View Poll Results: What do you think about the level of moderation?

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    Re: Discussion about moderation

    Quote Originally Posted by David Bailey View Post
    It seems youtube listened...

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    Re: Discussion about moderation

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    ...Also comments like the one below by Swp are going to get responses , like a guy going into a bar for the first time and saying 'this bar has got a reputation for being very poor', pint of bitter please...
    and we saw the "shoot the messanger" reaction.

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    Re: Discussion about moderation

    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post
    Ok, casting my mind back to being a newbie, this was the first forum I'd ever been a member of so I had no idea about the technical stuff or the etiquette. I got a lot of neg rep, for example, for quoting a whole post when I only needed/wanted to refer to a small part of the post. I thought that was a bit harsh when a PM would have been more helpful.
    The very limited response to the poll 28 (so far ) suggest over 70% are happy with things as they are

    If you’re going to get –ve rep for initially posting a full post or as I did , not knowing how to attach a link to a web site that is kind of sad. Of course if you keep doing that’s different (this is regardless of how long you have been on the forum)

    I don’t think the moderators should get involved in changing that, its not like –ve rep effects your mortgage payments or job , although I do not under estimate the impact some –ve rep can have on some people

    In a nut shell I’d keep things as is



    Quote Originally Posted by swp View Post
    So with this in mind, and without wishing to stir it all up again, can I just say that while all that was going on my rep was creeping up and up, plenty of my posts got "thanked" - some several times over, plus some very nice, supportive pm's, yet with only ONE -ve rep, and that was calling me a troll . Surely that says that something???
    Quote Originally Posted by bigdjiver View Post
    and we saw the "shoot the messanger" reaction.
    Hardly

    Indeed despite sitting on a large spike, I +ve rep Swp for a very thoughtful post

    Although I felt some posts OTT unlike the TRUTH they was nothing consistently nasty or vindictive (in my eye) which I assume is why her rep score is now at 60
    Last edited by stewart38; 9th-October-2008 at 09:49 AM.

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    Re: Discussion about moderation

    Quote Originally Posted by swp View Post
    So with this in mind, and without wishing to stir it all up again, can I just say that while all that was going on my rep was creeping up and up, plenty of my posts got "thanked" - some several times over, plus some very nice, supportive pm's, yet with only ONE -ve rep, and that was calling me a troll . Surely that says that something???
    To me, it mainly says that the informal netiquette of "welcome the newbies", as described by Stuart M, is alive and well.

    It also says that most forumites, despite their apparently-fearsome reputation, are welcoming to new members.

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    Re: Discussion about moderation

    Bad reputation. LOL

    We are bad!!!!!

    Honestly, I've never heard anyone talk about the 'bad reputation' of this forum, except one or two malcontents actually on the forum. I kinda think it's a bit of a 'lashing out', kinda a self-serving myth. I wouldn't take that claim seriously. A load of old tosh.


    As to moderation, you can't please all the people all the time. It doesn't matter if the moderators are nazis, or liberal free-for-all hippies, or what rules/guidelines the moderators use, you will always get some people who will find something to complain about, it's in their genes.
    As a forum admin since the days of 2400bpm modems, stuff 'em, but be polite is my advice


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    Re: Discussion about moderation

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    If you’re going to get –ve rep for initially posting a full post or as I did , not knowing how to attach a link to a web site that is kind of sad.
    I actually think that says more about the person giving the neg rep than the person receiving it...

    As for welcoming newbies - I can't remember now, but do they get any sort of welcome e-mail? If not, why not send them one, with a few words about forum ettiquette (such as not quoting posts in their entirety!) and maybe links to the forum rules and the FAQ. Maybe suggest that their first posting might be to introduce themselves on the appropriate thread (have forgotten what it's called) and a link to that.

    If they chose not to take any notice of the e-mail, don't read the suggested links and don't bother to introduce themselves properly, then so be it. But at least you'll give those who are completely new to forums some basic guidance, whilst those who chose to wade in with what might be preceived as controversial comments or opinions can't say they've not been warned!

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    Re: Discussion about moderation

    Quote Originally Posted by swp View Post
    Exactly, some of you even seem quite normal
    which ones? they should be segregated like lepers

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    Re: Discussion about moderation

    Quote Originally Posted by TA Guy View Post
    As a forum admin since the days of 2400bpm modems, stuff 'em, but be polite is my advice
    2400 ? bah, luxury. We only had 1200 and we were lucky if we got connected at 300 baud most of the time.

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    Re: Discussion about moderation

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    which ones? they should be segregated like lepers
    I never knew lepers were segregated. How's it done? By limbs lost? Whether they're characters in fantasy novels or not?

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    Re: Discussion about moderation

    Quote Originally Posted by Stuart M View Post
    I never knew lepers were segregated. How's it done? By limbs lost? Whether they're characters in fantasy novels or not?
    Hence the term "leper colony": Leper colony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    Re: Discussion about moderation

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidY View Post
    Whoosh...

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    Re: Discussion about moderation

    Quote Originally Posted by Stuart M View Post
    Whoosh...
    Possibly .. in which case I'm still
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    Re: Discussion about moderation

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidY View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Stuart M View Post
    Whoosh...
    Sorry David!
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    Re: Discussion about moderation

    Quote Originally Posted by Twirly View Post
    I actually think that says more about the person giving the neg rep than the person receiving it...

    This is what I meant

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    Re: Discussion about moderation

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidY View Post
    Possibly .. in which case I'm still
    Ah, just mucking around DY. I'm perfectly aware that lepers were segregated from non-lepers, but smurfy's post could be read as suggesting lepers were categorised somehow. Just having a larf, apologies if it seemed to be at your expense...

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    Re: Discussion about moderation

    Quote Originally Posted by Stuart M View Post
    Just having a larf, apologies if it seemed to be at your expense...
    I'm sorry too
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    Re: Discussion about moderation

    Quote Originally Posted by Stuart M View Post
    Ah, just mucking around DY. I'm perfectly aware that lepers were segregated from non-lepers, but smurfy's post could be read as suggesting lepers were categorised somehow. Just having a larf, apologies if it seemed to be at your expense...
    'twas ever thus.
    (although my dictionary does define "segregate" as "to set or be set apart from others or the main group", so DS's post did make perfect sense to me. I should have suspected something was up that stage, really.)
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    Re: Discussion about moderation

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidY View Post
    (although my dictionary does define "segregate" as "to set or be set apart from others or the main group", so DS's post did make perfect sense to me. I should have suspected something was up that stage, really.)
    I think it made perfect sense to StuartM too, but he had to get out his quaint little joke - oh how we all laughed Anyone got a corset? my sides - they are splitting



    ...although it did put me in mind of Igors from Discworld - limb catagorisation and all that
    Last edited by Dreadful Scathe; 9th-October-2008 at 01:40 PM. Reason: karnt speel

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    Re: Discussion about moderation

    Quote Originally Posted by TA Guy View Post
    Bad reputation. LOL

    We are bad!!!!!
    I think you meant to say

    We IS BAD!!!!!!! (as in good)

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    Re: Discussion about moderation

    I've withdrawn my vote that said 'About right', if there was an 'Inconsistent' option I would vote for that. It seems that it's OK for commercial entities nothing whatsoever to do with dance to SPAM the forums, but I'm not allowed to find out about local freestyles are on if the information is posted by a crew member

    It's blatant inconsistencies which irritate people

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