Are The Mods Doing A Good Job? (Poll)

I was looking through my moderation history and one thing that really stands out was me being modded for saying that black people dont need reperations, and that freedom is the best thing a human being can have. I was modded for having a different opinion. I actually was confronted by the mod (I think, unless it was just a mod who agreed) and said "it undermined the civil rights movement" somehow? pretty clear cut example of bad modding

ever since then ive been trying to be a bit more discrete (you have to be around here), because I know I have a big target on my head for being conservative. I dont think all the lefties are out to get me, just the ones who really arent secure in their beliefs and are offended by others opinions.

H8sMikeMoore

[QUOTE="spazmaticmof0"]Some of them are good and actually participate in posting, others are too strict when it comes to the ToU... Good people, they just need to lighten up. This is an OT forum, they need to have a little fun..Jandurin

BWAHAHA ANOTHER VICTIM!!!! But thank you :lol:

I think we're doing a good job :cry: You people are mean! :cry: :PYagr_Zero

I'm not trying to just go with what everyone else is saying, but most of the mods IMO do suck some serious balls. It seems they can never admit that they are wrong, with one of my previous moderations there was without a shadow of a doubt nothing against the TOU and I was modded. I complained yet they gave me their whole rant "I'm always right, deal with it, don't like it? go to customer support" but am I really going to waste my time dealing with that?

So until a mod wants to right a wrong (being my moderation) here's your chance (although I doubt they have the cahones), but until then I will continue to :lol: at what a joke some of the team is. (not all)

Oh and to give an idea of what it was...

In the system wars forums the 360s ability to play xbox 1 titles is referred to as emulation, and emulation is by no means illegal (ever heard of thin clients?). In a thread asking what DS users would want to happen for the DS, I listed some absurd things that I knew would never come to the DS (halo, morrowind, majora's mask) and then I said NES/SNES emulation, that's what got me modded :| are you kidding me any mod with half a brain cell would realize I'm talking about a legal emulation which Nintendo would sanction and release. There is no way they can just assume I was referring to the illegal one (which I wasn't) and there is nothing in the post leading one to believe that.

So in the end I was modded because some inept mod didn't know that there were legal emulators...basically being modded for ignorance.

Still waiting for it to be fixed.

edit: I do appreciate the mods that keep the community a fun place to be, and I realize there is a large amount of work for such a small team, but come on, there are quite a few dumb choices being made.

[QUOTE="Yagr_Zero"]I think we're doing a good job :cry: You people are mean! :cry: :PJandurin

It's easy to say that mods make bad decisions when you don't see the whole picture of everything they see and go through.

I mod on another big game site and I get the same criticism by people who have no idea what is really going on.

Tons of people say they get banned for no reason, when in reality no one gets banned for no reason. People create alt accounts for flaming, or just have history of being trolls which all counts against people in the long run. Or do things that break the TOS/TOU What one person might get away with might be the straw that broke the camels back for other users. Tons of people just have to hate on everyone and everything to make themselves feel better.

People say they've received no warnings when they have. Its certain people will deny everything until the end. I have people every day on a different site that swear up down and sideways they've NEVER received a warning, and I could pull up 5 from the last month that have been saved on a different board. Users don't have the right to demand to see all the posts made by someone that got them banned. Simple as that.

Also mods are less visible in the community because well, they're mods. They have a certain amount of work to do that doesn't allow them time to post in the same threads that have been made a thousand times. Plus, I'm reasonably sure some mods probably have alt accounts they post on just so there's no mod hate associated with it. Some people will go out of their way to hate on mods for no other reason than they're mods. I have an alt account on the site I post on and it's hilarious to see people that will call you a total SOB every day on your mod nick, and the same person will think you're awesome on your alt. For no other reason than some people need something to hate on.

Could be different on this site, but I've never seen any glaring problems.

Mods do an alright job. They do make some silly decisions though.

I posted a joke i heard from TV the other day, a show with no kind of certification so suitable for most people. Yet i was given a warning. I honestly couldn't believe it lol pretty funny stuff

Overall not bad

Could be different on this site, but I've never seen any glaring problems.

strayzilla

I am not going to speak unkind words, but I do get frustrated often with them. I have been modded several times. A few of those times, I understood why and I made mental notes about what NOT to do again; however several times I receive a PM stating that my account has been suspended for some random forum post. I cannot figure out why!!! It gets very frustrating! And I do not know what happened to my Old School icon in my profile... it just disappeared.sinistra45

Well thats one part about being a mod that does suck. You will have to listen to certain demographic of people who are easily offended. I'm sure your joke/avatar was not offensive to 99.9% of users on the site. I'm sure the mods even thought it was funny, BUT when sites have advertising, or are trying to be family or kid friendly or whatever, those complaints from people who are offended have to be taken seriously, even as stupid as the complaints are. Sometimes mods hands are tied in that regard. And they have to be removed or moderated. And then people get bent over it.

[QUOTE="sinistra45"]I am not going to speak unkind words, but I do get frustrated often with them. I have been modded several times. A few of those times, I understood why and I made mental notes about what NOT to do again; however several times I receive a PM stating that my account has been suspended for some random forum post. I cannot figure out why!!! It gets very frustrating! And I do not know what happened to my Old School icon in my profile... it just disappeared.strayzilla

Well thats one part about being a mod that does suck. You will have to listen to certain demographic of people who are easily offended. I'm sure your joke/avatar was not offensive to 99.9% of users on the site. I'm sure the mods even thought it was funny, BUT when sites have advertising, or are trying to be family or kid friendly or whatever, those complaints from people who are offended have to be taken seriously, even as stupid as the complaints are. Sometimes mods hands are tied in that regard. And they have to be removed or moderated. And then people get bent over it.