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bozzy said:
My reply is isolated to the above statement. It has no reflection on the responses by or about the moderators.


I love that little disclaimer on the end!!
 
what happens if there is a conflict of opinions? sometimes,members on here gang up and shout a member down.there is a definate click on here going on.other times,a bit of friendly banter gets miss-read and all hell lets loose.it is not a one way strret.if you give out criticism,you should be able to receive it,not go running and report the member.and once that thread or post is removed,how many are allowed bak? none! how democratic is that?
 
If responses can be kept within the T&C, then all the better. Posts get removed when they get personal, offensive, abusive or (sometimes..) off topic.

Anyone can make a point without launching into abuse, if they wish to.
 
fixitagaintomorrow said:
If responses can be kept within the T&C, then all the better. Posts get removed when they get personal, offensive, abusive or (sometimes..) off topic.

Anyone can make a point without launching into abuse, if they wish to.

this sometimes gets a bit shady, because who decides when it's abuse? I have no problem with how things are handled. There are things that are offense, there are things that are criticism, and, as long as more than one person agrees that it's turned to abuse, that's fine, but abuse is in the eye of the beholder.

To also clarify, i have no problem at all with posts being pulled, i disagree with the comments made about who has the right to do things... mostly cos it was bound to spark off this sort of arguement/discussion, and the person in question (if they are a moderator) needs to be reassessed, or needs to have that matter discussed with them... possibly privately. cos it was iresponsible, and pretty dumb in this sort of environment.
 
i dont understand how far people go on here, my posts are always a bit close to the bone but i would always delete them no questions asked if the offended anyone (apart from Stu:devil: ) so why do people have to go all the way and then winge about been banned:rolleyes:
 
fixitagaintomorrow said:
I fully stand by Steve's comment.

The question which ended with this reply was basically asking "Who the hell are you to moderate my posts".

The answer was correct and honest.

gregit said:
2nd time.

First thread was deleted.

So, again I will ask.

Who moderates the moderators?

1st post was deleted. No reason, no explanation.

That to me reads, I've asked this question before, but someone deleted it without answering it, so i'm going to ask it again, and see if someone will give a good response. the question being, it are the moderators moderated by anyone? the response was a not much less polite "f*ck you, it's none of your business, Ben's site, Ben's rule (a fair comment IMHO) it's not a democracy and stop talking about it".

I feel this was lacking in tact, especially since people like me havn't seen the orignal post, (it was deleted so we're not goin to) His response was inappropriate, in THOSE circumstances. However, had we been able to see the first post, then maybe we would decide differently, Steve should however have been able to see this, and posted accordingly, after all he is a mod, he is a higher power, his responsibility is thus.
 
fixitagaintomorrow said:
I fully stand by Steve's comment.

The question which ended with this reply was basically asking "Who the hell are you to moderate my posts".

The answer was correct and honest.
in who's opinion? a moderator gets/becomes nominated because they have posted some helpful advice.does this then give them powers to be boss over things.?no! or it should not do.to many posts are being removed.i quite agree with personal abuse.but sometimes even this is only light hearted.and it still gets deleted.
 
fixitagaintomorrow said:
I fully stand by Steve's comment.

The question which ended with this reply was basically asking "Who the hell are you to moderate my posts".

The answer was correct and honest.

Then who is correct. Steve with his theory that this is not a democracy or Helz statement that "significant majority" is applied. Cant both be right surely.
 
sumplug said:
in who's opinion? a moderator gets/becomes nominated because they have posted some helpful advice.does this then give them powers to be boss over things.?no! or it should not do.to many posts are being removed.i quite agree with personal abuse.but sometimes even this is only light hearted.and it still gets deleted.

carefully placing your words would help here. It gives them the power to be boss of things, they become moderators, they then have the ability to decide what should not be there, and they aparently decide as a group, and remove as accordingly, this you have already been confirmed. Please stop there, cos you are in danger of sounding like a fool.
 
bozzy said:
Then who is correct. Steve with his theory that this is not a democracy or Helz statement that "significant majority" is applied. Cant both be right surely.

in any system of democracy, the majority is governed by a selcect group of individuals who's job it is to uphold the law or terms of that society, in turn this group is governed by a leader who's purpose is avoid groupthink situtions ( ie nasa space disaster) and make sure the team are functioning correctly, this is exactly what happens in all democtratic countries and exactly what is happeing here. the way it should be.

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one would not run riots in the street because they dont like there council tax, similary on here ifs theres a problem one would not go bad mouthing to the full community.
if u have a problem in your country u speak to your mp. on here ask a moderator


xxx
 
off the dictionary website
moderator:-
someone who makes certain that a formal discussion happens without problems and follows the rules

case closed????

they are alot more moderators now but the is nothing you can do about it instead of arguing download americas army the game :p
 
I'm glad I didn't start this thread lol!:D The trouble with this forum is there seems to be very much an "in crowd" mentality!:shakehead Some people are allowed to say whatever they like & often they don't read posts correctly. It also seems as though sometimes there isn't freedom of speech, which I regard as very serious as it's a very basic right, one of which people fought & died for in previous world wars!
 
alainax said:
in any system of democracy, the majority is governed by a selcect group of individuals who's job it is to uphold the law or terms of that society, in turn this group is governed by a leader who's purpose is avoid groupthink situtions ( ie nasa space disaster) and make sure the team are functioning correctly, this is exactly what happens in all democtratic countries and exactly what is happeing here. the way it should be.

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one would not run riots in the street because they dont like there council tax, similary on here ifs theres a problem one would not go bad mouthing to the full community.
if u have a problem in your country u speak to your mp. on here ask a moderator


xxx

Only works if everyone believes they are being listened to!

Poll Tax riots being one case where people had to protest to get the leaders to listen.

There are others in history.

People need to feel that they are being taken seriously.

Steve
 
Seraph said:
carefully placing your words would help here. It gives them the power to be boss of things, they become moderators, they then have the ability to decide what should not be there, and they aparently decide as a group, and remove as accordingly, this you have already been confirmed. Please stop there, cos you are in danger of sounding like a fool.
how am i sounding foolish.ive given an opinion.so have you. whats the problem then?
 
steve1219 said:
Only works if everyone believes they are being listened to!

Poll Tax riots being one case where people had to protest to get the leaders to listen.

There are others in history.

People need to feel that they are being taken seriously.

Steve
well said that man.(y)
 
at the end of the day how ever long people argue for they are still going to be moderators who do everything back stage and only answer to Ben and each other
 
steve1219 said:
Only works if everyone believes they are being listened to!

Poll Tax riots being one case where people had to protest to get the leaders to listen.

There are others in history.

People need to feel that they are being taken seriously.

Steve
true which i why that comment can be substantiated in the light of deleting posts, but this topic has moved very quickly on to moderators authority.xxx

ps minority revolutions are a bad idea
 
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