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| tautech:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on February 23, 2020, 10:20:57 am --- --- Quote from: tautech on February 22, 2020, 01:59:57 pm --- --- Quote from: Simon on February 22, 2020, 01:30:08 pm ---mechatrommer does not launch into several consecutive posts taking apart everything everyone said contradicting them with extreme ideology. --- End quote --- Extreme ? :-// Since when is defending your way of life and homeland extreme ideology ? Why is it we judge a member by their flag ? Recent events in history naturally promote xenophobia when the real history of most countries would make you think twice about them, their race and ideology. Not one race is exempt of wrongdoing and their attempts to defend it and opinions only reflect on which side of the fence you sit. Mods included. --- End quote --- Careful Tautech. --- End quote --- I'm very much trying to be Dave and been here long enough not to envy the moderators knife edge of making decisions about posts, moderation and bans without even a hint of personal bias brought about by their personal views or past dealings with any particular member. I'm well aware reports of posts bring about a workload mods can well do without except in cases where a newish member hasn't made some valuable contribution to the forum. The loss of some members and their past valuable contributions however does sadden me. We well know politics enters into many threads and I personally hate it too as there's no need for cheap shots against any member or their country be they arise from recent or historical events. However the restraint or lack of from any member reacting to gibes shouldn't be the mods main focus IMO but those that throw the first stone like some misguided reflection of their national pride or their governments brainwashing. Despite having you lock an Armistice Day thread I started I now appreciate exactly why you did as it could've turned into a shitstorm too. Really I should've known better, sorry. :-[ Personally I'd like to see threads that have the potential to go political get locked very promptly with a closing note from mods simply stating it's an OT thread for an electronic forum just like you did in the Armistice Day thread which sends a very clear message to members. None of us need for this 'no politics' debate to continually go round and around like some perpetual motion machine so how can you send a stronger "no debate, this is just how it is" message ? Could we members do more to give mods the 'heads up' when threads of this nature open ? |
| tggzzz:
Appealing, but any algorithm can be gamed :( In this case a malefactor could drop in and cause a thread to be locked - one form of a denial of service attack. |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: tautech on February 23, 2020, 09:53:55 pm ---Personally I'd like to see threads that have the potential to go political get locked very promptly with a closing note from mods simply stating it's an OT thread for an electronic forum just like you did in the Armistice Day thread which sends a very clear message to members. --- End quote --- Political threads should not be set up in the first place, and there are very few of them. Therefore most threads that "have the potential to turn political" didn't start out with that intention. So locking otherwise potentially on-topic threads, whilst being a signal to those who turned it political, it also harms all those others who wanted to discuss the actual topic. I'm more inclined to just delete political posts instead of locking threads, that sends a message to the instigators whilst keeping the thread on-topic and open for others. |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on February 23, 2020, 10:39:15 pm ---Appealing, but any algorithm can be gamed :( In this case a malefactor could drop in and cause a thread to be locked - one form of a denial of service attack. --- End quote --- I have a feeling that some people get a kick out of getting a thread locked. |
| I wanted a rude username:
That's likely. Reddit used to have a problem with users competing to get the most negative account karma, until they capped it at -100. Some people get frustrated with not being noticed for positive contributions and aim for negative ones instead ... and that is arguably easier. |
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