You have got to be kidding. People are informed of their warning sometimes and not others depending if you feel like it or not. Amazing.
It is possible. I moderate another MB which uses the same version of vB board as this one. We can warn poster choosing from a “menu” of offenses and the poster is notified of that. Posters can even be temporarily barred from posting depending on the type of offense. I suppose that setting up this can take some time that the powers that be could think is not worth it, but once it’s running is a time saver.
No. Not at all. Please pay for membership and relinquish your guest status so that you too can enjoy the consistent and conscientious moderation that goes on around here. Pay absolutely no attention to the man behind the curtain.
I love great sarcasm.
So apparently things are set in concrete? You know when you post a certain thing you are over the line? There is no give and take?
Could you maybe be a bit more melodramatic? I’m not sure I fully appreciate the degree to which this injustice has scarred you. :rolleyes:
To answer the non-douchebags in this thread, while we do email posters in many cases regarding warnings, we don’t have a formal policy requiring an email after every misstep which draws a warning (that I know of). While I appreciate the fact that it would be reassuring if there was such a policy, I oppose making one for the purely pragmatic reason that it would add a non-zero amount of time and effort to moderating in order to correct a problem that is purely hypothetical. I know of no member who was banned or even came close to banning as a result of not seeing warnings.
I know that now that we’re all paying customers we have a right to demand perfect message board justice, but the fact is that this is still a volunteer operation. Barring an automated solution, I don’t think it’s worth the increased time cost.
Let me get this straight. If you are warned for a post in a thread that you didn’t come back to, and yes it happens, you have no way of knowing you were warned? Shouldn’t the onus be on the administration? We are of course talking paying customers.
If you break the rules in a thread and then never read the thread again, yes, you may get warned and not know about it. Amazingly, this hasn’t been a problem for a single member in the history of the message board. In fact, most people somehow magically manage to never get warned at all.
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Giraffe, Let me state first that, in spite of my apparent douchebag status in your eyes, I personally think that you are one of the more even handed moderators here and that your status as a moderator, in my opinion, had dramatically improved this forum. I sort of wish that some others would catch up.
That being said, the only point that I am making is that as far as I can tell there seems to be a bit of a lag between the old perception that we get what we pay for (I.e. the place is free, so shut your pie hole) and the new (?) reality that we are now paying customers.
I won’t say that this has somehow scarred me, speaking of drama, but I will say that my take is that anytime that a poster has some objection or suggestion regarding policy that the default setting is to circle the wagons, avoid any admission that things can be improved and that more often than not the suggestion is dealt with in a belittling and condescending manner.
Let me ask: is it not just a little disconcerting that one of the Administrators in this very thread has as much as stated that she can’t keep up with the boards and her email? What the hell?
Is Lynn Bodoni’s response the official, final response on this issue?
If it is, this board is doomed.
If the lines are drawn in the sand, could we at least know where the lines are?
I know “Don’t be a jerk, a sock, or a troll” number 2 and 3 are easy to avoid, number 1 keeps my fingers from typing in many cases as I don’t know how that rule is enforced and by who’s standards 
Giraffe, frankly, I’m disappointed in your response. Don’t you understand that the posters in this thread have come up with a solution? Sure, it’s a solution in search of a problem, but, nevertheless, it’s a solution. Don’t you have a drawer somewhere that you could put this solution in, so that if we ever start to have a problem that this solution would be relevant to, you could pull it out and voila! we’d all be prepared? Why are you so negative?
Why do you hate America, Giraffe?
Not sure if you could handle the truth.
If reading the thread in which you are posting inappropriately is too much to ask of you, and you expect volunteers to go out of their way to pass on a message to you from such a thread, then you are not ready to leave the sandbox.
Then surely you can tell me what kind of post goes over the line.
Right?
How do you figure that? I spent my money here, recently, under the impression I watch myself I will not get banned. I do not care for snarky comments and will usually try to ignore threads that look like, well a “true” pit thread. But sometimes I cannot avoid dipping in, without being a jerk.
I did this even as a casual surfer reading the boards. The vast knowledge in the other parts of the STMB hold more information then I could ever read while browsing at work. The adding too it is just a bonus.
The Pit to me a place where people who want to punch a dummy but do not have a dummy IRL come to punch the dummy.
Just because I paid does not mean I felt I had a right to change something, I did not buy stock I bought the privilege of posting on here. When I buy something at my local grocery store I do not assume because I spent my money their I deserve to tell them to change something for me. Now if I own enough stock in that grocery store I would expect my views to be addressed.
That being said, I do not think that the OP request was to much to look into, and changed if it is possible as other posters have said it was. And I would think TPTB will get on it in some form.
As for her original reply, almost all of us in here has typed something that in retrospect looks different then what you meant to say.
Sorry, but that is a bit of a load. See, the whole issue is that as far as at least some of us can tell “inappropriate” seems to be a bit of a moving target. For example, I know that I can be somewhat of a bitch from time to time but as of this moment I have no idea if I have ever received an official warning (despite the fact that I regularly check the threads to which I have posted). So, I really don’t see how it is some outlandish request for posters to want to know what their official status is. But, then, I am a douchebag so what do I know?
Excuse my no0biness, but I have read a lot of your posts, and cannot say I disagree with you that sometimes you may be a bitch, nothing I have seen compares to the posters who where banned in the last few months (The furthest back I checked in ATMB) You seem to keep the dirt flinging where it belongs and usually have a very valid point your making.
Maybe it is my no0biness that I am not seeing something but all the bannings I have seen, where deserving. By deserving I am not saying I agreed with, just that they where told multiple times to stop doing something.
I don’t think it is an outlandish request either, I think the presumption that they see it as outlandish is a little early is all.
What’s with the snark and hostility over a simple suggestion? “How difficult would it be for you to not “cross the line” in the first place?” “Douchebags?”
Are you folks seeing this as some kind of harsh criticism? It’s just a suggestion to send an email when there’s a warning. The only douchbaggery here is the bizarre defenseness this simple suggestion somehow generated.