Some changes to the way British will be moderated - discussion

Ok i've said it many times before and it's always ignored but I really mean it this time:

Do not use this thread to complain about forum moderation.

There are actually instructions on how to progress a moderation problem in the rules thread in the GF. You can't just start complaining about the place because a thread about cultural issues in British is up. It's not a catch all it's for what it is for. If you feel no improvement is possible with current moderators, I understand and accept your position. Don't talk about it here.

I'll delete all posts complaining about forum moderation from hereon in.

 

That's good to hear and i hope it continues.

 

Note that:

The forum is busier than it's been in years.
That complaining about forum moderation is literally listed as being against the rules.
If we allowed people to question moderating decisions we'd do literally nothing else all day every day. Nobody likes bans. Not their friends, not themselves. Everyone has a reason why them breaking specifically coded rules isn't like other people doing it. Clearly, I'm not banning for complaining about forum moderation but anyone that does is doing exactly what is on the literal listed rules for this forum.

 

If you want to be permanently banned, PM me or @ me here in 24 hours and i'll oblige.

 

Well, as you said "please."


I do think it's absolutely crazy begging to be perma-banned because you're only allowed one post complaining about forum moderation in a thread that specifically says don't complain about forum moderation. You didn't complain about it yesterday but you absolutely must complain about it today or you'll never post on this forum ever again? Crazy stuff. If anyone else feels that way just go away for a bit and come back.

 

OK one more time, although I've already said this in the linked thread.

1 - Almost nobody thinks they should be banned. Almost everyone wants to protest their ban. Sometimes people want to protest their ban from four years go.

2 - Anytime I, as a mod, try to do anything like this "Hello, you have some problems on this forum, maybe i can help?" the response is "I got banned four years ago" and "hey I got banned one time, this is the circumstances of the ban, what do you think about that ban?" and "This one poster got a ban this time and it's really awful."

3 - Almost always, the people talking about other people's ban's don't have a clue.

4 - How can I possibly operate on a forum as a moderator if people are going to be asking me all the time about a ban they have from a moderator 20 months ago that was nothing to do with me of which there is no record?

5 - This is not a thread "about moderation". That is misleading and unfair. This is specifically a thread about how British shall be moderated in the immediate future. That is absolutely distinct as can be from being a thread about moderation in the sense that you mean it where any and all aspects of forum moderation is up for discussion.

Look, I can't be more explicit than this: it is against the written, published rules to question forum moderation. I try very hard not to enforce that rule because I understand people's frustrations. But the reason that it is against the rules is that it is impossible for a moderator to get anything done when they are dogged by these questions.

There is a guide in the General Forum on what to do if you have been unfairly moderated. Nobody ever uses it. You won't use it. Nobody reading this will use it. But the moment a moderator steps out to make any kind of dedicated thread about a forum problem, everyone wants to complain about their ban. It makes things impossible. I've deleted about thirty posts in two threads of people complianing about bannings they've received.

If you want to complain about bannings youv'e recieved, do as suggested. It isn't hard, at all. But don't do it here.