http://www.lpsg.org/2639507-post471.html
Dear Pecker,
I
don't understand. And I thought you were so welcoming... :sad:
I have been thinking hard on it too, as well as combing Mithcy's last posts for things that might be falsehoods, and came up only with mere opinions. Your post says he said something untrue about the mods, or at least implies that.
A permanent banning makes his opinions seem more like fact than otherwise. If I were a mod, I would let him back in the moment he asks... because otherwise, it makes the mods look Very biased.
Nobody really has an understanding of it and Pecker is remaining disgustingly silent through all of this.
It shows him as being online right now, but the "banned" banner is still showing under his name.
It's because they are weasels and I don't mean like the garden weasel tool.
A few weeks ago, I noticed that the light was on by Jason_els, he had died a few weeks before. When I questioned them, they said they were in the process of closing his account- what? Reading his mail, checking for any comments from members against them? It would not surprise me in the least if the same happened here. If you have messages and want them saved, place them in a safe site away from here. Make a copy and send it to your e-mail for storage.
If on the other hand, the account was open for a time so mitchymo could gather his items (photos, pms which meant something to him) then it would benefit the moderators to so indicate.
Back to disgraceful moderator actions: (no names or genders will be listed, to maintain the moderator privacy)
Some months back, I had sent a pm to a moderator. I waited several days, no response, sent a second pm, waited, no response.
I then opened a thread in the Q&A (where you must be a registered and signed on member to be viewing)asking about a PM and why I hadn't received a response. Days passed, the moderator responded, various members threw in their comments, some not good. There was even a snide comment from a moderator (not the one I'd been trying to get hold of), which is important when placed in context of the chain of events which happened after.
The moderator and I apologized, they for the delay, myself for not having waited and then being snippy. That was resolved on September 1, 2009. Days later on September 7, 2009 I received the following from a moderator- mind you this was 6 days later!
"Dear Northland.
Following on from your thread regarding not receiving a reply to a PM from a Moderator I am writing to tell you that it was not well received by the Moderating team.
There could have been many reasons why you did not receive a quick reply and there are many ways in which you could have dealt with it. To our minds you chose to deal with in a way that was the most destructive. What you did was very demeaning to that Moderator and you afforded her no benefit of the doubt whatsoever.
This is not an official warning but more of a heads up from the team. The thread in question will be removed.
(Moderator's Name)"
I responded to the moderator,
"Well (Moderator's Name) here's the thing-
A)I never named the moderator. Right there I was sparing any specifuc moderator of being held up for examination and/or rants or raves on them. This alone runs contrary to your statement that I afforded them no benefit of the doubt whatsoever. If that had been the case, I would have given the moderator's name.
B)The moderator in question, saw the message, sent a PM and we interacted on it and resolved the matter to our satisfaction. The moderator in question also responded within the thread indicating what the situation was.
C)Several days later, someone chose to revive the thread.
(here's the oddity, an offensive thread, which would soon warrant me a 'heads up' had been kept open)
D)At that time
one moderator chose to make light of my question, saying that the moderators were all drunk. Again, the matter had been resolved between me and the moderator I had spoken of. It was even indicated by the moderator earlier in the thread. The moderator comments after the matter had been resolved showed a juvenile behavior which is just as disruptive to the board as anything I had written.
E)I added a post to let all know the matter had been resolved and that I had approached the matter in an inappropriate manner.
F)The thread was then closed.
G)The thread has now been completely removed. The removal does many things:
1)It helps all moderators to not have to look at something which so greatly offends them.
2)It takes away from (the mod in question) who showed grace by stepping forward letting all know what had happened. By pulling the thread, people will not be given the privalege of seeing how graciously they comported themself.
3)It removed the opportunity for membership to read my response and apology; which, is at least as much of an affront to me, as you found the thread to be to you and the rest of the management team.Lastly (
Moderator's Name) I am also-as you can see-submitting a copy of my response to you, to (the
moderator I initially had attempted contacting and subsequently resolved in a respectful manner the issue)as well.
So, we have weasels for moderators and admins (some, not all, and I mention no names). They allow a thread to fester and accumulate remarks, they allow the person (me and the moderator) to resolve the matter, apologize and move on, then they wait several days, send a message of 'heads up' not a 'warning'. They allow their own team to make snide remarks 'moderators were all drunk' and be disruptive.
I to this day, wonder why, if the thread was so offensive, a moderator (not the one I initially contacted or the one who sent me a 'heads up') had plopped and pooped their nonsense within the (according to them) offensive thread.
Similar to the matters of racism and just about everything else here, 2 faced hypocrisy. 2 sets of rules, applied differently according to who you are and how they feel about you. Of the current team of moderators, 2 have been offensive verbally, made racist content snipes at members and been out and out weasels. The Admins, I have had less interaction with, and a couple of current moderators have been respectful of members. It's not all of the people up there, but there are some bad tomatoes destroying the crops.
Tread carefully, aware always that the team really doesn't give a fuck about the TOS, and many apply it according to whim.