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Forums that just don't get it

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So I went looking for Pokemon forums, to see if I could find people interested in my Pokemod! idea.

The forum I find looks good.  There's even a post from someone, back in February, who was making 3D models of pokemon.  I write up an enthusiastic post, click submit--and it tells me I must post 15 comments before I'm allowed to link to external sites.  So I go back, edit, add a sarcastic comment about how I'd better find 13 threads in which to post inane comments so I can post links, and click submit again.  Then it tells me my post will be screened by a moderator before it's posted to the forum.

Now, I'm never going back to that forum again.

It boggles my mind how some people go on the Internet and try their hardest to take everything Internet-like out of their forum or website.  Like, for example, links.  "I've got a great idea.  Let's make an Internet site without links!  It will be revolutionary!  Like a book!"  What the hell?

Then you have over-moderated forums where any/all divergent opinion is censored.  Or maybe not all of it, but certainly a few taboo subjects--say, for example, anything supportive of Republicans, or anything contradictory to a certain conspiracy theory or religion.  It's another genius idea:  Let's make an Internet site with no Internet in it.  Let's take all the divergence of opinion and shut it out!  It's genius!  We'll just hold a book right up to our nose so we can't see anything else, and if we don't like that--we'll close the book.

God, people...

You know what makes me feel better?

:meow: :hrmph: :digichet: :bebi: XD :fox: :grin: :moo: :pig: :troll: :P (\B):vulcan:(\B) :waaaa: ;P :S :wulf: :smitten: :inlove:

There.  Now to find some frigging Pokemon models and pirate Twilight again, like all good Internet users should.

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I think that the highly focused nature of this forum--we're all playing the same build of a game that hasn't been released yet and offering feedback on it--insulates against some of the challenges more general purpose forums face. So hardcore moderation just isn't as necessary. When the retail build goes live, I hope the culture will stay the same. I know how hard it is to resist the temptation to go in and moderate everything.

You're actually quite wrong there.

I am accessing this thread [and thus this forum] from www.wincustomize.com , another of Stardock's sites which focuses on a quite different activity, namely GUI Customizing.

Stardock has 'forum moderators' who focus on the different interest-group site forums, however many sub-headings of the forums are cross-linked and accessible to all.

The real testament to the mods' moderation is how so much of this can often go un-noticed by the general user...;)

Reply #27 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 26

The real testament to the mods' moderation is how so much of this can often go un-noticed by the general user...

 

Actually, if I don't see the results of moderation then I believe that they had been slacking on the job ;P

 

Like if some secret military group would destroy a threat to the world that no one knew about. Since we didn't knew about the threat and no ones showed us proof, we don't believe in it.

 

 

About the OP, I'd support a 5-10 postcount before being able to post links and forum moderation for another 15 posts before I become "free" on that forum.

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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Like if some secret military group would destroy a threat to the world that no one knew about. 

 

Yep... that's the Mods to a 'T'. The Delta Force Mods. The Unit. Jonas Jafo. lol.  XD ;)  They're really just more experienced Community Members... and honestly, were you expecting gunfire? Lightning?

Reply #29 from Elemental Forums Top

A stickied thread with the posts he have deleted and edited would suffice. Though gunfire and lightning would be grand! :)     Just imagine a video of Jafo holding a shotgun while uttering a Clint Eastwood phrase then the camera skips to a forumpost. You hear gunfire and the post gets destroyed :w00t:

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

You feeling?

Lucky punk.

;)

Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 30
You feeling?

Lucky punk.


:typo:  

Proper punctuation would be...

You feeling lucky, punk? 

I don't get to do that very often, so I couldn't pass up the chance. :grin:

Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Actually, there's a good deal of wit in the way he punctuated that line....

i.e. "Are you conscious? Are you alive?" [*insert answer 'yes' or 'no'*]

      Lucky punk.

Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Actually, there's a good deal of wit in the way he punctuated that line....

Or I'm just.

A smart-arse?

...;)

Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Second line gets my vote.....:-"

Reply #35 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Phoon, reply 15
Isn't it incredible how the internet has amplified the foul mouth, rude and disrespectful voices of the world.

The internet just amplifies it, or rather, makes it more visible since you encounter a lot more people (and diverse ones at that) than you would in every day life.

Then again, I do feel that the level of respect for other people has gone down in recent years, or maybe I'm just getting old and turn into a Statler and Waldorf type of a grump. ;) I'm only close to forty, so that may not actually be it, but when I was a teen, the way people treated each other was a little more respectful. That's also true for the "internet" (really: CompuServe and local BBS networks) some twenty years ago. However, this could be explained by the audience of back then -- you only had the techies and geeks in the local BBS networks and the "well off" or business people on CompuServe (I had just started working for a couple of IT and gaming publishers and received a free/sponsored account).

Still, I think our society today is a lot more ... hmm, more socially careless. This may be a positive or a negative thing. Probably depends on one's point of view, expectations and "standards", all of which are highly individual.

The medium certainly does make it easier to slip, to overreact, to be offensive, -- deliberately or accidentally --. or simply to be misunderstood.

Reply #36 from Elemental Forums Top

I'm a big fan of dictatorial moderation. I know it sounds evil, but everyone has their house, their rules and the way they like to keep order. While that contributes to places on the Internet becoming bastions of agreement and closed-thinking, on the other hand....an unmoderated website is a cesspit, and can actually become a liability for people that visit it or operate it. And as far as America is concerned, you don't get to walk into someone's house or place of business and behave as you please. That's what the sidewalk is for, and until the Federal government starts putting up general forums for people to hang out in, no forum is really free.

Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm a big fan of dictatorial moderation. I know it sounds evil, but everyone has their house, their rules and the way they like to keep order. While that contributes to places on the Internet becoming bastions of agreement and closed-thinking, on the other hand....an unmoderated website is a cesspit, and can actually become a liability for people that visit it or operate it. And as far as America is concerned, you don't get to walk into someone's house or place of business and behave as you please. That's what the sidewalk is for, and until the Federal government starts putting up general forums for people to hang out in, no forum is really free.

Well stated...;)

Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 37

I'm a big fan of dictatorial moderation. I know it sounds evil, but everyone has their house, their rules and the way they like to keep order. While that contributes to places on the Internet becoming bastions of agreement and closed-thinking, on the other hand....an unmoderated website is a cesspit, and can actually become a liability for people that visit it or operate it. And as far as America is concerned, you don't get to walk into someone's house or place of business and behave as you please. That's what the sidewalk is for, and until the Federal government starts putting up general forums for people to hang out in, no forum is really free.


Well stated...

Agreed. :grin:

Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm a big fan of dictatorial moderation too. Except when I was a moderator no-one would let me chop people's mivonks off when they deserved it, which is unfair >:(

 

;p :fuzzy:

Reply #40 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm a big fan of dictatorial moderation too. Except when I was a moderator no-one would let me chop people's mivonks off when they deserved it, which is unfair

So that's why you quit... a swift kick in the goolies was insufficient? :-"

Reply #41 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yup, for some, gonadectomy is the only way ;)

Reply #42 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yup, for some, gonadectomy is the only way

And how about a tonsilectomy through the same incision to be sure, to be sure?

Reply #43 from Elemental Forums Top

With great power comes great responsibility.