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.
just read a bunch of d2 posts or train your chatgpt on them and you will learn how to endlessly insult people without any repercussions.
That's an insanely stupid standard. Every person with an organizational structure should be banned as soon as one person in their org is found to be doing something morally wrong?
I wrote ''ban'' because I wasn't sure what he meant with ban, I'm assuming he meant to no longer allow to watch Mr Beast which is what I said I did in my household. Yeah I stand by that.
Not that I care about the standards of someone who would chop the breasts off a 14 year old girl or refer to a 7 year old boy as a she.
I’m down for the cause if I can endlessly insult people. That’d be fun
I wrote ''ban'' because I wasn't sure what he meant with ban, I'm assuming he meant to no longer allow to watch Mr Beast which is what I said I did in my household. Yeah I stand by that.
Not that I care about the standards of someone who would chop the breasts off a 14 year old girl or refer to a 7 year old boy as a she.
False. I said 16 year old not 14 year old.
srm 4 mod
This isn't a mod issue per se, but I find it interesting that several active members of this forum have been outraged at Luckbox for years for initially denying Sandyhook happened, on the auspice it was perpetuating trauma and harm.
And yet when members of this forum continually deny October 7th atrocities, and do so in an extremely malicious manner (which Luckbox has never been accused of), these same members are now completely agnostic towards any trauma or harm.
Very interesting dichotomy. I would say Luckbox is owed an apology, and maybe some soul searching why you have so much empathy for the Sandyhook victims and survivors, and so little for the October 7th ones.
This isn't a mod issue per se, but I find it interesting that several active members of this forum have been outraged at Luckbox for years for initially denying Sandyhook happened, on the auspice it was perpetuating trauma and harm.
And yet when members of this forum continually deny October 7th atrocities, and do so in an extremely malicious manner (which Luckbox has never been accused of), these same members are now completely agnostic t
i think that srm's first mod duty should be tackling this
This isn't a mod issue per se, but I find it interesting that several active members of this forum have been outraged at Luckbox for years for initially denying Sandyhook happened, on the auspice it was perpetuating trauma and harm.
And yet when members of this forum continually deny October 7th atrocities, and do so in an extremely malicious manner (which Luckbox has never been accused of), these same members are now completely agnostic t
I haven't been following the I/P thread that closely. Are people denying that there was an attack on October 7 in which many people died? Are people alleging that the apparent victims in that attack were actually crisis actors? Are people alleging that the entire thing was a ruse orchestrated by the Israeli government (or some shadow government) for inscrutable reasons?
If any of that is happening, that's really nuts, and I agree that it shouldn't be allowed.
I even know what my avatar would be as politics mod
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I haven't been following the I/P thread that closely. Are people denying that there was an attack on October 7 in which many people died? Are people alleging that the apparent victims in that attack were actually crisis actors? Are people alleging that the entire thing was a ruse orchestrated by the Israeli government (or some shadow government) for inscrutable reasons?
If any of that is happening, that's really nuts, and I agree that it
They claim they were all ex-militaries and no rape occurred, so it was an act of war (a justified one given the "oppression").
So at the very least they deny the mass rape confirmed by the UN, and the death of children, and that children were taken as hostages.
Well they aren’t even remotely the same
Innocent kids being killed at school by randoms
Ex Military people on stolen land throwing a party in a war zone
I wasn't here for the Sandy Hook denials, but this is one of the most vile posts I have read on this forum.
Palestinian land was stolen by pre IDF forces and their land has been stolen from them little by little since then
Israel has mandatory conscription so the vast vast majority of its people are ex military. If combat is needed they will become combatants
A rave is a party. A war zone is a place where people are killed and weapons of wars are used. The areas around a border between two warring entities is called a war zone
I appreciate that Oct 7 was horrible. I do not think you are aware of what was actually happening.
Feel free to disprove any of my statements
I haven't been following the I/P thread that closely. Are people denying that there was an attack on October 7 in which many people died? Are people alleging that the apparent victims in that attack were actually crisis actors? Are people alleging that the entire thing was a ruse orchestrated by the Israeli government (or some shadow government) for inscrutable reasons?
If any of that is happening, that's really nuts, and I agree that it
none of that is happening.
I haven't been following the I/P thread that closely. Are people denying that there was an attack on October 7 in which many people died? Are people alleging that the apparent victims in that attack were actually crisis actors? Are people alleging that the entire thing was a ruse orchestrated by the Israeli government (or some shadow government) for inscrutable reasons?
If any of that is happening, that's really nuts, and I agree that it
Is this happening?
I haven't been following the I/P thread that closely. Are people denying that there was an attack on October 7 in which many people died? Are people alleging that the apparent victims in that attack were actually crisis actors? Are people alleging that the entire thing was a ruse orchestrated by the Israeli government (or some shadow government) for inscrutable reasons?
If any of that is happening, that's really nuts, and I agree that it
current thinking is as follows:
israel knew the attack was coming and allowed it in order to have an excuse to genocide the palestinians
no rape. the eyewitnesses are all lying
of the israelis found dead on oct 7, all were legitimate targets and almost all were killed by the IDF, not hamas
the number of palestinians killed by israel since oct 7 is between 500,000 and 600,000
I was just trying to understand whether Kelhus's analogy actually made sense.
Wasn’t there a UN report saying there wasn’t mass rapes by Hamas?
