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Mod on the rampage!!!!

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    #32
    Nerin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


    tSubh Dearg wrote: »
    Oh Man! That would have been so cool and totally imaginable!

    /me goes to make Mod Rampage film, set in Little Tokyo

    I request a cameo appearance :)


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    #33
    Daithi McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 671 ✭✭✭Daithi McGee


    Nerin wrote: »
    I request a cameo appearance :)

    With your head so far up thaeds ass you already had one.


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    #34
    Nerin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


    Daithi McGee wrote: »
    With your head so far up thaeds ass you already had one.

    Lol. Youre still here?


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    #35
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Overheal wrote: »
    Yeah ok im bored of the Canned off-topic warning myself but its nothing to get in a knot about. If you're told to stay on topic, well, stay on topic? The poster was welcome to keep posting. It wasnt even a yellow card. But said poster decided to question the mod decision, and not politely either: that deserved a response.

    It was a different poster who questioned the mod. The poster who received the original warning never went off topic, in fact it wasn't even unhelpful, as the warning suggested.
    Overheal wrote: »
    Are you a Cylon? Flexibility is a grand thing to have. I can't blame a mod for using a short leash with new posters though.

    Ah yes, what a perfect way to welcome new users and to encourage them to continue posting. Makes perfect sense!


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    #36
    EKRIUQ
    Registered Users Posts: 4,386 ✭✭✭EKRIUQ


    +1
    That's some power trip Thaedydal is on, talk about trying to stop people from visiting the PI threads when you can be banned so easily, Sme PI mods needs a good douse of cop on

    Look at this post which I think is worse and nothing!!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=57909790&postcount=14


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    #37
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    All together now

    With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
    She pulls the sh1t-stirring PI posters down

    Helpless people lurking
    Scream bug-eyed as she looks in on them

    She picks up a poster and she throws him back down
    As she wades through the forums toward the center of town

    Oh no, they say shes got to go
    Go go Modzilla, yeah
    Oh no, there goes tokyo
    Go go Modzilla, yeah

    Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
    Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
    Modzilla ga ginza hoomen e mukatte imasu!
    Daishkyu hinan ****e kudasai!
    Daishkyu hinan ****e kudasai!

    Oh no, they say shes got to go
    Go go Modzilla, yeah
    Oh no, there goes Boarsds-io
    Go go Modzilla, yeah

    History shows again and again
    How Boards points up the folly of men
    Modzilla!

    With thanks to the Blue Oyster Cult :)

    Mike


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    #38
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    It was a different poster who questioned the mod. The poster who received the original warning never went off topic, in fact it wasn't even unhelpful, as the warning suggested.

    It was in my opinion and so I issued a generic warning, I didn't even infract warning, get over it, it wasn't you.
    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Ah yes, what a perfect way to welcome new users and to encourage them to continue posting. Makes perfect sense!

    PI is not like the rest of the site, they have to learn that and to learn to read the charters. Plenty of noobs get the benefit of the doubt from me, but if they ignore a warning on the threads, and the fact someone else had been already banned then tough.


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    #39
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Namesco wrote: »
    +1
    That's some power trip Thaedydal is on, talk about trying to stop people from visiting the PI threads when you can be banned so easily, Sme PI mods needs a good douse of cop on

    Look at this post which I think is worse and nothing!!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=57909790&postcount=14


    Cheers for that I am only just online this morning, post dealt with.
    Shame neither you or Magicmarker didn't use the report post function to alert all the PI mods to it.
    Don't bitch about inconsistency in modding with posts being missing if you are not reporting them.


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    #40
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Overheal wrote: »
    Yeah ok im bored of the Canned off-topic warning myself but its nothing to get in a knot about.

    It saves time and show the warning is not personal.
    Overheal wrote: »
    I found the post incoherent, but not off topic. My own opinion.

    If it is incoherent then it is not helpful.


