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Moderation: Too much or too little?
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I voted for the second option. Now I haven't really been around here long enough to be able to tell, but I voted anyway, simply out of principle. The reason is that I've spent a lot of time (arguably too much time) in a forum that's heavily over-moderated. And that was quite annoying to say the least. In fact the extent of "moderation" (quotation marks because I should really call it censorship) was quite ridiculous. I've always been of the opinion that moderation should be kept to a minimum.
Well the moderation has reached a new level of silliness. I guess my post (#22 above) pointed out that cetain uptight moderators took offense at "official" SB smileys.
Today, a number of smileys are gone. My Site Support thread to determine if this was accidental or intentional got moved to Whine and Cheeze - which I interpret (perhaps incorrectly) as treating the observation as a Whine instead of legitimate "feature or bug" question.
What kind of :gans: is this?
Cave Diver, as a board Advisor, please provide some input. After all, you are the one who introduced the now-deleted :bs: flag. Were you wrong then, or is the decision to delete it wrong now?
Today, a number of smileys are gone. My Site Support thread to determine if this was accidental or intentional got moved to Whine and Cheeze - which I interpret (perhaps incorrectly) as treating the observation as a Whine instead of legitimate "feature or bug" question.
What kind of :gans: is this?
Cave Diver, as a board Advisor, please provide some input. After all, you are the one who introduced the now-deleted :bs: flag. Were you wrong then, or is the decision to delete it wrong now?
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I vote that smileys only reflect common scuba diving hand signals. -Oh, wait. Maybe not all of them...
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I've been gone all day and this is the first I've heard of any of the smilies being removed. I would have to do some research before I could respond to that.
Edit - I found your thread on it and the response was given there for the removal of certain smilies. Based on that premise, I would have to say that if the popcorn smiley is not consistent with the direction of the board, then the bs flag wouldn't be either.
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It was (if it really is gone, don't use it, didn't look) a board approved way of calling out something/somebody who is completely out-of-line. -Can we go back to being individually creative???
Shame on you for introducing such an offensive smiley that created such a hostile atmosphere on this harmonious corner of the internet!
---------- Post added at 09:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:15 PM ----------
I'm not just the site support.
So why don't you not try to argue with me and let's just leave it at that.
No problem. I didn't start it.
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