This site is heavily moderated

[Pear Tree]

Originally posted by Tom 2TUM Toner
One day the politiacans say it's ok to have alcohol, the next they say it's not. Were they trigger happy in this decision? No, they wre doing what they thought, as the "governmental"-types, was best for everyone else.

The metaphor doesn't work, sorry. The law is the law, and you are held accountable for the laws you broke when the law was in existence. This would be like if alcohol were illegal, and you ask, "Is it okay to drink a pepsi?", and they say, "Sure." and then the next thing you know, you're fined for drinking it.

PS. Can't really say anything related to trigger happy when you give hte go ahead to do anything to the thread with phrases like "Hopefully I have this in the right place. If not, I have no problem with a mod moving it or whatnot."

Sure I gave the go ahead - and I admitted it was fine. But my point was that this site is heavily moderated. I showed several instances of moderation to prove it. I never, at any time, said that moderation was a bad thing, only that it occurs a lot more here than anywhere else.

looking at the end of the thread, the only thing i could see from a mod saying to "quit it" was Zach P saying

if that's who told you to "quit it" then don't get mad if i chuckle a bit first. I laugh and chuckle here becaue Zach P is an openly gay person. Also looking through the thread's info, it has Joel listed as the person who locked it. (PS. The starters of the v5 of that very thread is Jason Arellano, ANOTHER openely gay moderator)

So he's gay...and you're point is? My point was that we were talking about relationships, and when we started talking about certain gay relationship, the mod asked us to stop, and then, within the same day, the thread was shut down. Maybe it was a coincidence, but you can understand where I'm coming from when all of this occurs in order.

and to be honest, the X-Treme thread had reached 1000 replies and always manages to restart around that point. It's one of hte fastest threads in replies and gets opened an closed fast.

That's cool. But I'm new, and it just seemed to me that the fact that it got closed so soon after I questioned a Mod for his actions was way too coincidental.

call me niave, but we're heavily moderated because we have 80+ forums of constant discussion going at all hours of the day.

Good, I'm glad you can admit that you are heavily moderated. Then we have nothing further to discuss, really, since that was my entire point. Heavy moderation = trigger happiness to me.

yes, thank you. If you'd like to continue more on the topic of mods and their roles on the site, you are welcome to it but in another thread over at the Fans @ ComiX-Fan forum.

Here ya go. Made one here. NOT to condescend the hard work, or patronize anyone, but only to point out my side of this so I don't look like an idiot for expressing my opinion. :D

I still don't get that one mod can tell you one thing and it's possible to get in trouble for it through another mod. You should really have a set of *specific* rules to follow through and have all the mods very clear on them so there's no room for error like this.

It wouldn't be such a big thing, but I'm scared to death of getting Warning Points now for doing something I didn't know I wasn't supposed to do.

[Tom 2TUM Toner]

Originally posted by Pear Tree
So he's gay...and you're point is? My point was that we were talking about relationships, and when we started talking about certain gay relationship, the mod asked us to stop, and then, within the same day, the thread was shut down. Maybe it was a coincidence, but you can understand where I'm coming from when all of this occurs in order.

You see his title as moderator and automatically associated what he posted as an order from up high. All he said was 'Can we get back to something less...gay?" Sounds like a comment ANYONE could make, really. Anyone could have made a comment just like it asking it to be stopped. Its like if i went into the current events thread, seeing all the Bush bashing, and asking if we could try to go somewhere else in discussion. I'm not ordering it from the land up high, i'm just asking as a poster that we talk about something else.

Originally posted by Pear Tree
That's cool. But I'm new, and it just seemed to me that the fact that it got closed so soon after I questioned a Mod for his actions was way too coincidental.

It happenes. We like to close out big threads and restart them. It's more "user friendly". We were told by a lot of newer posts that they were scared to go into a big thread w/ a lot of replies in it in the thought of getting "lost in translation" to what had all gone on already.

Originally posted by Pear Tree
Good, I'm glad you can admit that you are heavily moderated. Then we have nothing further to discuss, really, since that was my entire point. Heavy moderation = trigger happiness to me.

heavily moderated in the sense we have a lot of staff members on site, not heavily moderated in the sense that mods are hardass and trigger happy. we have a bit of a difference in definiations of "heavily moderated"

Originally posted by Pear Tree
Here ya go. Made one here.

thanks, but wrong forum ;)

didn't have a chance to get on every thing brought up, i'm just about late for work. will try to get to the rest later on in the day.

[Pear Tree]

thanks, but wrong forum

LMAO, par for the course. I'm still learnin'

Anyway, will reply to your comments when later on when you get everything together. ;)

[Zachary Palisoc]

I didn't have anything to do with the X-Treme thread getting shut down so shortly after my comment (which, by the way, was directed at your little piece of fan-fiction involving Bobby and Roberto that was just a little over-the-top for me, and it was a little off-topic as well, but anyways) but I can tell you that it wasn't because of anything either one of us said. The X-Treme thread is very busy and we reboot it every time it gets up to around 1,000 posts. It was nothing you did, so relax. :)

-Zach

[Tom 2TUM Toner]

*wipes sweat* i was only 5 minutes late, no big deal :) Now then...

Originally posted by Zachary Palisoc
I didn't have anything to do with the X-Treme thread getting shut down so shortly after my comment (which, by the way, was directed at your little piece of fan-fiction involving Bobby and Roberto that was just a little over-the-top for me, and it was a little off-topic as well, but anyways) but I can tell you that it wasn't because of anything either one of us said. The X-Treme thread is very busy and we reboot it every time it gets up to around 1,000 posts. It was nothing you did, so relax. :)

-Zach

thank you Zach, i beleive this will clear the air for the x-treme thread's restarting.

I would just like to add one more thing. Threads move, merge, and split all the time bases on the grestion of the mods. If they feel that a thread is better suited somewhere else, they'll move it there. If they feel that it should be merged w/ another topic that it resembes, they'll merge it. Etc. If these things happen, the best things to do is to PM the moderator of that forum. Talk to them, ask them what happened.

Sometimes things are just a coincidences, like in this case. Sometimes mods do make mistakes in moveing, merging, etc. Or sometimes a mod'll say this is ok to have and forget to tell the other mods about that decision. As i said before, it's easier to just PM the moderator it, and get it straight from them on what's going on.

[Pear Tree]

I didn't have anything to do with the X-Treme thread getting shut down so shortly after my comment (which, by the way, was directed at your little piece of fan-fiction involving Bobby and Roberto that was just a little over-the-top for me, and it was a little off-topic as well, but anyways) but I can tell you that it wasn't because of anything either one of us said. The X-Treme thread is very busy and we reboot it every time it gets up to around 1,000 posts. It was nothing you did, so relax.

-Zach

Um...I didn't write any fan fiction. Heh, getting me mixed up with someone else? I know I'm probably the *only* fanboy who doesn't consider himself a writer, so I'll let it slide... :D

And it's not like I'm bitter over these things happening. You pay the bills, you make the decisions, it's all cool. I wouldn't have even said anything if someone else hadn't mentioned it first, and I simply agreed with them because of my prior experiences.

[Tom 2TUM Toner]

everything said that's said, and all misunderstands aside, we can close up this thread.

but i'll tell you one thing Pear Tree. I wish all the future moderation problems/concerns could be like this one. No problems at all, just a couple concerns and questions, and easily resolved.