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    #41
    EKRIUQ
    Registered Users Posts: 4,386 ✭✭✭EKRIUQ


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    Cheers for that I am only just online this morning, post dealt with.
    Shame neither you or Magicmarker didn't use the report post function to alert all the PI mods to it.

    O I'm so sorry:eek: that's going to put my moderator apprenticeship back a couple of years:rolleyes:.

    Good to see you have your ban hammer back out


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    #42
    311
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,332 ✭✭✭311


    Did I misread something a while back ,about some people creating threads on PI and replying to them themselves?

    I'd ban psycho's for doing stuff like that.


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    #43
    Stercus Accidit
    Registered Users Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭Stercus Accidit


    The initial warning of the first reply, the normal reply that was on topic, was ridiculous.

    It was pointless and a mistake, it was a perfectly normal reply on topic with the posters advice, isnt that what that bloody forum is for? If you warn a normal posters reply, other posters wont want to bloody reply at all, then the forum is just going to be replied to by the "regulars" with the same old responses.

    Hell, just make it a bunch of stickied FAQ's and lock all the threads if ordinary "new" posters are such an issue.

    FFS, welcome to PI, ask for opinions on your problem, and receive a load of nonsense thread micro management.

    The first warning was ott, other posters said this, thread goes to shite. Looks pretty clear cut to me, people being comfortable to respond on topic is important for that place to function.


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    #44
    Chucky the tree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,341 ✭✭✭✭Chucky the tree


    Is it always the same 2 or 3 posters who spend all there time in feedback to defend a mod when there is a complaint about them no matter what?


    I suppose the 2 or 3 take it a rotational system so there will always be someone around to blindly defend a mod from a bit of fair criticism. I think we can all guess who takes the night shift anyway.. :D


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    #45
    RoundyMooney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭RoundyMooney


    Boring/predictable isn't it?


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    #46
    Nerin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


    Post = incoherent. Incoherent=unhelpful. Unhelpful=banned. Fairly clean cut really. Oh-incoherent=needing someone to translate the post.


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    #47
    zuroph
    Registered Users Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    Nerin wrote: »
    Post = incoherent. Incoherent=unhelpful. Unhelpful=banned. Fairly clean cut really. Oh-incoherent=needing someone to translate the post.
    and ur japanese fanstasy of giants is on topic and helpful..... :rolleyes:


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    #48
    Nerin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


    zuroph wrote: »
    and ur japanese fanstasy of giants is on topic and helpful..... :rolleyes:

    We're talking about pi. If you have a problem with my and others posts in this feedback thread,i suggest you use the report post function,or start a thread in helpdesk. Failing that,you can feel free to pm me. Pi is modded stricter than other forums due to the nature of the forum.


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    #49
    zuroph
    Registered Users Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    first post deserved a clearer explanation of why it was "off-topic", seemed like a perfectly fair response to me...


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    #50
    Nerin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


    zuroph wrote: »
    first post deserved a clearer explanation of why it was "off-topic", seemed like a perfectly fair response to me...

    Which one? Linky?


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    #51
    zuroph
    Registered Users Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=57905984&postcount=2

    and the responce...
    LittleMissLogic
    Unhelpful and off-topic posting will get you banned from this forum.
    Do take time to read the charter which contains the rules and abide by them.
    Have a nice day.
    Thaedydal
    ____________


    clearly little misslogic is under the impression from the first post that he was quite drunk, and by the girls responses it seems she remembers more than he does.

    now I know Thae was polite about it, but it seems condescending against a post where there seems to be no infraction.


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    #52
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    zuroph wrote: »
    first post deserved a clearer explanation of why it was "off-topic", seemed like a perfectly fair response to me...

    It wasn't given a warning for being off topic but for being unhelpful per the breakdown macros42 already gave of it..


