Mr. Monster
Member
I know how this is going to go, so I don't know why I am even bothering with it. Tell me how so and so is a bad person, they are doing it on purpose, and how they deserve it, or how I don't know the whole story blah blah balah. It's not even about me, but it's whatever.
When Ness was removed, things improved dramatically in the room, and it was like a breath of fresh air. People were getting along with the mods again, and a lot of that bad blood was almost gone, and it was nice to be able to have a good time without anyone showing up and ruining the vibe with nonsense.
What we are seeing is moderation based on feelings, and we are seeing mods injecting themselves into conversations, telling chat what they can and can't talk about when there are not even any rules about it, inventing rules on the spot, and generally just showing up and sucking the fun right out of the room. It's to the point where myself and more regulars that you think are on the verge of just giving up on the place, unless we get a grip on things.
The big issue is that the mod actions are taken unevenly, and certain people are being policed to death for such trivial things that nobody else gets messed with about. Like today, we were just doing the usual chat thing, and pwurring once again gets hit with a mute for the dumbest thing that nobody else would have been muted over, because she is an "abuser" according to the mute message. "disrupting the room" by asking why a dude there was calling himself a Teacher gets her muted, while other people spam about their penis, beg the women to take their clothes off, and genuinely ARE disrupting the room. Eddie can repeat "show feet" every 3 minutes, and it's not disruptive, but got forbid someone on the "sh*t list" says anthing at all that can technically be considered even slightly outside the rules, and it's a big deal.
This is not even just about that specific thing either, it's about the trend of being overly harsh on certain people when it's not called for, while totally ignoring every other person who does the same things. Half the chat can dog pile on stiffy and talk crap to him for hours at a time on a daily basis, including some of the mods at times, but when it's personal, any reason to mute someone will do.
If we really care that much about that sort of thing, then where is the justice for stiffy? How come I myself am not being muted regularly for talking much worse smack to the pests? How come we are not enforcing the disruption rules when half the chat is describing how they are wanking, or how they want to jizz on random girl's faces constantly?
I think what we need to understand is that it's not just one person you are running off when you are overly aggressive, but it's them, and half the people they know that leave with them, and half the people that those people know. The room sees this stuff happen, and then they get annoyed by it as well, and then that leads to more bad feelings about the mods. The real point here is that if the same standards are being used for everyone, then at least half the chat would be muted at all times, and not just the handful of people that certain mods have decided are the primary targets.
Yeah, we are all about the "spirit of the rules" and not just blindly enforcing them to the exact letter, until it's someone we personally have a problem with. At that point, any little deviation is enough to go after them, while at the same time not noticing 20 other people doing worse things at the same time.
That's my rant. Go ahead and ignore it and justify why I am wrong, but we all know that the rules are absoultely not enforced evenly, so let's not insult everybodies intelligence by acting otherwise.
When Ness was removed, things improved dramatically in the room, and it was like a breath of fresh air. People were getting along with the mods again, and a lot of that bad blood was almost gone, and it was nice to be able to have a good time without anyone showing up and ruining the vibe with nonsense.
What we are seeing is moderation based on feelings, and we are seeing mods injecting themselves into conversations, telling chat what they can and can't talk about when there are not even any rules about it, inventing rules on the spot, and generally just showing up and sucking the fun right out of the room. It's to the point where myself and more regulars that you think are on the verge of just giving up on the place, unless we get a grip on things.
The big issue is that the mod actions are taken unevenly, and certain people are being policed to death for such trivial things that nobody else gets messed with about. Like today, we were just doing the usual chat thing, and pwurring once again gets hit with a mute for the dumbest thing that nobody else would have been muted over, because she is an "abuser" according to the mute message. "disrupting the room" by asking why a dude there was calling himself a Teacher gets her muted, while other people spam about their penis, beg the women to take their clothes off, and genuinely ARE disrupting the room. Eddie can repeat "show feet" every 3 minutes, and it's not disruptive, but got forbid someone on the "sh*t list" says anthing at all that can technically be considered even slightly outside the rules, and it's a big deal.
This is not even just about that specific thing either, it's about the trend of being overly harsh on certain people when it's not called for, while totally ignoring every other person who does the same things. Half the chat can dog pile on stiffy and talk crap to him for hours at a time on a daily basis, including some of the mods at times, but when it's personal, any reason to mute someone will do.
If we really care that much about that sort of thing, then where is the justice for stiffy? How come I myself am not being muted regularly for talking much worse smack to the pests? How come we are not enforcing the disruption rules when half the chat is describing how they are wanking, or how they want to jizz on random girl's faces constantly?
I think what we need to understand is that it's not just one person you are running off when you are overly aggressive, but it's them, and half the people they know that leave with them, and half the people that those people know. The room sees this stuff happen, and then they get annoyed by it as well, and then that leads to more bad feelings about the mods. The real point here is that if the same standards are being used for everyone, then at least half the chat would be muted at all times, and not just the handful of people that certain mods have decided are the primary targets.
Yeah, we are all about the "spirit of the rules" and not just blindly enforcing them to the exact letter, until it's someone we personally have a problem with. At that point, any little deviation is enough to go after them, while at the same time not noticing 20 other people doing worse things at the same time.
That's my rant. Go ahead and ignore it and justify why I am wrong, but we all know that the rules are absoultely not enforced evenly, so let's not insult everybodies intelligence by acting otherwise.
