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You said nothing and did not close down a thread that was getting very nasty, but you got on to a guy that posted caps in his header.
well if it was left to me I would have closed the thread, like i did close many others. But after all the heartache I received from closing the other threads.. and the fact I was told not to, then i can't really be blamed for that can I.
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If a moderator had simply changed the caps and noted it, I would have had no problem with that. Being Vaughn, I expected you to offer an answer to the gentleman's question, in addition to giving him a reprimand.
if i remember the thread in question, i'm pretty sure i pointed him to the FAQ section, and i also informed him of how to add a custom block. I also informed him that the body tags should be removed from his html and that the existing body tag would be better added to theme.html? or am i on about a different instance?
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Being a moderator I expected these threads to not get out of hand, and have someone with the ability to respond when more than three people ask for a thread to be moved to another more private area. People have been run off because of bad moderating, in my opinion.
being a moderator I wanted to do everything I could do to prevent the falme-wars from starting, I wanted to remove the flame-wars, I wanted to edit the posts, and I wanted them totally gone because IMO they were not in the best interests of XOOPS and I was getting fed up of them.
BUT I was not allowed to, when i did edit posts I was accused of censorship (by some of the very same people who are now asking for a friendly forum), I was accused of abuse of power. when threads were moved to private areas, we were then accused of censorship & going against the Open-Source Spirit (again by some of the very same people who are now asking for the friendly atmosphere, in fact some of those very same people were the ones causing the flame-wars etc)
people haven't been run off by bad moderating, people were run off by being personally attacked, offensive emails being sent to them when they were trying to defend XOOPS and trying to remove or prevent the flaming and personal attacks, and various other reasons..
But bad moderating?? Well if us moderators HAD been alowed to do our jobs, then maybe there would have been NO flame-wars or personal attacks on the forum because we would have been ALLOWED to remove them!!
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Why do you feel it necessary to moderate under your own handle. Does it give more leverage?
because I don't see the need to have to hide behind a username. I am Myself, I am Vaughan aka m0nty. I don't make multiple usernames and pretend to be somebody else!! lately I have been coming round to the idea of hiding behind a moderator name just because of all the personal attacks that have been happening.. but IMO why should I? If we were allowed to moderate properly, then the management & community would have supported the moderators fully, but no, the personal attacks kept coming and we were powerless to stop it because we were accused of censorship & were not allowed to moderate properly.
does it give me more leverage? no. it is simply the reason i state above.
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A BlueStocking evaluation.
BTW: A moderator should be able to go back through the threads after a given length of time and prune worthless conversations that offered no constructive information, under guidelines, of course. (zero responses and such)
yes i agree and I wish I/we were allowed to.
and thanks for your honesty. i agree I would not win a popularity contest. i definitely wouldn't enter one, that's for certain.
