Is Craxme trying to be the new Facebook?

Omega Castle

With the new restrictions to the reading room and other areas (as I have seen on other posts) and the "forcing" of users to contribute in areas they may not feel comfortable or equal to make comment, so they can make their 20 posts, and the encouragement of sharing personal infromation such as photos - is this not what we have social media for???
I have seen that the "owners" require more input over different areas from us users - why????

I can understand more input as this is what keeps the site active and vibrant but why over multiple areas - I for one am not up with Java etc, but quite happy to post books
Do we not have enough users posting in the areas they do feel comfortable??? and if that is so why not appeal to those areas and the users instead of locking us all out???

I have posted many books, but tried to lump the same author/series into one thread to make it easier to find, but under the new rules I would have been better to post them individually, so this just confuses me - do we want to make it easy on the users or just make multiple posts????

I joined UCF for the books and the books alone, when that threatened to close and Craxme was born, I moved over in the first wave (even joining the exiles in other tempory sites first), but ONLY for the books - and it was good!

But when I logged on at the beginning of this week I was suddenly locked out of the very thing that brings me to this site - the reading room - and to add insult to injury i was locked out of all my previous posts to do with the reading room - with the message I needed to be at Conquer status - and to access the music I had posted needed to have a medal (WTF)!

If I was trustworthy enough to make the posts (pre March 2018) why am I suddenly untrustworthy to use my own posts????
Has anyone else found this confusing, upsetting and just flabbergasting?

I would love to hear your opinion

Lemuel Irabor

I felt the same way too..until 20 hours ago.

Pedro_P

I think it is worth doing some clarifications, in order to keep things in their true dimension.

In principle, the restrictions applied to the Reading Room Section respond to the need for CraxMe Forum to have a security and protection policy, which seeks avoid the entry of malicious user accounts (accounts created with false emails and/or false IP addresses) that are constantly denouncing the contents that are shared in that section, so that they are removed from the forum. On the other hand, the security policy also seeks to protect users who generously share content in that section.

The information requested from  users, about other interests that they may have, has a double purpose, allowing us to design a forum more in line with the interests of our users. And let us know that on the other side there is an honest person genuinely interested in being part of this place. On the other hand, the information requested does not have any sensitive or vital nature about the personal information of the users. (phone numbers, other email accounts or intimate or confidential user information are not requested).

Nobody is being blocked from  entering the forum, and precisely because anyone can enter, it is necessary to implement a security policy.

For example, I can to assume that  your house has a lock on the entrance door, you will not want someone outside your family to enter or unknown persons enter, on the other hand, you might consider that your closest friends have a key to they can to enter in your house. That consideration your, is a policy. The same policy that CraxMe have legitimately, not only the right but also the duty to implement.

It is a perception error to believe  that only the threads add up in the accumulated credits or user points. Also add the posts (answers, comments within the threads) and also add the online hours that a user remains in the Forum. Consequently, as you can see, the credits are the result of different variables and not just one of them.

I will repeat something that I have  already mentioned on another occasion:

To think that CraxMe Forum was created solely on the basis of books, is a wrong approach.

Obviously the books generate the greatest attention and activity of the forum, but unfortunately, the Forum can not survive if that unique approach is applied, precisely because of the risk of complaints that I have explained.

Imagine a square table with four  legs in each of its corners, the table is held well and level while its four legs are there, but now imagine the same table but with only three or two legs, the table will probably lose its support and it will fall, nor could it serve that only one of its for is stronger and more robust, the table will probably also lose balance and fall.

This analogy can illustrate the situation, so that CraxMe can stand on its feet, it needs several legs, that is, several sections and spaces that allow it to stand. Having only one leg is also possible, but now imagine that someone comes with an ax and tries to knock down your table, giving accurate blows (denunciations) to your only leg, the table will fall. That's what we do not want to happen, we do not want CraxMe to fall inexorably. We need CraxMe (our table) has more legs, solid and firm that allow to hold it.

The security policy that CraxMe  Forum has implemented does not have a proper name, that is, it has not been created or is directed towards a particular person, the policy responds to a situational reality that endangers the very existence of the Forum, is designed to mitigate the impact they have against the forum, some of the threats that I have already explained.

Some sections of CraxMe have been  hidden to prioritize and concentrate efforts in the Reading Room section, which is most affected by the high level of insecurity that section suffered. No user has lost their credits due to that action, and to the extent that CraxMe Forum consolidates its position, the old sections could eventually become accessible again.

Reliable users, if they can be defined, are those users who, despite initial difficulties and discomforts (which will not be forever, but are of a temporary nature) support the existence of the Forum and its continuity over time.
Reliable users, will not try to circumvent the basic rules of good and respectful use of the sections of the Forum for selfish purposes of satisfaction of their own interests, which, although legitimate, if the integrity of the forum is subjugated to achieve it, then those interests lose legitimacy.
And by the way, reliable users, will not create user accounts with false IP addresses and false emails, to sabotage the existence of the forum.
CraxMe Forum wants to have more than just users, CraxMe wants to have friends who feel empathy for this place, feel safe when they share content here, and feel that their participation is of great help so that the forum can exist.

When one freely decides to enter a  place, one must have the ability to accept the rules of the game of that place.
Comparisons are always uncomfortable, but they are unavoidable. Comparing CraxMe with Facebook is a very demanded and forced exercise. The differences between both places, are not only notorious but also notable.
I think that if we all want CraxMe to grow, develop and survive over time, that CraxMe has reliable (friend) users and identified them with the existence of this place; then we all can enter here freely and participate all of that desire.
However, if that desire does not exist, and rather, it is desired that CraxMe does not even have opportunities to survive, we can do nothing, people are free to decide and do what best suits them.

rkrishnay

Agree with you Pedro about Security and protection

Mitu.delghy

Agree, Pedro.