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Offline Slave of the Beast

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Re: Off-Topic Posting
« Reply #195 on: October 25, 2014, 06:01:01 pm »
You want my personal opinion?

Moving individual posts is almost never necessary, and doing so is likely to create a fair amount of strife that only makes things worse.

And, as a moderator, you base your opinion on what experience?

Slave, I don't see a majority of posters asking for more posts to be moved.  There were a few posters for, and a few against.

You haven't answered my question.

What?  No way ;)

No, you haven't answered a direct and simple question. Which means you either don't have any experience of this situation, or no experience you are prepared to admit to (I wonder why...).

If the mods start pulling threads apart whenever there's an off-topic post made we really run that risk of micromanaging and possibly overstepping our bounds, which some other members mentioned as concerns.  Post removal might have its place, but we would do well to approach it very mindfully.

If Arnox decided it was best and tasked us with removing off-topic posts, we of course could all manage it.

So the risks that you thought were "really" possible no longer exist, despite the mod team in question being exactly the same as it was 24 hrs ago when you made that statement.

What precisely has changed?

If micromanagement is what turns you on, we can move and edit posts 'til you get yours.  It wouldn't be my policy if I were Arnox, and it would cause a hopefully small amount of strife.  But it's his website, and we're plenty capable of moving posts around if that becomes our job around here.

Even if that were true, it's completely irrelevant to the question; why have you fully reversed your opinion of the mod teams' abilities within the space of 24hrs?

I'm going to keep on asking this question until I get a direct answer.

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Re: Off-Topic Posting
« Reply #196 on: October 25, 2014, 06:09:59 pm »
Also moderators actually being able to MODERATE a discussion should be chosen because they are capable of making well thought out judgement calls specifically about this if you think they can't maybe it's cause they shouldn't be a moderator

That's exactly right. The ones who have the authority need to know exactly what they are doing and exactly how to do it. No posers or pretenders, otherwise the whole premise folds. Will the right people arrive at those positions? Nope. Not at all. And the cycle continues.