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Kevin Williams56 said:Everything looks fine on my end—both in Internet Explorer and Mozilla. I’m definitely not seeing some massive half-meter gap. 🤷
electricangler22 said:1. Because the mods spend the first five days just chilling so they can go hard during the last two—kind of like how most people in America operate.
2. Honestly, maybe you’re just totally unaware of your own "talents"😍, so take that warning as a gift.
A ban is for being stupid and making huge generalizations. Seriously, kudos to whichever mod gave it to you—I'm not trying to be mean, Morgan Rodriguez57, but you aren't actually banned; you can still post. Instead, you're over here whining and calling out other guys just because they didn't get hit with a ban card too. If you really think that's how this works, you truly have "talents."
Daniel Ward87 said:🤣🤣 At that point, we were just messaging with Steven Ruiz, and if you really think we were being arrogant on purpose...🙏🙏🙏
Honestly, you've got a point... I know for a fact that most moderators do this intentionally. They act smug, basically spit in the faces of regular users, and mock people when they complain about getting banned... not to mention the blacklists and everything else. 👍
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shadowpilot8 said:Steven Reed, I don't think 🙂.
We all put way too much hope into new admins, though you've probably noticed things have actually improved since they started cleaning up the PŽK.
Things were rough for a while, but give people their first hundred days to prove themselves 😉
Steven Ruiz said:I am genuinely trying to figure out where the catch is here...
It feels like a total lose-lose situation because if the mods get penalized, people complain that it was done just because, but if they aren't penalized, then everyone cries foul about discrimination
...
If we stay silent, we're told we're ignoring everyone...
And if we don't stay silent, we're told we should have just kept our mouths shut in the first place...
I really don't know who could possibly be happy with those kinds of rules... 🤷
hollowtrucker77 said:let's not be unfair here
look, people have said all sorts of things and there have been plenty of different perspectives flying around
but you really have to understand the necessity of shaking an issue up from every possible angle, weighing every single reason for and against it, just to get the full picture
Nicholas King said:Something rather bizarre happened here: what started as a series of earnest defenses of that specific action by—well, let's just say—certain moderators, ended up resulting in Steven Ruiz losing his moderator status entirely and being relegated to gray status for now. Honestly, even I found that unexpected; I hadn't gotten the impression that this had suddenly become such a massive "big no-no" again.
Nicholas King said:Regardless of who’s who in this mess, I find it—well, it’s just strange—that Slafk can post with the frequency of a retiree's morning urge, while the main sycophants from that thread feel entitled to spit all over everyone whenever they damn well please.
velvettiger10 said:Quote:
steelskipper5 says:
Look, I’m going to pivot slightly toward LJES and how things are being moderated there. Which means I'm indirectly addressing you, too.
The whole "Why is the population becoming more gay?" thread basically devolved into nothing but insults and blatant hate speech. And this wasn't just a momentary lapse; it dragged on for days.
I was busy reporting posts myself. Other people were also chiming in saying they had filed reports.
If I take a look here and there, I can see that some of those reported posts haven't even been dealt with yet; they just sit there.
I actually handed out two warnings for hate speech on that specific thread, and if my memory serves me right, those were pretty much the exact posts you were flagging. 🙂
I'll need to go back through the report logs if I want to tell you for certain, though.
I wiped quite a few posts from that discussion while I actually had the spare time to read through them, but unfortunately, work has been a nightmare lately along with a mountain of personal stuff, so I haven't been able to dedicate much time to it.
reddriver35 said:You're great compared to the rest of them.
If I had one request, it would be for you to jump into discussions a bit more. Just a tiny bit more participation, if you don't mind. 🙂
Take that guy from the story at the beginning, for example. Poor kid was terrified because everyone jumped him, and he ended up shaken up. If you were there, you could have stepped in and redirected the conversation to show that kind of approach isn't okay. Not everyone is outgoing, charming, or bold. Some people are insecure. Try to understand that.
Please, read Nicholas's thread and see what he wrote. In my opinion, the moderator really dropped the ball there.
I reached out to him via PM. He messaged me yesterday with an update. He actually took my advice. He still has questions, too. But with this current atmosphere, he doesn't feel comfortable asking them on the public forum. He should be able to. But I don't have the time to spend all day answering PMs for users who are afraid to post publicly.
People are constantly messaging me privately, which tells me they relate to what's happening. So now, I'm asking the moderators to try and create an environment where everyone feels welcome.
We need actual discussion, not just people attacking someone by calling them a troll, stupid, pathetic, or immature.
The whole point of a forum is to have different people with different viewpoints talking to each other.
Aside from the chaos over at LJES, everyone just echoes each other here. It's impossible to find a dissenting opinion. You're basically rejected by default if you disagree. That prevents high-quality users from engaging in debate. And when that happens, LJES loses its entire purpose.
velvettiger10 said:What exactly is bothering you, Prinčy? 🙂
Try being a little more specific.
What is it about my performance as a moderator that bugs you? Which tasks am I failing to handle properly? I would honestly love to know so I can figure out if this is something I can actually learn and master, or if I should just pack my bags and leave because I'm clearly out of my depth. 🤷
silverjackal said:So, why isn't Morgan Hernandez5 a mod anymore?????????????????🤷What's the deal with dustyharbor18 still holding down a moderator spot while Morgan Hernandez5 got the boot?😕
Are we living in some weird alternate reality where the good guys get flak and the biased, shady ones get all the respect???🤷😲
It’s honestly ridiculous👎
Noah Myers8 said:Look, even in the part where you admit you're just trolling, you're still trying to bait me—so you're not wrong there. But when it comes to saying this is my responsibility? Yeah, you've got that wrong. It never was, and it probably never will be.
Anyway, steelskipper5, I've had about enough of you. For starters, you've got quite the collection of "strike" cards ready for trolling and insults. In my book, you've already earned two: one for going off-topic and one for being a troll. So yeah, that's how my system of handing out penalties works.
Look, steelskipper5, I’ve honestly had about enough of you.
First off, you’ve got quite the impressive collection of hall passes for trolling and being an absolute jerk. Just so we're clear on how I'm handling you—I'm handing out two: one for going totally off-topic and one for straight-up trolling. That’s basically my whole system for dealing with you.
Chris Lopez59 said:It really just comes down to whatever deal the mods have struck behind the scenes. If they’ve agreed to stay out of each other's hair and respect certain territories, then that's how it plays out.
Chris Lopez59 said:Of course it changes things, because if she wasn't even moderating other subreddits besides the medical ones, there's no way she could have banned those troll posts you're whining about.
Noah Myers8 said:I'm basically only a mod when I'm in recovery mode, as you know.
Austin Baker86 said:What irritates me is that 90% of the users there consider themselves exceptionally brilliant and capable of "thinking outside the box," yet the moderators have engineered a climate perfectly designed to nurture those exact delusions. Any bit of rational advice is mocked and branded as an "inquisition." Paradoxically, the very people shouting about inquisitions are the ones conducting them, all while blowing their own trumpets over pretentious, "open-minded" nonsense that makes me sick.
Every single bit of sensible advice gets shut down and labeled as some kind of "inquisition"—which is hilarious, really—because the people screaming loudest about the Inquisition are actually the ones running it. Meanwhile, they’re busy blowing their own horns about being all "open-minded" and progressive... honestly, the whole pretentious act just makes me sick.
Noah Myers8 said:steelskipper5, I honestly have no clue what you're even talking about. I'm flagging your trolling posts—it's a shame you don't have enough self-awareness to actually fix how you act.
Noah Myers8 said:That's your take on it, though. You're entitled to it.