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.
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Yes I have no idea what you’re referencing when you tell me to look it up myself.
I must ask you, did you think I was going to look up Js posts and then argue about them with you?
Were you trolling me? Maybe you’re delusional? What’re the other options?
When’s Vic coming back?
Not soon enough.
Aww, you miss your little buddy. How cute.
I do. Nothing wrong with having friends, I can assure you.
I must question if you understand what the word "should" means.
You said you understand him. If you do understand him then you SHOULD be able to explain this without making massive assumptions. If that's the way that things SHOULD be if what you said is true, but it's not how things actually are, then what does that say about your claim?
If you have to ask.......
Explain this?
What is “this”? Where did I say I can understand someone without making assumptions?
+1
I don't know about that. I had a friend once but he started getting fresh with me so I had little choice but to bludgeon him to death with a large mallet in what the prosecutor characterised as a "frenzied, unprovoked attack". Guess we all have different views on provocation. But I'm rambling now, you crack on.
Google says that might be an original thought
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You run my posts through Google to check if I am plagiarising content? That seems like a perfectly normal thing to be doing.
I guess I should be flattered that you think my prose is so good it might have been plagiarised?
Some weird stuff going on for sure.
^^Lol what? Did he do that for some sort of ironic effect, or was he trying to get away with it?
I don't know what's more shocking - that PW is a plagiarist, or that it has not occurred to anyone before me to bludgeon someone to death with a large mallet.
everyone knows most of d2 posts are just copy/pastes of passages from the hunt of the jabberwocky porn parody
You're allowed to copy/paste your own work.
Who could tell? Its too difficult to calculate how long a month is.
Oh I wanted to see how likely it was that you had that experience or were quoting a book
I don’t think of things as plagiarizing.
Also anything I copy paste is clearly copy pasted , unless you guys think I have perfect spelling grammar sentence structure etc
Who knows when he got banned tho.
You think that the only options are that either I quoted a book or I bludgeoned my friend to death with a large mallet? I mean, there are all sorts of other options. It could have been a small mallet.
small mallets are quite light
Would you like to volunteer to test this theory?
You want a mallet weighing competition?
Hoow are we going to judge whether they qualify as light or heavy?
The classification is part of the experiment. You start talking and I hit you on the head with increasingly heavier mallets until you start making sense. The first one to achieve this objective is "heavy".