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Until he gives me assurances that he is willing and capable of being a bit more mature and serious with his posts and stops the piss taking.
In saying that I will see how quickly I recover from the session on Friday next and I could be full of Xmas cheer and all that jazz
Well then go use the humor forum will you are waiting out your ban?CountingCrows wrote: »After my warning, I didn't "take the piss", I actually tryed to be helpful to the OP plus if you check you'll see that it was a mod who went off slighly off topic.
You know.... between those three posts, I'm beginning to formulate the basis for a brilliant solution...
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Have to say also being a noob to boards, while the mods do a decent job and are fair in most cases sometimes it can feel slightly like a virtual Auschwitz, i.e. keep the head down and mind your tongue or Herr moderator will send you to the gas chamber..
I completely understand that the whole private site thing etc etc, but I think as we can gather that forums are generally a place to engage in conversation and to the best of my knowledge human interaction involves consistently off topic conversations, i.e. crap weather we are having, are you all set for xmas etc etc.
Are there not some instances were mods should just let us trod on and only intervene when it starts to get out of hand. In this instance the op was only really poking a bit of fun at the local nightclub, with a fellow sligo brother. Think we have all done that at some stage.
I agree. But remember, not all mods have been here for a long time, and not all of them have been mods for a while. Some 'breaking in' time sometimes needs to happen.
The fact that the mods on the NW forum say they are only going by the charter may not be aware that they can in fact chuck out the charter, and create their own, may be an indicator that some leanring needs to take place. You do what you want in your own forum you mod, as long as in the whole it stands by the whole spirit of Boards.ie.
After a while, it becomes obvious which forums are are more easy going, and which arent.
Personally, im of the belief that the more you allow discussion to take place, and the more active you are in a forum, the more it grows. If you lay down rigid and unbending rules, you tend to find that many people drift away. Thats not to say they die, they could be replaced by 20 more people, but you get the idea.
In this instance, my advice to the moderators would be to rebuild the charter as a guideline, rather than a strict rule, and allow the users to dictate what is acceptable. They are usually vocal enough when they feel something is wrong
after all, we are only here to facilitate their discussions. Not curb them. I think the term moderator is incorrect tbh. Forum administrators would be more appropriate.0 -
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Just a quickie on this. CountingCrows will have access again on Saturday. Despite what people may have thought there were and are no differences between us. We have reached an understanding and I think both his and my contribution to the Sligo forum will be be a bit more relaxed.
Merry Xmas folks.
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