Max King of the Wild on 26 January 2014
| ganoncrotch said: One of the biggest pitfalls I've noticed that people are falling into is where they think another user is trolling/flamebaiting but rather than clicking the report button and allowing the moderation team take care of it they try to beat the trolls at trolling. Don't claim that certain members or usergroups are immune to moderation, if you see someone breaking the rules, click report, report them, leave it alone. It might take a few hours but the mods here will get around to what your report was, if it was something which was a open and closed case like sig gifs of 20mb then a mod will just instantly sort the issue or if it's a big flame war back and forth there might be some behind the scenes discussion as to how to deal with it. But all the reports are dealt with in a fairly timely manner especially when as ioi pointed out, the moderators on here are all just users who volunteered for the jobs of making these forums a better/civil place. I don't know how else to put this really... if you see someone pouring petrol around the place, get someone to come and clean it away... don't start flicking matches at it to see if you can cause an inferno. Remember that if you try and out-troll a troll and they decide to report you for it, you're the one who is getting a few days off the forums. Remember the moderators on here don't get to read every single post in every single thread, if it's a thread they've been asked to look at based on a report of a certain post they'll come in and deal with that post, they could go on to lock the whole thread because it's just a massive back and forth of hate. |
So youre saying it is okay to mod out of ignorance? Because it aint. If I say someone is being ignorant and that person is by definition being ignorant then it isnt an insult. so why should i be moderated because the mod didnt read the thread to see the sheer ignorance? Example you ask? Dark Feanor was demanding to see proof and pictures of the so called lines for ps4s at best buy. when someone provided him with what he asked for he changed his tune to "well that doesnt prove anything." That is by definition ignorant. So if i point that out why should i be banned?
