Members banned from this thread: Cletus |
Yes. We work as team and team will review actions taken and may decide more action is needed. The previous action is usually retracted when you're infracted. And vice versa we sometimes decide no action was required and retract it.Apparently it is okay for a moderator to come along AFTER a mod has taken action and decide that wasn't sufficient and stack some other punishment on top of the first action.
We try to act as soon as possible. But we're members and, believe it or not, we have real lives outside the forum. Today I'm redoing a bathroom floor.Actions taken by moderators should be done in a timely manner.
Everyone sees things differently, that's why we act as a team, if not in initial action, in review. This lends some objectivity. In the end it's a judgment call.Moderators here tend to focus on the things that don't matter and ignore the things that do.
We should do a better job of that with actions that you all report. We try, but...will try harder. As far as i know if you PM a mod you will get a response. If nt, we need to work on that then too.When moderators are asked why a particular action was taken, they need to respond.
Note that usually two or mods decide an action so any mod responding should be OK.
Well, this is a tough one. Some people come for serious discussion without personal animosity, some like more heated discussion, and, of course, some like to troll. We try to allow for the first two. The ideas Peter and Captain suggest might help to separate the two.This is a political discussion board....
We have an arbitration area for that but rarely see the need to use it. You are free to report actions, to PM any mod or even ADMIN with grievances and complaints.There also needs a be a subforum or some public, not hidden, area on the forum where moderation can be discussed....
Green Arrow (02-04-2017)
@Cletus - in fairness to the mods, they can't be everywhere at all times, they're going to miss stuff, and in the spirit of the current "lightly modded" forum, I think (they can correct me if I'm speaking out of context) they generally don't moderate unless something is reported or just way off base.
That's why it's emphasized to report posts.
my junk is ugly
Cthulhu (02-04-2017)
True, we work mainly off reports and only occasionally, as needed, act on our own, and even then, it's by report and discussed and reviewed.
These design changes fall to the purview of VIPs. They can be discussed here, but will have to be taken to VIPs. If, as in the case of Cap, the idea comes from a non-VIP, I think you should be allowed to join the VIPs for discussion on it.
Put me in control of your forum for 2 weeks. I'll fix it completely.
Yea, right.
AZ Jim (02-04-2017)
"Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most — that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least."
- Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926), five-time Socialist Party candidate for U.S. President
Peter1469 (02-04-2017)
That is the main issue, most piss and moan, but rarely report.
I report both sides of the aisle because both are loathsome offenders.
And then magically, as if I had powers of something, a moderator shows up and moderates.
As for frivolous reporting? Mods have a way to deal with that. Not really a problem.
Fear profits a man nothing.
Last edited by Cthulhu; 02-04-2017 at 05:04 PM.
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
Ephesians 6:12
Docthehun (02-04-2017),Hal Jordan (02-04-2017)