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    #53
    Nerin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


    Bah,i just reread that thread sober :( first post to the op. Hmmm,not putting thought into it,i'd think it was harsh,but when you take into account the rules of pi,it warrants a warning,albeit a warning that says for the love of all thats holy can you edit that to make more sense. Can actually see where confusion could crop up from that. Pi modding is crazy though,its hard to get a grip of it as an outsider mod or user, there were other posts that if i was modding by those rules i might warn too. Still,it seems to me that she didn't do anything extraordinary,and it was the posts on the thread that dragged it down,making it an unpleasant thread.
    Pi is serious business. (Also i think some of the mods have automatic messages they give)


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    #54
    zuroph
    Registered Users Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    macros breakdown was a bit harsh though.


    1) He openly admits that he cant remember whether they used protection or not, this is what she is referring to.

    2)she used capitals on one word? if she had used italics it would have been ok? It is indeed Obvious that she doesnt want to get pregnant.

    and the "abnormal" remark, thats simply "was she acting unusually phrased?" a different way


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    #55
    Nerin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


    zuroph wrote: »
    macros breakdown was a bit harsh though.


    1) He openly admits that he cant remember whether they used protection or not, this is what she is referring to.

    2)she used capitals on one word? if she had used italics it would have been ok? It is indeed Obvious that she doesnt want to get pregnant.

    and the "abnormal" remark, thats simply "was she acting unusually phrased?" a different way

    I assumed that needing someone to interpret the post was what made it unhelpful and valid for a warning.


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    #56
    tallaght01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭tallaght01


    That post was no worse than some of the dire advice that gets given out on that forum all the time by people who are old enough to know better, IMO.


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    #57
    RoundyMooney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭RoundyMooney


    If there's confusion here, how is the user expected to know what they've done wrong (and I use the term loosely).

    Boiler plate messages may be easier for the mod, but they are too generic, and smack of a lazy solution.

    Why not use a yellow card infraction? It doesn't disrupt the thread (attempting to moderate this one into line was clearly unsuccessful), it provides a clearer and more emphatic indication to the user, and is open for all to view.

    Another big plus is that the rest of the readers don't have to be bored into apathy by seeing the same thing again and again, which, if anything, dilutes its effectiveness and makes the issuing mod a figure of fun, to a certain degree anyway.

    That aside, I'm adding my weight to the overzealous/unnecessary/counterproductive camp.

    On this occasion anyway.


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    #58
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    You know what the user who was warned has not pmed about or gotten back or seems to have no issue it's magicmarker who has his panties in a bunch cos he by his own admission makes posts he thinks should receive a warning or a ban.

    I did not want to use a yellow card infraction I wanted a clear warning on the thread that unhelpful and off topic posts would not be tolerated, if posters after the point failed to heed the warnings then they have thier bans well earned.


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    #59
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    I must be reading a different thread to the complainers here.

    Scared kid makes post.

    New poster responds with a slightly jokey answer, which is slightly against charter.

    Experienced mod is experienced and makes a (quite gentle) on thread warning that joking is unacceptable, before other people engage in bandwagon jumping.

    No on is banned, infracted, or upset on thread.


    What am I missing here?


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    #60
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    You know what the user who was warned has not pmed about or gotten back or seems to have no issue it's magicmarker who has his panties in a bunch cos he by his own admission makes posts he thinks should receive a warning or a ban..

    The poster logged off ten minutes after you posted the warning, chances are she hasn't even seen it, but really, that's neither here nor there.

    I thought if we have an issue with a post we report it, or take it to the help desk or feedback? That's what you're preaching to us anyway, so why am i suddenly being lambasted for doing so, I could have brought it up on the thread, but no, I took it here. Are we only supposed to report posts, so long as they're not yours?
    Thaedydal wrote: »
    I did not want to use a yellow card infraction I wanted a clear warning on the thread that unhelpful and off topic posts would not be tolerated, if posters after the point failed to heed the warnings then they have thier bans well earned.

    I'd be interested to hear your reasoning for why you think that post was unhelpful or off topic?


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    #61
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Talk about over reaction! Is this a bad case of PMS or what?

    are we ignoring this comment


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