jsc1953 has festooned Elections with several “March Madness” polls related to the 2020 Dem primaries. A couple (but not all) of those poll threads have included some responses questioning the logic of the seedings. Notice that I said not all.
Yet immediately in storms Jonathan Chance on his white charger, he (JC, not the horse) of the annoying throat clearing (buy some Hall’s for chrissake!), to demand everyone “stop bitching” about the seedings. In every one of these threads. Even in threads where there wasn’t any kvetching or, as he prefers it, “bitching”:
And now he’s even warned someone who just reiterated that yeah, the seedings are weird. Is this “fun distraction during the doldrums” really so serious that a fairly mild cavil over the seeding is worth a frickin’ warning? Yeah, he disobeyed your instructions but it was incredibly non-confrontational. Not only that, the poster is ordered to stay out of the threads entirely! So much for “fun distraction.” Look at this exchange:
WTF, dude? And come clean: are you the OP of these threads (note the coincidental initials in the OP’s username), or maybe related to them in some way? Because your warnings and obligatory phlegm-spewing preface are awful quick to rise to their defense. And if so, are Mods allowed to have duplicate usernames, which for the rest of us peons are called “socks?”
Yeah, I noticed that too. It seems like a weirdly over the top reaction. A few mild complaints about the seeding don’t deserve warnings and thread-bans.
People have complained about poll selections since polls were invented, and certainly since the SDMB has allowed them. Have these complaints been moderated in the past?
It’s the fact that, immediately following my mod note, he continued to complain that got him the warning. There’s no way that wasn’t a violation of the issue. He earned the warning, plain and simple.
It wasn’t a ‘mild cavil’. It was active, similar complaints in multiple threads. That’s not a complaint. That’s an attempt to derail a thread and prevent it from being something enjoyable for our members. I decided that was detrimental to the threads and headed it off.
And what’s with the sock accusation? I’ve no buy-in there except it’s perfectly legit to start those threads. It’ll be fun and distracting during this silly season where everyone’s declaring but no one’s really running.
It looks like the warning was for not obeying moderator instructions. There were no warnings for dropping turds in multiple threads. I think a preemptive note in the other threads was a good idea.
Maybe complaining about the seedings is part of the fun. Seems like it’s just not the kind of fun you prefer.
In any event, derailing threads is part and parcel of this board, particularly polls. I don’t remember many that haven’t had a “I wish you’d included xxxx instead of yyyy” comment, followed by some discussion of xxxx.
Can we bitch about the seedings in an actual March Madness thread? Or is bitching about tournament seeding off limits in general now? Because it seems complaining/debating about the seeds is pretty much part of a tournament’s discussion, even if it is seen by some as “bitching.”
There’s a big difference between “I wish you had included X” or “I wish you match Y against Z” versus what was actually said: “Who cares” and “Yet another poor pairing. This whole thing was set up terribly.”
The first type of comments probably are fine. The second are threadshits and are frequently modded.
Well for what it’s worth, seeing the same copypasta from you in every thread within the first 5 posts turned me off from posting in them and ruined* my enjoyment of them.