Moderation Questions
The last iteration of the moderation discussion thread was a complete disaster. Numerous attempts to keep it on topic fa
crossnerd turned up in the i/p thread a few months ago, made a whole bunch of trollish posts at mets such as calling him a fascist worm, calling him a sociopath, trolling him over his wife's inability to conceive, and so on. i obviously have receipts. mets had her on ignore the whole time and did not respond to any of her abusive posts, it was a one-way street. i distinctly rem
Jeeze. The nepotism ("politics") in the mod community has no bounds.
crossnerd turned up in the i/p thread a few months ago, made a whole bunch of trollish posts at mets such as calling him a fascist worm, calling him a sociopath, trolling him over his wife's inability to conceive, and so on. i obviously have receipts. mets had her on ignore the whole time and did not respond to any of her abusive posts, it was a one-way street. i distinctly rem
I feel like you might be missing some important details in this account if your posting in the Palestine thread is anything to go by.
Can't say whether every single detail given by BOIDS is true, but Crossnerd has obviously only very recently been made mod. The animosity between the two of them goes back much longer than the two or three months she has been green.
I believe she was on ignore before and then he couldn’t ignore he once she became green
We should vote on removing crossnerds powers and bringing back Mets to the forum
How do we get that done? Do the desires of other posters have no significance?
I believe she was on ignore before and then he couldn’t ignore he once she became green
We should vote on removing crossnerds powers and bringing back Mets to the forum
How do we get that done? Do the desires of other posters have no significance?
I'd like to see a more elective process for mod duties of this forum specifically. It would very much be in the spirit of P&S to do so. Maybe creating specific roles (like forum President for example) would be a fun thing to do once a year.
TBH, if what BOIDS says is true, I feel a little uncomfortable with a moderator having ascribed sub-human characteristics to another poster in front of the whole community. One of the things I've learned from living in psych wards is that everyone has a human heart - and even if unreachable - everyone deserves the time and place to be touched by a loving hand....without exception.
this is not a democracy
Can't say whether every single detail given by BOIDS is true, but Crossnerd has obviously only very recently been made mod. The animosity between the two of them goes back much longer than the two or three months she has been green.
Nonetheless, you can't put a mod on ignore.
TBH, if what BOIDS says is true, I feel a little uncomfortable with a moderator having ascribed sub-human characteristics to another poster in front of the whole community.
What, exactly was said?
everyone deserves the time and place to be touched by a loving hand....without exception.
OK but I feel like this isn't the place for that.
It can’t be a democracy while it’s owned privately imo.
They should abandon the idea of having people censoring other people’s conversations and restrict mod powers to cleaning up spam and other admin tasks.
In what other walk of life do we tolerate such censorship?
It is super easy for people in charge to make P/S forum a representative democracy
I believe she was on ignore before and then he couldn’t ignore he once she became green
We should vote on removing crossnerds powers and bringing back Mets to the forum
How do we get that done? Do the desires of other posters have no significance?
Its never happening and you need to accept the fact that based on which side of a political spectrum you fall in depends on how much leeway you have . If you lean left you can openly and multiple times hope for the death of a presidential candidate . You can even make fun of the potential VP on his sexual preference and even the Trans Police Captain Uke will let it slide
Why do we need “representatives”? Because we’ve always had them?
This wouldn’t end well. Take a look at the shithole that UP became once battle lines had been drawn between the establishment mod bootlickers and posters who disagreed with them politically.
astronauts jpeg of course but the existence and behaviour of elected mods made it even worse and half the forum left due to one sided moderation.
Its never happening and you need to accept the fact that based on which side of a political spectrum you fall in depends on how much leeway you have . If you lean left you can openly and multiple times hope for the death of a presidential candidate . You can even make fun of the potential VP on his sexual preference and even the Trans Police Captain Uke will let it slide
Who was making fun? You think republicans are going to vote for a gay VP? That's what the discussion is about. Same thing as people saying oh Harris is a woman or an Indian.
I’m speculating on how that changes the voting
I don't think we want any semblance of a democracy in the moderation of this forum. I have lurked a few times in UP, where they tried something like that, and it looks like a huge mess over there. All we really need is for moderators to mod objectively. It isn't even some huge ask; nobody ever accuses Rococo, Ganstaman, or King Spew of using their mod powers to attack their forum rivals. And then we have our newest mod that chose to permaban the most prolific poster on the entire site for a completely benign post. She then says he can come back, as long as he grovel before her and beg for forgiveness. If there is a saving grace, it is that she seems to not be around too often, so there are long stretches of time where there isn't any drama, but that of course stops as soon as somebody remembers that Mets is banned for no reason.
And Mets has to grovel to come back
Personally, crossnerd shouldn’t be a mod here because of it
Groveling and committing to a change in behavior are not the same things.
Yes. It does not change the basic fact that you can't put a mod on ignore.
This is also very clearly a lie; she's explicitly said the opposite.
Yes. It does not change the basic fact that you can't put a mod on ignore.
This is also very clearly a lie; she's explicitly said the opposite.
Maybe you just need your morning coffee, but your trolling game is pretty weak this morning. WTF happened to you, man? You used to be beautiful!
Take my passive-aggressive, ironic "like" as a consolation prize.
