Back again!
Don't worry, kids. I'll stop posting when the outrage over inept mods has calmed down a little.
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They aren't anymore strict than they have always been the only difference is enforcement is being done for a change.
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The argument here isn't about the quantity of enforcement, it's about the methods. You may happen to think with your tiny brain that I never did any work (largely, I suppose, because I
deleted the bad stuff instead of indiscriminately closing everything), but that isn't even the issue here.
The issue is this: The new moderators are taking the lazy options - closing or trashing entire threads in order to deal with a few flames. Of course, they won't admit to themselves that laziness is the root - people like that never do. No doubt they have a little arsenal of weak, spurious justifications, built to convince themselves that they're fantastic supermods and their detractors are just jealous!!! Indeed, we've seen a couple of them already. Let's take a look.
The thread serves no purpose anymore!
How nice. However, there is no rule stating that purposeless threads are illegal. You are not the purpose police; your role centres solely around the removal of illegal material. There is absolutely no reason to close a thread simply because its original purpose has been fulfilled.
The thread went off-topic!
There is no rule outlawing off-topic posting. Sometimes the mod feels that off-topic posts choke the original thread, stopping it from progressing. That's fair enough, but what kind of
stupidity would conclude that
closing the thread is a decent solution. Hello? That's like cutting off a man's leg in an attempt to cure his ingrowing toenails!
Split the thread.
The thread turned into a flamewar!
No it didn't. It
played host to a flamewar. The earlier posts are fine, you can just cut off the bad stuff. Oh, you're too lazy? Well, I guess you should close it then.
They'll just start flaming again!
Then
punish them, you sop.
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Without the "grey areas" and favortism that has been shown in the past.
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Did'ya notice that Moon Goddess recently posted some rules? Have you read them? Lemme paste in a little quote here:
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If any material you bring to the board (including, but not limited to: Text or referenced images in posts or signatures, attached files, text in profiles, links to sites) is deemed excessively offensive or repulsive, it may be forcibly removed or you may be asked to change it
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Key word: Deemed. It doesn't explicitly define the range of acceptability. The
entire rule is a grey area, because it's entirely dependent on personal moderator judgement. Spark and 'Moonie' cling firmly to the rules when attempting to justify their actions, but if they had actually
read their precious document then they'd see that there is nothing outlawing flaming. Our misguided mods are simply arbitrating on a grey area, regardless of whether or not they want to admit it.
And
favoritism? I'm not even going to bother. You've been spouting your spiteful propaganda for too long, and never once given any evidence to back it up. Nobody listens anymore.
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It's simple you break a rule you pay for your actions
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No. If you break a rule,
everybody else pays. Thread closure affects every user, not just the offenders.
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Funny I don't see anyone that has ever broken a rule complaining
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Because, as soon as somebody complains, you demonise them. Complaining is a sin unto the Moon Deities, remember?
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maybe because if you are decent with your post you don't have to worry about the rules because you will always be well within the rules and it doesn't affect you. :grin:
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Except if you were happily posting in a thread before some fool decided to close it.
01-05-2004, 02:47 AM
Anyways, this wasn't the purpose of me posting. I agree with Excal somewhat about this matter, but I don't really care considering the low amount (sp?) of time I spent on Graal now. Basically the point of this thread is to say that (everyone who's global staff and moderator on these forums (this excludes Moonie because she's not global so she can go ahead and keep going what she's doing)) would stop worrying about enforcing the forum rules and more about the rules on the client, then everything would be fine... but quite frankly it's not. We can't get into contact with people about issues and that's not right for a 'business'.
I'm glad you understand this fact.
Nasty old hobbitses always fighting with us, yes... 
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