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2011-05-22 02:44

Martin Piper

Registered: Nov 2007
Posts: 722

Proposed rule change

I would like to propose a rule change. If an admin is involved in posting in a thread they are not allowed to use their admin powers to delete posts, issue warnings or lock threads. This would help stop the situations where an admin who loses an argument can abuse their powers to remove the posts they personally disagree with.

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2011-05-23 14:57

Stainless Steel

Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 966

Quoting Achim

You can donate e.g. for the red cross, but that doesn't mean you can tell them how to work.

Absolutely. But then again, don't be surprised when your donators start vanishing. I'm just saying.

2011-05-23 16:04

Martin Piper

Registered: Nov 2007
Posts: 722

And the Red Cross don't operate a forum with moderators that is mostly directly supported by donations of its members. ;) The point is I don't think comparisons between this board and the Red Cross can really be made. ;)

2011-05-23 17:36

Zyron

Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2381

The donations go directly to funding bandwidth & disk space on the server. I'm not sure whether you're under the impression we're getting payed for moderating the site or not, but just to make it clear; we do this for free in our spare time.

2011-05-23 19:31

Fungus

Registered: Sep 2002
Posts: 686

I am a moderator at some other places. I think I am a good moderator also, because I may take offense at many things posted or uploaded, however I put my personal feelings aside and look at the post or upload from a non-biased point of view. If I deem it is only offensive to myself and otherwise completely legitimate, I put my feelings aside and let it be.

However if I receive a lot of complains from other users or even other moderators discussing said material, then it has to be looked at again and determined by the whole staff if it's appropriate to remove or not.

Just my 2 cents.

2011-05-23 20:10

Stainless Steel

Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 966

Quoting Zyron

I'm not sure whether you're under the impression we're getting payed for moderating the site or not, but just to make it clear; we do this for free in our spare time.

That has never been doubted. Still, if you want to play hard ball like "we run the site. your donations are welcome but otherwise stfu", expect people to be offended.

2011-05-23 20:21

Stainless Steel

Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 966

BTW. can a moderator close threads/delete posts on his own or does he at least have to have the vote of two other admins to do so?

2011-05-23 20:24

The Communist

Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 485

yes, he can.

2011-05-23 20:36

Stainless Steel

Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 966

Quoting The general CSDb staff attitude

we do this for free in our spare time.

So do we.

I really don't want to sound like a dick but with all respect,
without the users logging on to this site each day and writing all the posts, uploading stuff writing comments etc, all this site would be is just another soul-less database on the interwebs.

Sometimes i really think some of you would prefer this to be a purely archeological database with a stripped down search-frontend. Hell, That would save us all a lot of spare time.

Why am i even getting involved in this.

2011-05-23 20:43

Stainless Steel

Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 966

Quoting The Communist