Regarding being hasselt by the mods about going OT

[kennedia_nigricans]

We could at the bottom of the OP add a line like that

"General chat welcome, please feel free to discuss OT here as well"

it would make it impossible to be OT in a thread and the harassment by the mods might recede a bit.

to the mods:

mod·er·ate  (mdr-t)adj.

1. Being within reasonable limits; not excessive or extreme: a moderate price.

2. Not violent or subject to extremes; mild or calm; temperate: a moderate climate.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/moderation

your moderation style can certainly be called excessive, extreme and unreasonable. I and most other posters here would like you to be more moderate in your moderation.

[debra9275 · Accepted solution]

lol Karen, well that is a pre-requesite these days lol

I much prefer the moderation here thank you

[poddster · Accepted solution]

Here you go Mods some thave raised their hand for you to make it easy 🙂

[just_me_karen · Accepted solution]

Haha the karen rules.

I agree deb, it's much better here. But if the mods do decide to take the suggestion, they could pretend to call Microsoft every time someone misbehaves and tell them the police are calling. That would be fun!

Flashie that was an appalling event 😞 I hope the mods don't do that.

[freddie*rooster · Accepted solution]

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@poddster wrote:

I can sympathise with some of the moderators of this forum. Having been in the same role on other sites may I add that the task is a thankless one.

To sort the chaff from straw is challenging.

In my personal opinion it is better to allow disagreement without removal unless it turns into a personal attack on one or the other posters character.

Profanity is easily filtered out by available filters, offensive images are more of a challenge. The constant reporting by some are a problem and that too can be overcome by having a database of the serial reporters and the people they target.

I can visualise the reported post panel ablaze when certain posters get reported en masse by the groups of reporters who have taken a dislike to the poster.

Some posters are controversial and that is how a diverse, vibrant forum should be. Controversy is essential to vigorous debate and discussion, from that flows a dissemination of ideas and views from many sources adding to modifying the views of all...........hopefully.

So spare a thought for the poor overworked and stressed out mod 🙂

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Most people in a paid position are overworked and stressed, if they can't handle the job they leave to find alternate work.

[patchoo78 · Accepted solution]

What a lot of angst over something so essentially trivial - get up someone's nose, they report you, you get a slap, who cares? At least you have the satisfaction of knowing you've hit your target.

I don't think you even get a slap anymore.. I just got a message from the mod saying that my post was removed for Inerpersonal Dispute and suggested i might like to edit the post and re-post it... 

[joz*garage]

"A hole page of them was dedicated to me

"And multiple threads about me

"I had a whole thread over there dedicated to me and my family

really? so how did you access this information from a private forum which you wernt members of?

[poddster · Accepted solution]

Words are cheap substanciation of them attracts a higher price.

Care to substantiate?

[freddie*rooster · Accepted solution]

I thought the OT dilemma was sorted, so it hasn't been??

[patchoo78 · Accepted solution]

before the advent of lithium was imposed upon us, these boards 'ad placeholders to show when a post 'ad been taken down.   now, to my thinkin' lithium would 'ave that same ability written someplace into their programmin'   

The venetian blinds were taken away before lithium came along. I remember some confusing posts on the old boards due to certain posts being removed so it looked like the poster was talking to to themself

[patchoo78 · Accepted solution]

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@*ibis wrote:

before the advent of lithium was imposed upon us, these boards 'ad placeholders to show when a post 'ad been taken down

did it?

i dont remember that

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Yeh they were colloquially known as venetian blinds.. It just said "This post has been removed" now there's nothing when a post gets removed