Are you saying that you and the modding staff cannot cope and need more mods?
I can't speak for the other mods - to do so would be inappropriate.
But from your above posts you are stating that you are too busy and cannot do the modding as you would wish as there is too much.
I believe that if people read the rules and abided by them, there would be little need to act on posts. There are always a few idiots that join just to spam, swear or troll - they get a kick out of it when members don't recognise them for what they are and rise to the bait. It's the internet - it happens.
Indeed it does, but that is not what I am referring to.
There are some long term members who deliberately "explore the envelope" as well. They have their own reasons for doing so. They diminish their own standing in my mind.
And no doubt your standing is always at the forefront of their mind while they do this.
I also believe that there are a class of "perps" who break the rules deliberately with the express purpose of entering into long winded arguments with mods because they like to. Mods far too often humour them and engage in weeks of protracted debate over a point which becomes less and less relevent as the debate develops until such time that the debate is the "thing" and the original point is already forgotten. Ignore their messages and you get lambasted in public for "not addressing the legitimate concerns of a member" - publish their drivel, and you are "abusing your power as a mod".
However, when the mod doesn't even give a reason for what they do then they really are looking like they are abusing their power. By all means don't enter into a debate with someone, but threatening someone with a ban for "breaking the rules" without even having the common decency to knock up a 2 line PM to say what part of the rules are in effect is pretty shocking in my book and horrendous bad form. I had to talk to other sensible mods to even get a response from a mod, and that response was awful.
Events where the mods put themselves in such a bad light do nothing for this forum. I used to back them to the hilt for the difficult job they do, but now it seems they are slipping and can't be bothered to put their hands up and say "We are a bit busy now, shall we get a couple of extra hands in to help so we can continue to provide a decent service".
If there is an eBay link thread, and I have nothing better to do then, yes, I will PM the perp to say what they did wrong. If I have a dozen of them, and other threads that require serious attention, then I may well not.
I believe on a fish forum, that getting answers to fish keepers problems is more important then stroking the ego's of clowns - perhaps you disagree?
Quite so, but when threatening members with bans, perhaps the mods should actually tell people what they did wrong, n'est ce pas? And this is more than just a fish forum, or else we wouldn't have all the off topic stuff littered around. The off topic stuff is an attempt at creating a community. A community with enforcers who are accountable to no one and don't even have the inclination to explain why they do what they do is hardly the best way forwards.
And as to "
stroking the ego's [sic]
of clowns", what clarifies someone as a clown? Some, such as the spammage I can understand, but what about when someone doesn't believe they did anything wrong, and neither do 3 other mods. Is someone a clown then for wanting an explanation of why they are being threatened with being banned but not being told why? I certainly don't think so.
How strange that the mods agree that they can do things better, but when given suggestions on what is wrong with the modding process from a member's view they just blow that advice out.
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