Wow, 6 pages and I'm still not sure I've got it all. What a strange thread, seems I missed all the fun but it is truly baffling. So we want less moderation, but something needs to be done about all the personal attacks and negativity on this board. Fluff shouldn't have been banned, even though he was directly responsible for a lot of the personal attacks and negativity. So many assumptions have been thrown out without a lot of ideas on how to fix things. Here are some truths that I want to corrects. Fluff didn't get banned because someone pulled a trigger because of something they didn't like that he said or posted. He wasn't banned on a whim by one person. He wasn't banned because a final straw was pulled. We had/have one of the longest threads on this site dedicated to fluff. And that's with only 5 people posting in it. He was here for months and the only reason he wasn't banned sooner are because some of the mods such as myself didn't agree we could ban someone because of something they said. We have rules and procedures in place that we go through before we ban someone. We don't take it as lightly as some might like to propose. We gathered messages, complains and made a unanimous vote when it finally became clear that he needed to be banned. A lot of which was not seen because it was cleaned up . Why was he banned then you ask? Because after countless attempts to talk to him and explain to him the rules here on this board and what he was doing wrong he preceded to disregard everything we asked him to please try to do in order to be a contributing member of the IHN family. He basically told us No, he didn't have to follow the rules, and there wasn't anything we could do about it. So that is why he was banned.
As for all the censorship, thread deleting, post removal, it's absolutely baffling to me. All posts are saved, period. And I've looked through them. Other than his posts that were removed after he was banned to get things back on topic, the majority of posts that have been removed were double posts, or posts from mods themselves. If you had a post removed it, it was either against TOS or because it had something to do with Fluff after he had already been banned. When he was banned, since his main reason for being here was disruption and attention whoring, we decided that we would not bring him up anymore and it would be like he never was here because he's been banned and is no longer part of this community. So congrats, you brought him back from the dead, he must be loving this thread. Much like Paul I hear a lot of complaining here but no real suggestions. No real solutions, what is it exactly that people want to happen. Less moderating just can't happen. This isn't as simple as logging in. We are all volunteers, I was a mod for 2 weeks before I even did so much as merge a thread. I still don't even know how to use all those tools, as I think it was Phranck that told me how to use one yesterday. Yet, we still have games that the chat doesn't get opened. Imagine that. Could we have 2 mods, sure, if they were full time paid positions, but it's just not going to happen. Are their changes I would like to see, sure, i've even brought stuff up in the Mod thread. I love this place, I try to be as fair as possible, I try to be as positive as possible. I do not try to delete posts, and I've never closed or deleted a thread. Do I want more posters? Yes, I've brought up several ideas on how to attempt this. But letting this place become a free for all with no moderation is no way to encourage people to post here. It comes down to this, we came here to express whatever we want when we want. And now that we can we are getting sensitive because everyone is so negative and people are allowed to say what they want. But we feel that the way to make this better is for less moderation? It makes no sense to me. If you want to stop all the gang banging and personal attacks, and negativity that's one thing, just don't complain when I try to do that and all of a sudden everyone is being censored. How about we just give everyone mod powers and let everyone delete everything they don't like. Then we can have one thread about boobs.
If you going to call someone out, call them out, don't state sweeping generalizations as facts about things you think are happening and throw everyone under the bus. Contrary to popular belief there are some people here who are good people, and trying very hard to make this the best community for Blackhawk Fans on the web.
