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GeneralZod · Mar 22, 2012

Forums will always be 'school yards'

As the Mods are volunteers who follow a very loose rule system and their time is limited.

If do want a serious political forum, only one way to do it. Increase your donations and ask the site owner to hire and pay full time wages to mods who be here 24/7.

As rules form the structure to debate. Without it, the forum will always falls into chaos. Personnaly i don't mind it for this forum. I am just surprised it has lasted so long.

Shangrila · Mar 22, 2012

Bowerbird said: ↑

To a certain extent

I have been a mod a time or two myself in the past and I can tell you there are a fair number of people, and often quite witty and popular people, who can not or will not conceive of the fact they can be in the wrong.

Agreed that for the majority of times an ass is an ass and the fact they are an ass is visible to all

But then there are those who ride well and only once a fortnight, say, rip someone a new one but it is dealt with, quietly and because others are not seeing the occasions where they have not abided the rules the impression is that they have been unfairly treated

Some of the perception of unfairness or bias in moderation comes from the fact that traditionally on boards such as this the number of infractions you have is between you and the moderators and only becomes obvious when someone is suspended

As a simple participant, using that as a framework it does appear that someone can rack up an inordinate amount of infractions before they are even suspended for a couple of days What I think is probably needed is a lower threshold for the first suspension from the board - but that the number and length of suspension increases as you rack up more infractions

Unfortunately suspension is one of the few tools the moderators have for disciplining an wayward member and even that can become problematic with those clever enough to "sock puppet"
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Well said indeed.

Joker · Mar 27, 2012

Rapunzel said: ↑

I know several cons who have only been infracted and banned by the liberal mods...never by a right leaning mod, which means that what the liberal mod saw was something much different than a right leaning or conservative mod. That is clearly bias IMO.
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Sure...the only question is...from which side is the bias coming?

junius. fils · Mar 27, 2012

Hey, would YOU want to put up with US? Without drinking heavily?

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