The Constructive Ideas Thread

[GuitarBizarre]

Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

If 2 members are going back & forth for pages & pages doesn't it seem a bit curlish to say 'ban him, he started it' after both of them are just as responsible for dragging it on and on?

It shouldn't take a person long to decipher if the other person is interested in a genuine debate or just trying to get a response out of you and saying to someone 'This is pointless, I'm out of here' hurts nobody.

We both know people don't work that way Urban. I do what you're suggesting just like you suggest. I've reported posts recently for exactly the reason I refuse to respond to certain members blatant, transparent attempts to cause strife.

But frankly, what you're saying shouldn't happen. If its two "members", neither are trolls. If it's one troll and a member, then the mod team should be able to get involved far sooner than they actually do, if its as "obvious" as you claim it is.

I sympathise that you of the mod team get stick both ways. I also sympathise that you have to form a consensus before you act, but the fact is, where is that consensus?

Is any mod - ANY, moderator, on musicbanter, actually going to stand up and say "You know, that whole sopsych situation was moderated well"?

I don't think you are and I don't think you should. It sprawled, it grew, it became what defined the whole forum for over a week. It resisted all attempts to control it.

If I could demand an answer from each and every member of the mod team, I'd want individuals to answer to this question:

"Why did the sopsych situation take 50 pages, two weeks, two threads, discussions in the shoutbox, discussions in the plug.dj, the input of several ex mods, and the input of every current mod, to solve, and should it have been solved faster?"

I don't care whose fault it is, I'm not asking mods to play the blame game against each other, I just want to know how the **** that happens on a forum with as many mods and as flexible a set of rules, as we have.

The only answer I'm expecting is "It shouldn't. Here is how we intend to fix it".