Originally posted by Novus
Quite frankly, my complaint is neither that the moderation is too strict OR too lenient. It's that it's too inconsistent.
I can (and in fact, once did!) post a 3 page-down profanity-laced tirade about a bug in the game. 3 Mods who happen to agree with my tirade can let it go and even post replies in the thread saying they agree with me, and let the thread stay alive for 3 days, and then a 4th mod can come along 3 days later and give me a forum ban. Why?
User A can personally insult User B. User B can slightly re-word the exact same personal insult and post it back to User A. User B gets banned. User A doesn't. Why?
User J can regularly insult multiple people in threads usually with no consequence, but then at some point he'll get a forum-ban out of nowhere for doing the exact same thing he's been doing consequence-free for a while. Why?
User C can quote a post where User X used profanity. User C gets banned for profanity. User X doesn't. Why?
These are all issues that have been brought up in this thread, and we're just scratching the surface of the moderation problems on this site.
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If you want the mods to be hands-off and let stuff go, that's fine. I'll deal. I'll do what Dub J did and learn to fight fire with fire.
If you want the mods to be strict and to-the-letter, that's fine. I'll toe the line and watch what I post.
But don't be inconsistent. Don't have some mods who are super-strict mixed with other mods who are hands-off. Don't have mods who are strict with some users and hands-off with others. Don't put rules on the list that you have no intention of actually enforcing. Don't punish people for violating rules that aren't actually on the rules list.
Just be consistent. That's all I'm asking for.speaking user X and dub J, here's the part of the rules that confuses me the most:
"Example:Telling a user that they should do illegal drug A because illegal drug C is "better"."