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Originally Posted by VoodooJoint  Gee Ly, don't you know that we can't win? If we are tough we get slammed for being bullies. If we are lenient we are accused of picking on the wrong people, not doing our jobs properly and anyone else on here can do the job better then we can. |
I don't think I can do a better job. And, it's not a job, you aren't getting paid. It's volunteer work and you get nothing out of it.
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Originally Posted by VoodooJoint Don't you know reporting posts doesn't work and is far too much trouble if you don't like what you are seeing? After all it's not like someone can report a member that they have an issue with and get anything done about it. That never happens, nope, never. |
Eh, it just was a random thought that added up in my mind. Just a pattern I noticed...not a big deal...
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Originally Posted by VoodooJoint We are bad BAD mods and should all be sent to time out. Spankin's all around. |
I didn't say that. Nor do I think that.
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Originally Posted by VoodooJoint Since we apparently aren't doing our job properly |
I didn't say that, nor do I think that. Sorry if it came off that way. It was just something funny I had noticed. I actually thought it was amusing...
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Originally Posted by VoodooJoint I thought everything was running rather smoothly but apparently they haven't been as we have one member willing to publicly air a grievance and several others happily thanking the post. |
Grievance is strong wording. I was more...musing! I'm usually the last person to do the "why can't you do your volunteer job more perfectly and respond within 15 seconds and not miss a single post" thing. Really.
The people who thanked me, I doubt they even really got what my point was.
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Originally Posted by VoodooJoint If that is the general consensus then perhaps it would be better if the staff infracts for every rule break, every time. That way no one will feel singled out. |
I doubt it's the general consensus. I'm no rule nazi, but I like the rules here. It just crossed my mind that I see a lot of tard-buckets spewing forth AOL kidiot talk and not getting infractions. If I had never gotten one, I wouldn't have noticed probably. But because I did, and I'm a perfectionist, petty person who views getting outright banned for profanity better than a wheek for missing punctuation, I took notice.
I don't report because I feel like I'm bugging you guys. Not to mention, I'll see one of you posting on the thread and assume later I'll see a wheek on the post.
Letting things slide because a member obviously has a bad habit of typing like this is a text message is a very common thing on forums. The answer obviously isn't to run spell check on every single post and start issuing rampant wheeks and poos.
I'm very familiar with the "can't win" feeling. Every forum I've administrated ends up with a clique of voices expressing their blindly anarchist tendencies against whatever authority they view most approachable...which was usually me. It's like please, people, it's a free forum, these people aren't paid, they get nothing for them and are just trying to make the community the best it can be.
I believe that about you guys too, and never meant for this to come off as a "bad mod! Why can't you read every post". I didn't mean it to come off like
any of the things you say in your reply. It really was just an innocent observation, a thinking outloud kind of thing. I do feel a bit like the whining of past members (who I would probably have disliked) is being taken out on me. Oh noes, don't group me with those morons! I swear I'm not like
that! Epic sadness ensues!
I regret having posted this in the first place. I know how much stupid crap mods get, and I know what a hard, thankless job it is. It really was just an observation and not meant to be a put-down or saying anyone was doing a bad job. I guess I gave myself too much credit for being able to convey myself as "different" than the average idiot who comes in and starts being critical of the volunteer staff.