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tautech:
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--- Quote from: tautech on February 24, 2020, 01:09:21 am ---OK Dave thanks for engaging on this to date. I have further thoughts which I could share in private if you wish rather than further clutter up this thread.
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Sorry, but I'm not interested in any private discussion on this. You are just one of thousands of possible opinions, and if I engage you I have to engage a thousand others.
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OK, thanks. We'll keep it here or in the Moderation thread in the Supporters lounge.
Some is a bit delicate so there still just might be a PM at some time with a FYI.
vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: tautech on February 24, 2020, 12:21:01 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on February 23, 2020, 10:40:11 pm ---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.
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Sure, and properly appropriate if both the stone thrower and stone returner get the same treatment.
One post gets reported and yet it's missed what caused that post to be made and then be reported.
Like I mentioned a few posts back, there is always 2 sides to a story.
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Indeed, but this forum, & QRZ.com are a lot more easy going than many.
Over on Whirlpool.com, you can have posts removed if you try to straighten out a previous poster's factual error in a series of previously apparently moderator immune "Off topic" posts.
The brand enthusiasts on the "internet providers" & "automotive" sub fora run rampant, but don't you dare use the term "fan-boi"!
The worst of all, however is the sports site "The Roar", where, if you post something contrary to the narrative the majority are pushing, it just "disappears".
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Do you think you need more moderators to spread the load ?
--- Quote from: I wanted a rude username on February 23, 2020, 10:59:41 pm ---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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And exactly the reason why Dave only enabled Thanks a few years back.
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Weston:
I have thought about the original incident over the past day and must admit, I am at least at part in fault and for that I apologize. The question if asked to most of the other posters would have been benign and I was hoping to get some insight, but given Blueskull's strong nationalist feelings I could have at least predicted the likely response.
That incident is now in the past, but I would like to bring attention to Blueskull's threat to report me and others to the CCP if they make comments putting China in a bad light. I, and others in the west, might find the concept a bit laughable, but he obviously finds it serious. If you do not know what happens to those in China who speak out against the CCP, look it up. He is threatening what he sees as real harm to me and others if we step foot in China.
I get that he has a much older account than me and has contributed more, but is there really some threshold at which you allow someone to make threats to others in the community?
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Weston on February 25, 2020, 06:34:09 am ---I get that he has a much older account than me and has contributed more, but is there really some threshold at which you allow someone to make threats to others in the community?
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Never had it happen before.
Technically, he said he wouldn't publicly dox or post on this forum, and there is no personal threat from him, so :-//
Personally I think it's a really dick move, and in my book puts him ever closer to getting banned permanently.
And yes, you are right, in the west this (relatively common) benign threat of "I'm calling the cops" just gets laughed away.
rsjsouza:
--- Quote from: tautech on February 24, 2020, 12:21:01 am ---
One post gets reported and yet it's missed what caused that post to be made and then be reported.
Like I mentioned a few posts back, there is always 2 sides to a story.
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Tautech, I think I see the mods' POV: each individual only has control over oneself, not over others. Counteracting every dissonant POV or attack is the entire responsibility of the poster and no one else. If more followed this, the stupid US metric thread would have fizzled 40 pages ago, but it kept going though the actions of a troll playing others like a fiddle.
And yes, I have swallowed my pride and walked away from threads many times before simply because it wasn't worth it.
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