We'll see how it goes - if it's not working out well, definitely let us know what the issues are! We'll be watching it ourselves, of course, but we'd love to hear from you guys how it's working for you.

One idea we had was to show on a person's profile a general idea of how often they responded to emails they received. For example, there might be a green, yellow, or red indicator on someone's profile indicating how responsive they are to messages, i.e. that they respond to emails most of the time, some of the time, or almost never.

That way, everyone has an incentive to reply to messages they receive to keep their profile "green", and you have an idea of who probably will respond and who might not.

What do you guys think of that idea?

As soon as there are 4 "Do not delete" votes, the voting ends and the topic cannot be deleted any more. In a similar fashion, as soon as there are 7 "Delete" votes, the vote ends and the topic is deleted. There can't be more than 10 votes on any topic.

We will be adding a link where you can see all the topics that need moderation, i.e. can be nominated for deletion or voted on.

And hopefully, there should never be a "battle" to save a topic - the main goal of the system is that only topics that should be deleted get deleted, and vice versa. We'll continue to try to tune the system to achieve that goal.

OK BigG's has been moved, thanks.

Hi folks,

I opened up two new forums:

- Coffee Houses, Bars, and Other Chit Chat
- Games

If you see any of your favorite threads missing, it might be because we moved them in there.

Thanks!
Mike

Hi everyone,

Our goal for the JustSayHi forums has always been to provide a safe and friendly environment where all of our members can meet and get to know one another. To date, we hope we've been at least somewhat successful in achieving this goal while still allowing the freedom to discuss almost any topic you wish, even those more difficult or controversial.

As the site continues to grow and the number of topics and posts skyrockets, however, it's become harder and harder for just Vanchau and myself to moderate all of the forums as closely as we'd like.

So today, we'd like to introduce you to the new moderators of the JustSayHi forums...

All of you!

That's right, every member now has the power to moderate the JustSayHi forums. As long as you've been a member for at least a week, you'll have the ability to nominate and vote on topics for deletion. Our hope is that this new system will help ensure that bad topics are quickly removed from the forums while still maintaining the free flow of discussion that we have always strived for.

Here's how the new system will work:
1) All members who've been on the site for at least a week now have the ability to moderate the forums
2) When a new topic is posted, for a limited amount of time you can nominate that topic for deletion.
3) Once a topic has been nominated for deletion, other members can then vote on whether they agree. If 7 out of 10 people vote for deletion, that topic will then be removed.
4) Members who have too many topics deleted risk having their posting privileges suspended, or may even be banned from the site.

There are a few important rules and safeguards that you should also be aware of:
1) Only topics that violate our forum rules should be deleted. If a topic does not violate the forum rules, it should NOT be deleted, even if you disagree with the content or dislike the member posting the topic.
2) Vanchau and myself will periodically review topics that have been deleted and may undelete them if we feel they were deleted erroneously. We may also delete topics that members have voted to keep on the site. Basically, we reserve the right to make the final decision on all topics.
3) Members who continually vote incorrectly, i.e. deleting topics that should not be deleted or vice versa, will lose their moderator privileges. So if you're not moderating the site in the same manner that Vanchau and myself would, you won't be able to continue to moderate the forums.
4) The moderation system should NOT be used for your own personal agenda. Anyone who abuses the moderation system in this manner will be banned from the site.
5) If you feel the moderation system has been abused, please the Report Abuse button to notify us. We will investigate and take the appropriate actions.

We're very excited about this new system, but we also realize that there may be some hiccups initially. We're going to be watching the forums closely over the next few weeks to make sure the moderation system is working as planned. If you see any issues, please just let us know - we would love to get your ideas and opinions so we can make sure the moderation system is working as well as possible.

And of course, if you have any questions or concerns at all, please just let us know. We always love to hear your feedback, good or bad.

Thanks everyone for all of your help in making JustSayHi the best dating site on the net!

Sincerely,
Mike and Vanchau

Does everyone who has this problem use AOL? For anyone who is having this problem, can you please let me know if you use AOL, and also what browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc.) and what operating system (Windows XP, Mac OS X, etc.) you are using?

We've had a lot of people saying that this is an issue, but we can't actually reproduce this error ourselves so we are having a hard time debugging it. So if we can get some more information on the computer you are using, it would be helpful.

Thanks,
Mike

Has it always been like that for you, or is this a recent change? What browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc.) and what operating system (Windows XP, Mac OS X, etc.) are you using, and how big is your monitor?

Katertots - have you tried adding "no-reply@justsayhi.com" to your address book or to your safe senders list? If you haven't, try that and see if it helps.

If you need help on how to do that, just let me know.

I think we've already banned this person. This type of behavior definitely will not be tolerated so if it happens again, just let us know and we'll kick them out promptly.

Sorry SlenderCat - we had to delete a bunch of topics and posts yesterday due to an error on our servers. The deletion had nothing to do with your posts or their content - it simply was an issue on our end that could only be corrected by deleting some topics.

So sorry for the inconvenience!

Lex - thanks for letting us know about this issue. We'll take a look and get a fix in place.

Do you know how to check your spam or bulk folder? It's possible that our verification email got filtered into there accidentally.

If not, try sending the verification email again and let me know if you're still having a problem.

OK I think the problem's been fixed now. Sorry about all that. Let us know if you're still seeing any weird issues.

OK hopefully mail and the forums should be back to normal now.

Please let me know if you're still experiencing any weird issues so we can get them fixed.

So sorry about all of this everyone!!!

OK hopefully mail should be fixed now. Can you guys let me know if you're still seeing problems?

OK - so here's what's going on with the mail issues.

Many people are seeing that they have mail, but when they check their inbox, it doesn't look like they have any new mail.

The cause for this is that until about 30 minutes ago, the time on the servers was sent incorrectly. If you look carefully at the messages in your inbox, you'll see that some of them were sent on Monday 7/2, i.e. in the future.

You actually DO have new messages, but your messages are shown to you in time order. So the new messages are actually a few pages in to your mailbox, because our server thinks your old messages are actually newer.

We're working on a fix for this, so thanks for bearing with us. Hopefully everything will be fixed shortly.

Thanks,
Mike

OK folks I'm looking into the mail issues. Stay tuned...

A lot of our email notifications unfortunately were delayed today due to our server downtime. So you may be getting email notifications now for messages you actually received hours ago. Hopefully everything should get caught up shortly and we'll be back to normal.

Sorry about that

Marie - can you explain in more detail what you mean by your email being down?