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[Scott DeWar]

I guess there are going to be cirtain truths:
1) Mods have bad days- they are human
2 )for the most part we as a community are a great bunch of people.
3) the mods are here to stay and the way they moderate is santioned even with thier off days and, in the case of Rel, have an inherenty low charisma/lack of diplomatic charm.
4) there will always be people that will have a differing opinion.

I would be much more obnoxious if I knew a gift basket was attached to the banhammer.

a halo? on you?! PLEEASze! we all know you just stole that from some poor sap down the road! no gift basket for you and you must now buy tacos for every one!

 

[Relique du Madde]

no gift basket for you

The gift basket has a fruitcake in it... and it's not the good kind, it's the kind that looks like a clown vomited into a jello mold before pouring resin into it.

 

[wedgeski]

2. I cannot think of any ordinary circumstances under which I would call my child a "jerk," which largely undermines, in my mind, that rationale for the stated standard of behavior. Even, and perhaps especially, if the board were populated by 11-year-olds, I would not consider that appropriate. I would not expect a school teacher to call my child a jerk under non-extraordinary circumstances.

You're probably no longer here but out of interest consider the following:

"There's been some real jerkish behaviour in this thread!"
"Stop acting like jerks!"
"You're not normally a jerk, stop acting like one."
"You're a jerk."

Which one of those would you classify as name-calling? I'm starting to think I have a different opinion on this to most people.

 

[GandalfMithrandir]

quick question about how the ban hammer works: does it just delete the account? because I could forsee a situation where a user would just go in and make a new account, which would slightly defeat the purpose, but I guess if they have to do that over and over they would probably give up anyway.

GM

 

[Morrus]

quick question about how the ban hammer works: does it just delete the account? because I could forsee a situation where a user would just go in and make a new account, which would slightly defeat the purpose, but I guess if they have to do that over and over they would probably give up anyway.

We have numerous tools at our disposal, the details of some of which we don't share with you.

 

[Umbran]

1. I do, indeed, take your point, if your point is that forum members are to be treated as children.

I think you are taking him just a touch too literally.

 

[Rel]

I think you are taking him just a touch too literally.

I'm Rel. I'm meant to be taken literally.

And preferably with a beer chaser.

 

[renau1g]

Yep, gonna have to agree with this. I think the mods here do a very good job. The only time I ever really thought otherwise was during the worst of the edition wars just after 4ed was released, but in hindsight I'm not sure anyone could have expected the vitriol and hatred shown by some posters and the mods probably did as good a job as they could at the time.

Sometimes when I visit other forums I am shocked by the level of abuse that is allowed. Perfectly decent posters will be dismissed with a f**k off and die comment, just because they don't agree with someone. I wouldn't want to see that here.

I was once a mod at a small forum and we had a poster who kept interrupting posts about 4ed with random negative comments which had nothing to do with the thread. I deleted them and (politely) asked him not to do it again. So, instead, he spammed the entire forums with 4ed hatred - I mean, he not only posted new posts, but went through his old posts and edited them! I can't imagine the time and effort he put into doing that. I banned him of course. The thing was, he was absolutely outraged by the banning, said that it was all just a laugh and I must be completely humourless not to be able to see it. It shocked me just how rude and aggressive he was and his complete inability to understand that he'd done anything wrong at all, in any way. He even started following me around to other forums and posting there, too! It was spooky and I learnt a lot about the faceless people you meet through the internet.

So moderating is hard work and can be quite stressful sometimes. I think the moderators here at EN World should be applauded for the job they do (unless they moderate me, of course - now that would be an outrage! )

It's people like that which make me want to do this - Can't post it here as it violates the language rules (from Jay & Silent Bob Strike back)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjWFZPJZTxU[/url)

 

[El Mahdi]

I would be much more obnoxious if I knew a gift basket was attached to the banhammer.

The gift basket is only attached to serve as a counterweight...it increases accuracy and the thump factor.

 

[Relique du Madde]

quick question about how the ban hammer works: does it just delete the account? because I could forsee a situation where a user would just go in and make a new account, which would slightly defeat the purpose, but I guess if they have to do that over and over they would probably give up anyway.

GM

I'm pretty sure it includes: Nuking the account's email addresses, various linked accounts (icq, facebooke, aim, twitter), IP address blocks, etc. The standard tools of the trade that are available to anyone who uses a CMS and had installed various security/moderation add-ons.