How do you feel when mods move/lock your thread topics?

[Discordian 6,015]

That seems unnecessarily lax.

 

"Nothing we moderate is final, making it hard for users to actually have respect for mods, making our job needlessly shetti when we do get whined about something we already decided on."

 

And it kinda lowers the threshold for moderating stuff in the first place.

"Meh, it's easy to restore. Remoov'ds."

 

Where's the dagnabit respect for the censorship these days?

 

You've never seen mods on other forums who refuse to work with you on anything, have you? I've had mods who will just straight up delete your post, make you lose privileges for debating a point about why it was deleted instead of just altered (They seriously could have just added a spoiler tag when someone forgot instead of deleting the post and adding that to their post history) and refuse to give you any leeway on anything whatsoever no matter how good your points are.

 

Gamefaqs in a nutshell. People who want to be a Gamefaqs mod have to not have any moderations on their account for like six months so if someone is striving for that and just happens to forget something and they get modded for it their chances are erased right there.

 

There is a difference between not respecting a mod's authority and a mod just straight up being an asshole.

[Jokuc 8,174]

Actually, if a mod move, deletes or change my threads or posts I don't feel bad or embarrassed in any way. I just think it's good that they correct me and remind me of [how/where/what not] to post.

 

Well, there was this one time..

 

 

..at band camp ...when I thought my post was following the topic but it was spam in the mod's opinion.

 

 

[Fox 5,330]

When a mod locks or closes a thread, consequently I think they are aware that somethings wrong, and I trust their decision when discontinuing a thread.

[Typhoid Libby 1,265]

I hope that was sarcastic, because all I wanted to say was that if a mistake was made, it can go back, might need some proper convincing, and we'll likely tell you to take that into account more.

 

Misses the [/sarcasm] tags. Don't think it was.

 

Aim to moderate so that you won't need to go back and undo something that you already did.

You've never seen mods on other forums who refuse to work with you on anything, have you?

 

There is a difference between not respecting a mod's authority and a mod just straight up being an asshole.

 

I've seen all kindsa Mods kiddo.

They are just as varied as humans. And most won't take their job seriously or do it with any kind of thought applied to it.

And when you are talking about gamefaqs, you are talking about a huge site that has barely no control over it's population.

 

There is a difference between a good mod an a bad one.

Good ones are on small sites because they have the luxury to care.

 

Mods on big ones? Why should they care? 2000 reports of foul play daily at it's finest per Mod.

Someone reports it, you are not going to check it thoroughly, much less undo it.

[Discordian 6,015]

Misses the [/sarcasm] tags. Don't think it was.

 

Aim to moderate so that you won't need to go back and undo something that you already did.

 

I've seen all kindsa Mods kiddo.

They are just as varied as humans. And most won't take their job seriously or do it with any kind of thought applied to it.

And when you are talking about gamefaqs, you are talking about a huge site that has barely no control over it's population.

 

There is a difference between a good mod an a bad one.

Good ones are on small sites because they have the luxury to care.

 

Mods on big ones? Why should they care? 2000 reports of foul play daily at it's finest per Mod.

Someone reports it, you are not going to check it thoroughly, much less undo it.

 

What's with the kiddo? lol

 

The point I was trying to make was the fact that just because a mod's decision isn't necessarily final doesn't mean they aren't good at it. They don't bend over for you but they work with you. They won't necessarily change their decision just because you ask, there's gotta be a good reason for it.

[Snow Shadow 41]

Mod doing his job to keep the forum organized.

[Bunni 1,075]

I usually just feel like I have either lacked some information (my fault then) or just messed something up and not realized. I feel a little bad about it at first but that goes away after a short while.

[Key Gear 6,663]

I realize that nearly every possible angle has already been covered, but I just wanted to chime in and say one thing.

 

Thus far, I have seen every mod behave professionally and respectfully. I have not seen a real mod ever belittle the person with phrases like "I wish you would use the search function before starting such a cliche thread" or something like that. I have lots of respect for them in large part because they know how to respect us. That makes this forum a very enjoyable place.

 

This is exactly what I would have written, and, to me, this is really the key point. I respect the moderators and admin of this site because I have seen that they are incredibly respectful to the members of this site.

 

Outside of forums, it is worth noting that respect is a two-way street. Traffic simultaneously flows both directions. Forums are not immune to this rule. If the moderators respect you and you respect them, then there should be no problems and no need for any bad feelings.

Edited April 15, 2012 by Scootacool

[KakeiTheWolf 652]

From past experience on other forums I was moderator on, everything has a reason. Locking is usually to prevent flamewars or stop them, prune the forum it is in due to bandwidth usage, lock threads that, if used, would only be done via necrobump, eliminate a wildly off topic thread, or many other logical reasons. Moving is done to put a thread where it is most appropriate and would garner the most attention.

