TruckOSaurus on 04 February 2014
| Carl2291 said: Sooooo I already mailed TruckOSaurus about kowenicki's recent ban. Its got me thinking. Are you now giving out bans for strong worded replies to ignorance? Threads original OP had ignorant people laughing and joking about it and the first post in the thread is someone posting "lulz". Is he reaaaally in the wrong for mocking these people? The 2nd moderated post is essentially a moderation for telling someone to educate themself on the topic at hand... I wanna know the communities/ other mods thoughts. |
Might as well post my reply to you here.
When it comes to long time users, moderation is very dependent on that user's history. Kowenicki is a valuable poster but he has an attitude problem when it comes to arguing with people. He often resorts to ridicule, condescension and rudeness when "setting someone straight". The way he phrases his replies doesn't invite conversation, it invites confrontation.
The irony of it is that a calm response with the information about the September meeting and the information about Microsoft's division would have been more effective in shutting up misinformed people who commented in the thread.
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