This grants bulls of standing open slather, alone and in concert, to belittle others.
I was actually referring to you there Sunfish.
You have never moderated any attacks on me or to the best of my knowledge, cautioned those who make those personal attacks.
Completely untrue. Every post you report gets reviewed and acted on if necessary. Infractions are handed out if appropriate. You don't get informed about those since they are a private thing between moderators and the recipient.
I have TOUd a moderator with good cause but he is still a mod. Did he "deal with" the TOU himself? But that was some time ago and he has pulled his head in since so it may have worked.
You have every right to complain about the actions of a moderator - they are reviewed by the moderation team, and by the administrators.
Moderation is a team activity. Nobody acts alone, and there is full transparency as to what action has been taken. We can and do reverse decisions if necessary - posts are never deleted permanently and can be reinstated, and even post edits can be undone (the system stores the full history of post edits).
You are slow to react to brewing trouble and only do so after I have (over)reacted. You then moderate a single phrase from the offending post but my explanations are deleted entirely and you give me a yellow card.
So don't over-react.
We aren't omniscient or omnipresent. We can't read every single post on the forum and act on them instantly. We often only know about a problem once it has been reported. We encourage people to do so if they feel a post warrants moderator attention. All moderators get to see reported posts and the discussions about them.
We also don't tend to go and edit a post unless it is clearly over the line - lest we get accused of censorship etc. Damned if we do, damned if we don't. If you react badly to it, it probably was over the line - at which point, we take action. We would prefer you just report the post instead of getting into a fight on the forum - saves us a lot of work having to clean up the bickering that way.
you give me a yellow card..
You get a yellow card for breaking the rules. "But he started it" isn't a defence for breaking the rules. Usually you both end up getting your posts edited or deleted and potentially both getting infractions. Easier just to report the post and leave it be.
I have had many issues with moderation as you know but have yet to receive any satisfactory notice of actions taken, or not taken, as the case may be.
Perhaps if you stopped bitching so much and making threats to the moderators (by the way, please stop using "TOU" as a verb - a cute little grammaticist dies every time you do that
), you might get a better response.
Seriously - Thommo - you've been around a long time. You've left, you've been banned, you've come back several times, and all you do is whinge and complain and make threats.
We put up with you a bit like the way we put up with an annoying uncle. Perhaps he might have some good advice, but mostly he just craps on about how bad things are now and how much the world hates him. Yes, Christmas time would be more boring without him, but it would probably also be a lot more pleasant.
If you want this forum to be anything more than a group hug, you should control the wolf pack mentality that does not allow nonconformists to remain.
By non-conformist do you mean "ornery old bear who has nothing positive to offer anyone"?
I have outlasted all the others but only because I mainly post on banal topics, and am VERY careful how I phrase any post of "substance". If any of a dozen individuals don't like what I post I am "challenged" again. It becomes tiresome.
So leave already and quit complaining about it if you hate it that much. Either that or shut up and start contributing something meaningful.
Being a bear is all well and good. But we're here to make money. If you don't think we can - then that's fine, you are allowed to have your opinion. But don't tell those who actually are making money - they might not believe you when they look at their bank accounts.
Once again I ask you Sunfish - why are you here?
