Conversational Standards on the Site

Reading through the other thread, I see that Tina and Devil were both threatened with band for addressing the passive aggressive remarks made with no repercussions towards anyone else. And some more against Tina were made after the ban threats with no consequence. “Off topic”

 

you should have been here in 2004-2005

this thread reminds me very much of this


https://boards.theforce.net/threads/war-ok-but-srsly.30398735/

unfortunately the thread was already locked before I could put my two pence worth in...since I was part of the orginal conversation that was quoted in the initial post.

 

I was saying that reading through threads that span two decades would be helpful towards understanding the way things work here. Those discussions are available for anyone to read, although there are some clipped posts due to the move from IGN boards in 2012.

Reading some of those discussions is preferable to charging ahead unawares.

 

alright yes, I do concede this, and I noticed it too

1. I thought bannings weren't to be discussed regardless, especially in comms. (though that might just be no asking for so-and-so to be unbanned, why were they banned, etc)

2. if a mod wants to warn others about 'off-topic' content at least try to appearto be a bit consistent about it.

3. Isn't that Schwartz, LAJ-Fett's, and Jello's call who will be 'discussing it the unban request forums'? who knows anymore.

As someone who tries to see things from all sides, I think mods have a duty to remain impartial.

 

Bans can be discussed in a general sense but we will not discuss particular users and their bans. As far as the Unban Request forum goes we usually let the banning mod converse with the banned user. Any mod can see threads there.

 

So is Tina banned ? sorry if this was already clarified and I missed it.

 

I didn't say that - my reply was a general informational post on banned users. Don't read anything into it pertaining to a particular user.

 

from my understanding though, mods don't usually interfere in forums they do not moderate. You don't see, I dunno...Crazy-Mike telling people not to use certain words or phrases in the fanfic forum for example. Unless it was an extreme circumstance. One or two off-topic posts don't fall under that criteria or has never done before now.

Has that rule changed now? do mods now mod across the whole boards regardless whose coloured names are at the top?

anyway, for myself to be on-topic I guess

JCers will post the way they always do. It's been consistent throughout the whole time I've been here.
Which is why those posters that do not like it (and believe me I can understand why, people have different sensibilities and that's fine, which is why I strongly advocate a new forum, so both sets of groups don't need to mingle if they don't want)

 

It depends on the forum and if the forum mods are online or not. For example, I'm not a Community mod. However if I am reading a thread there and I see someone has used a disallowed word in a post I'll check to see if a Community mod is online. If not, I'll handle it. We have a thread in our mod forum where we keep tracks of any modding we do outside of our own forums.
Edit - unless it's a major transgression (like posting nudity, for example) we'll normally leave any ban up to the forum mods.

 

alright, well fair enough. Thanks for explaining.

 

No problem!

 

@devilinthedetails I can see how much you missed the drama of those threads and how anxious you were to dive back into it. Congratulations on making the situation even more absurd than it already was. You're the best.

 

Someone alert @Dan.

 

Get ready then for a Marlins/Yankees World Series.

 

you are interacting with people who simply have differing cultural norms / personalities. It’s equally as important for you to remember the culture of the forum you are in (read the room, as it were) as it is for there to be a common measure of dignity and respect. There’s only so much one user can do to change a community’s culture.

 

Let’s not forget “human centipede”

 

If clarification is what you're looking for, why not PM an admin/mod/mgr and ask directly? Why the drama thread?

Look, you are new here. What you are doing is coming into a two-decade+ old community and requesting it completely restructure its culture in order to accommodate one person. How is this even remotely reasonable?

Tina has, in the past, accused me of being against her because of her autism. This is really offensive to me because my son is autistic. I understand autism (but still have much to learn). The thing is, my son goes to therapy in order to build the social skills he will need in order to adapt to the world, because, at the age of 18, he knows that the world will not adapt to him. It's a very important thing to be aware of.

 

Okay, well: dragging me into a superfluous thread, accusing me of doing the very thing the person you're defending is doing: that's not common courtesy.

Barging into a decades-old community, telling them they have to act nicer because you want to play bingo in their midst undisturbed: that's not common courtesy either.

Raising hell about an issue you know MS is working to solve, while everyone else is waiting obligingly: no, that's not common courtesy either.

Have I addressed it sufficiently for you?
Please let the mods know, so they can close the thread.

 

God please let this die.