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Poor Leadership

Introvert Petunia
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Join date: 11 Sep 2004
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02-05-2006 15:35
From: someone
3. We need clear rules.

What are the rules? We don't know. We will never know. We are sitting on a forums that insists on calling itself PG, yet refuses to make it so, while reserving the right nonetheless to issue warnings to people for their use of language when they feel like it. WHILE making the whole thing mean something entirely different in the game.
There are no such thing as clear rules for humans generally, particularly for something as squishy as discourse on such a broad variety of topics.

There can be judicious and largely-self-consistent enforcement of nebulous rules which is the best I think we can hope for and which has been rather absent to date (speaking of the LL mods, not the ResMods whom I still assert are doing yeoman service under terrible condtions). People have an extremely well-honed sense of "violation of social contract" and dispensation of "justice" in the dark only amplifies people's doubts the about responses to such violations.

I do continue my support for the concept of "moderate well or get off the field". I know this has the net effect of wishing great pain upon (possibly) Cristiano, and even though he and I don't agree on many things, I have higher confidence in his moderation or delegation of such than I do the current "forum of record".
Cocoanut Koala
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Join date: 7 Feb 2005
Posts: 7,903
02-05-2006 16:25
If that is true, Introvert, then we may as well have no rules at all. If no rule can be clear, let's just not have any.

Come on. A PG rule isn't that hard to elucidate and enforce. Thousands of other message boards and places in the real world manage. If they can't even figure out whether they really mean this or not, then DON'T HAVE THE RULE.

And that's just one example. This business of say anything you want and we'll decide whether it is a personal attack or not is yet another. As a result, we have such things as one poster telling another that they are "full of shit" and daring them to AR it and that is judged perfectly okay, while another poster makes a much milder comment and gets an official warning.

Yep, these rules are great all right.

And expecting resmods to moderate under that sort of non-system is ridiculous. No one could do it.

coco
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02-06-2006 01:03
From: Eboni Khan
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