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Carl on 07 December 2018
TalonMan said:

...well, unless that person's soul reason for entering this thread is to cast shade at the Mods themselves.

The purpose of this thread should be to discuss issues relating to HOW and WHY people are moderated and the overall decision process involved - it should NOT be used to publicly harass the moderators themselves. And so, if a person consistently comes into this thread offering nothing more than "Mod X is a jerk and I don't like him/her!", then that person should damn well be banned from this thread - whether for a short period of time, or permanently.

Either be constructive, or get lost! It's not that hard, really.

As long as real constructive criticism isn't going to be silenced, there's no problem.



                            

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Carl on 07 December 2018
TalonMan said:

I don't think that's ever been a problem...     ...has it?

This smells like red herring, to me. :(

It's never been a problem, but at the same time moderators have never held that kind of power until this tool was introduced.

As long as we have assurances that constructive criticism isn't going to be silenced and those vocal about certain issues aren't going to have their voice removed, there's no real problem.



                            

jason1637 on 07 December 2018

Why's this thread pinged to the main page?



HylianSwordsman on 07 December 2018

Wow, that's a really great new feature! You guys do a really great job here. Not too lax, not too strict. This seems like it has a lot of potential to take action when a full ban doesn't really feel called for, allowing for a bit more nuance. Should help those kinds of scenarios feel a lot more fair. Keep up the great work, guys!



kirby007 on 07 December 2018

Aye if actions were taken on reports alone troublemakers would have been gone ages ago



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kirby007 on 07 December 2018
CGI-Quality said:
kirby007 said:
Aye if actions were taken on reports alone troublemakers would have been gone ages ago

Some would have been. ;)

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Immersiveunreality on 07 December 2018
CGI-Quality said:
jason1637 said:
Why's this thread pinged to the main page?

I marked it as Important 

Thanks, i noticed it because of that.

Been reading the last 15 pages..., and yeah it was a wild ride ;)



VAMatt on 08 December 2018

This more selective ban stuff sounds like it has great potential.  It should be another good took for the mods to work with.  



Eagle367 on 08 December 2018

I think people should be allowed to openly discuss their bans with the community. As long as they aren't breaking any rules in the process, there shouldn't be any reason why threads discussing bans are blocked.



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Ganoncrotch on 08 December 2018
Eagle367 said:
I think people should be allowed to openly discuss their bans with the community. As long as they aren't breaking any rules in the process, there shouldn't be any reason why threads discussing bans are blocked.

But most posts in that line of thinking would probably lead to more moderation if someone doesn't understand the rules as in a ban of

"why was I banned for calling X console shit, it is shit"

What's gonna come of discussing why that sort of ban got them a ban, it just opens up area's such as a user suggesting they were joking or trying to suggest that their original post of "game/system is shit" actually represented the view of "the game/system has this list of actual reasons why it's an unpopular choice among gamers" which would not have led to the original ban... but then that's literally there in black and white in the rules as well.

8. Substance - Content is king for all posts and threads (for more rules on thread creation, see Rule 3). Some tips to keep you and your posts out of trouble:

  • Do not say that item A sucks, or that item B is better than item C. Give reasons why, and provide evidence (articles, screenshots, technical information, even opinion etc).
(just one example)

Also someone contesting their bans leads to the opportunity to lure others into mocking a user or gloating over the ban they received and again... further moderation's come from one fuck up.



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