If you take a look at the guidelines of this site and then take a look at news stories and comments here, I bet you'll be confused as to how the moderation is on this site. According to the guidelines, blog posts will not be posted as news, flamebait is not allowed, trolling is not allowed, etc...
But what is seen everyday? Every single type of infraction gets passed until someone with the power to change it is bored and decides to enforce the rules.
Now, I was recently "restricted" from posting comments for indirectly implying someone I was replying to was dumb after they directly stated that I was. You can take a look at the story and my comments here...
http://n4g.com/news/804825/...
I was replying to dantesparda which is the post right above mine.
Now, I was restricted from commenting because of that post and lost a bubble and there's nothing I can do to change that, but the point here is that the moderation is completely random and seems to rarely be about the guidelines and more about what a mod or admin is doing at the time.
How many of you can say that you've seen, time after time, a person has received many debubble votes after trolling and yet nothing happened. The troll continues to troll without consequence. How many times have the worst infractions been committed unchallenged? And then there's the flamebait news articles and the incessant repetition as was seen during the Anon/Lulzsec/PSN hack moments.
It's as though the mods spend all their time in the Forums and forget the main aspect of this site until it dawns on them to check it out, and then random debubbling and comment hiding/restrictions ensue.
Now I'm sure I'm going to get the standard apologist "if you don't like it leave" comments here, but I really don't care. I'm here because I want to be, and when you say nothing about inaccuracies and inequities and a generally poor standard of moderation then nothing is going to change. It's kind of like a cop who has a traffic ticket quota to fill. If he doesn't fill it before the end of the month, you can bet your behind that your chances of getting a ticket for going 1 mile over the speed limit are drastically increased.
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yeah, I agree with you.
It seems like if there is only one mod on the main page.
Things advance slowly when it comes to modding
I really didn't see why either one of those comments were labeled as personal attack. And your comment was spot on btw.
Un-ban Rage, Tman and Tensteps!
I've said it before myself and I'll say it again since this is more of a relevant area, I think those "trolls" that have been sitting on one bubble for a long time and still continue to get bubbled down should be temporarily suspended from posting anything (or being able to add or take away bubbles or being able to agree or disagree with posts, etc.) because otherwise while they only have one bubble and can't reply to anyone replying to them, they still manage to troll their way around the site and irritate everyone. It's pointless really that people can troll and flame and whatnot constantly and be bubbled down for it, but once it comes down to the final bubble nothing else can be done it seems.
In regards to things like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube posts, flamebait articles and things like personal blogs being approved I think the main FAQ/ News Posting Guidelines regarding article posts needs to be updated so people know it (most of the regulars here obviously already know it and infringe not because they genuinely don't know, but because actually they know and they know they will get away with it if they have an interesting enough (i.e. sensationalist) title or if they're the first to link even though it is against the rules. (And I say this because sometimes I report articles myself and go to say "Twitter posts/Personal Blogs not valid sources" and am replied to with "where does it say that?" which is annoying enough since it isn't there.)
Perhaps could do with some more mods around the news section though admittedly.
Oh really, my mistake then and thanks for letting me know, I just assumed nothing happened since I tend to see the same trolls around here constantly haunting certain types of articles and rarely disappearing.
Edit: I meant to reply this to DrStabwounds, not as a separate post, my browser is really acting up today.
Best not to criticize the MODS, Dragon. Don't you know what happended to T-man? I've already said too much! They're watching... Listening...
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