New moderators closing active threads

[IanG]

The UK sub forum thread was closed while at an important stage with very constructive comments being made, it wasn't a finished discussion or is this the new intolerance, there was NOTHING contreversial*except Sal's posts).

Ian

[gary mulder]

This is like a play I have seen before. Please don't bite on the hook. I am happy with the forum as it is. Close asap.

[mdm]

Thats why he is a moderator, his job is to moderate. Are you wanting an unmoderated forum?

[Brian Ellis]

I think it's long past time to end the public criticisms and complaints about the way moderators perform their tasks. Nobody forced you to participate, nobody solicited your participation. You chose to participate knowing, I assume, that it's a moderated forum. Few decisions made by moderators of any forum are met with unanimous approval. At some point it seems to me that you or anyone similarly situated should stop the public complaints and either accept the fact that it's run in a certain way or leave. You're well past that point IMHO.

[Sal Santamaura]

I think it's long past time to end the public criticisms and complaints about the way moderators perform their tasks. Nobody forced you to participate, nobody solicited your participation. You chose to participate knowing, I assume, that it's a moderated forum. Few decisions made by moderators of any forum are met with unanimous approval. At some point it seems to me that you or anyone similarly situated should stop the public complaints and either accept the fact that it's run in a certain way or leave. You're well past that point IMHO.

Quoted in tribute to the wisdom of our late member, Brian Ellis.

[Struan Gray]

I don't buy the 'like it or lump it' line of reasoning. There's nothing wrong with a bit of meta-discussion.

But Ian, we're well past 'a bit'. It seemed pretty clear to me that members *and* mods didn't much like your suggestion.


Nobody ever takes my advice either. Which is: post the sort of posts you'd like to see posted.


One of the things I love here is that the moderators and owners have refused all forms of payment or contributions towards running costs, even a Christmas tip jar. That doesn't make them flawless or beyond reproach, but it does give a boost to the feel that we're a community here and, for me at least, makes more than a modicum of public wingeing quickly look like peeing in the paddling pool.

[BradS]

What an unfriendly place this has become.

[Sal Santamaura]

What an unfriendly place this has become.

I disagree. It's become friendlier since the moderators stopped allowing unfriendly behavior to be acceptable. Overall, for the entire community, strict enforcement of rules governing civility increases friendliness of the forum's atmosphere.

[BradS]

I disagree. It's become friendlier since the moderators stopped allowing unfriendly behavior to be acceptable. Overall, for the entire community, strict enforcement of rules governing civility increases friendliness of the forum's atmosphere.

ever notice how the mods are quick to quash unfriendly rhetoric from a whole lot of folks but you and a handful of others can be as nasty as you want and your insults and bickering posts are left alone? You and a couple of others who just love to bicker and squabble about every thing are the major contributors to the unpleasantness, in my opinion.

[hoffner]

ever notice how the mods are quick to quash unfriendly rhetoric from a whole lot of folks but you and a handful of others can be as nasty as you want and your insults and bickering posts are left alone? You and a couple of others who just love to bicker and squabble about every thing are the major contributors to the unpleasantness, in my opinion.

Indeed.