A suggested rule to improve moderation

[jbrownson0831]

Posting better stuff is always the answer. Post better. Be better.

Good idea cotex try trying it.

 

[Zincwarrior]

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Think about their motives for wanting to "donate" their time doing something like moderating a board like this.

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You're impugning moderators for...volunteering? Thats messed up bro.
Other boards would ban you for attacking mods.

 

[odanny]

I've had so many threads moved that I've lost count. It is just the way they do business here and complaining about it won't help. Just roll with the punches.

Or find a mirror.

 

[AHZ]

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Think about their motives for wanting to "donate" their time doing something like moderating a board like this.

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I have thought about it.

some mods are cool, most seem to be authoritarian dipshits.

 

[Lisa558]

So, let’s leave it here until a reputable moderator responds to the suggestion:

A moderator who chooses to engage as a member on a thread in which he or she takes a position in opposition to other posters, particularly the OP, cannot simultaneously be a moderator in that same thread.

 

[AHZ]

So, let’s leave it here until a reputable moderator responds to the suggestion:

A moderator who chooses to engage as a member on a thread in which he or she takes a position in opposition to other posters, particularly the OP, cannot simultaneously be a moderator in that same thread.

F that.

we know best.

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

I am aware that moderators are members who are free to engage, just like any member, in a thread of interest.

The problem comes in when a moderator puts on her “member” hat to oppose or debate the OP (or any poster, really), and retains moderator capabilities to delete posts or move the entire thread to Badlands when it was originally started in a Zone 1 forum.

I suggest the following: any time a moderator is a participant on a thread - ESPECIALLY when debating the OP’s premise - she cannot simultaneously moderate that thread. The bias is obvious and she cannot objectively do to her “job.”

i think this problem has been around since the 1st moderators existed...lol..... i consider most removed, moved, axed threads,etc, as an honor for upsetting a snowflake or a report button pusher.....if we all look at it as a positive, which it is, we'd be more powerful

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

as i always say...this place is so loosely and a liberally moderated board i rarely ask questions

 

[Lisa558]

i think this problem has been around since the 1st moderators existed...lol..... i consider most removed, moved, axed threads,etc, as an honor for upsetting a snowflake or a report button pusher.....if we all look at it as a positive, which it is, we'd be more powerful

Good way to think of it!

 

[Zincwarrior]

as i always say...this place is so loosely and a liberally moderated board i rarely ask questions

Additionally, a moved thread is not a big deal. It still exists. You still get notifications and it still comes up on the new relies list.

Other than moving and consolidating threads, mods are generally pretty hands off. If you are being moderated here, then you have other issues to deal with.

 

[Dekster]

Cat fight.

When you go from Zone 1 to down below it is almost always the alternative to locking/deleting the thread either because of the OP or because the members have run it off the tracks, down the bank, and into the river. That a mod is in the thread is really irrelevant.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

I am aware that moderators are members who are free to engage, just like any member, in a thread of interest.

The problem comes in when a moderator puts on her “member” hat to oppose or debate the OP (or any poster, really), and retains moderator capabilities to delete posts or move the entire thread to Badlands when it was originally started in a Zone 1 forum.

I suggest the following: any time a moderator is a participant on a thread - ESPECIALLY when debating the OP’s premise - she cannot simultaneously moderate that thread. The bias is obvious and she cannot objectively do to her “job.”

I have suggested this more than once in the past.

They love their power more than they seek to establish sensible guidelines to prevent the abuse thereof.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Posting better stuff is always the answer. Post better. Be better.

The only stuff I have ever seen you post is mod fanboi stuff.

 

[Unkotare]

I am aware that moderators are members who are free to engage, just like any member, in a thread of interest.

The problem comes in when a moderator puts on her “member” hat to oppose or debate the OP (or any poster, really), and retains moderator capabilities to delete posts or move the entire thread to Badlands when it was originally started in a Zone 1 forum.

I suggest the following: any time a moderator is a participant on a thread - ESPECIALLY when debating the OP’s premise - she cannot simultaneously moderate that thread. The bias is obvious and she cannot objectively do to her “job.”

You've REALLY got to stop bitching about this kind of thing. It's not important.

 

[AHZ]

You've REALLY got to stop bitching about this kind of thing. It's not important.

you should respect freedom more.

 

[Ropey]

you should respect freedom more.

End birthright citizenship.

You've REALLY got to stop bitching about this kind of thing. It's not important.

 

[L.K.Eder]

you should respect freedom more.

that's retarded, retread.

 

[Ropey]

that's retarded, retread.

 

[Lisa558]

You've REALLY got to stop bitching about this kind of thing. It's not important.

Your opinion is noted.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

that's retarded, retread.

You can always be counted on for content free personal attacks whenever a thread involves certain people.

It must be a coincidence.