The Moderator Thread

[Eagle367]

Angelus said:

Eagle367 said:

I think the political threads are where the modding is the most suspect. It sort of feels like things that to people seem rather trivial and not a big deal are treated as such by mods. Maybe it's to do with where you're from .Where I am from, we discuss politics openly and don;t shy away from it while people in the US general don't like that. Maybe because of that things that seem ok with me are not so for the mods. But even without that difference, inferring something from previous posts and imposing a bias on individuals is not a good mod strategy and feel that happened to me last time. It felt like he said you did this stuff before and you did it while talking about the same subject, so you are doing it again. Maybe a combination of how to manage political threads plus developing biases from history is what I think is wrong here

Edit: Recent posts that peaked my interest are not in my head right now because I have finals coming up and haven't been as active so I can't say

I'm sure we could do better in political threads, or even moderation across the board, and we mean to. Our aim is always to improve the standard.

However, we are generally not "imposing" biases on people. The simple fact of the matter is that we only know users by their written word, and as such, we have to construct our view of who they are based on what we see in those tendencies. That's not to say we're going to judge somebody's character on a single post (unless it's particularly heinous), but over time, patterns do inevitably emerge. It would be irresponsible of us not to let people's posting history affect our decision making to a certain degree.

 

If there's an issue with your most recent moderation, I suggest you contact a head mod directly.

This is a circular argument. I started with proposing that you let us discuss our bans with the community and now we're back where we started. You telling me to contact the mod directly. And his non answer is why all this started in the first place. If you follow the entire chain of posts regarding my issue, you'll see that is my entire problem. That;s what haooeneh last time. The head mid told me to discuss it with the mod that did it and the mod that did it wasn't interested in reconsidering anything. Sigh..... This is going nowhere