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    2 sub forums have 2 dedicated moderators each, the forums overall have 2 dedicated moderators and there are 3 game administrators present... seems a stretch to go from 2 to everyone even for an accountant!
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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidC View Post
    2 sub forums have 2 dedicated moderators each, the forums overall have 2 dedicated moderators and there are 3 game administrators present... seems a stretch to go from 2 to everyone even for an accountant!
    Well in all fairness it went from 2 mods to 9 in a pretty short amount of time lol

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    This is a 350% increase in moderation without a proportional increase in players. I would compare to the moderator to player ratios of competitors' games but I'm not sure there are any. :(
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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidC View Post
    2 sub forums have 2 dedicated moderators each, the forums overall have 2 dedicated moderators and there are 3 game administrators present... seems a stretch to go from 2 to everyone even for an accountant!
    Of the 5 mods promoted within Party ranks since your purchase, 3 are hardcore Abs including their leader, and one is their close ally.

    You're obviously biased as administrators of this game and your mod choices (4/5) are horrendous.

    You should put some work into expanding the player base, rather than chipping away at it with continuous instances of unsafe ads and Nazi forum moderation of your most active and involved community members.

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    Assuming the acceleration of moderator recruitment and number of players remain constant, the entire community will be moderating by age 88.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pillz View Post
    Of the 5 mods promoted within Party ranks since your purchase, 3 are hardcore Abs including their leader, and one is their close ally.

    You're obviously biased as administrators of this game and your mod choices (4/5) are horrendous.

    You should put some work into expanding the player base, rather than chipping away at it with continuous instances of unsafe ads and Nazi forum moderation of your most active and involved community members.

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    That's a bull**** warning. It wasn't a personal attack, it was an opinion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Palem View Post
    I apologize for the seemingly double standard. The stricter posting standards began being adhered to after those particular posts and retroactively administering punishments for different standards seems like a far worse course of action than just biting the bullet and having some seemingly glaring consistency issues for a while before older threads fall off.

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    You were in violation, yes, but given it was not spelled out in the rules at the time and you were likely unaware of the consequences, not to mention acting in good faith, we're not going to action you based on that so long as it doesn't happen in future :)
    Thought stricter posting standards were already enforced and all of us have to bite the bullet and have some glaring consistency issues?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pillz View Post
    You should put some work into expanding the player base, rather than chipping away at it with continuous instances of unsafe ads and Nazi forum moderation of your most active and involved community members.
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    That's a bull**** warning. It wasn't a personal attack, it was an opinion.

    Or was it a confirmation of Godwin's law?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Allanon View Post
    3. This one is fairly simple. When a user is banned, they are banned from communicating using these boards. If you help that person bypass that ban by posting on their behalf, regardless of the content, you are undermining the ban imposed on that person, and thus violating the rules.
    So now it's everyone's responsibility to know who is and who isn't banned at any given point in time? That's pretty absurd.

    If I get banned from the forums it's because I said something I shouldn't have. Likewise if I post on behalf of someone else (a forum member, a banned forum member, someone who never bothered to register to this forum, etc.) and that post includes something inappropriate, then I'm responsible for the post.

    Telling me that I'm responsible for knowing who is banned and asking me to therefore appropriately filter my posts is something I have never seen on any forum ever. Because it's stupid and impossible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by azsxdcfv View Post
    Thought stricter posting standards were already enforced and all of us have to bite the bullet and have some glaring consistency issues?
    Apparently the glaring consistency issues include mods not being on the same page.

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    Quote Originally Posted by realm of ding dong View Post
    So now it's everyone's responsibility to know who is and who isn't banned at any given point in time? That's pretty absurd.

    If I get banned from the forums it's because I said something I shouldn't have. Likewise if I post on behalf of someone else (a forum member, a banned forum member, someone who never bothered to register to this forum, etc.) and that post includes something inappropriate, then I'm responsible for the post.

    Telling me that I'm responsible for knowing who is banned and asking me to therefore appropriately filter my posts is something I have never seen on any forum ever. Because it's stupid and impossible.

    If someone is asking you to post on their behalf, it is your responsibility to ensure that the content you are posting complies with the forum rules. If it does not, the consequences rest with you. This is standard practice whatever forum you are on.



    Quote Originally Posted by realm of ding dong View Post
    Apparently the glaring consistency issues include mods not being on the same page.

    More different ways of saying the same thing. It wasn't a spelled out rule at the time, he didn't know it was a rule at the time, he acted in good faith, so we decided not to action him on it even though we could have at the time. It is now spelled out in the rules, the grey area is completely removed on that issue, and it will be strictly enforced as per the new moderation standards from this point forth, but we're not going to judge someone retroactively based on the new standards and rules :)
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    Why not just shut the forum down? Some of us like reading octo troll people. Some of is like to post #paykuhan. Like youre gonna allow coords posted and get lenient on some things but stricter on others. You can give me all the points you want because the days of trolling proteus and morbo are now done. .fyi they really are brothers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Allanon View Post
    If someone is asking you to post on their behalf, it if your responsibility to ensure that the content you are posting complies with the forum rules. If it does not, the consequences rest with you. This is standard practice whatever forum you are on.
    It's my responsibility to enforce forum bans? Is the absurdity of that not self-evident to you? You seem a little confused, no offense btw. Obviously I'm not going to post hardcore sex videos "on behalf of" someone else and then try to pretend I'm not responsible. I'm not a psycho.

    But seriously? Am I even allowed to mention a banned person? Reference anything the banned person has ever said or did in the past? Relay some opinion that this banned person has expressed to me in private? What is the implication here? That if I speak on behalf of a banned person then that means he has stuck a gun to my head and forced me to post his comment on the forum? That I'm some kind of weird forum slave that's around all the time to post this person's comments? Or that I, as an unbanned person who shouldn't have to suffer the consequences of SOMEONE ELSE'S ACTIONS, have elected to relay the thoughts and words of a banned person. Or maybe I made it up! Maybe I'm not actually speaking on behalf of that banned person. Who would know? It's ridiculous. Don't tell me this is "standard practice" on any forum.

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    Quote Originally Posted by realm of ding dong View Post
    It's my responsibility to enforce forum bans? Is the absurdity of that not self-evident to you? You seem a little confused, no offense btw. Obviously I'm not going to post hardcore sex videos "on behalf of" someone else and then try to pretend I'm not responsible. I'm not a psycho.

    But seriously? Am I even allowed to mention a banned person? Reference anything the banned person has ever said or did in the past? Relay some opinion that this banned person has expressed to me in private? What is the implication here? That if I speak on behalf of a banned person then that means he has stuck a gun to my head and forced me to post his comment on the forum? That I'm some kind of weird forum slave that's around all the time to post this person's comments? Or that I, as an unbanned person who shouldn't have to suffer the consequences of SOMEONE ELSE'S ACTIONS, have elected to relay the thoughts and words of a banned person. Or maybe I made it up! Maybe I'm not actually speaking on behalf of that banned person. Who would know? It's ridiculous. Don't tell me this is "standard practice" on any forum.
    It is your responsibility to respect forum bans and to not aid others in circumventing a forum ban by communicating on these forums on their behalf by relaying messages for them. If you see fit to aid someone in circumventing a ban, then you will be violating the forum rules and it will be your actions that you will be facing the consequences of, not those of someone else. If you feel this could lead to uncertainty regarding your own posts, I would suggest you avoid communicating on others behalf in the forums and instead have them speak for themselves.

    References to existing posts from before the ban is not a violation, as long as the posts you make referencing them conform to the other rules of the forum.
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