I urgently ask each and one of you to have more respect for moderaters.

[Stapel]

Oooh, let's not get in that discussion!

Read my post and see I was banned BEFORE I used the insulting language.

For that I am truely sorrt BTW!

 

[Aggie]

@col: You didn't recall correctly. Stapel and I didn't get banned for bad language... So I don't agree with your conclusion...

 

[col]

Ok Aggie - I've checked the thread. I wasnt commenting on your ban merely Stapel's misunderstanding about his.

IMO Stapel was banned justly.
a) Mod said subject was closed and to go via other routes.
Stapel ignored this and called mod 'silly'
b) Stapel then referred to mod as 'fascist'.

 

[Stapel]

Yeah, I was banned for calling AoA silly. (Well I called his action silly, not him).

Well, if that's a rule, it is a rule.

IMHO: taking peniciline when having a small headache....

 

[Aggie]

Oh well, it's all water under the bridge now. Best to let it rest. I try to be as respectful as possible to the mods at CFC. They do a great job to keep the site at the high level it achieved in time

 

[Sim_One]

Respect for the mods is important. But I think it is even more important that you AVOID CONFRONTATIONS with them. You need to know when to pull back when you're on thin ice.

 

[Stapel]

Agree!
Just hope that AoA will return.

 

[CurtSibling]

AoA has not left.

Like the eye Barad-Dur,
Always he is watching...Always watching...

 

[philippe]

Hmmm now thank when i go in a few hours in BEd....
AARRGHGHG He is watching!!!
j/k

 

[Phantom Lord]

I respect mods like I respect cops, bus drivers, judges ... they're doing their job and they bear responsibility for something.

I respect TF and the mods of this site for building this site and for helping him keeping things working. I respect the great piece of work I see behind this site.

Personal respect, real respect for the person is something completely different and you can't expect me to give it to someone whom I haven't known as a private person for a long time. That's not a statement against the mods here, that's just how the way it is.

 

[Kafka2]

Hey kids. If someone asks you to moderate their forum, just punch them in the face straight away. It saves time. Trust Uncle Laz.

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

Most persons of some maturity can moderate froums where the standards match their predilictions. The job is somewhat tougher when you volunteer for a site where the standards do not match your personality. This site has very high standards restricting spam/silly/useless posting, flaming, trolling, bashing. Although I am flexible can adapt and form a modular personality for the roles I adopt, I have a preference for spamming, flaming, trolling, bashing, and a debate style best described as "Take no prisoners and rape the women, children, and, cattle". It is fortunate that I have several styles available in my repetoire. Look up a lot of my old stuff before I was moderator. While still very much muted by my standards, I was often pushing the evelope a little bit here.

 

[sween32]

I don't think anybody has lost respect for moderators. I respect moderators to the fullest extent. But they too should follow the rules as an example, instead of thinking they are protected of them because they are a moderator. I personally think Lefty is the ideal moderator because he sees rules as rules, and when one is broken he states that it has been broken instead of saying stuff like "Next one gets 2 weeks. Step up to the plate." Honestly, I do respect moderators like AoA and Gonzo, because their job is hard. I just don't agree with the way they handle things some times.

 

[Rodgers]

"I personally think Lefty is the ideal moderator because he sees rules as rules, and when one is broken he states that it has been broken instead of saying stuff like "Next one gets 2 weeks. Step up to the plate." Honestly, I do respect moderators like AoA and Gonzo, because their job is hard. I just don't agree with the way they handle things some times."


Agreed. I'd prefer a mod style that simply enforced the rules and didnt turn it into some sort of affront to their ego/self-respect when ignored or challenged - seems like that would only make them look like a bully or draw them down to the level of the person they were trying to "discipline". Sorry if this is "disrespectful"

 

[Darkness]

Originally posted by Rodgers
"Next one gets 2 weeks. Step up to the plate."

I also agree. What I'm quoting here is just daring someone to flame or troll. And there's always some wiseguy who will do just that... Just take the appropriate action and leave it at that!

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by sween32
Lefty .... sees rules as rules

Actually, at this site, I see rules as a framework or guideline to get the result that Thunderfall wants. The rules are far too sparse and GENERAL to be viewed as a 'Napoleonic' style CODE of laws. They are barely enough to be a basis of an adaptive 'common law'. There is vast space in there for interpretation and interpolation. I am often working with with only a litle more than:
1. What result do I think Thunderfall wants (such as stop a disruption)
2. What method would he prefer to get to that result.

 

[Alcibiaties of Athenae]

I respect POSTERS whom follow the rules.

I DON'T respect those that do not, if you can't understand that, then there is nothing futher to say.

For example, I was challenged, in quite childlike fashion, so you get what you give.

I few of you should look in the mirror before passing out "condemnations".

 

[anarres]

I would just like to say that as someone who disagrees venomously with AoA on most things, it is possible to avoid being wholly offensive when taking to him.

I heard rumours about some of the language posters used towards AoA and it makes me sick. People doing a 'death dance' in AoA's OT thread was also quite rediculous, even more rediculous than the right-wingers who spouted such amazingly ignorant pieces about how the couter-balance to a right-winger was another right-winger

AoA, I hope you don't think of what I did as childlike. I did it because it seemed the right thing to do, and it was meant as no disrespect to you.

 

[Alcibiaties of Athenae]

I do not at Annares, not in the least.

In fact, I find you quite mature and worthy of respect, even though we disagreed on political postions.

I only went "public" with the last problem because the higher autority was getting a one sided view of events, and I wanted him to hear both sides.

God help me if I ever became so petty and narrow minded that I banned someone because they disagreed with me or my postion on something.

I would hope everyone understood that, but as we have seen, that simply isn't the case.

If people want my respect, then they must behave in a civilized fashion, and I feel the inverse is also 100% true.

 

[pi8ch]

I just say:
Moderaters schould moderate, not beeing the Inquision...
Bannings and censorship based upon personal feelings of the Moderator only decrease the quality of the forum.

Have a nice day out there...
I hope that CFC will change to an "open-minds" forum once again...