Alert template

[Tiffani Jameson]

I think the alerts section needs a template that asks certain questions in order to understand it's nature.

Questions like:

Name
Phone/email
Date/time
Bodily harm yes/no
Time waster yes/no
Verification yes/no
LE involvement yes/no

Describe the incident:

Why this hasn't been implemented yet is beyond me.

Thanks for your consideration!

[RedLeg505]

Seems to be a sensible and do-able suggestion.

[Mokoa]

Originally Posted by Tiffani Jameson

Name
Phone/email

Those items cannot be included since their presence would violate Rule 5 of the Forum Guidelines concerning the posting of Real World information in these forums.

#5 - Outing or threats of outing are taken seriously. Membership here is anonymous and for the privacy of our members it will remain that way. That means any effort or attempt to connect a person's real world information to their username on this board will be dealt with swiftly and harshly. This includes real names, employment, medical info, addresses past or present, images, criminal or driving record, etc. We expect everyone who participates here to respect and go to great lengths to protect the anonymity and privacy of one another. Reckless disregard or accidental outing will also be taken very seriously.

[Tiffani Jameson]

Originally Posted by Mokoa

Those items cannot be included since their presence would violate Rule 5 of the Forum Guidelines concerning the posting of Real World information in these forums.

Pesky rules... that's understandable. But otherwise, it serves a two fold purpose. It helps to sort the event out to those who read, and as a way of the writer to contemplate what happened and why.

Oh, and you can add a 'Pimp/Driver/management Involvement' option too...

[LNK]

Instead of name and phone number, you could put their handle/nick.

[Tiffani Jameson]

Yeah LNK, especially if it concerns an ECCIE member.

[Taylor Sims]

The phone numbers and emails can still be done like 903 2** 9240 or micheal***@hotmail.com. If the alerts are not giving enough info to help a provider or an hobbiest then the alert should be moved to a different thread.

[Tiffani Jameson]

Thanks for that, TP. And you are so right.

So, Powers That Be, when are we doing this? Is this at least being considered?

[Mokoa]

Originally Posted by LNK

Instead of name and phone number, you could put their handle/nick.

We already allow the handle to be posted. It is the Real World information that is not allowed to be posted.

[LNK]

Originally Posted by Mokoa

We already allow the handle to be posted. It is the Real World information that is not allowed to be posted.

I was speaking of the speculative template for an alert.

[VIPRaniLane]

Standardizing the alert submittals will make it easier to search and help us all.