Moderators

[Jackwc]

I think this site's moderators are getting out of hand. I find that comments are being deleted and threads are being locked with increasingly dumbfounding logic.

I mean, now we're at the point where comments are being deleted for containing curse words? I don't mean to sound like GARY, but tbh, he was right about this in the long run - the mods have too much power and are beginning to abuse it. The site is going through a slow, arduous neutering and I for one don't care for it. More moderation hasn't made things better, if anything, it's made things WORSE. In fact, lack of moderation was part of these forums' charm, if anything. If we had mods like this back when FatherTime showed up, HE'D STILL FUCKING BE HERE, BECAUSE ANYONE WHO TRIED TO ATTACK HIM WOULD BE STOPPED. And the site would be poorer for it. Unlike certain members, negative feedback doesn't bother me. It's part of life. Fucking grow a pair.

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Let's not be the town from "It's A Good Life", please. Let's ease up on the sensitivities and grow some fucking balls.
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[Polythene Pam]

^ agree

We only really needed the moderators to deal with Gary.

Many of the threads and posts being "moderated" just don't require it. Not saying the mods need to be removed, maybe they could just be less rigid in their interpretation of guidelines and perhaps employ some commonsense.

[albummaster]

I've got a hangover today, so I'll try and be straight down the middle. Moderating the site is quite a difficult job and a lot of thought goes into making it run smoothly. I'm not sure which comments are being referred to in particular, but I'm aware of hardly any. The thread that was locked the other day was the only thread that has been locked in about three months. There has to be some moderation here, because otherwise the site would turn into a mess fairly quickly.

[40footwolf]

Yeah, I was slightly miffed that my rude swear at that dingaling complaining about no foreign language albums got censored but other than that I haven't noticed any rampant misuse of authority.
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[albummaster]

Members that have only posted a handful of times are getting their first impressions of the community. I think people need to be given a bit of a chance, and I think that comment was a 'fuck you' in response to somebody's first ever post! I'm struggling to think of any other comments that have been moderated recently, but it's certainly less than a handful.

[Wombi]

I don't really understand the point of the story in correlation with BEA...are you trying to say the mods are like Anthony? because that's probably more than a little hyperbolic. I think in the past, moderation has been helpful when regarding racial slurs etc but bleeping people seems extreme and closing threads where there's nothing but rational discussion seems needless. Also pretty sure we had moderators when FatherTime was around...anyway

With both the 'no foreign albums' guy and Fathertime I think it was more about the way they intoruced themselves to the site that was at fault. You can't spit in someone's face and then expect them to shake your hand and I think it's unfair to expect BEA to.

[albummaster]

One thread has been closed in three months, and less than a handful of comments have been moderated in that time. The fact the two things happened close together probably makes things seem 'worse' than they are, but if you look at things over a longer time-frame, things are pretty much the same as they've always been.

[Wombi]

Fair enough.

[Romanelli]

[Zoso]

The mods are basically cunts