer and contribute to add what you see is missing (best)
2) Volunteer and join with other people that are looking to contribute what you think would be a great addition to DEF CON next year
3) Provide advice on how to improve DEF CON next year
4) Provide constructive criticism on what was broken and how it could be fixed.
5) Something else.
Let it begin!
The rules for "flaming" that is (complaint about specific people without constructive criticism) is still against the rules...if you want to whine, you can use "/dev/random" or whine and say HOW it sucked and WHAT could be done to address the issue.
Good luck!
Welcome to the yearly thread, "How can DEF CON be made better?"
For some goons, DEF CON started last week. Several more arrived on Sunday and today to prepare for what comes next.
Soon, I will be away from the forums. I am not sure if any other admins or mods will be staying home this year, but I have no plans to shut down the forums during DEF CON this year... in fact, I don't plan to do much on the forums except maybe one or two check-ins on Tuesday, and Wednesday. Beyond that, I'll probably not visit these forum unless Jeff asks me to.
What is going to happen:
1) I am going to alter the waiting period for new accounts to give them immediate promotion from "Member" (with no access to post) to "L3" a user that can make new thread and reply to existing threads. (This should now take 1 hour or less. You may need to navigate around on the forums once or twice in that hour-period as your logged-in self to trigger the process that does the promotion.)
2) I'll be doing another backup and off-site store of the DB in case the server dies.
3) If spammers or lamers find the forums and trash them with junk, the mods can deal with that silliness when we get back. (Again, please do not reply to spam. I state in the rules that I remove all spam and replies from public view, so please don't reply to spam so I don't have to move your post with it.)
4) Forum use in other ways will be more restrictive, and you may notice limits in place that were not there before... some will include timers that allow you to try your action a little bit later after taking other actions.
Now that DEF CON has started, what do you see that you think sucks, and what would you do to make it better?
Is there something missing? Is there something that seemed out of place? If you were DT, is there some decision you would have made different, and if so, how? Any comments for speakers, or speaker tracks? Security goons? Help/Info Desk? Those jerks that run the forums? ;-)
There are several ways to make DEF CON better:
1) Volunteer and contribute to add what you see is missing (best)
2) Volunteer and join with other people that are looking to contribute what you think would be a great addition to DEF CON next year
3) Provide advice on how to improve DEF CON next year
4) Provide constructive criticism on what was broken and how it could be fixed.
5) Something else.
Let it begin!
The rules for "flaming" that is (complaint about specific people without constructive criticism) is still against the rules...if you want to whine, you can use "/dev/random" or whine and say HOW it sucked and WHAT could be done to address the issue.
Good luck!
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