The Glade 4.0

Fair question.

First, let me say that how I generally view posting is this: There's nothing that I have posted that I wouldn't say to your face. That doesn't mean I've never gotten out of line, but I get out of line from time to time in RL too. When I do, I take what I deserve like a man and pull the boot out of my *** when I get home. That's, in general, how I feel it should be here.

Rules are fine. Only bullies have a problem with rules when it comes to how others are treated. Moderation is simply enforcing the rules, which again, is fine in theory. Without moderation, people self-moderate, and moderate each other.

The problem with moderation is when people don't know what to expect. For example, people are going around calling each other pathetic and acting like they are better than everyone, and I got a warning from DFK for telling someone, I kid you not, to lighten up. Vigilante moderation, or some such nonsense. So apparently, we aren't allowed to moderate each other.

It is an impossibility that the mods will be able to/take the time to moderate this board consistently and fairly. So why have we developed a system that requires this? All this has produced is a bunch of whiny little self-important crybabies that either try to game the system and cry when they get caught or try to use the system to their advantage.

If this were my board, here is how I would handle it. I would post rules, I would not moderate actively. I would, as part of the rules, warn everyone that if you piss me off, I'll ban you for 3 days. If you piss me off tons, I'll ban you. Now, everyone knows the rules, and knows that enforcement is at my whim. I'm not claiming to be fair, I'm not claiming to be consistent, because I know I cannot be. In general, I think that would keep people under a reasonable amount of control. When (not if) the board spins out of control as it has now, I swoop in, ban half the board for 3 days, and all is well again. At least nobody would be crying about the moderation, because I laid it out beforehand.

that's pretty close to where I am except I dont want to say "Here are the rules!" and then "I'm not enforcing them!" kinda thing. I want to be clear that forum you're obligated to keep yourselves in check I dont want to deal with "He flamed me! Do something!"

We've heard that a little too much. Sometimes yes, there's just no point in taking the time to respond to nonsense or dignifying it with a response. However, that also just encourages the same bullshit to reappear tomorrow or next week and sooner or later if not addressed it starts to be treated as an axiom. People take silence as inability to address what was said.

You're telling people simultaneously to behave in this forum and not to report people. Meanwhile, you're not setting firm enough rules to know what "behave" means.

For example, there are at least 4 posts in this forum I've found worthy of a report given the "kinder, gentler" atmosphere you're wanting; however, I've not been comfortable reporting them because you've simultaneously been advocating against posters reporting things.

I can sit here and respond to the charge that I'm a homophobic bigot, but how often are minds changed here by my denials? Some people will know that I am not, and some will believe I am, no matter what I say.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Can we take this to another thread,

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

Diatribe

My thoughts on Heckfire?

this is the first time I can actually ever remember being offended by Hellfire