What's with all the suspensions?
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I do, if I come across a post and I have time. If it is acted upon is a different issue. See below:
Agreed.
Those are matters you should discuss privately with the Mod in question.
Personally, i think people need to lighten up and grow thicker skin. If you can't stand abit of abuse from a random on a forum them you shouldn't mingle with society. Also i see the comments regarding "that thread" and whilst they were distasteful its by far from the worst stuff i have seen posted on here regarding murder, rape, sexism etc.
Just let it be a free for all and be done with it
Just let it be a free for all and be done with it
I think the moderation team has to make quick, subjective decisions regarding content on the site. I'm certain that sometimes suspensions and bans can be the outcome of very hard decisions.
One must remember that each mod has different boundaries of taste and so a single straight and true party line can never be enforced nor expected. Also, and frankly, if a poster sails close to the wind then they run the risk of getting a face full of a mod's wind. And that's bad wind.
It is not rocket surgery: commit the crime and do the time.
One must remember that each mod has different boundaries of taste and so a single straight and true party line can never be enforced nor expected. Also, and frankly, if a poster sails close to the wind then they run the risk of getting a face full of a mod's wind. And that's bad wind.
It is not rocket surgery: commit the crime and do the time.
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Personally, i think people need to lighten up and grow thicker skin. If you can't stand abit of abuse from a random on a forum them you shouldn't mingle with society. Also i see the comments regarding "that thread" and whilst they were distasteful its by far from the worst stuff i have seen posted on here regarding murder, rape, sexism etc.
Just let it be a free for all and be done with it
People have feelings. You don't expect to come online in forums and get abuse off people. Simple as that really.
I totally agree, but from what i see "that thread" wasn't actually aimed at anyone just full of people making tongue in cheek comments.
A few people of here (not naming names) really get my back up with they're spiteful, ignorant comments and troll baiting but i just let it go over my head. The world is full of nasty people but you cant just hide away from it all.
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Depends on the topic, if you enjoy brutalizing defenseless animals, then you should expect some stick when sharing your barbaric opinion online.
Other peoples feelings are of no concern to me, as in turn I don't expect anyone to bow to my feelings due to not being an emotional egomaniac. Also as far as I know none of it was personally directed at anyone in the thread if at anyone at all.
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I've naturally been doing this a fair bit recently, shame a lot of the stuff I've reported never gets touched and I had to resort to emailing Thundy about one of them.
Then simply delete the offending posts that cross whatever line it is that is being enforced. Irreverence is not immoral or particularly offensive, and from what I have heard some of the comments were very mild compared to some of the posts we see in GD. Given the number of suspensions in what was a short-lived thread it seems that the whole thing was somewhat overcooked.
Craterloads;23324261Are you still upset over the Fox thread comment said:
This doesn't sound right somehow
When it actually matters to me that much I have and will. However that doesn't alter the point being made either.
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To be fair with this, often you find threads disappear for a couple of days and then come back with swathes of deleted posts. I think sometimes they're moved so that they can be cleaned up without more posts, and then reinstated.
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Not quite. If I say that someone lacks any sense of a moral compass, I can justify it and it's part if a wider discussion, I don't see a problem. If it's a straight insult, then it will be removed as it serves no purpose.
You need to get some perspective and actually learn to read what was written and the context in which it was written...your personal bias coloured your responses so that they were (and continue to be) unfounded and based on your misconception of the circumstances and even when it was explained to you, you still carried on with the personal attacks...
Given some of the positions you have advocated in the past on various topics it is highly ironic and incongruous that you attack others on points of what you consider barbarity or immorality. Which is actually rather amusing.
The thread was quite rightly deleted. You can't really blame the mods for being a little sensetive in the current climate. I only saw a little of that thread, and whilst none of it particularly bothered me...I could just write most of it off as irreverent humour which isn't exactly rare around here...some of it could easily be leaped upon by outside agencies who like to overreact to these types of things. We have all seen the media campaign against 'trolling' etc, people being arrested for twitter comments etc. Whilst we can all see a difference with the thread from last night, another agency with their own agenda might not so the mods trying to protect the site is understandable tbh. It could only take one person drawing attention to a thread like that for OcUK to be coloured in a rather poor light.
Maybe as some have said, suspensions were a little OTT and thread deletion would be enough, but it is only something like a few days suspension from an internet forum.
Maybe as some have said, suspensions were a little OTT and thread deletion would be enough, but it is only something like a few days suspension from an internet forum.
Not always it seems.....It appears totally dependent on the personal affectations of the moderator rather than the application of the rules themselves and there is a distinct difference from questioning someone's position with specific justifications explained and and some of the specious comments that were (and are) bandied about which are based not on the actual position being put forward, but on some sophistry of what they think is your position.....The rules were clearly broken, and it was more or less pointed out that it was acceptable, not because of the content, but the bias of the person making the judgement.
To be honest, it doesn't matter, it simply puts things into perspective and I will deal with such things differently in future.
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Ban them permanently, they wouldn't be missed in the slightest. Disgusting comments. The mindsets they must have to think what they are posting is funny....
Good work mods - totally the right decision.
Good work mods - totally the right decision.
I agree totally with the points Castiel has made. I remember a thread in the hardware section where a mod basically insulted then suspended a guy for arguing his point which in the end was deemed to be correct by most of the other members in the thread.
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