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.
Check it out, Trolly's got a new BFF! Doesn't take much to get in your pants, does it? Movie ticket and a large soda.
Yet countries do this regularly when deciding who to give international aid to, who to ally with and so on.
If we aren't allowed to prefer one country to another we aren't allowed to justify aiding Ukraine against Russia for example, are these the forum rules?
You are welcome to talk about which countries you prefer.
You are welcome to discuss immigration policy and foreign aid, which aren't typically motivated by reductive beliefs of the sort you expressed.
I know that you would like millimeter level guidance as to exactly how far you can push the boundary on this topic, but I have neither the time nor the inclination. If this isn't enough guidance, then either err on the side of caution or find some other dark corner of the internet to discuss this topic.
What you clowns done with Bobo, then? Not like him to go AWOL for weeks on end. Is he in a suitcase somewhere because King Spew wanted the admin job?
He's unavoidably detained.
Good thing we are an autonomous collective.
has anyone seen bobo and browser in the same room at the same time before?
case closed then, thought i was onto something
now i just gotta figure out what i did for sklansky to label me and you his biggest detractors and all mysteries of life shall be solved
Oh, I've been clowning on him non-stop for years. I think I told him once I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire, although I imagine the stuff that gets under his skin the most is when I remind everyone he's nowhere near as good at maths as he claims.
No idea what you did.
you i get, you're probably on a lot of kill lists
me, I'm just a soft and cuddly teddy bear and only lurked the strat threads during his greatest hits so wasn't live posting during brandy et al
but seriously, you should probably hedge a little and start making some phone calls
Good point, might need to give BJ a call. How does it work at the trailer park, do they have a main number that patches you through?
Yes Google reset my 2FA allowing me to get into everything, and I bought a ZTE blade for around $140 usd that seems nice-- just got screen glass for it yesterday so it's all official. No 5g capability for it unfortunately which doesn't matter in Colombia but will in US-- but it's a nice phone.
I'm in a place called Mesetas in the department of Meta-- rafting is the big draw here and there are some amazing canyons but I just got here yesterday. 3 more weeks in Colombia then back to US.
Awesome! Glad you got it working.
Interesting that you went the Google route. How long did it take them?
Any advice there how to get google to Do it?
Meta sounds like a nice place.
Awesome! Glad you got it working.
Interesting that you went the Google route. How long did it take them?
Any advice there how to get google to Do it?
Meta sounds like a nice place.
Meta has been nice. It's not really a part of the traditional tourist route in Colombia but tourism has been growing over the last few years. I'll still always prefer the mountains but the plains do have bigger rivers and the Spanish is a lot easier to understand for me than the Paisa accent which is the accent of Medellin/Antioquia.
It only took about a day-- I opened a case with google fi support and they were the one's who resolved it. I think i had not had an account with them or been paying for a google service then it would have been a lot more difficult because there didn't seem to be any sort of way to reach a real person through other mechanisms. Perhaps there is a play store support where if you have a subscription to some app that would work as well.
Oh cool. Thanks. Have you been to cali?
Thats where the cali cartel is from.
There are mountains imo but it might be dangerous there. Idk.
Oh, I've been clowning on him non-stop for years. I think I told him once I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire, although I imagine the stuff that gets under his skin the most is when I remind everyone he's nowhere near as good at maths as he claims.
No idea what you did.
why wouldn't you micturate on him if he was burning? i have no idea about the math stuff as i am a math tard myself but he doesnt seem to be a bad guy. maybe a little pervy but i can't hold that against the man.
also, i think you may be right that he cares more about his math reputation than "poker mentor" reputation.
Ironic really, since he doesn't even know enough about maths to understand how much he doesn't know.
Chez appearing out of nowhere to defend his master in 3... 2... 1...
It's been discussed ad nauseam, amongst other things there is definitely a thread about it in NVG from a few years back with links to / screenshots of the email in question. I'm sure you could find it in 5-10 minutes if you wanted to.
