This is absolutely incorrect. Your statement does not neutrally use “Brickering.” A person with no previous association with the word or my handle here would certainly see that you were suggesting I was acting poorly – there is absolutely zero doubt that the word is read by a neutral observer as pejorative, your current protestations notwithstanding.
Like I said, if you want to make a silly riff on his username to play tit-for-tat, go ahead, if that will bring this particular instance to a close. But implying that it wasn’t modded because of bias against conservative posters is beyond ridiculous.
No, it’s not. It’s the culture of the board. It’s the expectation that casual swipes against conservatives can go to level 7 before they’re modded and casual swipes against liberals get mod attention when they reach 5, with 5 and 7 being measurements on the Potter Stewart “I know it when I see it” scale of meanness.
That “swipe” in my estimation was somewhere around 0.5.
But at this point, I think it’s hopeless discussing it further with you. You’re completely convinced of your position, even though almost no one else seems to have been. (And making silly claims of bias like this one isn’t going to help in the slightest.) It’s clear that nothing I can say (or anyone else) is going to persuade you otherwise.
It’s not any kind of rule, so I’m not sure why you got that impression. You could always open up a topic and ctrl+F and search “mod” on each page the thread has to see if any mod notes have been given out, that would certainly be faster than reading the whole thread if it’s a long one.
Because I can tell you right now, I frequently don’t read all of the posts in threads I mod. I may read the posts around reported posts, or the OP of a thread that has a reported post in it, or even will trace back the exchange that lead up to the reported post to the beginning…but read every single post in the threads? No way.
If I’m curious to know if a mod already got to it or took action, however, I’ll do the ctrl F thing above that I suggest now to you. : p
Does that work because “moderator” is part of your name, or because moderation will have the syllable “mod” spelled out?
(If the former, that would never have occured to me. Okay, I’ll be honest, the idea of searching a thread for moderator comments before posting to it would never have occurred to me. Is that something I ought to do if I show up in a long thread and don’t want to read it all?)
Wow. I thought you were annoyed that post 516 didn’t get more attention, and I could sort of see where you were coming from. But 518? Really not an issue.
Do you have any idea how often people riff off MY username? How often conservatives have made jokes about it? It’s really no big deal.
Did you report the post and indicate you found it insulting? I thought it was a bit of wordplay that required no moderation. If the play on your name was insulting, please report it and explain. It’s not a “Bricker deserves less consideration”, but a “heh, a bit of wordplay”. If you felt it was insulting, don’t keep it to yourself and then be upset no one else saw it your way. Simply point it out and the mods will look at it in a new light.
Your contention was that posters must “read every post in a thread.” We expect posters to look back a reasonable number of posts in a thread. We don’t necessarily expect them to look back hundreds of posts for mod instructions.
If you’re aware of a case where someone was warned for not following mod instructions, when they couldn’t have been expected to have seen them, please provide the link.
I’m relatively new here, but I would have assumed that if that happened, the poster would have said, “oops, sorry, I didn’t read that far back. Won’t do it again” and that would be the end of it. No?
We normally do cut posters slack if they missed instructions far back in a very long thread, or if they hadn’t read instructions while they were composing a post.
This sounds oddly reminiscent of a conversation my family would regularly hold when I was a kid. One night my mother got fed up with the exercise and took us to the High’s Dairy Store, where we all got our favourite flavour of ice cream in a half gallon carton. That was dinner that night. And desserts for a lot of nights afterwards.
