Some terriable admins on this site...

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There is a bit of admin snobbery on here, i've been picked on by them at times too. I remember once seeing someone in members market getting a suspension for posting a price drop 23hrs and 58mins after the previous one (a whole 2 mins shy of 24hrs which could have been entirely down to his clock being 2 minutes out) extremely ott and childish if you ask me.
 
Cookeh said:
Sod "terriable admins", there is some terrible spelling and grammar on this site.
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+1

This is the most true post I've ever seen on these forums :).

If you have a problem with the way a member of the admin team conducts itself, conduct that admin or another one to deal with the problem.
 
realscot said:
There is a bit of admin snobbery on here, i've been picked on by them at times too. I remember once seeing someone in members market getting a suspension for posting a price drop 23hrs and 58mins after the previous one (a whole 2 mins shy of 24hrs which could have been entirely down to his clock being 2 minutes out) extremely ott and childish if you ask me.
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Funny though, and it does state 24 hours, that does really mean 24 hours not 23 hours 58 minuits. Rules is rules, break then you pay.
 
iDroid84 said:
Funny though, and it does state 24 hours, that does really mean 24 hours not 23 hours 58 minuits. Rules is rules, break then you pay.
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If the police can let someone off for going above the speed limit then surely an OCUK don could simply give a warning and not an instant suspension for a minor infringement.
 
I don't have an issue with how they handle members breaking the rules but I do think they need to look more closely at the implications that can have. For instance I did a price drop on an MM thread something like 23 hrs and 55 mins and got an insta-ban for a week. Fine, no issue there. But because I was banned from the entire forum I had no access to the Support subforum where I had been in dialogue with them over an issue with a bundle I'd bought. So basically my c*ck-up in the MM caused me some serious trouble trying to deal with something that as a customer I was relying on. Of course there is always the phone, but that costs money. Anyway I did report this to a don and he was admittedly pretty shocked by it and promised to bring it up with somebody, so perhaps the rules have changed now, I don't know. I hope so... they really ought to treat the MM and main forum as very much separate from the Support subforum that customers often rely on. Anyway as I said they might well have changed their policy on this already, I hope so at any rate, because it made me very cautious about even touching the MM again when I've got threads in the Support forum.
 
realscot said:
If the police can let someone off for going above the speed limit then surely an OCUK don could simply give a warning and not an instant suspension for a minor infringement.
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Where does it stop though?

I had a guy that come in 5 minutes late for his shifts every day of the week. Heck its only 5 minutes I thought, I'll let it slide. A few days after, more of my staff start to come in 5 minutes or even 10 minutes later for their shifts because they see somebody else getting away with it. Slowly that rule that I was lenient with goes to **** and there is no point it being there any more.

Rules are rules and there for a reason, when your a handful of people dealing with hundreds of thousands, then rules are hard and fast and have got to be held to.
 
Some folks do not have an extensive vocabulary or the skills to use it like a rapier. For these folks often the only way of making a strong point is to use their own limited vocabulary in the politest way possible, that is by using punctuation marks or symbols.

So the OP had a point.

On the other hand, many decisions about what is outside the rules or what may be overly offensive are by their nature going to subjective judgment calls, the nature of which is that errors will happen occasionally in both directions. Things being deleted which perhaps should not be and things being left which perhaps should not be left. We have to assume that the mod did what he considered was right, irrespective of whether it was right or wrong. That's all anyone can ever ask of a mod.

So the mod too had a point here.

Lets just say then that both, to some degree, acted entirely reasonably but equally that, to some degree, both could possibly be accused of having acted like an utter point.

Surely we can all be accused of acting like that sometimes, so as they say in the theatre, "Let him who is without sin stone the cast first."
 
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