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nthnclls:
--- Quote from: nthnclls on June 23, 2010, 01:11:04 AM ---Btw, are we allowed to name names on this forum? For example, could I have actually mentioned people's names in the above paragraph instead of saying "a mod" and "the posters"? I'm only asking because another forum that's pretty much free swinging is rather strict about no unwanted attention, and I sort of do it out of reflex now...didn't even realize it until I looked back at what I had written. :P
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This is something I would like answered...
Myyrdn Eopia:
--- Quote from: nthnclls on June 23, 2010, 02:40:49 AM ---This is something I would like answered...
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That'd be a question for the full-grown-senior-modling-types. :D
Shecky:
In short, I've said this privately to a number of people (thanks for the PMs, by the way; it's always best to keep potentially sensitive topics out of the public eye where no one can tick themselves off over something): yes, some mods have occasionally come down extremely hard in a very public, very visible/audible way. I can only assure you that the severity of the public spanking is in direct correlation to the severity of the willfully horrid public behavior. Does this make the forums less of a happy-rainbow, shiny-unicorn place of love? Yes... for that moment. When it happens, it's intentionally done in directly proportional response to the level of the infraction's (or infractions') nastiness - for the purpose of painting in giant, day-glo, Technicolor letters of eldritch fire, "WE'VE TOLD YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN NOT DO NOT FREAKING DO THIS OR WE'LL RIP OFF AN E-BODY PART SELECTED AT RANDOM." Because the approach of "Sir, my deepest regrets go into broaching this sensitive subject with you, but would you be so kind as to grant us the boon of moderating ever so slightly the connotative inflection of your postings? It would seem that all are not quite in harmonious accord with the register of your speech" has already been tried. More than once and in more than one way. Just banning somone simply doesn't have the necessary deterrent effect sometimes; the Big Gesture has to come out to play then.
Because while many seem to think that it's all about the punishment, I can tell you in all honesty that the O-Mods (Original Mods, if you'll pardon my pseudo-hip speech, yo) have the good of the forums overall in the forefront of their minds. And that includes preemptively trying to persuade potential offenders of the folly of importing fresh new attitude when there's already more than enough lurking as it is.
Hell, people, I was one of those people who got the ban-SCUD from over the horizon once. Because I wasn't frakkin' listening when a mod told me more than once that my behavior was clearly and excessively over the line, and I ignored it because of Quivery Self-Righteous Indignation. I took my lumps... and I learned from it. Am I the soul of sweetness, light and reason now? Nah. But I can personally testify that it did make me think twice every time afterwards that I contemplated telling someone exactly what I thought of their Silly Ideas. Sometimes, just sometimes, when the self-appointed victim is hard-headed enough to ignore warnings Because I'm Right, the only thing that's GOING to work is a semi-permanent treadmark on the butt from Ashton's Big Damn Ban-Boots. And I know for a fact that that boot to the head DID get the attention of more than one other person. It works - for the very reason that it's honestly shocking to a lot of people. It gets the necessary attention when nothing else has proven up to the task. It sure worked in my case.
Kali:
--- Quote from: paynesgrey on June 23, 2010, 01:58:37 AM ---I stand corrected.
Even so, I remain infallible and mad with power. At least in the Bar. Well, a little bit anyway.
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You are, it's true. But since your avatar is from the best, weirdest Angel ever, we forgive you.
I'll try to make a note of the next quietly-and-inexplicably locked thread I find. I know the ones in the Bar expire; I even explained the process once (sorta). This wasn't that. I've only noticed it twice that I remember. Like I said, for the most part, the changes have been invisible to me which is exactly what they should be for any poster who gets the whole 'behave as you would if your grandmother was in the room' thing.
Amber:
The old True Blood thread was locked in media favorites, and I never knew why, other than that it was quite old. *shrug* I just started a new one.
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