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[Inverness]

Originally Posted by Loriel

No. There are plenty of instances where people get in trouble by posting stupid crap on the internet, be it by their school or prospective employers or whatever.

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.

[Loriel]

Originally Posted by kia345

If the blogs will be moderated, it should be strictly by the rules by specially appointed blog mods. Not by the forum mods who interpret the rules as they see fit and decide what is and isn't grounds for ban. Rules would need to be more defined it less vague.

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.

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Loriel

As I said in some dude's blog post's comments, blog posts are about being centered on an individual instead of whatever forum you are posting your thread in, and being on-topic by definition.

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.

[Inverness]

Originally Posted by Loriel

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.

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

[Loriel]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

I hardly read any blogs at all, but those that I have read a few entries from usually tend to have cursing and other things deemed 'inappropriate' by the forums, even though they are very harmless(no nasty crap or anything like that).

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.

Whether or not I read ****ty blogs is no denial that blogs are often used for venting.

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

[kia345]

Originally Posted by Loriel

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.

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.

[Loriel]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

So perhaps you think a blog is about an individual... [...] Since I will be the one writing the blog

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.

[Darlene159]

Originally Posted by kia345

But your defense for blogs was the the OP can control it themselves! Darlene, you're not making much of an argument here.

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

[Inverness]

Originally Posted by kia345

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.

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

[Loriel]

Originally Posted by Inverness

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

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

[kia345]

Originally Posted by Loriel

as long as you stick to the 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.

[Inverness]

Originally Posted by Loriel

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

The Lounge.

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Loriel

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.

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?

[Darlene159]

Originally Posted by Inverness

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

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

[Loriel]

Originally Posted by Inverness

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

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.