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Rifneno wrote...
starlitegirlx wrote...
mrgc wrote...
Well thank you all. I have'nt been on the BSN in more 7 months( dragon age related) because of some very mean people and as you might have notice I am very nervous about posting and asking questions on this thread.But thank you all for the help and I just want to assure you all that I'm not a troll and I'm reading as mush of your collected data as possible to catch up.Please be patient with me and I'm sure that one of these days I will be able to have conversations with you and actually know what I'm writting about.
Oh you mean the juvenille toolishness? Yes, that's always a lovely repellant. Gotta wonder what kind of company is fine to let people act like idiots so consistently on their forum boards. Sure, they have people who are supposedly are moderators but they rarely moderate. I ran multiple forums for several years and there are a dozen ways they could get decent moderators by using incentives. Not major incentives but even some small discount on DLC or credits for MP based on logins. I never even needed to give incentives. People WANTED to moderate. They stood in line and we (my team - a few admins and other moderators) weighed in and chose. That was a few years ago, but still, if they wanted to make it decent here, they could. It would take minimal effort and perhaps low cost incentives along with giving moderators the right to warn and after x amount of warnings you are banned. That would keep people in check and get rid of the idiots who contribute nothing but ill will.
BW seems to fail at some of the simpliest things. Kind of disconcerting.
Undermoderation is greatly preferable to overmoderation. Take a look at the douchebag mods on GameFAQs. Saying something is "retarded", even if it's the plot to a Pauly Shore movie, is banworthy. People got suspended for "talking about piracy" when they discussed Vaan's torrent attack on a Dissidia forum. I got one once for telling a troll "cool story, bro". It is FAR better for mods to be more tolerant rather than less. And they generally do a good job around here.
People volunteer to moderate? Oh yes, in droves. They're called "control freaks" and in 11 out of 10 cases, they'll abuse the power if they're foolishly given it. Ever hear the saying that the people who crave power are the ones who least deserve it? It's very, and I mean VERY apt here.
Well, that's because people don't understand that having a moderator come in and post something in response like 'let's be nice' in certain situations is the first line of action. People who abuse power don't understand how to use it wisely. Calling a pauly shore movie retarded is not even something worth acknowledging. However, trolling in a thread that is about pauly shore movies (absurd, I know, but as an example it works) and calling his movies retarded is the sort of thing to which you would respond. And that is why you screen moderators and have set guidelines. In my forums, mods had an invisible forum where we could address things like certain posters, certain topics that were commonly trolled, certain issues that arose. You work as a team. You aren't a freelance tool. You choose the heavy hand as the last option. The team keeps each other in check but also the team is, as a rule, on the same page. You're talking about 'big brother' type moderating, which is not necessary. Once standards of behavior are set and guidelines are clearly established and the moderating of actions that go against the guidelines is consistent (actions are taken that are appropriate to the 'offense'), problems diminish quickly, trolls are weeded out, and then the newcomers see the standard and rarely breach it. Not really that hard. Nor does it need to be as you described.
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