Nostradamus advises me ‘not to question a decision by a moderator’, because ‘I will lose’.
Are they such fascists? I would have preferred to think not.
Other message boards I’ve contributed to only chuck you off if you’re offensive or abusive to others - not for disagreeing with the moderator!
ultrafilter: I don’t ‘want to flirt’. My little verbal dalliance with Wishbone was purely incidental, and the fact that you’ve made so much of it says more about you than about anyone else. Grow up.
Manhattan The Moderator: You resent that I’ve not ‘studied the threads’? What is it you fear I will do again? Impugn (yes, that is a word) your dignity? I have never met a moderator who was such a control freak as you are. You seem absolutely unable to handle anyone expressing an opinion different from your own. I imagine you are either very young, or very immature. If you are neither, then may the Gods help you.
You’ll chuck me off, now, won’t you? Because you can.
For telling the truth.
Nostardamus said not to attack a decision by a moderator. You certainly can question a decision. Either way, they make the rules here. If you don’t like it, go the fuck away. Start your own forum where you make the rules…or don’t. Just leave.
It’s not disagreeing with a Mod which causes a problem, it’s not accepting that at times the resolution of the disagreement may not go the way you hoped. I’ve not seen anyone booted for disputing a call, but rather for not letting it drop after disputing it.
in apparent reference to this now-locked thread, which began with Clare Ashworth’s original post:
which itself referred to yet another locked GQ thread begun by Clare Ashworth, which seems to have been either looking for a different GQ thread C.A. could no longer find, or possibly looking for a particular SDMB poster C.A. could no longer find.
There is no “hidden agenda” here. The agenda is stated in black-and-white right out on the main SDMB page, where General Questions is described thusly:
We actually have a place for flirting and random thoughts and silly stuff. It’s called MPSIMS, which has the not-at-all-hidden agenda of
(Actually, if all you want to do is flirt with one specific poster, you should probably just get that person’s e-mail address, or send them instant messages, or fly across country and stand outside of their house at 4:00 A.M. and sing love songs and find out where they work and go there too and announce that if they tell you to go away you’ll have no choice but to kill yourself.)
But then you started a new thread to complain about the moderator’s action in GQ. This was after you opened two other threads that were closed. You asked what was up, and I attempted to explain. I don’t care if you flirt with wishbone, just post in the right forum.
Jesus, didn’t I just see this thread last week? And the week before that? and the week before that?
Wait, let me go down the checklist:
Whining? Check
Use of totalitarian political metaphor for board moderation? Check
Offering oneself for martyrdom? Check
Just not fucking getting it? Check
I don’t know how else to tell you. Read the forum discriptions. That is the hidden agenda.
You will not get far on this board, if you don’t learn.
You will not get far anywhere, if you don’t learn how to behave where you are.
Every area of the world has its own set of rule. This area of the world has rules. We have few rules; they are all based upon the Prime Directive “Don’t be a jerk.”
Heed your own advice.
If you want to contribute, you will be welcome; if you just want chat, go to chat. If you just want to whine, GQ is not the place to do that.
Posting in the wrong forum again? That comment was way to nice for the Pit. You didn’t even say “fuck”!
A belated welcome to the boards, Clare. You’ve pissed a few people off already, but I’m sure they’ll forget about that. Have fun, and don’t call the mods Nazis. They are Stalinists, and get really upset if you don’t get it right.
First of all, Batty, you invoked Gaudere’s Law and got the Law wrong. Gaudere’s law is the mizspelllink/gremmer thing. Second, I believe the correct law is Goodwin’s Law – the probability of invoking a comparison to a fascist regime goes to one with the length of an Internet debate.
