Moderation on other boards...

[OllieC]

Sometimes I forget how lucky we are...

I've just had a post deleted from the Eglu forum - for suggesting that it might not be a bad idea to accidentally drown a rat whilst washing it. (someone had a rat eat a chicken through a hole under the chicken's house & they were then discussing poison & other traps).

It was only my second post on there & the mod (who was pleasant enough) said there would be complaints!

A bit heavy handed, I thought. Ho-hum, obviously not the place for me!

[OllieC]

[Lauren S]

Stay with us here Ollie, you'll be safer  ;D

[rosebud]

There just is not another forum like this one it is truly unique.
Dan the man is amazing he lets us police ourselves, which i think we do very well, very adult, only on the odd occasion does he have to step in which for the size of this forum is A  mazinnnnng!!. ;D :D ;D

[OllieC]

It was like being back at school - where I also resented any rules that I perceived to be stoopid. I don't expect everyone to agree with me (could you imagine!), but you need room for slightly more "out there" views in any healthy discussion.

[asbean]

If everyone had the same views it follows that there would be no discussion  ;) ;) ;)

[thegreatgardener]

OllieC since you have history of inappropriate posts here. I would say you where at fault and if the post was as you describe, it was clearly inappropriate.  Reminds me of a post on another message board where a poster described with pictures the proper way to butchering both a deer and a turtle. That post elicited 40 post from  mad vegetarians.

Ollec you need to learn to show commonsense and hold some more colorful bits back because people will get offended.

[OllieC]

I'll do that, thank you for the advice.

Sorry, can't help myself... I'm still chuckling at the idea of me "having a history of inappropriate posts"... I'm sorry, I have to point out that I have accumulated 1,558 posts on here and have never yet been censored!! But you knew that already.

[Jeannine]

Oh dear..Ollie, you are a bad lad.. ten lashes with a wet noodle.

Rosebud is very right, this is the only forum I stay with.. I try others but rarely stay more than a couple of weeks, apart from the odd poster who gets a bit too personal this one is just perfect. I guess there will always be one.

Dan does an excellent job.

XX Jeannine

[Kea]

Well you will stay on please after you've moved.

[manicscousers]

well said, jeannine, I don't bother with other forums, some are moderated by overbearing people..this one is not. ;D

[katynewbie]

The Beeb seems to be another serial offender. I have to come out here and admit to being an Archers fan, the messageboard there took ages to accept my posts, and as it is a fast moving subject, (?!!) by the time the comments were posted, the moment had passed.

We are soooo lucky here, thumbs up to Dan!

;)

[OllieC]

The Beeb seems to be another serial offender. I have to come out here and admit to being an Archers fan, the messageboard there took ages to accept my posts, and as it is a fast moving subject, (?!!) by the time the comments were posted, the moment had passed.

We are soooo lucky here, thumbs up to Dan!

;)

I can imagine... You comment on how Jack appears to be getting a bit forgetful, and by the time it's up there he's looking at nursing homes!!

[littlebabybird]

Ollie,
of course i dont  know for sure but
could it be that the fora described have a product associated with them
so eglu and the beeb if they are seen to upset people think they will be in trouble?
here is so much better :)
lbb

[OllieC]

I asked the mod if his heavy handed modding was due to the site having a commercial interest & he said absolutely not... and also explained that it wasn't heavy handed.. I just said something along the lines that I think it's absurd that you can poison a rat slowly & painfully, but it's illegal to drown one in a couple of minutes... I suspect that some mods in this world (Definitely not Dan, of course) do it for a bit of power.

[littlebabybird]

well in that case i'd just stay here,
i cant see why the non meat eaters would object more to a drowned rat than a poisened one?
oh Ollie your not proposing i should eat it are you?
why is it  illegal to drown them? has it always been so?
lbb

[cornykev]

I don't mind archers myself, hmmm :P nice warm peachy flavour.  ;D ;D ;D

[Eristic]

That's nothing. I've recently had a post deleted from John Harrisons Beijing allotments forum because I had the audacity to criticize a student teachers appalling spelling. On that forum posts are routinely deleted or drastically altered by Mods simply because they disagree with a comment.

[martinrowe]

I got banned from a forum once because my wife and myself joined and we had the same IP address, and the owner of the forum did not want more than one person using the same IP address (what a pile of s**t).

[Georgie]

That's nothing. I've recently had a post deleted from John Harrisons Beijing allotments forum because I had the audacity to criticize a student teachers appalling spelling. On that forum posts are routinely deleted or drastically altered by Mods simply because they disagree with a comment.

I hope you didn't comment on lack of apostrophes.   ;D  ;D  ;D

G x

[Si D]

To be fair, I think that if someone has set up a forum and takes the time and expense to run it then it is up to them to decide on the rules.  If they do a bad job then people won't use it and it'll be their own fault that the forum is a failure.  However, sometimes having zero tolerance moderation is a good thing - not every group of people, or every subject, attracts the sort of predominantly level headed crowd that we find here!

For example, I used to use a forum where minor upsets could suddenly erupt into quite nasty flame wars (complete with the obligatory death threats, referals to legal action, attempts to hack the forum, and stalking other users around the net).  When a zero tolerance policy was put in place the whole thing calmed down, a few of the more, erm, "deranged" users left, but many more new users were attracted because they suddenly felt much safer there.

So my view is that I don't tend to criticise anyone for the way that they run a public forum: it's their forum so let them get on with it.  But if I don't like it I'll just leave and find somewhere better.  But it's not just the moderators - for every Little Hitler you find running a forum you also find a Mr Angry who is determined to argue against every forum rule or admin decision on principle, even if they don't know what the principle is! (Not that I'm accusing anyone here of being either of these things).

Having said all that, it does sound a little odd that they should sanction a user just for making a comment about drowning a rat ::) ;D