Yeah....right....
It's a game of favorites with the mods, if you are a YES man, you have nothing to worry about. If you have a different opinion than one of the mods, you will get those stupid points, I'm still waiting on my catalog, with all of the points I have, I should be able to get something really nice out of it.
Exactly!, I can speak of my own experience where a particular moderator on one of our foreign forums does participate in discussions or arguments as a poster and when something goes against him he is very heavyhanded to give out infractions. After I pointed this out to him that
"a moderator should only moderate" when acting like a moderator and NOT when acting as a poster I got my "50 points infraction" for violating the CoC. He still does this on a regular basis.
I guess I now will get another "infraction" for critizising or discussing a moderator's decission.
I've recently received two reports on oversized banners - one has been resized and the other has had an email sent requesting action on his behalf before I take action.
If you have any others, send the reports now.
My first "infraction" also was for the
heinous crime of posting an oversized picture, I would have thought a warning could/should have been more appropriate for a "first offender". I was so upset at the time I was within a whisker of leaving this forum and giving away the whole Content Creator scene for good and to tell this particular moderater to stick it
"where the sun don't shine". His name is NOT "
Paul9" but I will not name him for fear of getting banned again. But I guess this will still get me another "infraction"
I am 68 years young tomorrow and I consider myself a well behaved member of this forum. In my younger days I was the CEO of my own building company with sometimes well over 50 people employed at any given time. This would have qualified me with dealing with all sorts of different people at any given time with all sorts of problems to sort. The last thing on my mind would have been to upset a moderator here.
I was a moderator myself some time ago on another forum with over 250.000 registered members. I never ever had complaints against me for over 5 years doing my moderator duties there, although it was always necessary to sort flaming and arguments on a regular basis.
My theory is, with some moderators, not necessarely here, it goes to their head and some of them, again, not necessarely here, feel important to wield a stick, pen or whatever heavyhanded where a warning would be appropriate, particular for a first minor offence. :hehe:
As said, at the time I received my first infraction as pointed out above I felt to give it all away and I still think a few or possibly a lot of members NOT being here in this forum anymore might have done exactly the same and left for this reason. This is something to ponder for some moderators here as it is NOT the member's loss, it is this community's loss.
My 2 cents worth.
Cheers
VinnyBarb
