sailA
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It does help.
Wife and I were in Ponderay and Sandpoint yesterday. We live in Spokane.
It does help.
It does help.
A little more gently said: I'm new here too, my last forum left because of exactly what you're talking about, and I've seen how that kind of behavior ruins forums. I've been nothing but impressed with this mod team, in their ability to separate debating from their jobs...and that's from both chatting with them, and getting in trouble a couple times...hehe... I say have at 'em, so long as your MO isn't being a d-bag...in which case, definitely talk to them, we don't need d-bags here!! (lol, not making any assumptions around your d-bag-ness...or whatever). DP's been around a while, certainly long enough to be driven into the ground by a garbage mod team...these guys ain't that.
Before I came to DP I too visited several forums. At the time I joined DP I was a consistent poster at 7 other forums. Once I came to know DP I gradually stopped posting at those other forums. This site is by far the best moderated forum I have ever been to.
Then I received a PM asking if I wanted to join the Mod Team. I was quite frankly shocked as I never once expressed interest in joining the Mod Team. I'd also never been a Mod before at any other forum. Obviously I accepted this position. As I learned more about what it took to be a Mod I came to respect the Mod Team here even more. I see what goes on behind the scenes. I know what its like when Mod Members have disagreements. How they handle them. And how they resolve the disagreements. And those disagreements are ALWAYS resolved before any action is taken as per policy and we do it by policy. Always.
I can guarantee you that no Mod here will retaliate against you simply for disagreeing with them. If that were to be done, and the situation not corrected, then that would be the time that I step down as a mod. There have been times in the past year and a half that I have wanted to step down simply due to the toxic atmosphere that political discourse has taken on recently. The only thing that has kept me going though was the respect that I have for this Mod Team and due to that respect wanting to keep this place as good as it possibly can be.
I was also active at other political forums/boards Angel. The moderation on those boards left much to be desired. They were either too strict and confining (cliquish / a political circle jerk), or employed too little moderation (flame fests). I could have generalized and arrived at the conclusion that the moderation at all political boards was far less than stellar. However, generalizations are oftentimes erroneous assumptions. DP is by far the best political board I've come across in many years of trial and error. It's straightforward ... follow the board rules and you'll do just fine here. I've received some warnings and some points, but those shortcomings are squarely on me ... not from any bias of the moderation team. If this board was crap and badly managed, I would never consider donating to its operating fund. But I do donate because I appreciate what they owner and staff have accomplished here. I think if you give DP a fair shot, you'll never look back.
Muah? I don't wonder at all. I donate as do you and I always encourage other members to be generous also.And you wonder that when DP needs a bit of coin to keep the lights on, they typically overshoot by double what they need?
Is there any special protocol for engaging the 'green' labeled moderators in these threads other than those that apply to the rank and file members of the board? If a moderator posts, are they to be treated in a different way than general members?
Mixing Moderators in with Members in impassioned political discussions is a foolish policy. It ignores human nature and invites abuse of power.
I personally plan to give participating Mods a wide berth in such threads in which I encounter them.
Let's call this keeping a respectful distance and leave it at that.
My experience in other forum sites has convinced me that mixing power and impotence does not work.
Of course, I would be delighted to be wrong about this, but I'm afraid I'm right.
Mixing Moderators in with Members in impassioned political discussions is a foolish policy. It ignores human nature and invites abuse of power.
I personally plan to give participating Mods a wide berth in such threads in which I encounter them.
Let's call this keeping a respectful distance and leave it at that.
My experience in other forum sites has convinced me that mixing power and impotence does not work.
Of course, I would be delighted to be wrong about this, but I'm afraid I'm right.
Mixing Moderators in with Members in impassioned political discussions is a foolish policy. It ignores human nature and invites abuse of power.
I personally plan to give participating Mods a wide berth in such threads in which I encounter them.
Let's call this keeping a respectful distance and leave it at that.
My experience in other forum sites has convinced me that mixing power and impotence does not work.
Of course, I would be delighted to be wrong about this, but I'm afraid I'm right.
Six months later...... Why wouldn't you wait and give it some time to gauge whether this place is different than what you've experienced before?
Six months later...
"crickets"