Where's Greekstein?

[jakally]

This thread is much better now mods are posting under their own names.

The 'Blonde Moderating Team' account is counter productive, and creates more problems than it solves - please do not use it.

[MANTIS01]

Is this for real? This is a free forum and you can post on it when you want if you abide by a few fair enough rules. If you get banned you get banned. Carry on posting after that ban if you want to and carry on enjoying the foum. If you don't want to post again don't post again. I don't get people "threatening" not to post again...because inevitably they post again. Use the forum if you want, don't use it if you don't want, it's up to you, but threatening not to use it is lol. Some of you guys need to get a grip and quit with the political agenda on a poker forum.

[turny]

This thread is much better now mods are posting under their own names.

The 'Blonde Moderating Team' account is counter productive, and creates more problems than it solves - please do not use it.

 

[TightEnd]

This thread is much better now mods are posting under their own names.

The 'Blonde Moderating Team' account is counter productive, and creates more problems than it solves - please do not use it.

 

why?

[kinboshi]

Is this for real? This is a free forum and you can post on it when you want if you abide by a few fair enough rules. If you get banned you get banned. Carry on posting after that ban if you want to and carry on enjoying the foum. If you don't want to post again don't post again. I don't get people "threatening" not to post again...because inevitably they post again. Use the forum if you want, don't use it if you don't want, it's up to you, but threatening not to use it is lol. Some of you guys need to get a grip and quit with the political agenda on a poker forum.

Mantis for Mod.












(joke ldo)

[jakally]

This thread is much better now mods are posting under their own names.

The 'Blonde Moderating Team' account is counter productive, and creates more problems than it solves - please do not use it.

 

why?

Now realise that BMT account was primarily used on other thread, but point still stands.

Blonde is a friendly community, policed by people from within it, giving it a particular 'feel'.

The BMT account changes that to some extent, and is unnecessary IMO.

[kinboshi]

This thread is much better now mods are posting under their own names.

The 'Blonde Moderating Team' account is counter productive, and creates more problems than it solves - please do not use it.

 

why?

Now realise that BMT account was primarily used on other thread, but point still stands.

Blonde is a friendly community, policed by people from within it, giving it a particular 'feel'.

The BMT account changes that to some extent, and is unnecessary IMO.

That's what we're trying to maintain.  I personally feel that it's losing a lot of this 'feel', despite the fact that there are a lot of the same friendly people on here who have been contributing for a considerable amount of time. 

Point taken about the team account though.

[turny]

This thread is much better now mods are posting under their own names.

The 'Blonde Moderating Team' account is counter productive, and creates more problems than it solves - please do not use it.

 

why?

because i think it better if you post your views on here for us all to see. as you say 4 different people have posted under this name overnite so unless you are all clones of the same person or have been brainwashed to have the same views and ways of writing then i think its better if you post on your own names.
this also takes away the them and us mentality which isnt necessary imo

[TightEnd]

This thread is much better now mods are posting under their own names.

The 'Blonde Moderating Team' account is counter productive, and creates more problems than it solves - please do not use it.

 

why?

Now realise that BMT account was primarily used on other thread, but point still stands.

Blonde is a friendly community, policed by people from within it, giving it a particular 'feel'.

The BMT account changes that to some extent, and is unnecessary IMO.

ok, thank you for answering

Melodramatic hat on. In the past when individual mods (often me, but all of us) have tried to deal with situations on our own accounts this had had notable adverse consquences

I have been threatened at live events. Others have been subject to sustained rudeness in a live environment. Various single mods have had facebook campaigns against them. One individual had hate mail sent to his place of work.

The BMT account is/was an attempt to depersonalise the banning process, on forum at least, to not cause so much aggro to the mods which can follow such decisions which are only made for the good of the forum by a team mostly doing so as volunteers.

The time, emotional effort and backlash from taking any meaningful piece of action as a mod is huge. 

[Jon MW]

This thread is much better now mods are posting under their own names.

The 'Blonde Moderating Team' account is counter productive, and creates more problems than it solves - please do not use it.

