Simultaneous Moderator Approval Survey - January 2013

[Sbane]

His idea for a moderation based on editing posts rather than deleting them was great. Anyone remember that awesome blue text?

Yes, that by itself should make everyone approve of his moderation.

Inks, I think you just need to chill out and exercise better judgment in your infracting. The reason why this system was created in the first place was because we had a problem with trolls and people like Hammie raising hell. You need to focus on those people and leave long time posters alone, within reasonable constraints (hard to judge, admittedly, but the other moderators seem to have figured it out). I don't know if that is a "fair" application of the TOS or not, but that is the way the forum community wants it and I think you should respect our wishes.

[Sbane]

I'm sorry, Sbane, but I will never buy into the "old-timers" should get preferential treatment argument.

Yeah, I also strongly dislike this logic.

Good posters should get preferential treatment.

Well, I agree with this. But you must also realize that long time posters might do a light trolling from time to time, and when they get infracted for it, everyone gets pissed about it. I am not saying that new posters should be infracted just for being new, but they should get less leeaway. At least that is what people seem to want.....

[Sbane]

Well, Inks, the posters want good posters or well established and well liked posters to get more leeway.

[Sbane]

Guys, you need to look the other way on occasional trolling is the point (which most of the mods do anyways). Now, with someone with only 50 posts, you might not be sure whether they are a good poster as a whole or not, thus they would naturally get less leeway. I am not saying that everyone who registered after 2010 or some other arbitrary date should be treated differently, just that the posting history of a poster should be taken into account when dealing with reported posts.

Everyone knows Al can be a bit of a dick. I personally know that very well, but overall he is a valued poster. Thus, he should not be put on mod review barring some extraordinary circumstance. Re-posting some nonsense in some horse related thread does not meet that criteria.