Escape
Can't get enough of FH
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- Dec 26, 2003
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Generally posters are subject to a CoC. So long as they don't cross the line, there's no reason for them to be banned, or have their posts deleted/edited.
Shouldn't there be a similar guideline for moderators, informing them how bad a post must be, before needing to be edited/deleted or provoke bannings. I'd guess mods are trusted to their own judgement, in cases where a clear breach of the CoC hasn't occured, but moderation may be necessary. In such cases, the mature action would be one of informing the poster of how they broke the CoC, instead of repeatedly banning them every time they ask. Thus providing no explanation and forcing the poster into silence.
This is in response to the actions taken in this thread. Where I posted a picture, fully legal. The next day I noticed my post had been removed, and was curious as to why. Though my next posted was edited out and account banned. I registered another account a while back(Trake), which I used to find out what the purpose of this moderating was, and that account was banned too, with no reason given.
So a regular post is removed, and any time I try to find out what was illegal about that original post, I'm being edited/banned into silence. I don't agree with the tactics employed here. Bannings should be used as a last resort, after a user has been cautioned but continues to break the CoC. But if trigger-happy mods are freely handing out bans with no reason to justify them, and no explanation to give later, which results in chain-bannings... there is a problem.
Shouldn't there be a similar guideline for moderators, informing them how bad a post must be, before needing to be edited/deleted or provoke bannings. I'd guess mods are trusted to their own judgement, in cases where a clear breach of the CoC hasn't occured, but moderation may be necessary. In such cases, the mature action would be one of informing the poster of how they broke the CoC, instead of repeatedly banning them every time they ask. Thus providing no explanation and forcing the poster into silence.
This is in response to the actions taken in this thread. Where I posted a picture, fully legal. The next day I noticed my post had been removed, and was curious as to why. Though my next posted was edited out and account banned. I registered another account a while back(Trake), which I used to find out what the purpose of this moderating was, and that account was banned too, with no reason given.
So a regular post is removed, and any time I try to find out what was illegal about that original post, I'm being edited/banned into silence. I don't agree with the tactics employed here. Bannings should be used as a last resort, after a user has been cautioned but continues to break the CoC. But if trigger-happy mods are freely handing out bans with no reason to justify them, and no explanation to give later, which results in chain-bannings... there is a problem.