Interesting, I don’t remember this at all but I’m sure I did it. I guess what’s ‘best for the community’ is pulling up shit that’s 5+ years old now huh meb?
The person who posted that was banned for two weeks for posting it, despite it being true. I do think that part is interesting.
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Going to be ironic when meb eats another ban in a thread he created about banning
gmafb meb, that ‘person’ is an obvious gimmick that has done nothing but troll. Sticking up for that is not in the interest of the community.
I’m pretty sure I did that if I recall correctly. I believe that it was an out of the blue account that reeked of an alt and I just hit the suspend for 2 weeks button since that was the only post.
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I am interested in using this RFC as a way to codify mod guidelines for the community. The outline would be based on @JonnyA recommendations with one addition.
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Mods need to talk to problem posters before banning. Most posters here are reasonable and will tone things down when requested. Bans should only be issued after requests are ignored.
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Mods must be willing to discuss decisions. As a community run board, mods should be responsive to the community and be willing to engage regarding their decisions (and modify their actions based on community input).
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Silence - not ban. When issuing a “ban”, the silence feature should be used. Ban should only be used for community approved permanent bans or where a community member is found to be abusive via DM while silenced.
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Mods cannot act on a post involving themselves or where it is in response to their involvement in a discussion. Another moderator must act if the post is actionable. Where this is impossible, the mod team as a whole may vote on the correct course of action. An exception can be made in a situation where a poster is doxxing or directly threatening a mod, or other unforeseen extreme situations. In these cases, the rest of the mod team should be alerted to confirm the decision.
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Failure to follow these guidelines would be viewed as reason to remove a mod within the existing RFC process.
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I haven’t agreed with a lot of your posting ITT, but I don’t think I have problems with any of this.
Literally 1984
If Riverman isn’t good enough, I promise to be the biggest power-abusing asshole when I become mod.
It will happen at some point because what good person who gives a shit about this community would want to be mod when forum members have breakdowns over individual decisions like this? All that will be left for mod is people who don’t give a fuck about these complaints and even actively ban them.
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Riverman is the only mod I’ve ever complained about, but based on that post I’m sure I would not vote for you.
forgot he made a whole new account to get out of paying a losing bet.
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I don’t think this is true, did you actually not complain about SK openly breaking actual rules you helped put in place or am I not remembering that correctly?
I did not complain about @anon10396289
I thought he was an excellent mod and that Riverman was 100% in the wrong in that situation.
So you didn’t complain about SK breaking rules we all agreed upon for mods even though that had nothing to do with Riverman at all?
Interesting.
I believe your recollection of the situation is incorrect, but I have zero interest in getting into semantikes discussions with you.
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It’s weird how you have zero interest in that discussion while bumping the thread that’s literally about that while claiming the thing you want voted on is related somehow.
meb,
Respectfully, take a day or two off man.
To put it differently, I have zero interest in discussing anything with you. This applies to many topics.
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Man, really seems like we had a solid month or so with minimal drama. Hate to see bickering over moderation flare up again.
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I definitely agree that we can and should do away with mods
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