Will we be giving Nesy the sack? Absolutely not, she has been preforming above and beyond what 98% of the normal users on this forum site preform. That particular user has been pretty much "back-seat moderating" while no staff is online. Moderators and Admins get to the reports and we take care of the rest. She does not close any threads, she merely removes them so they can be reviewed and either re-opened or closed. Its pretty damn simple.
- CIHC
It's nice to know that the mods know those who they give excessive powers to oh so well
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OT however: Most of the threads that are locked indeed do contain constructive feedback/criticism from my perspective it's lazy mods and or community leaders who instead of just deleting troll/flaming/whatever posts instead pursue to lock the entire thread. Not gonna quote you Kore, but simply restarting the thread with this constructive criticism after the previous thread is not going to help - the same people will just cause it to be locked again, until we land in a never ending cycle - how this suggestion solves the problem i don't know. I get your point though, there are two sets of users on this site, its primary use from my eyes is to help twinks twink - a part of this is making friends and talking to other twinks - simply maintaining a consistent group of twink friends isn't any fun, hence why people use the forums as a means of socialising.
The obvious response to this is obviously to ticket/report the closed threads, but the problem with this is that from a standard (power wise) user - it's unlikely unless there has been a huge mistake that the thread will be reopened and the decision overturned. Just think about tv programmes when customers complain, very rare has anything come from it at all, take the recent Jeremy Clarkson incident (for those that don't know, google Jeremy Clarkson the one show comments) all that came of it was an apology, his actions weren't condemned by the BBC.
Overall the site is excellent but it is small things like the quality of modding that are deteriorating the enjoyment of it, i'd like to think i help many a priest and other players out in the 70-79 bracket, but i also like to have fun and there are many like me who i presume take the fun to far hence their warnings, but in spite of this they gain no recognition whatsoever for their constructive feedback and advice, many a guide goes unstickied and simply dies away in the forums, myself, seablue, yowxd, taylorswift are a few names that come to mind with these exact guides that have been dragged under the radar. Nevertheless, i think you need to listen to the community on this one, it's very rare that a player speaks out in favour of the moderating - atleast from what i have seen.
Edit: As you say CIHC - if people shouldn't be on the internet if they're under 14, then surely those who do use it are mature enough to take trolling, i don't think anybody in the 70-79 bracket has pure hatred for a person - most just see it as an opportunity to troll, like Nesyla's post count, which imo was deserved because it was pretty damn annoying seeing the entire bracket filled with last post by Nesyla, i mean nobody knows enough on every single topic at one time to comment on it.
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