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Policy Changes: How do you feel?
Amber:
--- Quote from: Niccos Shadow on June 23, 2010, 12:38:29 AM ---
There's nothing wrong with "Ok, this person was banned because <insert reason>". But there's a big jump between that and "Wow you guys are ignorant children. Stfu or i'll ban you... on second thought, I'll just ban you now!". That kind of thing is unnecessary and promotes the same kind of issues that the administration is trying to prevent. And it just plain looks bad.
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This.
I think it's all cool that we don't see what goes on behind the scenes. We may not see the 250 personal messages asking the person to calm down or the 15 pages of posts between mods discussing what to do. That really doesn't, however, excuse the mods being nasty and childish themselves when they finally post a banning or a comment in a thread. I've seen alot of that in the past, though nothing recently, but I just post around media favorites mostly, so I might just be missing the threads.
However, I've not often reported it to Fred when I thought a mod was being childish, etc. As was said with everyone else's posts... they can't know it's a problem if no one complains.
Katty:
Onlyelise,
I don't think anyone here thinks that the mods don't put in a ton of time, and are generally shat upon in general. (I don't, and let me say publicly I appreciate everything that they do.) And getting snarky is one thing. One could argue gentle snark is part of the lifeblood of this board. Being rude to a poster is another. My comment was that if a poster isn't allowed to go over the line, neither is a mod. To do otherwise sets up an "Us vs. Them" mentality, and that doesn't do any of us any good.
ashton,
Thank you very much for posting. I do know we often don't see the whole story, and we can form wrong impressions from the part we do see. How we change that...I'm not sure. Something to think about and remember, maybe.
I think we're all having growing pains, and we all need to be understanding of each other on both sides. Because in the end, we're all here because we like the board, the books, and Jim, right? So there's a way to work through this, IMO.
OnlyElise:
--- Quote from: Katty on June 23, 2010, 12:49:25 AM ---
I think we're all having growing pains, and we all need to be understanding of each other on both sides. Because in the end, we're all here because we like the board, the books, and Jim, right? So there's a way to work through this, IMO.
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Agreed. Everything is going to calm down here, sooner or later. I think we should all try for "sooner." :)
Paynesgrey:
--- Quote from: David one Mutts Friend on June 23, 2010, 12:37:37 AM ---No, I really do not like the changes. Maybe because I was painted with the ban hammer brush and feel that no matter what I say it will be looked at more closely than it would have before.
I know how Harry felt with the Doom over him and Morgan looking over his shoulder every second.
David
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Actually there aren't just enough of us to go all Morgan on you or anybody else for that matter. If somebody has a history of doing the same thing, we look harder when a new complaint hits our box. And when we get a complaint, if a post is out of line, we'll crawl back over the last day or two's posts by that poster to see if it was an aberration, simple slip up, or a part of an escalating pattern. There's too much traffic for us to eyeball everythread outside those that we just have an interest in. Other than that, we don't come running unless somebody calls. I don't even have the manpower to stalk Mila Jovovich properly, much less any particular forum member. (One exception being new threads with titles that scream "INCOMING", say something political or likely to cause precludious and dispositional behaviour, like "Will Harry Find Jesus and blow up BP"? That'll grab our attention Real Good.)
Point being, nobody's gonna come gunning for you personal like, just be wary of slipping into whatever behaviour was an issue before. If you think a post might be pushing it, ease up and let it simmer for a while before posting it.
OnlyElise:
--- Quote from: paynesgrey on June 23, 2010, 12:50:42 AM --- I don't even have the manpower to stalk Mila Jovovich properly, much less any particular forum member.
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<smacks PG>
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