| Kantor said: 1) We receive far more complaints about how strict/trigger happy we are than how lenient we are on trolling. 2) That's settled, then. 3) Everyone is a reader before they become a participant. I don't like jumping into a thread with 200 pages, and if I do, I read the first couple of posts and then skip to the end. It makes it necessary to rely upon asking others to receive information, rather than simply being able to read it. And if you think our current situation is bad, what happens when we start seeing "GUYS I really need help how do I win with a Krogan battlemaster!" every ten posts? A search function that works would go a long way towards solving this, but this function evades many larger and wealthier sites (like Reddit) so I doubt we'll get it. 4) With discretion comes deviation from site policy. It's pretty much the opposite of accountability. You can't prepare for situation, so you have to have mods whom you can trust to make their own decisions. Overruling should be a rare thing, and demodding should pretty much never happen. 5) The OP is fine. There is, however, some trolling in there, especially that one guy with the unintelligible rants whom I just permabanned. 6) Was that functionality even there? I seem to remember it being added by TalonMan later on. |
1. That's fine. Assholes will complain, and people in a Systems War forum will continue to be entitled. It's part and parcel.
3. This scenario is not something to be afraid of. Imagine if we had a large-scale VGChartz ME3 MP club, and we used our organization for good. People being brought into the fold accumulate knowledge naturally over time. The idea that each discussion would be brought up over and over again, at least in rapid succession, is largely a fantasy.
I understand your fears, but in my experience things just don't play out that way. Come in. Ask your questions. Get them answered. And participate. We want peopel to participate, and this setup is a great way to encourage participation in a constructive way.
But it's also more about the little things. There is an official Halo 4 thread. http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=144263&page=1# This thread, for example, should not exist.
4. In theory, yes, the slap-hammer on a mod should never come down, but we already have a strong example (Maxwell) of a mod whose position was compromised by a long, long, long-standing compromise in his behavior, and it should have been addressed before. If you feel that Maxwell wouldn't be mod for five minutes under the current admin team, super. Great. This is illustrative more than instructive.
5. See, that's what I like. I like the murder. (also that was the poster I was really referring to). That's discretion used constructively and nobody reasonable can possibly argue with that decision.
I just want more of it. Harder bits of it. I want Rol to think real long before he hits that "Post Thread" button, God love him.
6. I can't have my argument hindered by your facts.