 

Error is made on rare occasion, but so long as a mod has a clear head and their heart in the right place, it's definitive that mods are only doing these things to benefit them as an individual, and more importantly, the forum as a whole. However minute these benefits are, the Butterfly Effect and other such effects state that long term buildup of the agglunitative benefits make for a better environment. Basically, good is in the details and it's the little things that count.

[Tenor Clef 112]

I feel like I've opened a box of angry here lol -.-

[Typhoid Libby 1,265]

What's with the kiddo? lol

 

The point I was trying to make was the fact that just because a mod's decision isn't necessarily final doesn't mean they aren't good at it. They don't bend over for you but they work with you. They won't necessarily change their decision just because you ask, there's gotta be a good reason for it.

 

Used to the fact that everyone is younger, Kiddo.

You can call me Auntie.

 

Yeah, and all Mods appreciate a full inbox of unread PM's each morning about the stuff they did yesterday. =P

If there was a good reason to remove it? Still going to complain? Of course you are. Most will if given the option/loop hole to do so.

And of course they will have a good reason for complaining. It was their beloved post that got removed and they evidently have time to spare to make up those reasons.

 

There is a fine line when complaining becomes griefing and even finer line when Moderating becomes abuse of power.

Taking a lazy approach to moderating becomes abuse really easily and causes complaining that will escalate to grif.

 

inb4 "SHE'S TALKING ABOUT MLPFORUMS OMG"

I'm really not.

This group of Mods apparently has their stuff together.

 

I feel like I've opened a box of angry here lol -.-

 

Omaigawd she started a discussion!

PITCHFORKS.

 

IDig, btw.

[Tenor Clef 112]

Omaigawd she started a discussion!

PITCHFORKS.

IDig, btw.

 

and the torches and lighting in a can for a full scale frankenstien-esqe riot against the stuff we aren't cool with hahaha

[Zoop 8,384]

Who is angry? I'm happy.

[Akemi Homura 7,680]

My thoughts on the moderators are of high praise, so whenever one of my posts get deleted (none of my threads get locked or deleted -- they're too good for that ) I feel pangs of stupidity in my gut and blame myself for disrupting a discussion. Rarely does it ever happen, but a few of my posts were deleted last week and I didn't feel too good after that.

[Evilshy 5,090]

Eh, as long as you're better than the aforementioned GameFAQs mods, I figure you're doing just fine.

 

I once made a thread on the Golden Sun: The Lost Age board about changes we'd like to see in the next golden sun game. It got to about 400 posts, all paragraphs long. Very in depth discussions about different game mechanics. Then a mod deleted it because the GSTLA board is only for discussing GSTLA, and that GS3 should be discussed on it's own board. Except there was no GS3 board, since the game hadn't even been announced yet. I appealed it twice and it was upheld both times by different mods. Wtf gamefaqs. Wtf.

 

Although, I still haven't forgotten Feld0 banishing my "1337th thread in everfree" thread >_<

Edited April 15, 2012 by Evilshy

[Doctor XFizzle 8,669]

I don't always start new topics, but when I do, I make sure it is insightful enough to start a decent discussion.

 

Post wisely, my friends.

 

 

 

Edited April 15, 2012 by Doctor XFizzle

[Akemi Homura 7,680]

I don't always start new topics, but when I do, I make sure it is insightful enough to start a decent discussion.

 

Post smartly, my friends.

 

 

 

 

Veece: I don't always post on the forums, but when I do, I get bombarded with dozens of likes.

[Demi 545]

About as bad as I feel about my avatar still not changing to a new non-.gif avatar after two days.

[LowfatEnvelope 335]

Whenever i have something moved or deleted i'm usually a bit embarassed, but the feeling passes after awhile. I do have to keep remembering that mods aren't out to kill me though

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

[Whiteshade 1,426]

moving never happens because I get my section right, and locks rarely happen because bribes I tend not to post unintelligent and blatant troll threads

[Dragonshy 2,305]

They usually have a reason to do it. The moderators are chosen because they know how to moderate correctly. Or so I think

[Queen Cassie 3,057]

As a new moderator, I am possibly even more open to changing my mind about my moderating decisions than the others, because I am still more or less entirely new to this. I've never moderated before, so odds are I will make a mistake, if not several mistakes, along the line. So if you feel I've made a mistake, do please let me know.

[DashingRainbow36 264]

Well I had 2 threads locked and deleted because of my behavior. One of the threads I don't regret my behavior in.

[DrOphthalmos 497]

As a new moderator, I am possibly even more open to changing my mind about my moderating decisions than the others, because I am still more or less entirely new to this. I've never moderated before, so odds are I will make a mistake, if not several mistakes, along the line. So if you feel I've made a mistake, do please let me know.

 

Wow, congrats on the promotion!

 

Hmmm... maybe I should try to start a "MERRIWETHER WILLIAMS IS THE BEST MLP WRITER EVER!" thread to make sure you can stay objective and impartial and not banish it to the moon.

 

j/k! /)