Is it not about time we had a female Moderator on board ?

[Claw75]

so now its turned into a lets slag claw off because she happens not to like an image. this is why she didnt post in public in the first place and went to the mods

not very nice chaps

By the sounds of it she was told the mods had decided it would stay, so then she went str8 to the OP and asked him to remove it......kinda negating the mods.

no i didn't.  I have stated the facts quite clearly here.  I PMd tightend, as below:

hiya,

don't want to sound like a moaning minnie, but I'm cringing every time i look at tex fitz's avatar (an image which looks like a baby smoking).  Don't know if this breaches any of the guidelines, but I'd rather not have to look at this.

thanks

Claire

he replied, as explained above, quite rightly having discussed it with the moderators and deeming that the image was not offensive.

I pmd three females on here (that i consider friends) this morning to get another female viewpoint as I was just interested to see if my own reaction to the pic was way off the mark.  I did not ask anything other than their opinion.

I did NOT contact the person whose avatar it was - Charmaine has said earlier in the thread that she did that, of her own accord.

[Rooky9]

I wish I had an avator....

[charmaine]

I think the point is Claw never started this thread , i did .
The AV  wasn't the actual point in starting the thread , i just asked a simple question , and 16 pages later............. mad .
Some find the AV offensive some dint , at least we're not all robots who have to agree .
The AV was kindly removed by tex , so why keep raking that up ? maybe i shouldn't of pm'd him in the first place, but he wasn't upset , i wasnt upset so that ended amicably.
This has turned into 16 pages of twaddle that now will not be taken seriously , I'm gobsmaked to be honest .

[Ironside]

so now its turned into a lets slag claw off because she happens not to like an image. this is why she didnt post in public in the first place and went to the mods

not very nice chaps

we gave her an answer and it was turned into a gender issue

and another wasted night

no it didnt. the request for a female mod turned into an issue about claw taste in images and ones chioce to go to the mods instead of an open forum

it was turned into an issue on claws taste by her own post

I'd just PM'd tighty on this very issue before seeing this thread.

I had contacted him yesterday about an image I found offensive.  I gather I am not the only woman who found it so.  However, the mods did not find the image offensive, so would not ask for it to be removed.

The point here is that I think it would have taken a female to fully understand why the image could be deemed offensive (and that is the key point here - not what people personally find offensive, but considering what other's COULD find offensive).

The sooner we get a female mod the better in my opinion.

[Royal Flush]

I wish I had an avator....

I know a funny 1 of a baby smoking weed!

[booder]

i think there should be more pigtails in avators

but not these ones...............

[Dingdell]

I thought we were talking about babies being shagged or something. That's not nice.

i think even the male mods would have a problem with that

You would hope so - but with all the stuff going on here I thought it must have been worse than that.

I'm not slagging anyone off for finding it offensive - as I said before its a matter of degree and everyone has their own limits. However in the grand scheme of things this would probably not offend that many people. These things need to be kept in perspective.

[Claw75]

so now its turned into a lets slag claw off because she happens not to like an image. this is why she didnt post in public in the first place and went to the mods

not very nice chaps

we gave her an answer and it was turned into a gender issue

and another wasted night

no it didnt. the request for a female mod turned into an issue about claw taste in images and ones chioce to go to the mods instead of an open forum

it was turned into an issue on claws taste by her own post

I'd just PM'd tighty on this very issue before seeing this thread.

I had contacted him yesterday about an image I found offensive.  I gather I am not the only woman who found it so.  However, the mods did not find the image offensive, so would not ask for it to be removed.

The point here is that I think it would have taken a female to fully understand why the image could be deemed offensive (and that is the key point here - not what people personally find offensive, but considering what other's COULD find offensive).

The sooner we get a female mod the better in my opinion.

i just posted that as a recent example of a situation I had encountered which I thought was relevant to the debate. 

[TightEnd]

ladies and gents


enough?

all debated out?

can we stop now?


please

[Ironside]

to answe the question is it about time we had a female mod on board the answer is we need atleast 4 new mods if there is a suitable candiadate that is female she will get the job

at present there is 4 mods rod sherrif red and tighty

having done the job for best part of 2 years i dont envy the job of who ever gets lumbered with it

[Royal Flush]

so now its turned into a lets slag claw off because she happens not to like an image. this is why she didnt post in public in the first place and went to the mods

not very nice chaps

we gave her an answer and it was turned into a gender issue

and another wasted night

no it didnt. the request for a female mod turned into an issue about claw taste in images and ones chioce to go to the mods instead of an open forum

it was turned into an issue on claws taste by her own post

I'd just PM'd tighty on this very issue before seeing this thread.

I had contacted him yesterday about an image I found offensive.  I gather I am not the only woman who found it so.  However, the mods did not find the image offensive, so would not ask for it to be removed.

The point here is that I think it would have taken a female to fully understand why the image could be deemed offensive (and that is the key point here - not what people personally find offensive, but considering what other's COULD find offensive).

The sooner we get a female mod the better in my opinion.

i just posted that as a recent example of a situation I had encountered which I thought was relevant to the debate. 

Why did you PM other women and not men also?

Why would a woman find this offensive when a man wouldn't? Am i missing something?

[booder]

to answe the question is it about time we had a female mod on board the answer is we need atleast 4 new mods if there is a suitable candiadate that is female she will get the job

at present there is 4 mods rod sherrif red and tighty

having done the job for best part of 2 years i dont envy the job of who ever gets lumbered with it

flushy and mfi for mods

[Royal Flush]

to answe the question is it about time we had a female mod on board the answer is we need atleast 4 new mods if there is a suitable candiadate that is female she will get the job

at present there is 4 mods rod sherrif red and tighty

having done the job for best part of 2 years i dont envy the job of who ever gets lumbered with it

Myself, IFM, Booder and ......

[Ironside]

so now its turned into a lets slag claw off because she happens not to like an image. this is why she didnt post in public in the first place and went to the mods

not very nice chaps

we gave her an answer and it was turned into a gender issue

and another wasted night

no it didnt. the request for a female mod turned into an issue about claw taste in images and ones chioce to go to the mods instead of an open forum

it was turned into an issue on claws taste by her own post

I'd just PM'd tighty on this very issue before seeing this thread.

I had contacted him yesterday about an image I found offensive.  I gather I am not the only woman who found it so.  However, the mods did not find the image offensive, so would not ask for it to be removed.

The point here is that I think it would have taken a female to fully understand why the image could be deemed offensive (and that is the key point here - not what people personally find offensive, but considering what other's COULD find offensive).

The sooner we get a female mod the better in my opinion.

i just posted that as a recent example of a situation I had encountered which I thought was relevant to the debate. 

well mad accused us of breach of confidance

we didnt bring it up you did

if we breached your confidance then we would have overstepped the mark

we didnt

[Ginger]

to answe the question is it about time we had a female mod on board the answer is we need atleast 4 new mods if there is a suitable candiadate that is female she will get the job

at present there is 4 mods rod sherrif red and tighty

having done the job for best part of 2 years i dont envy the job of who ever gets lumbered with it

Myself, IFM, Booder and ......

ME!!!