I am posting this because of all the people complaining about Ian as a moderator. It is common knowledge that Ian and I like one another quite a lot... we laugh at each other's jokes and have fun. I believe that we have a healthy respect for each other and are friends, but that does not stop him from doing his job as a moderator and setting me straight when he needs to. I can accept this, as I am the one who broke the rules...

Let's look at this objectively... he has a job to do and he does a fine job at it... he has told me to shut the fuck up a few times and we are still friends on here. My advice is: Don't take things so personally when you get "moderated."


From: ian (click to see profile)
Subject: flames
Sent: Sun Nov 3 3:40am

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Tony, you should know better by now
"dumbass", "moron" etc... I'd just let it go if I were you

take care

ian


and anther:

From: ian (click to see profile)
Subject: Flames
Sent: Tue Nov 5 4:23pm

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Hi Tony,

How is life with yourself? Hope it's all good.

Just Orgnoting you to let you know that I gotta lock your thread "Debate the concepts of christianity versus agnosticism / atheism - for RaneStarr" coz of the flaming - come on man, "dumbass" - this isn't exactly intelligent conversation here!

...it pisses me off because I gotta clean up the aftermath and the flames, and it has gotta take up a lot of your time.

So, don't let her bug you and try to hold on on those flames OK? Getting sick of locking your threads dammit

Take care

Ian

Here, here!

At least he doesn't say things like...

"You've posted a really great thread...
...for me to poop on!"

But, seriously, Ian has been doing a great job, in my opinion. It's probably difficult to moderate people and manage to remain part of the crowd, but Ian has done it and I applaud him.

he gets my thumbs up

I agree... I think Ian is very fair and unbaised. He's also fun and I think it's great that he participates in discussions, instead of just moderating.

WRONG FORUM!!!

Fair enough, thumbs up to ian (anyone who shares the same name as me is cool...lol!) but what happened to RaneStarr's Jesus loves you thread? I go to bed last night and today it's gone! I was quite enjoying her ramble.
[This message was edited Wed Nov 6 7:51:35 PST 2002 by Cloudbuster]

the worst thing a moderator can do in my book is
rename the title of your thread to what better suits them



who put there fingerprints on my imagination

shausler said:

"You tease and you flirt... and you shine all the buttons on your green shirt..."

you can move my thread but
somebody gonna get it

Who is Ian?
And are you really called Tony?
Now I have John Travolta in mind, jeez

shausler said:

What thread are you talking about, shausler? I noticed you had posted a thread yesterday, asking where your thread went, and then that was gone. Your poetry thread is still here, if that's the one you're talking about.

well blue star my dear

i was referring yesterday to the oceana carrie lee free for all

i had some good riffs in there . . .

but in general i gots no problem now


the elvis line just sounded funny
[This message was edited Wed Nov 6 8:21:22 PST 2002 by shausler]

i think what i said was
who moved that thread

but in fact this was not a valid reason to start a thread

i acknowkedge

shausler said:

Ooh...see... I missed it!

when it gets deleted that fast, even i forget what the hell i wrote

LOL

Sometimes Shausler those type of threads are best deleted...even when they contain your masterpieces.

sag10 said:

no argument there

and i would never attach the word master piece to me


EVER !

shausler said:

You are modest!

for ian! eye agree! he sent me the same org note! :hugs: ian!

I have Ian blocked. heh heh

i know from experience that Ian is a very fair individual

Well, I think you're all lovely and very kind! Except 2the9s obviously - I'm upset with him because he hasn't ever played one of his clever little Orgnote jokes on me. Not once! What's up 2the9s, I'm good enough for you is that it?

As regards biased moderation etc, I'll say this: although the site is far from perfect, there is a huge amount of time put in each day by the mods to keep the site running. Between (a) doing all that moderation stuff and (b) trying to continue contributing a bit and staying active on the site, I really don't have time to form any bias or get involved in Org politics etc and to enforce biased moderation decisions etc.

Certainly, there's no intentional bias on the part of any of the moderators on the Org. I do treat my "Org duties" an entirely separate from my posting on the site. If you see a rule-breaking post from someone that hasn't been snipped, it is usually because we just haven't seen it. There are so many posts each day, we rely on people reporting problematic posts to us because quite often they "slip through the net".

I hope no one makes the mistake of thinking "Oh Ian locked my thread, it must be because of that disagreement we had in thread X or Y four weeks ago" etc. I never hold grudges - mainly because my memory isn't that good, I forget an argument after a day or two!

If you're not familiar with the org, Ian's moderation can at first seem like a stranger pimpslapping you and telling you to shut the fuck up for no good reason.

However, it's an insignificant quirk when you compare it to some of the other things people say and do on here LOL.

I to all of Ian's moderator comments. Sometimes, I can for hours on just one of Ian's orgnotes to me.

He's great!

ian said:

I got you now Irish boy!

IceNine said:

He's biased. You know it and so does he.

SweeTea said:

SweeTea, you know I have a lot of respect for many of your posts, but I dont get this one. Can you please explain how Ian is biased?

AzureStar said:

I agree!!

SweeTea said:

I thought you were "leaving the Org" SweeTea

See, no one leaves the Org no matter what they say!

ian said:

Now thats a very biased statement. Shame, shame!