Moderator approvals/actions. Some answers here. Otherwise it's not up for discussion.

[Mottie]

Are there only certain moderators there can approve posts? Only a post I made just two posts on the same page after that in the same thread has been altered, presumably by a moderator. Are there different tiers of moderators in this forum?

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Do not discuss modding actions, it gets nowhere. We have no time to answer. Please Read the RULES.

"Approvals" are new and not required by mods. Mods can choose to accept/delete/edit. Edits are only done to avoid swear words etc, not change the meaning

As an exception, there are some other answers in this thread

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

I quoted and mocked one of Notch7's posts once. Nothing sweary or risky in any way, just made him look silly. My post vanished, along with his original post. Weird.

 

[Highway Man]

I quoted and mocked one of Notch7's posts once. Nothing sweary or risky in any way, just made him look silly. My post vanished, along with his original post. Weird.

I have had that lots, it happens with either Notch or Noseall.

 

[fillyboy]

I get it all the time, this morning I was advised a post had been remove and I was threatened with a permanent ban.

 

[MNW67]

Ouch! In general terms, what was the post about.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Are there only certain moderators there can approve posts? Only a post I made just two posts on the same page after that in the same thread has been altered, presumably by a moderator. Are there different tiers of moderators in this forum?

I've never come across a forum, where the moderators are so ashamed, that they hide away, afraid of being identified.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

It's how lefties gain and retain power. Get in, corrupt from within then control admission.

Mostly because nobody would ever welcome them in if it was done openly.

 

[fillyboy]

Ouch! In general terms, what was the post about.

I couldn't possibly say.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Ouch! In general terms, what was the post about.

Abuse of power?

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No. Moderators decided they had to be anon years ago. Blame the forum

The problem is that mods in this forum can not quick and easy do a general ban on a member from posting new rubbish.(That may be changing.)
When mods decide to get rid of someone it takes a while to set up (as in the case of gas 112 and others who can't post in GD now. )
The annoyed people target whoever they think the mods are, and cannot be silenced so they can just post again and again.
In other forums mods can usually silence anyone or suspend them.
There are a lot of stupid and argumentative posters we don't have time for.
If someone mostly posts ONLY to have a go at a poster or be abusive etc and its not about the argument, we can get them banned, with effort.
A dozen or so posters are putting themselfs in this category.

If I posted as Fred and gave my reasons there would be replies to Fred which would be unwanted by everyone.. No time for that. Everybody thinks they are very important and that they are right. Wrong.

If someone posts something which breaks the rules do not answer it, report it. If you quote it or argue your post goes too, if we see it.
Its the way it is. If you don't accept it, please find another forum.

 

[morqthana]

Deleted.
You clearly will not understand, despite being told many times.
You should find another forum.

 

[transam]

What’s this ?? A trump rally

 

[pete01]

Maybe if you engaged with people properly, and showed justification for your "verdicts", and explained what rule-breaking an "offending" post actually contained, rather than a Kafka-esque deletion because you decided it was "crap", people wouldn't get so annoyed.

Maybe if you didn't lock people out of threads they hadn't even posted in and tell them you'd done it as "punishment" you might get more respect.




Can you assure us that people who report posts will not themselves be penalised for doing that?

Can you assure us that the same standards of rules-enforcement are applied to everybody, whether you personally like, or dislike them, or whether you personally share, or are opposed to, their political or social views?




There really are problems with the way that some people behave here, and think they should be allowed to behave, and how they think others should be made to behave, or even be forced out, and I'm not talking about actual beliefs, or opinions, or the substance of the arguments.

There really are problems here with the way that some Moderators act.

To say "If you don't accept it, please find another forum" is defeatist and regressive.

There has to be a better way.

Just do as you're told

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

The problem is that mods in this forum can not quick and easy do a general ban on a member from posting new rubbish.(That may be changing.)

In other forums, a new poster's first few posts are held, for moderation, before release. That prevents the floods of ads which this forum regularly suffers, and any poster's posts, can be put back on moderation review at any time should they break the rules.

Mod Post: In other forums mods can usually silence anyone or suspend them.
There are a lot of stupid and argumentative posters we don't have time for.
If someone mostly posts ONLY to have a go at a poster or be abusive etc and its not about the argument, we can get them banned, with effort.
A dozen or so posters are putting themselfs in this category.

Most well moderated forums, have a rule of - one poster, one ID, but this forum, very annoyingly - seems to allow account after account to be set up, with the main aim of some being to cause chaos and disruption. Yet it is permitted, maybe even encouraged.

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This one isn't like that, whatever we might want.

 

[Highway Man]

Just do as you're told

Exactly.

 

[pete01]

Exactly.

I know I think the mods do a great job, happy new year to them all