| TalonMan said: And how many other forums have you visited where anytime a person is 'moderated', they are hung out for public humiliation? I was under the impression that the idea of putting people in stocks went out in the 1800's. Should we, as moderators, also send out public announcements everytime we 'warn' a user? Of course, we'd have to!!! Because, if we didn't, then we'd be accused of being too 'trigger happy' and not having given the offender a chance to rectify their ways, right? Pfft - you and I have been down this road many times already and you're never going to get anywhere with this. Moderations are between the moderator and the offender - period. As I've said countless times, things are not run so restrictively on this site that people should believe there is an abuse of power going on. You've been here long enough yourself to see how long some of the most obnoxious people are allowed to troll before they are finally evicted - that, in itself, should be enough. Tell me the truth, has there been a single person 'banned' from this site that you believed was erroneous? Was there a single instance of a ban where you didn't say to yourself 'Well, it was only a matter of time.'??? And those that are banned within their first 100 posts, I should think wouldn't be too hard to identify what the problem was - so what's at issue here?!?!?!?
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Actually, I moderate a public forum with a seven-year history and half a million posts. The community is very involved, and the moderators always give public warnings and usually a closing remark when any moderating act is taken. It's not for humiliation, and it's not putting people in the stocks. There's a reason the court system is public, you know. I'm not saying we need to put people on trial here and have a "jury" decide their fate, that would be huge overkill and unnecessary.
It's not about me, Talon. I agree with you that people should not believe that there is an abuse of power, but look around! We constantly have people whining that the mods are biased towards the Wii, that if you say anything against it you will be banned. I don't believe this is true, but the whole point of my last post which you seem to have missed is it's not about me. Keep on dismissing this with your "Pfft" attitude, you're just giving those people more ammo for their arguments which I'm sick of.
Like I said in my last post, I think the mods here do a fine job, so I'm not angry with you guys. I'm much more fed up with the accusations flying around, and I'm suggesting something that I think will help. Disagree with me if you want, but please don't miss the point.
