[QUOTE=Miller]
[Moderating]
If you have an issue with the moderation of the board, start a thread in ATMB about it. Pitting the moderation staff over the actions we take (or refrain from taking) in our capacity as moderators is against the rules.
No warning issued, but I am closing the thread. You are free to continue your Clothahump-related tantrum in new thread that actually follows the board rules.
[/Moderating]
[/QUOTE]
Emphasis added.
Where is it in the rules that we cannot criticize mod decisions in the Pit?
[QUOTE=Ed Zotti]
No complaints about SDMB administration in the Pit
All comments or complaints about SDMB administration should go in the About This Message Board forum, not in the Pit. Pitting of SDMB staff is permitted for views they express as ordinary posters.
[/QUOTE]
The real stupid part is that the thread was clearly a Pitting of a poster, not a pitting of the moderators and their actions.
I know the OP made reference to the mods as well but come on, the thread itself has next to no discussion of the mods and what they should do or not do.
Yes, it’s in the rules. But Miller has previously bent those rules with making fun of people for reporting trolls, so it seems fair that posters can bend the rules, too. The primary focus is not on the mods but on posters. At most, this deserves a “If you have a problem with the moderation, please take this up in ATMB. Please keep this thread focused on posters and mods acting as posters. No Warning issued.”
Furthermore, it seems clear that the mods don’t care and will not remove admitted trolls. There’s now two people who have admitted offboard that they are trolling here. One has already been suspended for trolling before: Clothahump, and thus this should be the last straw. Morgenstern has also apparently admitted that they are trolling “the idiots here,” and should receive at least a Warning.
When admitted trolls aren’t being dealt with, it makes sense that posters may have some animosity towards the mods who won’t deal with them. It seems a bad idea to punish them rather than the trolls.
Who was punished? I didn’t see any warnings issued. The mods were being pitted for not banning a poster. Discussions about moderator actions belong in ATMB. Miller was well within his rights to close the thread.
There are some here (the OP is not one of them; he simply asked a question which got answered) who will complain of almost any moderator actions. It’s a no-win situation for them.
It was probably explained at the time, but what was the rationale for banning complaints about moderators in the Pit? After all, it used to be the correct action.
Hell, I’ll go so far as to say that people like that should be instabanned. Or at least they shouldn’t bitch about the mods being similarly lenient to other people.
It’s hard to have civil discussions about moderator actions when people can say things like, “Hey,
<Moderator>, you fucking idiot. Why the fuck did you give me a warning, you fartsucker? I bet your parents were first cousins, weren’t they?” Putting discussions in ATMB forces people to be civil and rationally discuss their differences with the mods on particular actions.
