(Site is a graveyard - How can boards save itself?) Any update?

Did you report these posts? If so, the mods should have acted on these. If not,why not?

Do warning points stay for a certain time period or for life @awec

Appreciate your responses too @awec and @Spear

You can see how long they're active for on your profile. Click on your avatar, select view profile and scroll down to the bottom, you'll see an option called Moderation. That will have all your warnings, the points, how long they're active for or if they've expired.

It was clarified that a mod might be less lenient if you've accumulated loads. I think it was Beasty, but I'm not searching for it or arguing over it. 😁

ETA - Awec saved me the trouble!

I didn't know it was that detailed, but it makes sense.

Ah, but how many would you have if you were right leaning?

*That's a joke, I'm not looking for evidence either way. 😂

How do you know nothing was done?

I believe from past Feedback the mods don't have time to report back to the person reporting a post whether they actioned them or not ...and I don't believe they have to either .

Maybe they did warn the poster but did not feel those posts were offensive enough to remove ?

The old system where yellow and red cards were given on the thread while a bit basic certainly was more of an indication of moderation and warning to others .

But you are arguing that people should not be reporting others , are you ?

Or are you upset that those you reported have not been removed ?

Which is it ?

Asking because I thought a few were nasty , some were funny and clever but quite a few would have upset the person they were directed at , which was the intention .

I liked the lunchmoney one and the concussed into next month have to admit ;p

Surely, if a poster gets banned for 'off topic posting ' as a result of trying to stand up against bullying, then that's a valid reason to argue your case?

Surely you should be able to ask the mod to read the posts replied to, and apply some fairness?

Just because someone else also broke the rules isn't a defence for you breaking rules and expecting to get away with it. If anything it should result in the other poster also being warned rather than your warning being overturned.

Emphasis on should… but in reality, that doesn't seem to be happening. Because we keep being told mods "don't have time" to look at context.

This is where cliques come into it. A clique will pile on, and selectively deride, push, and provoke for a reaction, then report when the poster does eventually react, until they succeed in either bullying them off the thread, or getting them threadbanned. I've seen it happen many times, and not just on CA or AH.

And let's be honest here in the spirit of "feedback". We are constantly being reminded that "mods are human" or that mods are volunteers. Which they are, but it also explains why there are some who are simply unable to be objective, and moderate objectively, in the areas they have control over. The excuse of "no time" especially falls flat, when they are actively posting on threads themselves, but letting such behaviour pass unchallenged.

Thank you for acknowledging that Admin are aware of this.

One of the biggest reasons an otherwise actionable post may not get actioned because you reported it is if you a) report it and then b) engage it on thread. The best thing to do if you think a reported post should be handled by a mod is not engage it, don’t quote it in your posts, move on with the topic. It’s having your cake and eating it too to report a post to a mod expecting it to be deleted etc and then engaging the post like you feel it belongs in the continuity of the thread. Otherwise simply known as “don’t feed.”