| pokoko said: I like reading the opinions of actual female gamers, even if I disagree with them, so I would welcome measures that would bring more female gamers to these forums, but I do not like the idea of a secret sub-forums at all. I was granted temporary mod status and access to a secret sub-forum some of the mods and veteran users had on another site. Unfortunately, they forgot to hide their "talk trash about other members" thread. I was pissed off and disillusioned enough that I walked away from my mod duties and the website entirely for a few months. I'm not saying that would happen here but I don't like the potential existing. It doesn't seem fair to me. Having the thread as a kind of club where only female club-members could post would fine, but I'm against the secrecy part. |
I don't doubt that happens to some extent at most forums with moderation. When you spend so much time on a site, it's not unbelievable to want to vent about some of it behind other people's backs, especially when decisions have to be made about banning users. That happens behind people's backs all the time for sure. It doesn't have to be on-site, could just be between people in IM and that theoretically messes up the balance of power. At least from experience... I've done adminning and modding before... seen a lot of that kind of stuff. It's the internet so drama is inevitable.
I'm not too worried about it, because most of the time, all females like to talk about is each other, their guy problems and the stuff that bothers them (i.e. asking for support), ask for advice, etc... Moderators unchecked can ban whoever and whatever if the system is allowed to get that way in the first place...
