True, that's their own stupid fault. But they're still not prevented from posting that content if its not illegal.

Not posting illegal stuff on blogs is common sense.

No one here wants to post illegal things either. But people would prefer their blogs aren't moderated down to a 13 year-old's level.

What makes you think that whoever will be appointed blog moderator will be more to your preference than the fine folks who were appointed forum moderators? The show is run by the same guy, anyway.

What makes your idea of a blog more important than mines? So perhaps you think a blog is about an individual... but perhaps I think it's about ranting and raving. Since I will be the one writing the blog, I imagine what I think my blog is about is more important than what you think a blog should be about.

Having separate moderators for blogs shows that they're held to a different standard.

Yeah, okay, most content on the internet tends to have more cursing and things deemed inappropriate on this forum, but that does not mean that is what the internet is all about. You can have interesting content with or without cursing.

So are many forum threads in forums with less lenient rulesets. That does not explicitly make it part of The Forum Experience.

Because the "fine folks" here have been getting away with murder for too long now because of the rules sucking.

I'm not saying someone perfect would be picked, but if someone should be moderating blogs, they would actually have to go by the rules as opposed to being mod = god. Right now, if Darlene just doesn't like my post, she will delete it. She has been known to delete posts because it doesn't fit her standards of what the rules say, even though the post was completely in line.

I think you just do not get it! I am not saying you do not get to rant and rave and whatever else you feel like doing as long as you stick to the rules, but it is still going to revolve around you.

Um, they can....appropriately. If it is so hard to be appropriate, then dont use the blogs. *shrugs*

Perhaps we should amend the Constitution of Graal so mods can only hold their station for a year or so?

Yeah, but I cannot imagine Unixmad allowing a different set of rules. :\

Following the rules is completely different than what we want to do while blogging. We're fine following rules. Most sites that will host blogs for free have set rules to follow.

The problem is, mods here read the rules, and then have their own opinions of to what extent the rules allow.

The Lounge.

I already posted this before. I get tons of my posts deleted for stupid reasons, because the mods don't like what I post. This isn't a matter of me posting porn or something, it's me posting a pretty harmless word, or a harmless phrase and the mod not liking it... and because the RULES are completely bendable to whatever they want, it gets deleted.

The problem is that I can't rant and rave because things are moderated so strictly around here. I mentioned the word masturbation once and my post got deleted... OH NO! I posted the word homosexually once, out of pure jest, and it got deleted and I got an infraction for sexual harassment. OH NO! You see where this is going?

....but they wont be held to a different standard. They still have to follow forum rules, unixmads rules.

And yet Moon Goddess is a good moderator by Unixmad's standards, and subsequent moderators will be chosen by the same criteria, and will enforce the same style of moderation.