And thinking harping a rhetoric to insult and comparisons to Nazism is appropriate or gets you anywhere?
welp dunno bout Lex's whole reaction but I feel there is a level of detachment between the mods and the community at this point.
I empathise with Shaya suffering some mild trauma from moderating these boards over the years which may have negatively affected his decision making when moderating? There are several instances of spam that were clearly hindering progress and were not stopped effectively, and several instances of discussion which was apparently too much to mentally digest and were ended/closed.
Even if Doon is/was an alt, the impact on the forum is far less negative than other things which have been ignored (Basty spam etc.)
You say use the report button sure and we should do that more but I don't think anyone reported Doon. This was quite a heavy-handed action from mods.
People living in the same house is quite common in this country. The bans been removed but the whole thing is still very clumsy don't you think?
Not being able to see who closed threads, (sometimes threads are closed and the mod does post and give a reason), and generally not having much interaction with the mods because Aerodrome only comes here to post things that belittle and Shaya's interaction with users is scarce and not positive enough. There are times when we work together effectively with mods to make a better forum (the new layout for these Power Ranking threads is one such occasion) and I think it'd just be better for our subforum at least if the mods (so in this case just Shaya?) were more open with the scene and a bit of care, so as to not rub off users in the wrong way. This would help us all work together positively in collaboration with mods to keep threads/info relevant, forums clean and social conversation fun/quality.
It's not helping that you are immediately bored and apathetic to these boards before you read the first letter of any given post. It's good that you're still with us but I think this makes it harder for all of us.
People know how to
contact me and I'm pretty open to issues related to this board, its always been this way. There are enough people around here I'm
meant to have free and open dialogue with (including yourself)? But often all I get is "BAN THEM" and my response to that is like "well that's not how it works, so what's actually appropriate?" So then I look and I see the one or two liners that are inane, followed by people choosing to respond to it/in a similar manner, muddying everything in a way in which I can't really derive fairly as a third party. Same punishment for one would be fair on like 5-6 others and those 5-6 others are willing to complain/derail threads because of it (#QLD). Yes, the
right thing to do would be to stick to the guns and continue moderating until people actually learned how to deal with 'crap', but honestly I just haven't seen the merit to it because a majority of the people
know what the right thing to do is but would prefer not to. Like what is so hard about ignoring someone who's trying to derail a thread so it's just a clear cut situation to moderate? :<
Doon posted a thread titled "top 10 reasons too play brawl" in this subforum, it seemed a bit suss and I may be interpreting incorrectly, but that was the general intent of the topic anyway. Coupled with Mytus IP, post midnight registration and posting. Whoops if people thought that was a heavy handed response (I guess not many people saw the thread).
I originally was only concerned with NSW/ACT related things, and never dedicated time to other "regions"; it's a huge time sink to go through everything here and its beyond the time and interests I'm willing to give (you can call it trauma, I prefer just "same old ****"). Facebook largely replaced how I deal with people within my region. I'm not going to respond to or even read things (beyond a glance) that are attacks or insulting (emotionally quantified); Apathetic sure, but bored? Rarely. If you can bring me something coherent, logical and fair, I'll likely do it, it's pretty simple. If people want something 'moderated' then the users around here in general need to be more concerned about their seemingly peer approved behaviour ;\ I'm not going to fight a cultural war.