Sopsych Complaint Thread

[Freebase Dali]

Originally Posted by sopsych

People shooting the messenger and ignoring tons of evidence instead of admitting the problem.

Works both ways. You're shooting the mods and ignoring the evidence that you're the only one here that seems to think the way the rules are enforced are more detrimental to this site than the way people behave as individuals.

I don't disagree with the fact that we've been lenient lately, but if you understand anything at all about the dynamic involved with balancing an entire community of individuals' effects on the greater good of the whole, you'd obviously still disagree with, for instance, the fact that we haven't banned you yet for being willingly uncompromising and purposelessly argumentative as is evidenced by the reactions of pretty much everyone here, who statistically hold more weight than your individual perspective.

I realize your retort will be something to the effect of, "So being uncompromising and argumentative is a crime now"?

My answer would be, it depends on if enough people feel like it's unreasonable. And this is not a sample taken from the mods. So if I were you, I'd listen more to what your fellow members have to say. They're ultimately the ones who decide whether you're a nuisance or not. But, indeed, if you would rather us take that upon ourselves without the benefit of your peers, we can accommodate.

I hardly see any positive side. Why are my posts concentrated in complaint threads and a few stupid-seeming music discussion threads that haters cite against me? Because most topics aren't good (or are too obscure, a minor distinction), and when I do reply somewhere, it's like posting into thin air. People on this site seem more interested in replying to their friends or attacking anything they disagree with than making enjoyable music discussion. It's a point others have stated in this thread. Even many people who create threads seem to selectively reply within their threads.

So basically your complaint is that because you or someone else don't have the kind of feedback you want from posts, (which strangely has nothing to do with the posts in question... odd) the whole system is flawed?

Please help me clarify whether or not that's your position. Because it sounds like you're willingly disregarding the fact that people routinely engage in good music discussions when there is a good music discussion going on. If your gripe is that the mods need to start deleting everything they deem as "not good music discussion", yeah, we can go Hitler with it if you want. But we won't. Because it's not our responsibility to ensure your posts are worth replying to. And the sooner you realize that, the less angry you will be.

And if you think this is some clique where only the members get involved in the discussion, you're deluding yourself. While we have somewhat cliquish factions here and there, I seriously doubt that anyone who has something interesting to say to someone who is interested is going to turn that convo down.

And unless you're suggesting that the mods drill into the brains of all our members and flip a "be interested in everything" switch, you already know what you have to do. Post interesting things in relevant areas. But don't blame the world when no one seems to mirror your sensibilities.

That's just ridiculous.