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<blockquote data-quote="Keith Robinson" data-source="post: 5521412" data-attributes="member: 21330">Yep, gonna have to agree with this.&nbsp; I think the mods here do a very good job.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Perfectly decent posters will be dismissed with a f**k off and die comment, just because they don't agree with someone.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; I deleted them and (politely) asked him not to do it again.&nbsp; 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!&nbsp; I can't imagine the time and effort he put into doing that.&nbsp; I banned him of course.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; He even started following me around to other forums and posting there, too!&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Keith Robinson, post: 5521412, member: 21330"] 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 [I]f**k off and die[/I] 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 [I]would[/I] be an outrage! :p) [/QUOTE]

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