madame_zora
Sexy Member
BD, I can see where you're coming from in a sense. While you aren't exactly a greybeard yourself- in fact you only joined a few months prior to the DMW episode- you've had time to see things develop. I only more recently noticed your join date, for some reason I'd thought you'd been around longer.
I'm kind of stuck in the middle. When you first started bitching about the mods, we were new and didn't even have a tos yet, or any direction at all as to what we were supposed to do. The emotional state of the board after Danny did his thing and Channel 4 did theirs left us with too much trauma and too many mods to make fast decisions. We ain't there anymore, and it had always been my hope that the position of mods would be eliminated after the waters had calmed.
Apparently, that's not Rob_E's intention, so we still have mods, and a whole lot of them. A lot of us older members here enjoyed the board for quite some time unmoderated, and while the changing laws have necessitated some oversight to keep our site open, it can sometimes feel like overkill. Try as we might, there was no way to make a tos that just told people to act like adults, don't threaten each other, and don't say things that can get our site shut down. Trying to outline what we wanted to preserve about the site turned out to be more laborious than any of us wanted.
You have no idea how much bullshit gets sent to the mods by weak assholes who think it's the mod's job to intervene in their personal bickering- it's really unbelievable. To be sure, it's most often the person who started an argument who will go running to the mods when the conversation doesn't go their way. It made me hate almost everyone, which is why I stepped down. Too many mods, no one could agree on anything, and I didn't feel like being a hall monitor for adults who refused to act like adults.
A proposal- perhaps there could be a general list of reasons why someone is banned, like the following:
1) Underage
2) Harassment and threatening
3) Multiple accounts
4) Spamming/advertising
Then a simple number for the reason for the ban could follow on the "I was banned" banner. That way, people would know what the reason was, the mods wouldn't have to do any extra work, and no personal info would have to be given. I think that might make everyone happier.
ps. Those are the ONLY reasons I can think of for a ban. If it's not spamming, and not threatening the board being shut down (like pedophiles cruising for young cock), then I see no reason for banning. The members here are big enough to shout down idiots on our own without Big Brother needing to step in.
I'm kind of stuck in the middle. When you first started bitching about the mods, we were new and didn't even have a tos yet, or any direction at all as to what we were supposed to do. The emotional state of the board after Danny did his thing and Channel 4 did theirs left us with too much trauma and too many mods to make fast decisions. We ain't there anymore, and it had always been my hope that the position of mods would be eliminated after the waters had calmed.
Apparently, that's not Rob_E's intention, so we still have mods, and a whole lot of them. A lot of us older members here enjoyed the board for quite some time unmoderated, and while the changing laws have necessitated some oversight to keep our site open, it can sometimes feel like overkill. Try as we might, there was no way to make a tos that just told people to act like adults, don't threaten each other, and don't say things that can get our site shut down. Trying to outline what we wanted to preserve about the site turned out to be more laborious than any of us wanted.
You have no idea how much bullshit gets sent to the mods by weak assholes who think it's the mod's job to intervene in their personal bickering- it's really unbelievable. To be sure, it's most often the person who started an argument who will go running to the mods when the conversation doesn't go their way. It made me hate almost everyone, which is why I stepped down. Too many mods, no one could agree on anything, and I didn't feel like being a hall monitor for adults who refused to act like adults.
A proposal- perhaps there could be a general list of reasons why someone is banned, like the following:
1) Underage
2) Harassment and threatening
3) Multiple accounts
4) Spamming/advertising
Then a simple number for the reason for the ban could follow on the "I was banned" banner. That way, people would know what the reason was, the mods wouldn't have to do any extra work, and no personal info would have to be given. I think that might make everyone happier.
ps. Those are the ONLY reasons I can think of for a ban. If it's not spamming, and not threatening the board being shut down (like pedophiles cruising for young cock), then I see no reason for banning. The members here are big enough to shout down idiots on our own without Big Brother needing to step in.