There’s an unintended double negation in there I think. Moderators obviously should not simply defer to the views of one poster without giving the matter due consideration. So delete the “not” in the second sentence.
Right. I meant moderators who didn’t do their job but it doesn’t parse that way. Sorry for the confusion.
So your meaning was “not”, not “not not”.
A very knotty phrase.
I guess we could define the word “maybe” as:
not not not not not
(not “not”, not “not not”)
We have some work to do to reach buffalo status. You can obviously keep just negating ad infinitum but that seems cheap.
Sweet!
Maybe, maybe not.
Not “not”, not “not not”, not not “not”, not not “not not”
Thanks for trying it out, anyway.
Posters do, however, get to give opinions. You’ve posted in, and started, enough ATMB threads yourself that that high horse looks pretty damn silly.
Because how a moderator moderatess impacts me when it’s my turn to request moderation in a forum they moderate, obviously. The impact may be moderate, but it’s not immoderate to want more information on a moderator’s moderation style.
OK. Bear in mind that I’ve got no way to tell what’s difficult for you and what isn’t, other than you telling us. Thanks for addressing it.
I doubt we’d have much luck asking for changes to Discourse as I suspect most boards don’t have this sort of setup.
In future if I wind up in any sort of significant conversation in a flag thread I’ll copy and save posts for myself as I make or see them, if I think I might want to refer to them later. But I expect there are going to be others taken aback because they don’t understand what’s going on.
Not sure how it would work in PMs, but have you tried Whispers?
Moderation! Heck yeah!
When the ancient Greeks said moderation in all things, few people realize that what they meant is that the domain and scope of the moderator’s power is without limit.
What are Whispers? I don’t recall that Discourse feature.
Basically, they let staff add notes to threads (and I think to PMs) without the regular membership being able to see them. They’re like secret posts.
I agree with what was said above: The Dope’s moderating is already better than 95% of the Internet’s message boards.
Anyone who leaves it is welcome to immerse themselves in the cesspool of power-jerk-tyranny-modding elsewhere (Reddit, Democratic Underground, anyone?) and have fun there.
I have used whispers. I have mixed feelings about them. They always leave me anxious as to whether the “whispered” post is actually private or is public.
They do take some getting used to.
If you do use them, I suggest a standing order that anything that was supposed to be a whisper but didn’t get toggled can be immediately deleted without discussion by anybody with the power to do so. Can save a lot of embarrassment and hurt feelings.
About warnings and rule changes. Not a PM that makes no difference. There is no reason to demand a PM be made public unless you just want to give a mod a hard time over it.
I concur.
It caused a poster to leave. That’s not “no difference”.