teejayevans
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Can you remove the restriction that prevents filtering out user's who
happen to be moderators?
TJ
happen to be moderators?
TJ
Yea, I saw that, but it was buried in another thread, hence the reasonI asked for that option as well. I can't see why that can't be an option.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me...![]()
Absolutely positively one of the lightest handed, least, most reasonably moderated boards I've ever participated in, with the exception of moderator-less boards.
Do we really all yearn for the unchecked return of hocomania, howard and the many mikes?
Dont you really just feel bad because a moderator asked you to provide some concrete background on an opinion you posed as a fact, maybe because 20-30 times you provided an opinion that wasnt based on anything particularly factual?
Or maybe you're just grumpy about a moderator doing exactly the same frickin thing you've done previously?
Theres no technologically reasonable way to prohibit display of a moderators posts, as software cant tell when they're steering a discussion, when they're being wise guys, or when they're doing something you dont like.
About the only solution would be to make a generic moderator account that mods use, and have them use their regular acct to do regular posting.
Hmm, lets see...take people doing a crap job for free and receiving very little appreciation for it, and ask them to log out and back in again 3-5 times a day. Good luck with that...
Absolutely positively one of the lightest handed, least, most reasonably moderated boards I've ever participated in, with the exception of moderator-less boards.
Dont agree with me.
It'll annoy SG.
Based on your comments in post #4 of this thread it seems there are many things you do not like about ER.They don't take every opportunity to express their disagreement, incite argument, insult each other, and fan flames.
Agreed.
I have no idea what the complainers are talking about. I wish they give specific detailed incidents in which they were "unreasonably" censored.
Easy there, you are getting a little fired up. We can all have a reasonable and courteous conversation here.Martha posted stupid pictures of her dog,
I don't have a fast connection, so having to download her pictures of
her dog takes a long time, I don't think that's too much to ask for the
moderators not to be posting pictures of their dog in a health forum.
I got slammed for asking, I guess everybody has broadband and thinks
pictures of dog with lettuce on its head is funny. It was suppose to
be a slam against MKLD, yea whatever, I just prefer to block Martha
and anybody else that posts pictures to save me time.
If there is no way to do it, fine, but I'm guessing its just a configuration
flag somewhere in some INI file.
TJ
...The reason you can't block moderators (at this point) is because they might post information about how the community is managed that you might need to read. If they were blocked then you would miss the message and that would not work...
My reward is that I can read this board without having to wade through the crap that's infected Yahoo!, TMF, most of M*, & Greaney's board. If I have to be a moderator to help make that happen then I'm happy to spend some time on it. I spent enough of my submarine time wading through crap with far less of a reward.Obviously they get something out of it. Altruistic expression, dominance, whatever. Everybody needs to get some reward for doing whatever they do; and a reward should be given.
Another way to say it is that you have to be so much of a blatant troll that even a moderator would be able to tell!An interesting thing about the board is that over the past year or so it has morphed into a place where you have to be fairly clever if you want to get away with trolling. You will be allowed quite a bit of troll line, as long as you understand the form well.
Hey, we're here to keep it that way...It's a pleasure to observe.![]()
I sure was able to get a huge defensive response with these 6 sentences. And I didn't even start the thread. Are some of you feeling guilty?I've tried in the past to gain less paternalistic moderation on this board. Our moderators apparently really believe they know better. They can censor while you can't even edit your own posts after a few minutes. You can ignore posters, but not their posts. If you push too hard, you'll get a nasty-gram from one or more of them. They are probably talking about you right now on their special moderator's board that you can't participate in.
Good luck.
sgeeeee,I sure was able to get a huge defensive response with these 6 sentences. And I didn't even start the thread. Are some of you feeling guilty?
Well . . . as CT has said in the past, "Blow me".
Please consider this a warning, if you cannot comply with the simple rules, you will be asked to leave.Friends don't always agree on everything or even on most things. They can agree to disagree. When that happens, they might keep their discussions logical and free of name calling and so forth, or more often they just spend their time on other topics. They don't take every opportunity to express their disagreement, incite argument, insult each other, and fan flames. When they are incapable of avoiding this sort of thing, they become much more disruptive than welcome.
The easy way is to have them register under 2 logins, 1 the normal loginMost of the time mods are just participating as civilians like everyone else, so I would hope their message won't be privileged by not allowing someone to block them like all the other civilians here.
That child psychology won't work on me dudePlease don't bother to remind me that this is a free country and I can leave and not come back if I don't like it. That is such a sad and petty response. You can say that about any experience to rationalize why no one should ever complain about anything. If that was the way people worked, 90% of the threads on this board would be ended before they started.![]()