I am for one very happy the mods are in the images and video. Does look like a professional site when you go view something and all their is for comments are "Thanks for sharing".

People do it just for points, but in the long term, it would just hurt us as visitors would not take this site seriously and it would that limit the growth of VN.

Thanks for the update Debs,I welcome it, but for one querry, which I have mentioned below.

That's a welcome Rule. It will not only give more structure and sense to the replies by members,but also make them appreciate the hard work, by posting a more relevant comment, than just saying -Thanks for sharing- or Great video. I was waiting for this Rule to come into effect and welcome it. Just one point I would appreciate, is that you mentioned that you are going back to the start of the month to delete 1,2,3, word comments, on posts that were already commented, in the past. Since you have started this Modification of deleting comments say from the April 15th, why not make it effective from that date, and send a message, to all members in the Broadcast mail, and also post it as a final rule on the Forum, as you have done now. This will benefit not only the new users, but also be very clear to all members as far as the effective date of this rule is concerned. This is only a suggestion, and I accept your decision as final on that issue.

All the same I full appreciate your taking this action. Better late than never - Thanks - Sachin

Thanks for your support Stephane and just to point out as well that you didn't lose any comments for saying 'great video' - unfortunately some people have made what I would consider to be fairly relevant 3 worders that had to go because it would be too subjective for me to decide which should stay and which should go - that means all 3 worders and less have gone from this months vids and will go from this months images.

I haven't had time to go through any more images today as I have been tied up with other commitments but I will continue from tomorrow with those and as mentioned in order to be fair to everyone it means that it needs to go back to beginning of the month..

We have had these discussions several times in various parts of the forum previously Sachin and I have warned people quite a few times within those various threads, as well as Andy did before me, that once we got moderating rights people would lose credits for comments of 3 words and less.

I'm not actually able to message everyone simultaneously, I can access 6,000 random members so there's no way that everyone would receive my broadcast anyway - I have used the forum and the buzz feature to try to ensure that all active people are up to date with the situation..

Regards,
Debs

We just have to check the video and photos carefully before giving out some comments.

I really hope so Amla :)

We shall see though...

Just a timely reminder guys as I have been going through video and image comments and finding (and deleting) lots of comments that go against t&c.

Please remember that comments have to be 4 words or more and need to be relevant - if you like something tell us why - 'thanks for sharing this' type of comments won't cut it..

cheers,
Debs

We could delete them for the past year William as I mentioned in the original post here - I just bumped this one to add my reminder rather than start a new one..

Unfortunately it superseded Sheila's post a bit too now that the rules have changed with regard to credits being allocated for images.

Although you are no longer leaving the kind of comments that get deleted, there are others who either didn't realise because they are new or forgot about the rule so I just wanted to point it out again to save people wasting their time writing comments that are going to be deleted (those that are less than 4 words or not relevant to the topic / image / video they are commenting on)..