[Staff] The Monthly Ban Report - January 2014

[Mr Khan]

LurkerJ said:

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.

It is kind of funny that Stephen Elop is heading a division with a product he doesn't want under his wing. What's wrong with the lulz?

That's just business, like when Cartoon Network got a president who didn't understand the appeal of cartoons (which led to the disastrous CN Real experiment). It's part of the problem of seeing "business" as a separate category from "industry", or like how career politicians can be bounced from the Finance Ministry to the Transportation Ministry to the Foreign Ministry when they can't possibly have the right expertise in all three fields. In this manner, you get a lot of people who really don't understand the business they're in, or may not understand the division that they are overseeing even if the know the "industry" as a whole, and this could be quite detrimental.

Ideally executives should be promoted in a very straight hierarchical fashion (rise up through your division to head your division, then onto central corporate matters), as this gives them a strong emotional investment and trust level with the people they're overseeing.

It can lead to myopia in some cases, but i think it's better than people who have little love for their own product radically changing it due to a mere lack of understanding.