Antrax Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 ...have you already handled the person who inspired this feature? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 ...have you already handled the person who inspired this feature?Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 WD limiting who can post in which forums. Now, if only you can figure out how a member can filter out certain forums. Its still irksome to click View New Content and see over half of the posts related to issues with GIB. :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1eyedjack Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 Personally I think that this is an OTT reaction. When someone posts crap, a dozen others are not slow to pile in and correct them. Moderators should only step in as a last resort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffford76 Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 WD limiting who can post in which forums. Now, if only you can figure out how a member can filter out certain forums. Its still irksome to click View New Content and see over half of the posts related to issues with GIB. :rolleyes: Or they could just fix every problem with GIB. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 Personally I think that this is an OTT reaction. When someone posts crap, a dozen others are not slow to pile in and correct them. Moderators should only step in as a last resort. I agree with you and I wanted to let the community sort it out, like they did so far, and they did a great job. I thought this was a last resort situation, in the end, because this guy is a mentor. As a beginner I would be tempted to give him some credit despite everyone else piling against him, for the mere fact that he's mentoring some beginners somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 Personally I think that this is an OTT reaction. When someone posts crap, a dozen others are not slow to pile in and correct them. Moderators should only step in as a last resort.That's our usual approach, and it's usually sufficient. But it didn't seem to work in this case. We were getting reports every few days about his apparent trolling. And the "piling" was turning into flame wars and name calling (one of these was split off into a Water Cooler thread). This seemed to be getting in the way of educational information in the N/B forum, so we felt that preventative action needed to be taken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 Long story short, someone lost their voice of thunder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomSac Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 This was one of the best moderation decisions in the history of the forums imo. Well done. I think you guys let the lurpoa situation go on for way too long and it almost ruined the forums, now the novice/beginner section was being ruined which is criminal and you guys acted swiftly (enough) and decisively in a fair manner. Single trolls can ruin entire forums, ensuring that does not happen is what the moderators are here for above all else imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aguahombre Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 this was a last resort situation, in the end, because this guy is a mentor. As a beginner I would be tempted to give him some credit despite everyone else piling against him, for the mere fact that he's mentoring some beginners somewhere.I plead ignorance (my usual status); but, something seems wrong here. I haven't read the applicable threads where the problems occurred; however, how can you laud someone for mentoring and at the same time say what he is advising is unsuitable for those being mentored? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 I plead ignorance (my usual status); but, something seems wrong here. I haven't read the applicable threads where the problems occurred; however, how can you laud someone for mentoring and at the same time say what he is advising is unsuitable for those being mentored? I meant if a beginner would see advice from someone who's a mentor for some club, they might be tempted to give that person some credit. There is something wrong, in that some persons aren't supposed to mentor at all, but we only handle the Forums here, can't control what people do elsewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted July 1, 2015 Report Share Posted July 1, 2015 Removed a thread discussing abuse issues and guided the poster to handle the issue through the proper channels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted August 4, 2015 Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 Removed some personal attacks from the I/A Forums. Reminder to new & old posters: please refrain from attacking other posters or make insinuations about other people's skill level. Discuss the bridge, not the person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 0 Carbon posted the same message asking if anyone reads the suggestions in several different threads. I responded to one of them, and deleted the rest because they're redundant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted August 21, 2015 Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 Removed a few references to an external website prompting users to submit their BBO username and password. Please be careful on the internet, don't give away your BBO password into sites or forms that are not part of BBO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 Moved the thread asking about defenses to 1NT from Expert to Intermediate/Advanced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted September 14, 2015 Report Share Posted September 14, 2015 Removed a thread from General Bridge Discussions for breaking the BBF TOS (discussing actions of BBOers who aren't present to defend themselves). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted September 16, 2015 Report Share Posted September 16, 2015 Removed a thread from the Offline Bridge forum reporting abuse on BBO and guided the poster to abuse@bridgebase.com. Thanks to everyone who reported the post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgoetze Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 It looks like a thread started by cherdano got deleted? Not worth a mention here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdano Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 It looks like a thread started by cherdano got deleted? Not worth a mention here?It was removed, along with the posts that had triggered it. I have no complaints about how the moderators handled this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyGo Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 WD limiting who can post in which forums. Now, if only you can figure out how a member can filter out certain forums. Its still irksome to click View New Content and see over half of the posts related to issues with GIB. :rolleyes: Phil, if you set your link so that it makes it look like you've read all the GIB posts, then they won't show up when you look for new content. I did this a while ago, and if you're interested PM me, and I'll figure out how I did it. -Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 I have no complaints to removing the threads in question but I think the point of this thread was to post every moderator decision, not just the ones that are easy to motivate. I couldn't care less about posts like "removed a thread advertising porn" or what not, but this was a pretty high-profile case so people might want to know about the fact that the threads have been deleted. Alternatively, if the mods prefer not to motivate their decisions, just close this thread or say clearly that only the unimportant decisions will be mentioned here. edit: this is the fourth time I am asking about this and the mods repeatedly answered that the point of the thread is to document all the mod actions. Could the Mod team please make it an official policy to document every edit, instead of just promising to do so? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 I have no complaints to removing the threads in question but I think the point of this thread was to post every moderator decision, not just the ones that are easy to motivate. I couldn't care less about posts like "removed a thread advertising porn" or what not, but this was a pretty high-profile case so people might want to know about the fact that the threads have been deleted. Alternatively, if the mods prefer not to motivate their decisions, just close this thread or say clearly that only the unimportant decisions will be mentioned here. edit: this is the fourth time I am asking about this and the mods repeatedly answered that the point of the thread is to document all the mod actions. Could the Mod team please make it an official policy to document every edit, instead of just promising to do so? I haven't posted here because the other mods didn't get to see what was done and discuss how to deal with the situation. But since it was mentioned, yes I removed two threads from General Bridge Discussion, one started by cherdano and another started by rhm. I also edited and removed some off-topic comments in the Cheating Allegations thread, some of which had prompted cherdano's thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 Well I mean I don't see what's wrong with posting "I removed two threads and we are in the process of deciding what to do about the situation in the future" here. Anything is better than not posting at all here. Maybe this is just my opinion. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted October 31, 2015 Report Share Posted October 31, 2015 Removed a personal attack in the Intermediate/Advanced Forum, along with subsequent replies. Warned the offender. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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