| Insomniac |
10-10-2009 11:16 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kole_Locke
(Post 1765202682)
I mean, I honestly feel like I have been treated like a child. I feel like I'm in grammar school, I'm not perfect and don't claim to be. I really feel some of your moderators do their a job a little too well. I understand you guys don't want this site to be a spam site like gaia and I respect you for your hard work. I understand rules are rules, and I just feel like one of your moderators really come off as more than offensive to me. My feelings are hurt, I'm sorry.
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I'd have to agree with you there, some of the mods here do a incredibly thorough job and it does come across a bit on the OCD side of things, and yes, at times it upsets me too. Let me give you a bit of an insight into the site and it's comparison to gaia (since everyone loves to make the comparison these days ;))
Yesterday we had 282 users join, 146 that never activated their account by email, and around 8 which were too young to be members. Out of those 282 users who completed the registration there were approximately 200 new fresh meat threads made, of which there is roughly four posts per thread, leaving 800 posts there alone for mods to go over. The mods deal with posts as they are made and try to make an general response to problems they see without stalking anyone in particular. In your case you received what I would hope is a friendly reminder about a lack of quoting - a rule which is in place to stop pointless spam. The problem with this whole situation is that there are only ever a few mods on at a time, and a few hundred users making posts.
Now lets compare to Gaia, they have probably 10,000 people in their forums at any one time, probably 50,000 new topics a day, and very lax rules. Honestly without lax rules they would have no chance of keeping up with even half of the posts, and are in fact a month behind on reports. Moderating Gaia would be a complete nightmare, so what happened? Gaia's general post quality went down the toilet, and rules were made even more lax (or less enforced.)
Back to us, most of the users here feel they want a safe enjoyable place to chill out, and want to be stimulated with something more than a thread full of bumps - and the staff feel the same way. At the rate we are growing it's unfortunately necessary to be a little less kind than we would normally be as it becomes difficult to follow individual users around or have more personal reminders. So unfortunately you feel you have been treated like a child, and for that I apologize and I'm more than sure it was not intentional. If you don't like something please give us feedback on it and we'll give our point of view. If you still don't like it then feel free to persuade us otherwise. I'm always interested to hear what users have to say about the site and how we can improve. Maybe we need to look at how reminders are handed out? I don't know, you tell me :) |
