No-I was asking a question. That a problem for you?
[del]Maybe those moderators don’t fuck up as much as Twickster does.[/del]
EDIT: Do those moderators fuck up as much as Twickster does?
(sorry, I forgot we were phrasing our insinuations as questions)
Another non-answer. Thanks.
Is it a problem for you?
I’m just wondering if publically airing moderator dirty laundry is common practice elsewhere.
And I’m asking why it matters what people do elsewhere. The SDMB has made much hay of the fact that they are not like those other boards and hold themselves to a higher standard when it comes to content. Why is it so outre to suggest then that a board that expects much out of its members should expect much of its moderating team?
Especially when that much appears to be understanding what the rules are of the forum you’re supposed to moderate.
I’m getting tired of seeing this in practically every ATMB thread. Take your personal problems with each other to the Pit. Do not use the ATMB uproar du jour as a way to snipe at other posters.
That being said: I don’t think twickster erred by stepping in as a moderator there - the political comments were off-topic and kind of jerkish even though the OP broached the subject - but the insult was inappropriate and she was right to apologize.
How could Procrustus have framed his comment so that it would not have been jerkish?
Isn’t anyone going to pre-emptively accuse the mods/admins of circling the wagons yet?
That being said, the very next post after twickster’s warning was “I don’t think you’re allowed to call me an asshole in a MPSIMS thread.” Just because it wasn’t officially reported, the other poster did bring it up.
Also, they were NOT being assholes or jerks at all. One poster said that they didn’t have any sympathy for the poster because of a political rant that they INCLUDED in the OP themselves! How is that being a jerk? It’s not. Now maybe if they had said something like, “I don’t have any sympathy for filthy Obama haters like YOU” then there would be a point, especially if the OP hadn’t mentioned it in the thread but it was being carried over from other threads.
But they were polite about saying why they did not sympathize with the OP. They did NOT deserve a mod note and it should be vacated, expunged, or whatever, from their records (even though mod notes don’t “officially” count against you).
Please remember to repost this the next time somebody says thay want some feature because other boards have it.
While some posters have expressed this opinion, I don’t recall anythiing of this nature actually coming from the people that moderate this board.
edited to add: Sorry, Marley23, if this runs counter your above post-I was delayed in posting it by other matters.
I’m not sure there is a non-jerkish way to express that sentiment.
Post #6.
There is no record.
Right. From now on, if I see a post in MPSIMS where the poster isn’t appropriately sympathetic to the OP, I will be sure to report it for jerkishness.
Not even close to what I said. We have rules against recreational complaints, Inner Stickler. It’s time you started paying attention to those.
A)Which rule would that be?
B)What was so jerkish about his post if it’s not the fact that he was unsympathetic to the OP?
That’d be the one I just told you about. I’ll dig around for the right quote, but this forum is here for dealing with actual complaints and concerns about the board. It’s not here to give you an opportunity to snark at the mods and waste our time.
The way in which he expressed it. ‘You’ll be fine and living together again soon’ isn’t very sympathetic, but it’s fine. I don’t think there’s a nice way to say ‘I have no sympathy for you because you said something negative about Barack Obama.’
That’s not what he said either.
It is an actual complaint and concern. I think twickster made a bad moderating decision and has a history of doing so. The fact that you’ve simply justified it for yourself does not actually allay my concern, as such.
This +1.
The two posters who got moderated said, in essence, “I don’t care if your wife left you, because you said something mildly critical about Obama”. They were apparently so put out by the criticism that they couldn’t bothered to read the OP for comprehension, in that it was a job-related issue that meant it would be a long-distance relationship for a while.
twickster, IMO acting well within her discretion, modded these rather jerkish comments. No, she shouldn’t have called them assholes, or said they were acting like assholes, or whatever it was. So she apologized for that.
On preview, fuck it. Too many people would rather have their grudge.
Regards,
Shodan
Is it mere coincidence that the phrase moderator twickster can be rearranged to form A Wicked Retort Storm. I think not.
It’s quite close. Much closer than your very liberal reinterpretations of my posts, for example. As far as ‘recreational complaining’ goes, the term goes all the way back to the old Pit rules:
While those rules no longer apply in the Pit because you can’t complain about the moderation down there, the concept has remained in place. Some newer references to the same idea in ATMB:
I think we’re pretty patient with people who might have legitimate concerns. If your participation in ATMB consists of sniping at people, bashing lots of mod decisions, and (let’s say) creative interpretations of comments from mods, it’s hard to see the legitimate concern. So maybe you want to rethink the way you express your concerns.