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.
his worldview is more closely aligned with the leaders of the USA than anyone else on this forum by orders of magnitude.
Does it make you feel good to say this? Its complete nonsense but hopefully you at least feel better having said it.
Again, total ****ing nonsense.
I don't even want you to try and defend the claim.
not really. took me a long time to realize how depraved our leaders and institutions are. but I too, was once a liberal.
This is really annoying when people think two plus two is ran by the US governement and/or is USA centric.
There might be more american posters but USA policies have nothing to do with forum policies .
Lot of posters seem to confuse and mix up both.
I moved the posts on the not-quite-trans boxer to the trans thread. I don't want that discussion blowing up here while also happening there.
This is really annoying when people think two plus two is ran by the US governement and/or is USA centric.
There might be more american posters but USA policies have nothing to do with forum policies .
Lot of posters seem to confuse and mix up both.
There have always been a large number of non-U.S. posters as far as I know.
I'm not a mod, but that was my understanding of the rules. There might be exceptions for willing combatants, no idea, I don't go in those threads.
Debating the death penalty seems like it would be an obvious exception.
people were actively posting about how upset they were the shooter didn't kill trump, even hoping someone would try again and succeed
none received bans only thing was that a mod finally asked them to stop, not because it was bad, but because it would require the secret service to investigate
people were actively posting about how upset they were the shooter didn't kill trump, even hoping someone would try again and succeed
none received bans only thing was that a mod finally asked them to stop, not because it was bad, but because it would require the secret service to investigate
While I did semi-jokingly suggest that such posts would give the FBI more work, I wasn't really saying that was the reason. You take everything so literally.
That's just how rick rolls.
While I did semi-jokingly suggest that such posts would give the FBI more work, I wasn't really saying that was the reason. You take everything so literally.
you may have been joking because you didn't know how it worked, but authorities would 100% at least do a brief lurk and read over an online forum that was repeatedly posting about killing the president - they would be doing that even without an actual shooting attempt
you may have been joking because you didn't know how it worked, but authorities would 100% at least do a brief lurk and read over an online forum that was repeatedly posting about killing the president - they would be doing that even without an actual shooting attempt
I said semi-joking instead of joking because I do know how it works.
He has no reason I'm aware of to dislike you (unless he's read some of your **** hot football takes).
I feel as though there's some misunderstanding. You said that we stopped the wishing Trump died talk just because it would bring in the FBI, not because we thought such talk was bad. The reality is that both were factors in the decision to some degree. You seem to be trying to make me commit to just one reason or the other.
You'll have to make some allowances for rick. He gets twitchy if he hasn't been back to reeducation camp for a while.
I see your point rr,,, I just don't think that greenG was trying to mess with you.
thank you, i agree it's a possibility he initially posted not to attack but rather because he wanted to acknowledge that there were other factors, but the needless and groundless "you take everything literally" is basically an attempt at gaslighting and calling me stupid, implying only an idiot would have interpreted it that way, only to later concede that it was indeed a factor (in addition to a stated reason itt) was just over the top and unnecessary
just being a dick for no reason when i was not going after him nor anyone else in the slightest, and this person is modding threads
thank you, i agree it's a possibility he initially posted not to attack but rather because he wanted to acknowledge that there were other factors, but the needless and groundless "you take everything literally" is basically an attempt at gaslighting and calling me stupid, implying only an idiot would have interpreted it that way, only to later concede that it was indeed a factor (in addition to a stated reason itt) was just over the top and
JFC dude. Chill, he wasn't calling you stupid. You take everything so literally.
Jfc
Bring back Luciom and his infinite list of JAQ about posting rules.
I moved this to the Mod thread as it has no place in Election 2024
Oh please I hadnt had a warning or suspension since 2012 You may not like my politics fine but when the mod warns someone to stop with the wish trump was dead and that person continues and she does nothing but ask him to stop . She allows folks to say JD Vance sucks dick but OMG if you say Kamala did it to advance her career you get a ban
She literally violated her own rule to disparage a GOP person .
I have no idea what you're talking about. You, as well as others, were warned to stop with the misogynistic posts or there would be bans. You didn't stop. You were banned.
I moved this to the Mod thread as it has no place in Election 2024
Oh please I hadnt had a warning or suspension since 2012 You may not like my politics fine but when the mod warns someone to stop with the wish trump was dead and that person continues and she does nothing but ask him to stop . She allows folks to say JD Vance sucks dick but OMG if you say Kamala did it to advance her career you get a ban
She literally violated her own rule
lol
