Bite Size Suggestions to Improve Unity:

Andrew asked so here is my suggestions:

1.  Bring back the Jobs section to Unity.  We need it to reduce the job requests getting posted all over the blogs & forums.  It will clean things up considerably and hopefully not take a ton of coding.  I realize it could take considerable coding so just keep us updated on it.

2.  Improve Moderator permissions so they can deal with the spam.  We we're promised this site would be more spam free and it's loaded with spam right now.  Perhaps a word filter/spam filter would be a great introduction into Unity in an attempt to help curb it.

3.  Review the posts and note those who have applied for Moderator, been voted as positive by the community but no steps have been taken to give them that status.  Not all of us will qualify, but at least make a final determination on this.  This step can go a long distance towards allieviating much of the backlog of moderation that exists on Unity when coupled with step 2.

4.  Permit open discussion of topics that might be very difficult to discuss but have a negative impact on Unity when they are not discussed.  The censoring pof posts just because it might be personal or remotely personal is not always a good thing, this is a business type community, not a myspace type community, we are adults and professionals, this means we must deal with unpleasant situations from time to time here just as we must do in our own businesses.  It goes with the phrase:  "One aw crap can destroy a thousand attaboys".  Let's take care of the aw craps so we can just keep adding to the "attaboys". 

5.  Let's create a means that streamlines the "Certification" process of the Unity Market, that does not overload the Boonex Admins/Developers and protects the mod developers from having their items stolen.  Within this we need a system to address and swiftly resolve issues when a mod developer is accused of stealing/selling another mod developers mods.

6.  Posts have been made repeatedly to the forums concerning searching for topics, posting, respect of volunteers, spam and many other things.  Let's get those posts stickied to the top of each forum as a means of helping improve the community by giving the newbies a way to see what is going to get them the fastest resolution to their topic.

7.  All of us stick to the rule that "Blogs are for the discussion of topics in regards to Unity/Dolphin/Boonex" and kill the support style blogs that keep showing up in it.  Support is for the forums, blogs are for topic discussions that may/will evolve into things and often require much longer conversations than forum topics and may not have a quick/decisive solution to them.  This is an item we can all help with and doesn't require more steps out of Boonex to implement.  It does mean that we restrain from providing support in the blogs when they post a question and instead direct them to the forum. 

I know steps 1 & 5 are not super easy things to do, the others are not difficult at all and will free up time for steps 1 and 5 to be completed down the road.  This is my opinion of how we can improve Unity.