Mystery Moderation

[Do_Not_Taunt]

@engineer_comp_geek

We try to maintain a fairly high level of transparency, much more so than most message boards.

But you (the staff as a whole, not you personally) didn’t here, which is why this thread is still going.

@engineer_comp_geek

As for accountability, we are accountable to our admin.

Do we even have an admin these days? I mean, besides Ed, who is basically a non-entity around here 99% of the time. I’m pretty sure being accountable to Ed and having no accountability are nearly synonymous.

[GreysonCarlisle]

@Czarcasm

How have you been harmed?

Knowing that there’s a vengeful renegade mod running wild keeps me up nights popping pills and guzzling gasoline.

Also, it makes me not want to come here as much. Nor recommend it to others.

[omenran]

@GreysonCarlisle

@Czarcasm

How have you been harmed?

Knowing that there’s a vengeful renegade mod running wild keeps me up nights popping pills and guzzling gasoline.

Also, it makes me not want to come here as much. Nor recommend it to others

I think that if mods are here to enforce the rules, they should be doing so as even-handedly and fairly as possible.

Something like the action taken in this case by @Hari_Seldon seem out of place, and arbitrary and out of character for mod actions (ones I’ve paid any attention to, at least). Even if this is a very minor action it seems to have increased worries and concern, likely from fears that more serious actions will be following this behavior. I know I’d appreciate an answer to why the moderation was made.

[MrDibble]

@kayaker

Y’all are doing fine. People need to chill, reassess what’s important, get vaccinated

I agree with all of this.

[Gyrate]

That’s nice.

Also, I am satisfied that the level of transparency we get from the moderation staff is, on the whole, about right. There are always specific exceptions but they seem to get dealt with.

[DemonTree]

@puzzlegal

Maybe save the pitchforks for when you think warnings or bannings were wrong, and when no harm has been done (just a mod note) and there’s an actual question of what it means, try to keep the pitchforks in the barn?

I didn’t bring any pitchforks. If it wasn’t for @Max_S I’d still have no idea at all what the note was even about, and we’re still just going on assumptions. I think it’s pretty damn poor to get no response whatsoever from the mod in question.

[tofor]

@DemonTree

If it wasn’t for @Max_S I’d still have no idea at all what the note was even about, and we’re still just going on assumptions. I think it’s pretty damn poor to get no response whatsoever from the mod in question.

I agree with this.

@kayaker

Y’all are doing fine. People need to chill, reassess what’s important, get vaccinated

I also agree with this.

For me, this mod note and the lack of follow up or clarification is largely out of character for the moderation around here, so I was really hoping for some response. But it’s minor in the big scheme. Just an unintelligible (and possibly wrong) mod note. No harm no foul if this doesn’t become a pattern.