It was not a “dick” move, it was a funny move and Colibri, being of average intelligence, understood it.
And even if we accept, solely for the sake of argument, that it could be interpreted as a dick move by someone under the influence of mental retardation, it is still not a “threat”. Now, if the reader is in his early teens, English is not his first language and was suffering a dandruff episode at the time… that might explain something… ever so slightly.
Ed… buddy… pal… I mean it in the least offensive way when I say that you’re really not very good at the whole Moderating thing. Some people just aren’t. You have a highly analytical mind–frequently to the point of over-analysis–and that is a good thing for certain tasks, tasks which have made Cecil a legend.
But it’s not good a good trait for board moderation. But you wear the biggest boots so nobody can tell you to just cool out, already.
So I’ll tell you–just cool out, already. Now, you don’t have to listen to me; that’s up to you. But… there were no threats, just as there was no hate speech, just as the bannings were (at worst) suspenison material. Maybe you should do what you do best and leave the Moderating to the professionals.
I have complained before and often about the moderation here, but frankly, they get it right more often than not. But what we are seeing here seems to be part of the new American business model.
An organization is in troble, and let’s face it, Creative laofing, and through it SDMB is in trouble. So the boss mosseys in and looks around and sees something that works, say, The BBQ Pit, and for all its faults, it used to work. Then the boss decides that he might learn from some part of the business that is working and gets involved. This is where stuff makes a turn for the worse.
You see, he’s the boss, and rather than learn, he starts to remake it, refine it. Even though it’s one of the areas that is working, that bossman, he knows how to fix it. So, just like some place where you’d get a guy in a suit showing the loading dock how to stack pallets, here we have Ed Zotti remaking the Pit in his own image. We have had more contradictions, staff meetings, and clarifications that only served to muddy things up since Ed got involved than we had in the rest on my tenure here.
It is part of the latest shitstorm. If you are modded in the Pit and you want to grill the mod for it, you cannot do it in the thread where you were modded. You need to start your own thread. It actually makes some sense, except that it results in this kind of lame threads that are some sort of a two-click rule for talking back to the mods.
No, you see it makes perfect sense, in that a minor kerfuffle over a mod action in a thread, instead of having better than good chance of just getting resolved quickly and simply with a bit of discussion instead gets moved to center stage in its own thread with a specific title pointing directly to the conflict which, of course, will then be totally ignored by the community. Yup, no way that’s gonna increase the level of perceived conflict between members and staff! Pure genius, I tell’s ya.