What's wrong with our forum moderator staff?

[WhiteLotus]

How long was the ban for?

[crtecha]

No offense to anyone but I think complaining about mods is silly. if you get banned just join another site or bite your tongue its not hard

[WhiteLotus]

Plus the reason was "ask and thou shou receive" kinda implies that you asked to be banned. Which is kind of random but i have known members to do it.

[crazy pyro]

He's still been a useful contributor to the community from what I've seen, and yeah, the reason sounds a bit like why Tatty has an infraction.

[erocker]

DM, you've been nothing but argumentative, abusive and hostile towards others lately in your posts. I've never come across you as a moderator, but standing on the outside looking in, your post hold no credibility to me personally due to your recent behavior. It's a shame really. Goodbye.

[crazy pyro]

He must've changed recently then, I've seen a fair few useful posts from him.

[erocker]

Originally Posted by crazy pyro

He must've changed recently then, I've seen a fair few useful posts from him.

Way more so than the insulting posts. That's why it's a shame.

[crtecha]

Off topic: How long have you been a moderator erocker?

[W1zzard]

Originally Posted by DarkMatter

It leaves me thinking about the professionalism put into benchmarks, they do look professsional, but are they? [...] Bye.

we use 20 sided professional looking dice to roll the benchmarks. you caught us, ze noes! bye bye

[crazy pyro]

And those dice rolls just happen to correspond with those of 90% of other tech sites that I read.

[DarkMatter]

Originally Posted by W1zzard

we use 20 sided professional looking dice to roll the benchmarks. you caught us, ze noes! bye bye

And that is exactly what I was talking about! It's a shame what happened to me erocker?? Think about what you all have done to this forums lately. I enter one last time to try to help and that is what I get from Wizzard himself... Now that is a shame.

Wizzard, FYI your reviews were indeed the only thing I was saving and praising there...

[Cold Storm]

Originally Posted by DarkMatter

And that is exactly what I was talking about! It's a shame what happened to me erocker?? Think about what you all have done to this forums lately. I enter one last time to try to help and that is what I get from Wizzard himself... Now that is a shame.

Wizzard, FYI your reviews were indeed the only thing I was saving and praising there...

how you think the owner of the site will react to something like that... Man, if you said those things on [H], or other sites.. You'd be banned in seconds...

[alexp999]

You doubt W1zzard's reviews, how is he supposed to reply. I couldn't possibly think of a way of replying to that myself. So he came up with a light hearted joke

[DarkMatter]

Well I spect a very differemt thing from someone who wrote this in the OP...

Originally Posted by W1zzard

I have recently gotten an increased number of reports from forum members that are unhappy with the way our forums are run.

I hear of mods being out of line, double standards, censoring, unfair infractions etc.

Because I do not follow the forums closely enough to really see what's going on in every thread I have to rely on the moderators to do a good job. With the recent complaints I am wondering if this is the case, and if not what could be changed to make this a better place.

Please post all your _constructive_ comments here, no fighting/drama. Also ideas how to resolve such conflicts are welcome. I am taking this very seriously.

If you are afraid of posting publicly email me to w1zzard@techpowerup.com, I will then add your post here

His last post does nothing but confirm what I was saying. After that all this post just seems like a way to save the face publicly, because it's clear as cristal to me he won't do anyting about it. Except ban the one making noise. If this was [H] I've been banned already? I thought the goal of this thread was indeed to not become just another [H]...

[WhiteLotus]

again - how long was the ban for?

[alexp999]

Please dont forget this is what it was wrong with the forums, not our reviews

[Cold Storm]

Originally Posted by DarkMatter

Well I spect a very differemt thing from someone who wrote this in the OP...



His last post does nothing but confirm what I was saying. After that all this post just seems like a way to save the face publicly, because it's clear as cristal to me he won't do anyting about it. Except ban the one making noise. If this was [H] I've been banned already? I thought the goal of this thread was indeed to not become just another [H]...

Yeah, this thread is to build a better TPU, but when you just come in and go at it like what you have.. What do you expect?

[DarkMatter]

Originally Posted by alexp999

Please dont forget this is what it was wrong with the forums, not our reviews

Maybe I was not clear in my first post (remember english is not my mother language), but I have already stated that reviews were the thing I was NOT complaining about. I said reviews look worse when forums are ruled that way. "Despite of the horrible forums reviews are still amazing, fix the forums in order to fix the site". That was the idea I was trying to put there...

[sneekypeet]

Im sorry, but Im lost with all this.

You say the forum is ok as a whole, but the moderation is evil?

Yet in all this I see nothing based on what any of the moderation has done. For your Temperary ban, that was done by someone of pretty high power, as nothing of it shows recently in the lounge.

[erocker]

Give us your opinions on how the forums can be impoved. I agree that sometimes a language barrier can make things more complicated than they are.

[btarunr]

Originally Posted by DarkMatter

Maybe I was not clear in my first post (remember english is not my mother language), but I have already stated that reviews were the thing I was NOT complaining about. I said reviews look worse when forums are ruled that way. "Despite of the horrible forums reviews are still amazing, fix the forums in order to fix the site". That was the idea I was trying to put there...

OK, I'd like to hear from you.



What exactly did you expect the moderator to do next after posting that?

[DarkMatter]

I'm talking about how the forums are moderated. There are many good ways of handling it and the above is not one. Banning a person for doing something and then commit the same errors you are suposed to fix (what are temporary bans for otherwise??) in the ban notification is definately not the way to go.

[Cold Storm]

To me, if I said something like that, I wouldn't see nothing more then to be banned perm... The uber did the right thing. IMHO

[alexp999]

Maybe because you mentioned "you can ban me forever", what else is a mod going to right for a reason?

You're lucky you didnt get your wish, or is that why you have come back in here complaining about it?

[DarkMatter]

Originally Posted by btarunr

OK, I'd like to hear from you.

http://img.techpowerup.org/090414/bta1136.png

What exactly did you expect the moderator to do next after posting that?

I could expect a ban, but not in the way it was done. The number of childish responses and notifications from mods is going up and IMHO that's something you can't stand in a site like this. "Lead by example" and you've all been lacking in that department lately.