I wasn’t a moderator when Giraffe was and don’t wish to get into dissecting who was and wasn’t right and whether there was some sort of ‘golden age’ of moderation on the SDMB. Those who spend their time pining for such are only wasting my time, as well as the time of other moderators and posters. The important thing is where we are now, what the rules are now and how we move forward.
The boards, hell the entire Internet, isn’t what it was 5 or 10 years ago. Nor would I want it to be. Things have to evolve and grow. Those who insist things shouldn’t are merely holding themselves back. I want to see a SDMB which is vibrant and alive and not what it was. In the end, a message board is really the sum of its posters and to think it should be what it was is to insist that poster communities shouldn’t change, that the same people should be here at all times. I’ve been here more than 14 years now and I’ve seen people I’ve enjoyed knowing come and go, some have even died and I miss them still. Somehow, though, the community of the board continues to grow and develop in ways both obvious and unexpected.
And that’s a good thing. So let’s keep moving forward and seeing where the future takes us. With luck it’ll be as fun for the next 14 years as it has for the previous 14 years. And I promise that questions posted in ATMB will be discussed in the mod loop and responded to in a timely manner. The flip side of that is that such posts need to be civil and not stray into acrimony nor become a rehashing of old disputes. Let’s make that happen.
Wow trying to read this thread makes my brain hurt.
I can’t figure out if the moderation sucks here or if it is great.
Funny I’ve been here since 1999 and I have never had an issue that one quick question hasn’t answered.
I guess I must be more awesome than some folks.
Once again: everything is situational and depends on the wording. A polite inquiry into whether someone received “special treatment” can certainly be dealt with. A thinly-veiled insult, as part of a pile-on, is a whole different pile of shit. And my recollection is that there was no actual Warning given for this statement, just me continuing to say “Stop the pile-on.” (I guess I could go back and issue an Official Warning, if you’d prefer, but it’s a little after-the-fact. If my memory is incorrect and it was an Official Warning, then I apologize for the memory lapse, but there will not be rescinding. This was not merely personal insult, but direct violation of a moderator’s clear instructions.)
I’m getting an enormous case of deju vu, I’ve said the same thing multiple times. I feel like the same questions are being asked and answered. Over and over and over. (How is that different from trolling?) This thread is done.
Procrustus, be grateful I’m not warning you for that. Accusing someone of rules violation would be junior modding. It is not “junior modding” when it’s a moderator making the accusation, it’s full blown honest-to-heaven modding.