New moderators closing active threads

[Steven Tribe]

The closed thread did start off OK, but lost its way long before it was shut down.

In the light of recent experience, perhaps contributors should impose an hour's delay before replying when there is " an increasing level of emotion" in contributions.

Some of the posts seem almost designed to raise hackles!



Steven "who agrees Rick should have a rest day to-day" Tribe

[IanG]

It doesn't help when it's Moderators themselves posting in threads and there were off topic postings with personal attacks that the moderators should have deleted. And yes one poster was trying to cause problems.

It raises issues of who Moderates the Moderators which should be uneccessary.

Ian

[Sevo]

And yes one poster was trying to cause problems.

Well, as Stalin always said to my grandmother, self-awareness is the first step to improvement!

[Jerry Bodine]

Well, as Stalin always said to my grandmother, self-awareness is the first step to improvement!

+1
Years ago, someone said that when wishing to be critical of another, "just remember that when pointing at him there are three other fingers pointing back to yourself."

[Ed Bray]

+1
Years ago, someone said that when wishing to be critical of another, "just remember that when pointing at him there are three other fingers pointing back to yourself."

But that only makes two

[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.

[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.

[Michael Mutmansky]

I'm not real active in this forum anymore, so I don't know the back story here, but it appears pretty clear that hoffner is acting the part of an excellent forum troll.

Seriously dude, you are pulling up multiple, multiple-year-old posts to complain about moderation?

Been moderated recently?! Maybe you should look in the mirror a bit to figure out what may have occurred to cause the problems...

[djdister]

Pulling up a meaningless two year old thread, how timely... betcha I could move this thread to being locked.

[Ken Lee]

Done