I am not going to keep going back and forth about the same thing, as it is obviously not a fruitful use of time for either of us. Ultimately, you are the moderator, so you can do whatever you want. If the rest of us don't like it, we can just stop posting and make this awful moderation job easier for you.
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Originally Posted by browser2920
So it doesnt appear to me that organic discussion or banter is being cut off any where but the mod thread.
There are two possibilities: You can either be right with everybody else being wrong, or you can be wrong and everybody else is raising valid complaints. The ones that are the loudest about those complaints happen to be the posters that have been here the longest. Who do you think is more likely to be correct in this scenario?
You may not realize it, but you have absolutely put a massive damper on discussion in this forum. It isn't even just banter. There are moderation issues that get brought up in this thread which you still delete. If you take a moderation action and then people start discussing
that action, you delete those posts as well. When Victor was banned recently, there were a few posts made in response, which you deleted with "This thread is only for things that require a mod response, not general discussions about Victor or any other poster." Seeing as there was nowhere else to discuss the issue of Victor's two week banning or opinions as to why Victor felt the need to post as he did, that discussion was instantly and unilaterally terminated forever. That not only stifles discussion which might very well be interesting, but it creates a chilling effect. After all, why would we waste hours of our time posting when you are going to delete half our posts anyway. Moreso, as we have seen over the last few weeks, there is the possibility you are going to ban a poster for a stretch for completely arbitrary reasons, so why take the chance? You banned d2 for a week for teasing you, and you banned Luckbox for something similar a few weeks ago, so we all know you are capable.
You weren't even moderating this way before you took your hiatus. Why you made this 180 is a complete mystery.
Anyway, that's all I have to say about this, as I have repeated this ad nauseam since you came back. On behalf of everybody on this forum, let me say how sorry we are that your brother-in-law forced you to take on the moderation duties here. We can tell it has been really taxing on you.
Last edited by DonkJr; 02-23-2024 at 02:27 PM.