for god's sake stop quibbling.

[citanul]

ok, as far as i can tell, we're having problems here, and they're repetitive.

the main problem i see is that we're having mods trumping other mods' decisions without first discussing the matter. often this is occurring because "nice cop mod" gets a pm from a friend or whatnot saying they have been banned (likely by [censored]), and that "it's total bullshit" or whatever, and so they go and unban someone, or at minimum come and say "hey man, that's bullshit, fix it." instead of just going and pming the mod who did the banning (if it's find-outable) and discussing it via pm. or, alternatively, making a post here, in the area created for mod discussions, asking who banned the poster and why.

there shouldn't be an antagonistic air towards each other here, at least not related to the moderating of the forums. this is a voluntary position, and we've been pretty well briefed on what our responsibilities, etc, are. the general gist of this post is "play nice, don't step on each others' toes, etc."

if you have a problem with the way another person is moderating, ask them via pm, ask them in the forum, whatever, but there's no reason to be rude about it at all. instead of saying "hey, it's bullshit you did this" say "why was this done?" everything's reversable, so there's no reason to see tempers flaring about the goings-on on a stupid internet message board.

i know almost all of you are probably my seniors, but seriously, grow the [censored] up.

as a last point, i just think that once a decision has been made via concensus (like to strip all colors from the forums) amongst the mods, and we go and do it, that no individual mod should go and reverse that decision on their own withouth first discussing it openly in this forum. this is sort of the group corollary to the originan 1 on 1 axiom as stated above.

seeing this forum, supposedly full of mature people chosen in part for their maturity to lend their hands to twoplustwo, devolving in to repeated flame wars, is really impressively depressing.

citanul