Arg... could we please get rid of the mods?

[DavidC]

(More appropriately titled: Could Matt please ban the mods?)

Here's how it worked in OOT old-school (3 months ago [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] ).

If someone swore, we ignored it. If they swore a lot, someone would delete it / ban the offender. Ditto with porn / semiporn. Ditto with racism.

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To give you an idea of where things have gotten now, I made the following post:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...mp;o=&vc=1

Which was moved to news/views/gossip, because of "poker content". The post was a poll to see which 2+2 author (S or M) looked more like a serial killer on the back of HPFAP. It certainly wasn't poker content. Maybe not that funny, but really not poker content.

I haven't spoken publicly about this until now, but I'm starting to get pissed after seeing over-moderation becoming rampant.

Anyways, it was a Friday night, so I figure a certain mod was just a little boozed up when he made his decision... I don't hold it against them personally, esp. as I figure that he was doing it to protect 2+2 rather than to move "poker content", but come on, I think the author's have pretty thick skin about stuff like this.

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Let's contrast this with moderation on the MTT or STT forum (I can't remember which).

I'd written a post without emphasizing the question that I needed answered, and thus, didn't get any helpful responses. The edit time elapsed, so I made another post, editing to the same content, and explained in the top of the post the purpose of the duplicate post. This time I got a bunch of responses re: duplicate posting, again, not helpful. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

The mod took the body of my edited post, moved it to the location of the original post, and deleted the second post... which would have been my original intent anyways. So I was very pleased with that.

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I'm putting this up as an example that moderation around here doesn't have to be about creating the perfect forum in the opinion of the mod, but rather in just making sure that things go smoothly and that people aren't posting "hateful/profane" things.

I'm very disappointed in the mods right now, at least, of OOT.

--Dave.