HyugaRicdeau
Baller/Shot-caller
My modding philosophy probably doesn't fit with what the "higher-ups" are looking for.
Basically I feel that mods are only there to serve the interests of the people who visit the boards. All rules are really just special specific cases of this principle that are easily distinguished. If something breaks a rule but nobody cares, then it's completely pointless to moderate it because the interests of the board-goers are not served by doing so. We have anonymous reporting so people aren't pressured not to, and it makes it so the standards of the boards are left up to the people that visit them. This I feel is what most mods don't understand. Remember when Fdv caused a ****storm in the Midwest forums because he infracted people for "spam" when nobody there cared about the so-called spam? Sure maybe the rules were broken, but were the interests of the boards served? I think it's obvious that they weren't.
Infracting for censor dodging is also stupid, and really what they should do is put in a default-on censor filter, so people who don't want to see it don't have to, there's no reason to censor-dodge, and it's also less work for the mods. But try bringing this up with most mods and you'll get a response like "you don't need to be able to say those words," completely missing the point. Believe me, I've tried. This all goes without saying that the idea that certain words are "bad words" is arbitrary and ********.
Basically I feel that mods are only there to serve the interests of the people who visit the boards. All rules are really just special specific cases of this principle that are easily distinguished. If something breaks a rule but nobody cares, then it's completely pointless to moderate it because the interests of the board-goers are not served by doing so. We have anonymous reporting so people aren't pressured not to, and it makes it so the standards of the boards are left up to the people that visit them. This I feel is what most mods don't understand. Remember when Fdv caused a ****storm in the Midwest forums because he infracted people for "spam" when nobody there cared about the so-called spam? Sure maybe the rules were broken, but were the interests of the boards served? I think it's obvious that they weren't.
Infracting for censor dodging is also stupid, and really what they should do is put in a default-on censor filter, so people who don't want to see it don't have to, there's no reason to censor-dodge, and it's also less work for the mods. But try bringing this up with most mods and you'll get a response like "you don't need to be able to say those words," completely missing the point. Believe me, I've tried. This all goes without saying that the idea that certain words are "bad words" is arbitrary and ********.