OK, I've been noticing a few things on here recently that just has me thinking, and analyzing things here.
Probaly the big thing is this fear that anything and everything you do will get you banned, or a simple disagreeance will get a thread closed/posts edited. I can't deny that ever mod has made mistakes and done one (or more) of those in a case where they shouldn't have. We are human though, and some mistakes/emotional rampages can happen.
However most of the time we act it's because someone else has found what you did unacceptable and has reported it. We can't just ignore that. At the same time people need to look at the context of threads before hitting that report button. The occasional swearing or something is normal in our society, so why can't it be here? There are occasions where just about anything can be ok or justifiable. So when we get a report about "Mild swearing" in a thread about a bad day we understand and probably don't care since you just need to vent. However if we edit it, it's simply because we weren't given much of a choice.
You guys know the Instabans around here. You need to do spam, porn it up, or be George or Bob.
Under most circumstances you'll get a warning about being banned if your doing something that we don't like. The only exception I can think to that would be just blowing up on another member with swearing with no good/little reason. Heck, after the warning unless don't stop following it, or start doing it more to piss us off things are OK and no more worries.
Another thing I've noticed is an over-all lack of PMs. Every criticism is done publicly. There is no need to make a post only to say "you really shouldn't be saying that" or anything like that. That only draws attention to the issue, and makes the original poster defensive. A simple PM can get things done a lot easier, and cleaner not to mention save us mods the trouble of a bunch of pissed off people because we had to step in and edit things. If you don't want to PM the member, PM us and we'll talk to them.
I used to get PMs about that all the time, and things never were tense about it. The messages were sent, things were talked about and the problem was taken care of. Why can't we still do this?
Probaly the big thing is this fear that anything and everything you do will get you banned, or a simple disagreeance will get a thread closed/posts edited. I can't deny that ever mod has made mistakes and done one (or more) of those in a case where they shouldn't have. We are human though, and some mistakes/emotional rampages can happen.
However most of the time we act it's because someone else has found what you did unacceptable and has reported it. We can't just ignore that. At the same time people need to look at the context of threads before hitting that report button. The occasional swearing or something is normal in our society, so why can't it be here? There are occasions where just about anything can be ok or justifiable. So when we get a report about "Mild swearing" in a thread about a bad day we understand and probably don't care since you just need to vent. However if we edit it, it's simply because we weren't given much of a choice.
You guys know the Instabans around here. You need to do spam, porn it up, or be George or Bob.
Under most circumstances you'll get a warning about being banned if your doing something that we don't like. The only exception I can think to that would be just blowing up on another member with swearing with no good/little reason. Heck, after the warning unless don't stop following it, or start doing it more to piss us off things are OK and no more worries.
Another thing I've noticed is an over-all lack of PMs. Every criticism is done publicly. There is no need to make a post only to say "you really shouldn't be saying that" or anything like that. That only draws attention to the issue, and makes the original poster defensive. A simple PM can get things done a lot easier, and cleaner not to mention save us mods the trouble of a bunch of pissed off people because we had to step in and edit things. If you don't want to PM the member, PM us and we'll talk to them.
I used to get PMs about that all the time, and things never were tense about it. The messages were sent, things were talked about and the problem was taken care of. Why can't we still do this?