Moderation Questions and General Chat Thread
The last iteration of the moderation discussion thread was a complete disaster. Numerous attempts to keep it on topic failed, and it became a general discussion thread with almost no moderation related posts at all. And those that were posted were so buried in non-mod posts that it became a huge time drain on the mods to sort through them. Then, when off topic posts were deleted posters complained about that.
This led to the closing of the mod discussion thread, replaced by the post report/pm approach. This has filtered out lots of noise, but has resulted at times in the General Discussion Thread turning into a quasi-mod thread. This is not desirable, but going back to the old mod thread is also not a workable option.
Therefore, I have created this new moderation thread, but with a different purpose and ground rules than previous mod threads. The purpose of this thread is to provide a place for posters to pose questions to the mods about how policies are applied; to bring to the mods attention posts they think are inappropriate and reach the level of requiring mod action; and for mods to communicate to posters things like changes or clarifications to policies, bannings, etc.
Now let me tell you what this thread is NOT a place for. It is not for nonmoderation related posts, even if the discussion originates from a comment in in a mod related post. It is not for posters to post their opinions about other posters or whether a poster should be banned. It is not to rehash past grievances about mod decisions from months or years ago. The focus of this thread will be recent posts that require action now. Or questions about current policies and enforcement.
So basically, this is a thread to ask mods questions. Which means, pretty much that only mods should be answering those questions. If a poster asks why a particular post was deleted or allowed, only a mod can answer that. Everyone else who wants to jump in with their opinion or their mod war story needs to stay out of it. It just increases the noise to signal ratio and does nothing to answer the question.
Everyone needs to understand that this thread has very different rules than the old mod thread and any other thread. Any non-moderation post will be deleted on sight. Not moved to the appropriate thread, just deleted. So don't waste your time crafting a masterpiece post about wars or transgender issues or the presidential election and then post it in this thread. It will be gone. Also, this isnt a thread for general commentary about our mods performance. Posting "browser sucks as a mod" or any such posts that don't actually ask about a policy or request a mod action will be deleted. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the moderation of this forum. But this thread isnt for complaining about mods. You are free to go to the ATF forum and make your concerns about modding in this forum there.
So with that intro, this thread is open for those who need to bring questions about mod policies or bring inappropriate posts to the mods attention. Again, it is NOT a thread for group discussions about other posters or for other posters to answer questions directed to mods.
We'll see how this goes. If you have what you feel is an open issue raised in the General Discussion Thread, please copy that post or otherwise reintroduce the issue here.
Thanks.
In general, I have been cutting back a lot. I also went to an AA meeting. No joke. I even spoke briefly. I said "my relationship with alcohol has ruined every other personal and professional relationship I have ever had".
I have the ability to drop the hammer but chose not to in this case.
I also have the ability to "defend" my actions but choose not to in this case.... letting actions speak for themselves.
Move along, nothing to see here.
So, you punish everyone instead of the ones causing the trouble.
You're like the elementary school teachers who made the whole class miss recess because one kid didn't do his homework.
In general, I have been cutting back a lot. I also went to an AA meeting. No joke. I even spoke briefly. I said "my relationship with alcohol has ruined every other personal and professional relationship I have ever had".
It might seem that way in hindsight but maybe it merely accelerated the inevitable?
Tell you what, I'll teach you how to fianchetto your bishops properly (that would be, without losing a tempo), and we call it quits?
Tell you what, I'll teach you how to fianchetto your bishops properly (that would be, without losing a tempo), and we call it quits?
Didn't realise I was initiating a willy-waving contest but iyrc we stopped playing because most of our games ended in draws, you being unable to break down black's fianchettoed bishop with Ns on d4 and c6 structure lol.
nerd fight!
Didn't realise I was initiating a willy-waving contest but iyrc we stopped playing because most of our games ended in draws, you being unable to break down black's fianchettoed bishop with Ns on d4 and c6 structure lol.
That's actually kind. While a number of games ended in draws, I'm pretty sure my record has more losses than wins. Which kinda makes my joke.
Schlitz mmmm banned 7 days for continuing
Too bad the best chess this forum had is still banned.
For the record, I was intending to ban Schlitz and Vic yesterday but wanted to finish reading through the thread for completeness. Unfortunately, I didn't have the time right away to read another 100+ posts and then didn't come back to 2+2 for the night. If/when the thread reopens it will be more heavily moderated. To whatever extent I'm involved, I won't bother reading all the posts for context and will just ban anyone who makes a post that seems purposely inflammatory with no intent to move forward a conversation (eg insults or posting pictures of dead bodies and stating that this is what other posters want).
Nvm
The thread does need to reopen. It's a major world event and remains the most important news event of the last year. We can't ban discussion of something that the NYT and WaPo are writing articles about daily-- that would be absurd.
Hmm, ok, I wasn't so sure. But anyway we were both rusty and a shadow of our former selves, naturally.
It's funny, right. I play pool. For a lot of money. I lose a lot of money. The only guy I dislike is a guy who didn't shake my hand after he lost. Much better player than me, I got lucky. The dude didn't shake my hand. Even his own friends told his he was a dick.
I understand it's complicated because I agree it's a major issue and currently one of the most salient political issues in the west, otoh it's also a particularly hot topic that generates incredible adversarial feelings because people are more polarized about it than about most other things and there are actual human lives on the line in the present and in the future which we (both sides) care about a lot.
If you feel one side is supporting a moral atrocity of a large scale (like I think anyone supporting Hamas does, and like they think anyone supporting Israel does) it's normal to get really angry, not in the normal sense of angry but rather in the "your actual physical elimination would be a splendid result" sense of angry , or worse.
But I mean isn't it actually normal that war creates those feelings? I feel actually at war with western citizens that support Hamas, and I feel many of them feel at actual war with me and with people that agree with me.
I understand it's complicated because I agree it's a major issue and currently one of the most salient political issues in the west, otoh it's also a particularly hot topic that generates incredible adversarial feelings because people are more polarized about it than about most other things and there are actual human lives on the line in the present and in the future which we (both sides) care about a lot.
If you feel one side is supporting
Would it shock you to learn that nobody gives a flying **** what you think?
