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Originally Posted by Niamh.
why? SDs isn't exempt from the rules of the forum
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I've played with the idea of making a "Wild West" subsection in the past... and just remove general visibility of it from the forum tree (i.e. no info on posts, last thread, etc)... and just letting the arguments finish there with really limited capabilities (like no images, hourly post limits, etc
)... just for ****s and giggles... That is so strange to me... most un-moderated places of the net are the crack dens of the interwebs. I'd take a few unnecessarily deleted posts, a few unnice mods, over that any day of the week... and the mods here are
really nice about it...
On the other hand, most users these days (any site) seem to care less about transparency... they want that magic to happen, but then they don't like seeing mod notices in their own posts sometimes... well, how do you get a general idea or who is and isn't moderating fairly and that your freedom of speech is being honored? You don't... hence why people instead accuse left and right... and really they do it as a free service, it's not something we are entitled to... it is a private site after all.
I haven't had an infraction or ban in so many years. The only time I was banned from a site was because the owner was a true cockwomble of the highest caliber and I and a few other people were asking common sense questions about his strange business ethics... he didn't like those questions. So we were banned under the rug and I just left it there because I was thinking of quitting there anyway... only he ended up in court a few years later with a mass user exodus over a tarnished rep because he ripped
so many people off.
Anyway, TiBB is no where close to being a badly run site imo.... I feel like give credit where it is due. This site really is a privilege that
we all share. Even if there are a few unfair shakes and questionable bans/edits/deletes here and there... the mods have been more than willing to listen to all suggestions. Most places just delete or lock threads when those things come up because of the inevitable drama...
They're like **** you, if you don't like it... leave?
Several people have in numbers mentioned they don't like coming to this section for several reasons... a vast majority of them center around a
small minority of users. There are other people who use the site too and they feel their enjoyment of it is impacted by a small minority of the user base who can just as easily remove their personal impediments by utilizing ignore. Something the forum has provided actually as the
intended solution to this problem. Mods are really just there to keep threads on track and make sure everything runs the way that it is intended... they are not meant to manage personal grievances on here... instead of doubling the mod's work, why not just utilize ignore as a courtesy to the mod team? That way SD can at least a become a little bit more pleasant... maybe then more people will come post and it will be enjoyed by
all, not just "justice served" for a small minority... because let's be realistic, the trolling will never stop on some people's ends... at least do this so
we can all enjoy SD more. I've been baited too and those go instantly people are on my squished list. It doesn't have to be for any real particular reason other than they bait you .... we filter people in real life all the time... not everyone will get along ... nobody does. It's unrealistic to believe all will.
I mean how do you feel when you walk into a shop and the stuff is missing/gone through or otherwise left unkempt with food spilled on seats and product because of a certain uncourteous individuals... that's how I feel when I come into SD sometimes... so keep the section
nicer for other people by keeping the personal issues to PM. That's courtesy. Otherwise, SD will remain as it is... it'll be the ASDA (I guess it's like a Walmart...) of TiBB... and the only people to blame will be those who don't care about enough about maintaining it for others. It's a community, so that's who it should be managed by.