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I've noticed recently that respect, tact, and fairness has gone out the window. There is a general contempt for the rules, and the moderators are not honouring their duties. I know they aren't going to like hearing that, but tough shit, because I have every right to make suggestions and note problems prior to making suggestions.
There are people spamming, there are people being needlessly disrespectful of others, and there's me, banned for acts no worse than CheeseOfGlory's day-to-day drivel. The rules don't apply to SOME, they apply to ALL, yet it seems to be the other way round at the moment.
I for one am fed up with seeing "spam" as being this ambiguous grey area, the ambiguity being exploited by moderators to allow them to issue warnings and bans to people they dislike for "spam" and ignore other obvious cases of "spam" without being questioned. There needs to be a hard, solid definition of "spam" to stem this potential for corruption. But also there needs to be an attitude change.
We cannot continue to beat up, ban, warn, or caution those people we dislike for whatever stupid reason. I know a lot about how things go down on forums and I've seen a lot of forums take the long road to failure down this route - the mods and regulars banning and harassing certain members but favouring others. What you end up with is a shitty little cabal of total assholes who think they're better than everyone else - newbies register at their peril.
We need some CLARITY. We're either going to go by the book, or abandon the rules entirely - we cannot carry on, simply using the rules whenever we want to get rid of or spite someone but disregard them for those we favour. The mods got me banned for a week after an all out anti-dino campeign from Hobo and Rich, for "spam" - do we really want a moderator team who gang up on individuals they don't like and ignore the rulebreaking of others simply because they favour them? (I'm sure they'll deny that this is the case)
Let's not have shifting principles and moving goalposts. It's time we got a little respect and tact around here, and handled ourselves maturely and diplomatically. That thread in the W+B forum was a really good example of how things have gone wrong here - spamming, disrespect, tactless comments, disregard for the rules, and moderators not doing their duties properly. This has to stop otherwise the forums are genuinely doomed. We need some moral standards and values that are upheld and adhered to. This is a great community and it pisses me off when I see it going to shit, because I know that it shouldn't be that way.
So, to recap, we need more clarity on how the rules are being enforced, a greater emphasis placed on being respectful and tactful, and no more of this mafia-like behaviour among the moderator team.
Discuss/suggest/etc.
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