What the hell?
A note to the two admins that moved this thread to here:
Try to be less arrogant in future, and also try to remember that your power does not mean you can treat the other users like they are lesser life and like their opinions mean less than yours. All that being an administrator really shows is that you don't get out as much as everyone else.
I would also like to point out that admins are particularly good at supressing other peoples voices and opinions because they can delete threads and posts. This of course just means that people will never post what they really think, they just fear that they will be banned or publicly humiliated.
The arrogant behaviour of forum administrators genuinely angers me, I think that a forum is a place where opinions are allowed to meet and go wild, not a place where opinions should be supressed.
My point being, go take your arrogance elsewhere, somewhere you genuinly have a right to use it in a way that will benefit everyone. But for gods sake don't pick on a newbie...
If a thread gets made in the wrong place, just quietly move it to the right place and send the user a private message alerting them that their thread has been moved because its in the wrong place. You don't need to publicly humiliate him in such a way, and you also do not need to tell everyone not to make this users mistake. That is something you should do on the index page (or home page, whatever.) without reference to the people that made the mistake, and you should only ever do that if lots of people are making the same mistake and its causing a problem.
I don't think it takes alot of brains to work out that you went a bit overkill on this one, try to take a more "The customers always right" approach the next time and follow my instructions in the above paragraph.
I have administrated alot of forums in my time, but I have since given up because it was too time consuming/boring to be worth my while. During my time as a forum admin, I noticed a horrifying trend of admins that deleted threads and post that they didn't agree with.
I hope that you all heed this advice with you better judgement.
Reese
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