Moderation Questions for Whiners
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.
I didn't even know they played hockey in sweden, i care very little about most sports in general and only have some vague soccer knowledge because a minimum is required in some social groups among italian men.
But i mean i am still sometimes surprised when friends mention me the supposedly super important match for our city club is happening say tomorrow (we are in champions league which we weren't for ages), because i just don't follow sports.
So don't worry rick
Rick,
Luciom was absolutely proven wrong about the Asian thing by the right farming study he posted. Are you both impervious to facts?
I didn't even know they played hockey in sweden, i care very little about most sports in general and only have some vague soccer knowledge because a minimum is required in some social groups among italian men.
But i mean i am still sometimes surprised when friends mention me the supposedly super important match for our city club is happening say tomorrow (we are in champions league which we weren't for ages), because i just don't follow sports.
So don't worry rick
Once again, The Colonel misses the point and proves it at the same time.
hockey doesn't exist in Italy, no one i ever met ever talked about hockey, i vaguely knew it's something important for canada, i didn't even know it existed in europe at all.
Winter olympics are also almost irrelevant for italians (even if at times we are decent in those sports, and even if we hosted them recently and will again soon). Literally no one in my enlarged friends and relative circle ever cared a minute about any "winter sport". Like i know no one who even does skiing
Are you aware the Winter Olympics are in Italy next year?
I think you need to get out more.
roc, i think you're pretty accurate in not just your takes on me but everyone else
i'm curious if you're playing by ear or actually clicking post history first because it's rather impressive how much you're able to remember about each person
I remembered something specific about formula72 that I looked up to confirm that I didn't have him confused with someone else. Otherwise, I'm going by memory.
Are you aware the Winter Olympics are in Italy next year?
I think you need to get out more.
I wrote "and will again soon".
Not sure why you think that "getting out more" would expose me to winter sports: i don't live in a mountainous area, and as i said people here don't talk about those sports at all.
ye really. Doesn't register at all, pretty sure if we ask 1000 italians less than 5 of them can name a single italian hockey player.
I mean we are among the best in the world in water polo yet maybe 5% of people watch a game per year. And hockey is order+ of magnitude behind that.
You think of yourself as a common sense conservative by European standards and a centrist by U.S. standards. You don't have much use for the billionaire class. But you also don't have much use for ever-changing attempts to change language to suit what you believe are the whims of groups that will never be satisfied. You are relatively isolationist, although not excessively so. One of your defining personality characteristics is crankiness.
I also get the vibe that you grew up around a lot of working class people and that you believe that you understand the struggles of everyday people better than most here.
I would ask, but I'm pretty sure it will be "old man shakes fist at clouds."
You are easy.
You are an old school U.S. liberal. Personally, you are doing fine. Trump hasn't destroyed your life and isn't going to destroy your life. But you were REALLY hoping for something better, hoping so hard that you actually believed it was going to happen. You thought around the time that Obama was elected that we were making real progress in this country. Trump has annihilated your optimism and now you are angry.
If you have grandchildren, you are very nice to them.
The last line cracks me up for some reason.
Ok I'm ready too
Implying that all the other horoscope recipients aren't very nice to their grandchildren is insidious woke mind virus propaganda
