just saw this today, wtf was that?
you seem a nice guy, but sometimes you really scare me.
A thread had descended into a big slagging match, I posted a warning, some kept going, I warned them. Why is this so hard to believe or take?
I got one of those the other day but I whinged about it, and since I'm such an awesome guy, it was recinded.
It was rescinded because you didn't really deserve it. Snoop did.
Mikhail does the job way too seriously, I mean If these rules will be used perfectly, trust me no one will survive on this forum. every second a rule is being broken, you can't hold yourself for not using foul language, or going off topic, or arguing with some moron. If everyone post by the rules, no one will have fun, it will be like robots' conversation..
The off topics are really fun, in the end you feel like discussing with a human, if it will be like a class room and ask a permition for going off topic, or to open a thread to post a joking with someone, do you realize how idiotic that will be? Sure warning system is good, but you just can't use it for personal reasons or stupid things like this. you do use it when something is unpleasing the majority.
You don't get it, do you? I'm not saying every post should be a great post, but text message speak, excessive use of smileys and high numbers of absolutely useless posts should all be bannable offenses.
By useless posts, I mean repeating what his been said in a thread over and over, and agreeing and disagreeing without any explanation. Posters who only do that add nothing to the discussions on the forum.
These last two posts are flip sides of the same argument. There are two kinds of whingers about moderation here:
1) The forum has gone to hell, it's all a mess, full of text speak, illiterate fools and idiotic off topic posts. Ban them all!
2) Relax, I want to do my thing.
I can't do both. None of the mods can. What can we do? We can make this place a good Juve site, and we can make it a good online community. There's a balance to be had between those two.
For a good Juve site, you want news threads to stay on topic. Off topic posts make it hard to find information, hard to hold a conversation about a topic you want discussed. Fights and other crap like that are also detrimental.
For a good online community, people have to be able to shoot the breeze, post random shit, chat. That means keeping spam and trolling to a minimum. And yes, a group of idiots ganging up on a new guy, or some punter whose English is so-so, or just someone they don't like, is trolling. Those cliques make it tough to attract and keep new members, and as we lose older members (some of them sick of morons fighting), it makes the forums that bit duller, for all the instant entertainment it seems to bring some.