What would I do to change Linden Answers?
In offering some insight to my own question I would like to go way out on a limb. This is to get people thinking and putting this out is just a starting point. The whole forum thing needs to reshuffled so that things are more in order. If anyone here is familiar with Ultima Online then you know what the shard system is. No I am not suggesting that SL go to the shard system. Just the forum part of it.
1. When a new person creates an avatar part of the process will give them a choice of a family group. Many last names same family.
2. Each family will have a forum with their own moderators, news people, and event coordinators.
3. A Linden will be assigned as administrator of the forum.
4. Islands would all be part of one family thus an island forum.
5. All questions would be open for family discussion. If answers are unsatisfactory to the questioner then the moderator would send it to the administrator.
6. All flames, trolls, threats and the like would be handled by the moderators. If banning was necessary only the administrator could carry out that level of punishment.
Families would make the forums more personal and invite competition between families. Events such as scripting, building, writing, poetry, easter egg hunts, pot luck dinners - you name it and it could happen. some could even compete for prizes of objects or $lindens.
But the biggest reason for the family forum would be to change the way everything goes to the lindens. New people would be "taken in" and given the help they need by family volunteers thus making their stay more pleasent.