I think we're missing a rare attempt at discussint the threshold itself by whining about too much or too little modding. that's what i'm going to do with this post:
Many people know i push for more totalitarian mods, but here are the concessions that i am willing to make:
What should be moderated, deleted, closed, etc:
1)
Anything that explicitly breaks the rules. This one's obvious.
2)
Anything that seeks to put anyone down in a
non-competitive way. This is the wrong forum for that shit.
3)
Anything that intentionally shits on a universally good cause for arbitrary reasons (generally called trolling, used in the proper sense, not the stupidass idea people have of trolling on this site). One example is if someone were to say on
9.95 's "Fat Kombat" thread "oh hey look at me i'm losing weight too, give me likes" or something. Alternatively,
x5iVE_STAR 's posts on this thread
http://testyourmight.com/threads/please-help-jamessmk-quit-smoking.28033/
4) Anything directly against the community (not bold for a reason). Now this one;s interesting because there's a blurry distinction between people like
AU_IM_DIGIMON who bitch and moan about legitimate issues the game has, and people who come just to talk trash. I think the former is fine, but the latter is not.
5)
Any attempt to derail legitimate game discussion. The recent example is with the D1~Spear thread, but there are countless other examples.
What should be left alone:
1) Game discussion, things that people come here for, obvious stuff (procedurally posted).
2) Call outs. These should be careful not to be personally insulting (if they are they should be met with a warning or whatever point system... thing the rules mention), but be explicit in that they're calling someone out for game-based reasons. This is what creates hype. The distinction here is
Perfect Legend 's recent thread calls out
gross, that's fine,
Pig Of The Hut 's thread before Dallas last year calling
REO cancer should have been met with a warning because the content of the thread raised a legitimate issue, but was still an over the top personal insult, The swarms of people calling for
GGA 16 Bit to be fired, lynched, banned, etc should have been heavily modderated (if not banned) because of the personal attack.
3) Obvious humor. personal opinion, but i dont think anyone will disagree. That being said a lot of different people have different senses of humor. members should attempt to show courtesy to those who may be offended. sortof an honor system thing if you ask me.
i think that's it so far, if anyone else has any thought on this ...
