Recent approach to forum moderation has reduced thread quality + fun factor
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Why is bickering a problem? If people break the actual rules, punish them accordingly, don't punish everyone else by removing valid threads.
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I'm not sure I follow. People are still able to discuss it within the relevant thread/forum. Just not in GD (as things stand). Only people that have consistently broken the rules are then banned from that thread/forum.
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But why not in GD? Moving everything to a forum which gets far less traffic is effectively the same as deleting it.
There were a few threads deleted because of two or so individuals arguing.
When I was arguing a point with people however we were banned from just the thread but the thread itself was kept open.
I think the question is is why are there two different approaches?
The moderating team is (and has been) trying to be more consistent and dare I say it professional for a few years now, with clearer and more clearly applied internal guidelines, which means (some would say unfortunately) that someone who is popular isn't likely to get a pass compared to someone who is unpopular or the other way round (there are members on here now, who if we banned as freely as could happen in the past, would be long gone).
This isn't so much to do with Spie being in charge or not, but more a case that the moderating team is a little older and the forum and store have grown so some of what was ok on a smaller forum isn't so much so now.
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This was already covered a couple of posts back - we had too much bickering and rules breaking. As I said to n111ck, I've raised his request in the mod forum for discussion so the approach may change.
Generally speaking I would hope that we would maintain similar approaches for everything but the mod team are only human so it's possible that something went wrong in this particular case. Then again, there may be a good reason for the approach taken. I think for this specific thing it would be best to raise it in FCD, linking to the posts/threads in question and stating what you believe was inconsistent.
Unfortunately that seems to be somewhat dependent on the mod who took the original action.
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That's why we have FCD - so if you think that a moderator has made a mistake or acted incorrectly you can raise it somewhere that the entire mod team can view.
On the whole I think they do a good job(I wouldn't want to do it, well maybe for the power 
). There have been a couple of instances where mods seem overzealous one where it wasn't even a modding issue.
I vaguely remember someone saying they were investigating making part of the FCD public, is that still happening? Would make things more open with those that disagree with you.
). There have been a couple of instances where mods seem overzealous one where it wasn't even a modding issue.I vaguely remember someone saying they were investigating making part of the FCD public, is that still happening? Would make things more open with those that disagree with you.
just a suggestion then but perhaps it would be best if you had a set up where the moderator dealing with the FCD thread is a different moderator to the one who took the action
But even that hasn't stopped it. Less people coming here now and I don't blame them.
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From what I've seen of the threads in FCD most of the time more than one moderator joins in the discussion though I think sometimes some of us hold back (even if we read the thread) as we don't want the member to feel that the mod team are ganging on them. It's a bit of a fine line. You also generally need the mod that took the action to be involved in the discussion so we can get both sides of the story.
I think if you feel that you have a problem with a specific mod then it's worth mentioning in the thread "I'd appreciate the views of the rest of the mod team" or something too. I don't think anyone would have a problem with that.
fair enough 
this thread?
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/gd-i-invite-you-to-write-me-some-lyrics.18766849
there were some amusing replies but the OP himself wasn't amused... then claimed some other forum had generated much better replies and requested that the thread be locked
this thread?
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/gd-i-invite-you-to-write-me-some-lyrics.18766849
there were some amusing replies but the OP himself wasn't amused... then claimed some other forum had generated much better replies and requested that the thread be locked
Yes on both counts.
Does work the other way as well though, e.g. if a punishment given was felt to be too lenient
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