 

why?

Now realise that BMT account was primarily used on other thread, but point still stands.

Blonde is a friendly community, policed by people from within it, giving it a particular 'feel'.

The BMT account changes that to some extent, and is unnecessary IMO.

ok, thank you for answering

Melodramatic hat on. In the past when individual mods (often me, but all of us) have tried to deal with situations on our own accounts this had had notable adverse consquences

I have been threatened at live events. Others have been subject to sustained rudeness in a live environment. Various single mods have had facebook campaigns against them. One individual had hate mail sent to his place of work.

The BMT account is/was an attempt to depersonalise the banning process, on forum at least, to not cause so much aggro to the mods which can follow such decisions which are only made for the good of the forum by a team mostly doing so as volunteers.

The time, emotional effort and backlash from taking any meaningful piece of action as a mod is huge. 

Couldn't every mod just use Kinboshi's account for banning purposes then? 

[kinboshi]

This thread is much better now mods are posting under their own names.

The 'Blonde Moderating Team' account is counter productive, and creates more problems than it solves - please do not use it.

 

why?

Now realise that BMT account was primarily used on other thread, but point still stands.

Blonde is a friendly community, policed by people from within it, giving it a particular 'feel'.

The BMT account changes that to some extent, and is unnecessary IMO.

ok, thank you for answering

Melodramatic hat on. In the past when individual mods (often me, but all of us) have tried to deal with situations on our own accounts this had had notable adverse consquences

I have been threatened at live events. Others have been subject to sustained rudeness in a live environment. Various single mods have had facebook campaigns against them. One individual had hate mail sent to his place of work.

The BMT account is/was an attempt to depersonalise the banning process, on forum at least, to not cause so much aggro to the mods which can follow such decisions which are only made for the good of the forum by a team mostly doing so as volunteers.

The time, emotional effort and backlash from taking any meaningful piece of action as a mod is huge. 

Couldn't every mod just use Kinboshi's account for banning purposes then? 

I will in a moment when I ban that fella who once played with some female pro player in some tournament somewhere...

[jakally]

Understand what you are saying Rich - rock / hard place... etc...
Whichever way, I hope you can get Greekstein back on board, as he contributes more than most other posters.

I'm looking forward to the weekend BTW. See you Saturday.

[EvilPie]

I think the moderating team account is a great idea but only when something has been discussd between mods and agreed on.

As ITB has already said there have been posts put up today the "the moderating team" which were too quick to be team decisions and were therefore individual opinions.

Simply changing the account name to "moderator" or adding a new account would solve this.

Obviously no point Iron using it cus we'd know.

[gatso]

I agree with jakally and belly on the bmt a/c. it's horrible, so them and us

maybe it'll work for some bannings and in confrontational situations but not in threads where a reasonable discussion is taking place, it's like putting up a barrier

on the other thread (I think) it was just used to post pretty much exactly what dan had already posted in his own name. that's utterly pointless

[Dingdell]

i think your all missing the point. whether its 3 days or 3 years doesnt matter.

cos and ben think the punishment is over the top and unnecessary thats the point not the length of time

Well of course they do - because it's them thats been given the punishment.    I don't know many people who think their own punishment is fair.

I'm not sure if it's for us to question it in any case. Obv this is a forum of varying views but the moderating team are the moderating team and we have to trust them to do what they think is right. The forum rules are there for all to see and the moderating team have to make decisions based on that.

3 days is only 3 days, not a lifetime.

so if you got a ban for a week and you didnt think you deserved it that would be fine would it? its only a week not a lifetime?

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If I disagreed with it that would mean that I and the moderators had a different opinion about something being appropriate on the forum.

If thats' the case then I would have to think about whether I wanted to be on a forum which didn't represent my views. And if I thought I didn't I would be off. Simple surely?

Why make a drama out of it - a week is only a week - and if I was banned for a week I would go off and do something else and at the end of a week probably wonder why i was on the forum in the first place having found something else to do that now took my interest.