silvershoes
17 years ago
So, we are no longer free to openly question the Rules and Regulations of our beloved Poetry site? The propensity of various Guidelines is not up for discussion? All divergence must take place in the confidentiality of Private Messages, where a Mod is permitted leeway to demoralize our fellow members. I have been victim of inequitable treatment, notable in Private Messages, numerous times. "Jane, because it is YOU, you will not be penalized." If I am seated at the upper end of the Poems-and-Quotes totem, who is drowning at ground level? If you love this website as much as I do, then you surely recognize that we cannot tolerate the abdication of our right to have a civil debate, as to what is ethically right and what is overwhelmingly wrong. I must ask, what form of totalitarianism are our Mods enforcing, when discourse amongst the mass is no longer permissible, and dispute must be held in seclusion? Please, I am very interested in each member's opinion. |
Narphangu
17 years ago
My opinion is thus: |
silvershoes
17 years ago
Yeah, I guess I don't really care that much about whatever the hell I wrote in my last post, but hey...The main forum needed some spicing up. And I think what I said is true, even if unimportant. It was kinda fun to write too. |
Mo
17 years ago
Umm... what'd I miss??? Do I need to go back to my house to get my helmet and sword (its plastic but it looks awesome when I stick it in my belt of my jeans and run at people screaming like a crazy lady). Well... do I need to get it? |
sibyllene
17 years ago
The practice of locking threads seems to be uncontrolled and questionable. I can understand locking, in two situations: |
silvershoes
17 years ago
Sibyllene, you're an angel. |
Milton
17 years ago
Ehh, I haven't really been following how the mods handle things in threads. The only thing I don't really like about the mods is that when the chat room was up. They would pick on the new members and praise the more regulars and friends. |
limp
17 years ago
I have seen far too many threads locked purely to shut down a provocative discussion. To say "this thread has run its course" implies that ALL members agree that there is nothing more to be said. Unfortunately, this is not often the case (as is obviously so when more threads must be opened for people to continue to speak their opinions..) |
Narphangu
17 years ago
I vote we gather some data. |
sibyllene
17 years ago
I thought about that, actually. But asking "why don't you just go somewhere else" is like saying "hey, you don't like America, why don't you just move to Canada?" Fair enough, but it's not just for myself that I think the rules are unfair. My "moving to Canada" would in no way benefit the people left behind, who would still be expected to exist under questionable conditions. Rather, it seems much more sensible to try and do my part to work within the system that troubles me, and help bring it to a more balanced, free, healthy place. |
silvershoes
17 years ago
No, but we can consider the majority. I prefer a democracy over dictatorship. We are freedom fighters indeed...but are you? Sibyllene, leave it to you to write exactly what needs to be written. You go, girl! Hahaha. |
sibyllene
17 years ago
I agree with Jane that it would be unlikely if we could have specific rules that everyone on this site agreed with. I mean, if we could accomplish that, then we're sitting on gold that would do better outside this little miniverse, mm? : ) |
sibyllene
17 years ago
Thanks for your response, Illuminatix : ) I appreciate it. |
bianca
17 years ago
I honestly think that this web site has gone down hill from the time that i orgionally joined it. I think that the Mods on here (some not all, i am not attacking anyone) have too much power and i think that they try to sorta "protect" their image by deleting posts that threaten them. This is a poetry site, and part of poetry is showing your opinion.....right now they are deleting posts....whats next? poems they dont like? This site has definatly changed since i first came on here and i have to say some of the things i dont like. |
Italian Stallion
17 years ago
Sibyllene did you read the Thread title? Let me quote it for you, "Some Questions...for everyone BUT the Mods." |
Narphangu
17 years ago
Haha. i heard freedom fighters... |
silvershoes
17 years ago
Narphangu, actually...yes. |
Kevin
17 years ago
Well Nightmare, I was a mod not so long ago....and I can tell you they do alot more than you ever see, and I say that with them not being my favourite people right now. |
Sherry Lynn
17 years ago
Actually we are not able to fix the "bugs" in this site. We are doing the best that we can, but when it comes to programming we do not have that capability to make such changes. |
silvershoes
17 years ago
Yeah, I have a poem about an ant that is shaped like an ant...but hey, no one knows that but me. |
Italian Stallion
17 years ago
"Its been broken for about a year, and sherry i understand but if you said you cant handle programming then why is it that when the messages and whos online thing come and the bugs in the clubs stayed ? I dont find that logical at all unless some mod besides janis or dainz did those features" |
silvershoes
17 years ago
Well, that's great. I need to have a talk with Dainz. Mods, what are you doing in my thread? |
Italian Stallion
17 years ago
First of all Jane, it is not "your thread" it is the internet, this is a public Forum in which anyone can post as long as they're a member of the site. |
Italian Stallion
17 years ago
On some occasions yes Janis doesn't inform us (the Mods) what he's doing, but on most of them he will inform us, it just so happens this is a few of the additions that he implemnted that we didn't know about till the day it was on the site. Is that a fault for the Mods to take? I think not, it's more or less the fault of Janis for not informing us, or for that matter anyone on the site. |
Kevin
17 years ago
Bob, by all means surprise me with your PM's, if they are good enough to mock threaten me I'd love to see them, or you can just keep on trying to feed me scary biscuits and tales of informants and confidence leaks! |
silvershoes
17 years ago
Hey Nick, thanks for the...I can't think of the right phrase. The support? The backing? The kind words? The belief in me? I'm really tired, sorry. But thank you. |
Mo
17 years ago
Oh for goodness sakes... this entire thing has blown so far out of proportion its barely recognisable as what it started out as being. Its like we all sat down to discuss bettering our site as free individuals (and adults!), and someone's thrown a big juicy steak into the middle and watched us all turn into savage animals - pointing fingers whilst trying to hold our own heads up high. Its disgraceful. I wonder what all the "young ones" would think of all this - this whole discussion is now about as useless as tits on a bull. |
bianca
17 years ago
I wouldl just like to add to my post before..conerning Bob. When i first joined this site i was a mess and bob helped me realize that i need to change how things were happening to me and stop blaming people. This site i believe has done alot of good, but also it does need alot of work. If there was a way of kicking every single person on here off who casued prolbems then i would be all for it, but they would jsut creat more by getting another account... I have been on other sites, and this is by far my favorite. I think that there are a lot of good people on here who are willing to give constructive critisim (sp) and people who are willing to help....now that i have looked back i do think that alot of the posts that have been blocked had good reason, not that they have "run their course" but that the same things are getting said over and over and its not going any where...i dont think that posts should be deleted but then again people should be considerate in their posts... I agree that maybe we need a thread where there isn't all the hostility, and every needs to try to compromise and maybe put together a list or rules or things to consider and send it to Janiz (sp)...i think it would accomplish alot more then attacking eachother about conspirecy's (sp)........ |
Prophecies In Kodak
17 years ago
In my opinion.. The mods do any alright job around here. With Janis disappearing and and Dainz lack of interest.. I can see it getting to be pretty hard. |
Narphangu
17 years ago
Oh, Psch. |
Italian Stallion
17 years ago
"I think it'd be very helpful if we had a point system for Mods." |
Sherry Lynn
17 years ago
In fact,k there have been a few mods suspended if I remember correctly. |
Kevin
17 years ago
I'd wager that it would take far more offence for a Mod to edit or delete another Mods post than a regular members. |