Originally Posted By: 3311
I don't spend a lot of time here anymore because of the prevailing radical left leaning PC attitude and the thinner is better trolls.
Can't help you with the thinner is better opinion, but if you saw the complaints coming across, there are a ton of folks who complain that the board is more right-leaning.
But left or right, that's the crux of the problem: Why is it even mentioned???? Right/left is part of the P violation, because political commentary and politically oriented comments from either side should not be injected. The board should be far more technical and auto oriented, and not even have a concept of a political angle.
Id say that more of the members are right-leaning, actually. But if we try to keep a balance, Im sure it always comes across as bad, cant please everyone, but we do try to keep it neutral.
Originally Posted By: ram_man
I personally think you are one of the better mods but this attitude right here that you displayed is the biggest issue with the mods on this board. A lot of mods have this tone like they are lord of the forum and we will banish if we feel like .
I'm recommending this maybe you guys will listen. We are all interested in the same things sure we have little squabbles and sometimes posts need to be deleted and we all know that but a friendly hey this is why pm would put everyone at ease. When you guys run around like John Wayne deleting posts at will with nothing said sometimes we don't know why and other times it makes people upset. People would have more respect for a board if there is a little communication . "Hey your last post was deleted because it broke this rule" would help a lot. I'm not trying to be mean only offer my opinion to help the board as a whole. Mind you I only see our side I'm not a mod so I've never been in your shoes. Just my perspective from my vantage point.
Constructive and valuable criticism. As I mentioned before, there is a PM function that is (can be) used to alert when a thread or posts are moved. There MAY be an issue with it, in that the posts are going into a non-user stockpile. Your comments about wanting PMs is good, I dont know about the behaviors of others, but I personally dont care to be "John Wayne" in moderating, however if someone comes on, belittles the site, then belittles my comments and myself, and makes it clear that they dont like it/want to be here, then that's another story.
One other mode of moving posts does not have a PM function, but is faster, and Id assume that some mods use that because it is convenient, especially from a phone or other device. Unfortunately, messaging or leaving notice isnt always practical. Say there is an issue three pages back in a long thread. One cant easily post a reason for pulling stuff, and it be inline and at the right point, instead its at the end of the whole thread. We could delete out the comments of a post and make a mod edit, but then the contents are lost, which isnt always a good thing either. People dont always read PMs, and sometimes their boxes are full. There are many angles to this... But your commentary is welcome and appreciated.
