ENWorld Edition Bias

[La Bete]

Funny you should mention that poster since when I look at his or her handy work in the thread titled poll of polls post #40 I see very personal attack (in response to humor and a critique of the actual poll) and in response this post was not deleted, nor was the poster banned. I guess this pokes a pretty big hole in your theory

Not really. I've seen him get sanctions ranging from warnings, to mod edits to bannings (on more than one occasion).

Admittedly the bannings are normally in response to BryonD.

 

[Fifth Element]

Funny you should mention that poster since when I look at his or her handy work in the thread titled poll of polls post #40 I see very personal attack (in response to humor and a critique of the actual poll) and in response this post was not deleted, nor was the poster banned. I guess this pokes a pretty big hole in your theory

Don't count on it. A lot of moderator activity takes place privately, behind the scenes. I've discussed this with the mods before - not all warnings and bans are revealed in-thread. Often the offending poster is dealt with directly, with no publicity, so to speak.

 

[diaglo]

Funny you should mention that poster since when I look at his or her handy work in the thread titled poll of polls post #40 I see very personal attack (in response to humor and a critique of the actual poll) and in response this post was not deleted, nor was the poster banned. I guess this pokes a pretty big hole in your theory

but he was warned: http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/248080-poll-polls-3.html#post4613350

 

[Shadeydm]

but he was warned: http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/248080-poll-polls-3.html#post4613350

Indeed however when things get personal such posts are normally deleted and such posters are at least banned from the thread. In this instance not only was the offending post allowed to stand but I suspect there would likely have been no moderation at all if I didn't offer the Mods the alternate choice of responding to the post myself.

 

[the Jester]

There are asshats on all sides.

Overall it's fair and balanced.

 

[diaglo]

Indeed however when things get personal such posts are normally deleted and such posters are at least banned from the thread. In this instance not only was the offending post allowed to stand but there would likely have been no moderation at all if I didn't offer the Mods the alternate choice of responding to the post myself.

huh?
the post was reported. by me i know for sure.

normally when things get personal the poster gets warned or banned.
the deletion thing must be new.

 

[mmu1]

For the longest time, I really felt outnumbered (and somewhat harassed) as a 3E fan, to the point where I largely gave up on ENWorld - I think Edena's recent poll helped me (and, judging by the threads popping up, a lot of other 3E folks) realize that we're actually still a majority here, despite how vocal a lot of the 4E proponents have been.

Or perhaps it's just a manifestation of a larger trend I can't see since, as I said, I've stopped reading ENWorld for a while.

On the management side... I have to say that, given the fact people running ENWorld have a financial stake in the success of 4E (I distinctly recall Morrus complaining about how badly they were doing on 3E merchandise after the announcement of 4E) I think it'd be hard for some kind of bias - or something that might as well be a bias, in terms of how it looks to us posters - to creep in. Though I don't really think it extended to matters like modertion policy, even if some of the heavy-handed measures taken to prevent "edition wars" (I marveled at things that were construed as inappropriate, during that period) could at times make it seem like it.

For example, the way early Pathfinder threads got moved out of General RPG Discussion and into one of the sub-forums definitely felt like they were being swept under the rug...

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Funny you should mention that poster since when I look at his or her handy work in the thread titled poll of polls post #40 I see very personal attack (in response to humor and a critique of the actual poll) and in response this post was not deleted, nor was the poster banned. I guess this pokes a pretty big hole in your theory

The gap you perceive is the gap between how the individual mods handle a case they get tasked to handle. At least that's part of it.

 

[Shadeydm]

huh?
the post was reported. by me i know for sure.

normally when things get personal the poster gets warned or banned.
the deletion thing must be new.

Just look at how the thread titled Why do you keep playing 4E was moderated if you can't see any difference in how things were handled then I respectfully withdraw from having this discussion with you sir.

 

[diaglo]

Just look at how the thread titled Why do you keep playing 4E was moderated if you can't see any difference in how things were handled then I respectfully withdraw from having this discussion with you sir.

that's a mod difference.
edit: also respectfully withdrawing