[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

I'll be honest with you, I was behind the deleting of your Micheal thread and the ensuing infraction and I'll explain why since I think you believe you were being censored. I looked at that thread and reversed the situation. If, for example, Marsh made that same thread about, say, Kazanne for example. I think that would have gotten a very negative reaction and would have led to a lot of drama. When it comes to moderating decisions, I value consistency above all. If the reversed situation would have led to drama and would have probably been infracted then I couldn't not do the same for your situation.

People may confuse how I post with how I mod but everyone gets treated equally when it comes to modding. I wasn't censoring you, I was just doing what I would have done if anyone else posted that thread.

I think when it comes to the 'festering' resentment of members towards mods, a lot of that has to do, not so much with us but with certain members spreading half truths and lies and other members buying into it and sadly, I don't think going public with all infractions will completely fix that since, like I've said above, a lot of people tend to use their assumptions as facts and I don't think they'll let an actual fact get in the way of blaming the mods. A lot of people are 'disgruntled' because they are buying into a narrative that simply isn't true.

Still, I'd want to give this a trial run though just so we can completely upend a lot of assumptions about how people are infracted, I just don't think it'll stick with some people since it doesn't fit the narrative they want to portray.

I'll just say this as well, I think I've been modding this site for years now and I can probably count the amount of incorrectly given infractions on my hand (meaning ones given out of a misunderstanding). One thing people always forget is that all the mods see each other's infractions and we do tend to voice our thoughts if we disagree. If we were to reveal all the infractions, you'd see that 99.9999% are completely correct.

Sincere thanks for your honesty, Dezzy.

I am chagrined about my 'Michael' post thread removal which I thought was unnecessary and about the Infraction which I thought was heavy-handed.

The thread and my OP was light-hearted, friendly to and actually supportive of Michael, but surely, even if removing it was deemed necessary as a precautionary measure for the reasons given, was it REALLY necessary to give me an infraction instead of a mere friendly note by pm or even a Warning?