If you some how come to the conclusion that me explaining why someone got an infraction and them freaking out over it on a clearly simple stated rule as 'condemning' them. He got an infraction for breaking a rule. Oxob gave him the infraction, I had no clue about the actual event itself other than I just know he got an infraction for double posting. Oxob should have merged the posts. If you think I lack empathy for dedicated users than you clearly haven't been around to see anything that I've done or hell, all the time I spent responding to the user specifically in explaining why he got the infraction.
Granted that you completely freaked out yourself and began to lash out at me, when I never lashed out at the user at all. I did nothing but reason and back up our rules. If you don't want to be a mod, that's fine with me.
And this kind of immaturity in handling the situation makes me doubt if you do care about how the forum is ran.
I completely agree with all of this. I think recently there had been am attitude against the moderators and amount of infractions and i think Stone illustrated it well here in respect to exilement.
People are getting upset not because they are big babies and can't handle being disciplined fort their actions, they are getting upset because
they feel like the moderators don't respect them as members. I'm in no way qualified to quantify this general feeling of authoritative disrespect as fact, but a lot of members believe moderators (particularly new ones) do more respect them, and thus when they are disciplined for breaking small rules it doesn't feel like the moderators are trying to make the form better but rather that they simply enjoy enforcing the rules.
I think this is because of a few factors. First, virtually none of the new moderators have any sort of community presence on stickpage. I rarely, if ever, see mods like bond84, omega, oxob3000, or other recent additions to the mod team posting in general chat or the debate forums, and yet they
actively enforce the rules there. How can the general forum member base be expected to relate to or respect a group of moderators whose primary collective community presence is authoritarian and discipline based?
The second factor is that the new moderators are essentially brand new (almost all joining this year) and have a low post count. They've also done little to integrate with the base existing stickpage community and (from my observation) are remaining exclusive to their old fluidanims community cliques.
An example of this general authoritative disrespect is 2 infractions i recently received from omega(both at the same time). One of them I accept and agree with, bit the other one ("insulting another member") I contested and believed wad obviously a friendly razz between 2 close friends. When I PMd omega challenging the infraction and hoping to get a chance to explain the situation,
he failed to even respond to me. this was days ago and he still has not so much as sent me a pm.
In all honesty, none of the core stickpage user base will ever respect the new moderators until they make a measurable, sincere effort to be constantly involved in participating in and improving the community, and part of that is being tactful and SHOWING respect in all of their interactions with members.
