Philotic Web

I know that I've had rocky relations with the mods here, but I think that the mods could do a better job. Perhaps they are doing their best, but in typical me fashion, I can find plenty of faults. However, I do understand that I often gloss over the good things that they are doing. My couple of complaints:

1. Lack of warning:
The way I see it, it's not fair to lock up a thread like that without giving at least a couple strong warnings and seeing if it's going to sort itself out. The role of a Mod is to stop things from getting too far out of hand. Personally, the breakups thread was getting out of hand, but I think that a strongly worded warning would have been more appropriate than locking said thread.

2. Unclear rules:
I've never seen formal rules. When I have been warned by the mods, they made sure to point out what rules they were working on, but providing a rules sticky (at least in the Town Square and Religion forums) would be a good way of making sure everybody is on the same page rules-wise.

3. Mod solidarity:
I haven't seen any evidence of mods collaborating in making decisions. My view of mods excercising their power has been that it is a unilateral decision and that mods don't get involved in something that another mod brings up. I would like it if we could get a second opinion on every mod decision that is made. Just having another mod post a backup of the first's decision would make me much more confident in the decisions that are made. Hopefully, no drastic action will be taken until two or more mods agree that it should be done, and if there are objections from other mods, they should be considered before any actions are taken.

4. Mod Hat vs. No Mod Hat
Because the mods participate in our forums, I find it difficult to separate the "mod voice" from the regular voice. This caused me a lot of consternation in a couple of cases, where I was debating with a mod and got warned by the same mod for saying something potentially offensive. I saw it as an abuse of power, where the mod was using their position of power to silence a voice that disagreed with them. If the actions I suggest for mod solidarity above were followed, I think that some (if not all) of these problems could be eliminated. It might also be possible to register a "mod" account that can be used to eliminate any confusion in this vein.

Those are my suggestions for the mods. Feel free to take them or not, I have no power here, but hopefully other people feel the same way I do and would appreciate the same changes that I'm looking forward to.

Actually, most of my posts take place in Milagre Town Square, but I do enjoy the Game Room as well. Also, why don't posts in the game room make you more of a member? I'd rather not discuss this here, since it's meant as a suggestion box, but I'd like to hear why you don't think so.

Please do your best to preserve postcount, it is useful (to me) in sizing somebody up.

I concur. Please do your best to preserve postcount, it is useful (to me) in sizing somebody up. Plus, it's rude to decimate somebody's postcount without any warning and without a good reason.

Just wanted to add my two cents on post counts. (Even if it's already been suggested.)


If it's possible to disable posts in all the game threads, not just the more popular ones, that's my suggestion. I don't want those counting because you get people who post garbage just to post something.

I think you two are in the minority on that issue. Most people here don't want game threads affecting post counts because they aren't really a good measure of whether a person has become a member of the community.

My understanding is that that was possible on the old forum, but is not possible here.

Please do your best to preserve postcount, it is useful (to me) in sizing somebody up.

Then your attempts at sizing people up are inherently flawed anyway.

I will not believe such lies. He is now and forever "Fetus" in my eyes.

I concur. Please do your best to preserve postcount, it is useful (to me) in sizing somebody up. Plus, it's rude to decimate somebody's postcount without any warning and without a good reason.

You're pathetic.

Just a note about the deletion of the threads. There was a long discussion about it in the super-secret mod fortress, and the consensus from all involved was to periodically delete the Word Association and the Last Post threads.

I think you two are in the minority on that issue. Most people here don't want game threads affecting post counts because they aren't really a good measure of whether a person has become a member of the community.

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