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So, how, in a thread allowed by @W1zzard to remain open to discuss pros and cons of his decision, do we now have a whole series of posts which are exactly ON-Topic, both pro and against it, that get the low-quality treatment?
You did have one person insulting the other two and getting angry, because they did not agree with his assertions against the subject.
This was not the correct usage of this. That guy should have been handled the old-fashioned way.
This is the absolute error of this system. Our 'mods', and they are our mods because they moderate us, do not have the ability to create a fair and consistent approach to this. @W1zzard - can you not see how this is already getting out of hand? Genuine, innoffensive discussion by @rtwjunkie - who is discussing a point of contention which is the political path of censorship- get's marked 'low quality post'. Your mods wizz are exactly starting to become what many of us are discussing.
I PM'ed you initially because i thought strongly about this. You suggested i post openly - you welcomeed it yet here are your mods marking down posts from regular guys who have said nothing low quality at all. The utter tripe randomness of moderation is TPU's achilles heel. As humble and cool as some of our mods are, they still have not got any structure on how this sytem works. Why on earth can you not simply get serious with serial offenders and have them banned? Tarring all posts that are, like, 5% off topic is moronic.
You have to concern yourself with the notion you're now pissing off a lot of the good guys that keep reasoned discussion (not me - I'm a tool) in place. Once these guys get disillusioned and leave it'll get worse. If you dont figure out a secure system that does not rely on a pre-menstrual mod to work on it, you'll lose visits and hence, income.
As for the moderation? A lot of guys on here seem to take their jobs with a sense of unwanted power (the best way). Others think they are better than the community and their word is law. Your word is law w1zz, yours and your alone. This is your site and all we can do is suggest our take on things and it's quite obvious this has not gone down well. Put your pride to the side with your new experiment and just let the mods impose draconian punishments for aggressive, rude or obnoxious posts. Dont let them destroy TPU by removing random humorous posts or ocassional comedy memes. By instigating low quality posts with absolute abandon, your are allowing TPU to wither and die.
Yes we want a good forum for good folk but thats what moderators are meant to do. I like TPU. I like the general feeling of belonging but the very recent swathe of 'low quality post' demotions surely show you the mods (some of them - again - inconsistent) aren't even allowing open debate on side topics.
Really sad day. Really bad moderation going on. Sorry mods - you get to be omnipotent but you need to take some flack. I'm sure I'll get some great reply but really, my point is irrefutable, humans are not consistent and subjective thread cleansing of 'low quality posts' is a minefield of personality confrontations.
The more 'low quality' markings I see in threads, the less I'll visit. I'm sure I wont be the only one.