amibay broken again?

[Terse]

It depends on the infraction. If it's general trolling the member is often given a warning but if anyone breaks the trading rules or thumbs their nose at an Amibay moderator... "Hasta la vista baby"! :uzi:

I once posted an old Apple II photo in their photo forum and said I’d gotten it for $200 at a thrift store. The post was removed because it contained a dollar amount in the body of the text.

Some threads above and below it also contained dollar amounts, but were not touched.  Amibay’s moderators all appear to interpret their forum rules differently or randomly.

I appreciate the strict moderation, but the poorly trained moderators make that site too unpleasant to use.

By the way, if I posted this on Amibay, it would certainly get me banned.

[Terse]

That would get the price removed, that's for sure.
They are very cautious about "price driving" types of information.


Those should have been also.
They are very complete at removing prices for items that might be sold on amibay.
I'm surprised they missed any..  It's really infrequent that they don't delete that info.  ;-)


I think some of that might be related to the fact that there are numerous moderators.
I've seen some forums where moderators have posted, and then another moderator will "edit" something that the first mod didn't get.
Missed?  Different interpretations?  Both...


I'm sure they will dock them in what they pay them for those errors.. ;-)
None of these mods are being paid.


Not for a first infraction, but it would get edited/removed and you'd be warned...

;-)

desiv
(IMHO, I'm not a mod there...)

Sounds like the underlying issue is a set of rules either too complex or too different from other forums for posters or moderators to internalize.  Glad you have memorized the rules so you can rebut me point by point.

But when you can't feel out the rules by reading the tone of other posts, something is wrong with the forum.

[Terse]

Here be trolls.... don't feed them.

I'm waiting for Godwin's Law to be proven again, if it hasn't already been in this thread...

/bothered

I was being completely sincere in my earlier post.  Amibay is inconsistently moderated to the point that it sometimes causes frustration among members (trolls and regular users alike.)  
I sincerely wish I felt comfortable enough to have spoken with someone there, but I feared even the most softly worded constructive criticism might result in a ban.
So I chose to complain here where I cannot be banned.  Dows that make me a troll?  From your perspective, it might…
At any rate, I have not been on Amybay in months (or a year?) I only posted here to show that some 'trolls' also worry about Amibay’s moderation.

Rebut this post in any way you want.  Call me whatever names you  want.   I won’t defend myself anymore.