Looking for a new home :-)

[Seehund]

lorddef wrote:
The thing is that every board gets the odd tosser as a moderator now and then, however most are excellent.

But one board seems to have handpicked the most infamous abusive zealous close-minded barely literate fanatics for moderator duty. The people who were among the most disliked trolls also before "the exodus" are running the show. Yes, tossers is the word. When choosing these people, it seems to have been more important that they were "red" trolls (i.e. an embarrassment to AmigaOS4 and its community) than that they were trolls period.

The people who any sane board owner would possibly consider for moderator duty are a tiny minority of the staff there. Off the top of my head, I can only think of two moderators there who are up to the task, but I'm not a frequent visitor to that site any more.

[Seehund]

AmiGR wrote:
I absolutely disagree with what happened there but I also disagree with something else:
- A MOS user breaks a rule and gets suspended and no one cares. (The way it should be, really).
- Some other certain people break a rule and get suspended and suddently it's all oh-so insanely unfair...

Partial sight.

I'd put it somewhat differently:

- People who don't agree with the moderators get suspended/banned/their posts moderated without violating any part of the TOS. No one on the site in question cares, the world outside the cult points fingers and laughs at the site.
- People actually violate parts of the TOS, this time too blatantly and one time too many to get away despite being of "the right conviction". Suddenly it's all oh-so insanely unfair...

There's an AW.net member who's whining over at Moobunny right now (blaming the "side" he thinks of as "enemies" for his suspension...). Almost every last one of his outright insane ranting and raving posts about Blue Conspiracies et c. have broken the AW.net TOS, but his insanity was always of "the right kind" so he got away with it and was encouraged until recently.

I have no problems with seeing a site enforcing its Terms Of Service. I can avoid a site if their TOS don't suit me. I do have a problem with the publicly posted TOS being arbitrarily applied or ignored in favour of the moderators' personal biases. I have a problem with a site that officially claims to be an "Amiga Community Portal", but doesn't mention in its TOS that "Amiga" only refers to "Amiga, Inc. and its licensees and licensors, and disagreeing with them or discussing other things is a 'secret' TOS-violation".

[Seehund]

humppa wrote:

Seehund wrote:
The people who any sane board owner would possibly consider for moderator duty are a tiny minority of the staff there. Off the top of my head, I can only think of two moderators there who are up to the task

Wegster! If there is a balanced moderated on AWN who expresses his views in a well-considered way, than it's definately him! He is the reason why I have not completely given up browsing through their forums.

You read my mind.

I guess Mikey_C is NOT the second one you mean!? ;-) :lol:  

Why not, he was elected "moderator of the year"!!!!111 or some equally otherworldly title.

Nah, I was thinking of Coder. There could be more, as I said I'm not frequenting the site any more, but it's the majority consisting of totally unsuitable moderators and their actions that are noticed.