He does this all the time. You should see the crazy-assed posts he makes when he DEMANDS a SPECIFIC answer to a super-narrowly framed question he wants answered and people dare to discuss related issues in “his” thread.
He’s the only moderator on any message board I’ve ever seen who gets pissed when people dare to converse in threads. (as this case in point shows).
He’s also happy to break a long-standing board-rule that the OP (who in this case has been quite reasonable about this) does not own the thread whenever it suits him. He just pulled that mod decision (the: it was because the OP wanted it this way! thing) out of his butt.
Since when do OPs get to determine exactly what’s posted in their threads? A poster made a thread called “Convince me to get a gastric bypass” or something a while back and people were allowed to post trying to convince her not to get one.
If you make a poll about something in the opinion forum you should expect people to post their opinions about it.
Hang on just a second, don’t try and claim you acted on my account. If I thought people were going to get warnings out of nowhere I wouldn’t have started the bloody thing in the first place.
I asked for debate to go to the ATMB thread because I knew what the thread would turn out like. Quoting myself from the other thread:
I never wanted a comment free zone, just to stop people from trying to influence voting by shouting the loudest. Instead you warned two people for just giving their opinion once after voting, and another for something that was just a bit of a tangent.
There was no need at all, and I am not having this put on me.
You should check out his thread about advising the multi billionaire.
He warned someone who remarked, something along the lines of ‘that move would be MC Hammer stupid’, as in, as stupid as MC Hammer. It was spelled out for him, by several posters, that it was not an insult to the person being addressed but to MC Hammer. His response - zip, zero, nada.
Teflon, I’m telling you.
Taking complaints about the mods to ATMB is just a jerk circle, as far as I can tell. Ain’t nothing going to change. It’s not like they care.
In future we should address ourselves directly to Ed, in my opinion.
Why are you complaining? I think it’s awesome that we have had this power bestowed upon us. It started in the GOT no-spoiler threads, and now apparently it applies to IMHO polls too. I can’t wait to make up some ridiculous frameworks for future threads that will need to be obeyed.
Not only that, but the enforcement of said rules would be entirely automated…FOR FREE! Even if they’re not wanted or desired by the OP. All courtesy of the fabulous, Czarcasm! No where else will you find that level of service.
Speaking of Czarcasm, don’t think I haven’t noticed your failure to respond to how I violated your “debate” rule. I’m not surprised you’re as neglectful of us as you are of proper moderation.
This is the kind of moderating that lessens board quality, not improves it. And to persons saying the thread should have been closed: if you don’t like a thread, don’t participate, but don’t push to have discussion shut down for everyone else.
Czarcasm, I don’t think you’re being fair or reasonable on this one.
If we are to believe rachelellogram’s story, and I have no reason to doubt it. she didn’t debate anyone. And she couldn’t have, because she didn’t read the other posts.
She voted her opinion in a poll, stated her reasons in a post, and left, not having read any other posts because they were in fact irrelevant to the nature of a poll. It is no more than coincidence that her opinion appeared to be some form of debating with someone else’s opinion.
This is exactly what I do, and I think her point is 100% valid,
Why such anger and vitriol? Clear direction from a mod. One may disagree, but that doesn’t make the simple direction to “leave this as a poll and put your arguments in the ATMB thread” unreasonable. Even still, it wasn’t even read by warnee.
So you got a warning for not heeding a mod direction you didn’t read? So what? Are you likely to do that often? If so, then the warning was deserved and continual warnings and eventual banning is warranted. Not likely to keep running afoul of the issue? Then you have a warning buried somewhere in the SDMB mod files, never to do anything but sit there in obscurity. You’re not under threat of ban, suspension, or loss of eligibility for Greatest Poster of the Year award.
Ask questions about a warning? Sure.
Discuss the validity and necessity of a warning? Sure.
Start a tantrum-thread with “Bullshit modding” in the title and fully expecting “this bullshit mod action will be reversed”? Not so much. That’s pretty ugly.
I think it’s fairly rare for someone to see a moderator warning and blatantly decide to ignore it. I would think the default assumption on the part of the moderator would be that the person didn’t see it for whatever reason, and post a reminder instead of instantly issuing a warning. In a case like this one, where multiple people are warned in quick succession, it seems like people either aren’t reading the whole thread, or for some reason don’t understand the instruction. In which case continuing to give warnings doesn’t seem like a helpful or constructive approach.
Regardless of whether this particular warning is justified, I don’t see “I didn’t see the warning because it’s my policy not to read X-type threads” as being an acceptable excuse.
Wow, what an embarrassing thread for Czarcasm. It reminds me of a soccer game getting out of control and the ref starts handing out red cards for looking at him funny.
Lock the thread, rescind the warnings, and tell Czarcasm to get some therapy. An avatar murdered and ate his family when he was a wee lad living in Home Tree. It was blue, seven feet tall, and in 3D.
I agree, but what is the point of leaving a thread open when what qualifies as acceptable commentary is unclear and completely up to one moderator’s whims?
Then compromise as one other poster said. Put a mod note in the title saying further comments aren’t needed. I too wondered why he just didn’t lock it. I was this >< close to asking the same thing a few minutes after he posted that note.