Get Yer Ya-Yas Out [FR Moderating Gripe Thread]

[I Am Not A Mod]

LM here.

It's been a while since we had a thread along these lines.

I can tell from comments I am seeing in threads, on abuse reports, and in Freepmail that some people are unhappy with various policies and their implementations by the staff here.

I've seen allegations that certain factions are picked on. I've seen allegations that the moderators have killed activism. I've heard rumors that we killed Kenny, and even that we killed the radio star. I see certain personality conflicts acting up, and know that one (or both) sides in it feel that we aren't doing what we should.

So let's open this can of worms.

This thread is for making your grievances heard. If you think something stinks or is wrong, make your case here. Back it up with facts. Let the audience at large weigh in on your evidence.

I'll read the thread. Jim will too in all likelihood. So will the other moderators. Depending upon how well you make your point, and depending on if you can convince Jim, me, the other moderators, and/or the world, maybe you can change things. And if you don't, then it might make you feel better to have vented, so it won't make this thread a total loss.

I'm not going to reply to this thread for quite a while. Rather, I am going to sit back and watch to try and get a feel for the general tenor. I encourage those who are both happy and unhappy with things to particpate in this thread.

Let's rock.

[Quix]

Can you distinguish between

YOU

and

a post you've made,

a tone you've taken,

an attitude you've demonstrated?

I think that's a persistent malady all of us occasionally demonstrate and some fairly chronically.

We'd do well to keep well in mind that

WE

OUR ESSENCES

are NOT 100% contained, wrapped up in, summarized and encapsulated

in our meager, poor words, no matter how pontifical or arrogantly stated.

I thought the action, the words, the asking for something larger when being told the upper limit was 5,000 was cheeky. How would you describe it were you to be the onlooker?

[Texasforever]

Walk in nopardons' shoes dealing with Fred Mertz and Reblebase on two forums and then get back to me on that.

[DoctorMichael]

Just checking in before I go home. Yea, I know its late and I'm here at work..................

No pressing complaints here.

My Evening FReep: For the 3rd time in the last week and a half I've come into work and the lobby poster-boards have Move-On.org posters all over them.

Busy little Leftists aren't they.

The last two times I just ripped them all down. This time I've printed up some of REGISTERED's latest piks of Kerry with the daisy.....I'm going to attach these (heh heh) OVER their posters with a stapler.

Say g'nite Gracie.

[Texasforever]

Baloney.

[writer33]

I'm with you on thesummerwind.

[Quix]

Suffering from

dellusions of

GUFFAW

again, I C!

[mrsmith]

Spelling here has become atrocious.

I hope Kerry names Hillary as his VP so I can change my tagline to a list of commonly misspelled words.

[Starwind]

Baloney.

Now if only her replies were as civil as yours.

[The Mayor]

no problem here..

[Quix]

Very well said.

[Rightly Biased]

"Walk in someone elses shoes"

No way you could get a foot disease and mine gets in my mouth too many times a week.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

In the same vein...

It is often difficult, when discussing a complex subject, to incapsulate all of our impressions, assumptions or solutions in a few meager lines of a post. Often we find ourselves going back, adding to the discussion, more accurately describing what we meant to put into words the first time.

Patience is a virtue.

[The Mayor]

very good! LOL!!

[uglybiker]

I don't agree with your assesment. If nopardons is too strong for your taste then ignore her.

Granted it was a long thread, but I don't recall seeing any comments from you.

Did you even read it?

[HairOfTheDog]

How would you describe it were you to be the onlooker?

"Much ado about nothing."

You know... you kindof remind me a little
of Palo

only crabbier.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

You're joking, right?

[Central Scrutiniser]

I was in Tucson on Friday, I kept an eye out for a perpetually braindead hippie wandering down the middle of the street expressing her love for the white stripe, the weeds on the side of the road, the stop signs, the clouds, the sun, dirt, pebbles, oxygen, etc.. Thankfully our paths didn't cross.

[TheSpottedOwl]

I agree. I'm looking into that claim that Bill was De Molay. If I was given a bad lead, I'll apologize.

UglyBiker, I'm still looking through your links. Thanks :-)

[ChevyZ28]

I personally do not have any complaints. I have see no profanity, usually you guys have it cleaned up pretty quick.
I do wish, however, that instead of completely blocking a loony liberals post when it contains profanity, just censor the undesirable words and allow the Post to be seen. Unless, of course the post is just so profane blotting out undesirable words do not work.

[Rightly Biased]

I can't believe I am typing this....

Should we be talking about nopardons without her being here?

Did I just type that?