So you really decided to go halfway through a partial solution, thought you had everything under control, and then I came along and messed up your whole plan... Well, yeah, I suppose I can see why you'd be feeling disappointed right about now...
You got the card because I happen to be here right now, and since the notification popped up, I figured I’d jump on it immediately. Other people's cards aren't exactly your concern.
Joseph Stewart38 said:If we’d actually had two separate threads from the jump—which, let's be real, we didn't—then your thread wouldn't have been "destroyed" in the first place. There would've been a wall between us, everyone would’ve just stuck to their own side, and I guess we all would've been happy.
Every moderator has a DM open, so you can just reach out and hash out ideas for a new thread with them. Even on the Politics board, there's a chat thread for specific interests where users jump in quickly to flag if some random unregistered person starts posting. And those kinds of posts get deleted, and if they aren't worth keeping, a penalty follows.
Joseph Stewart38 said:You talk about memes, little songs, and all that... such innocent, childlike stuff... right up until those hardcore national team fans showed up and absolutely trashed that childhood bliss.
Who are you trying to convince, man? If I were to paste ten examples here of posts filled with heavy-duty insults—the kind of stuff you wouldn't even hear at an NFL stadium—I wonder what you'd say then... would you still call those "satirical little poems"?
You have a hundred different fan-related topics and just one anti-fan topic, which has very clear guidelines in the opening post. And what do you do? As a fan, you go into the anti-fan section to try and "re-educate" the anti-fans... and then suddenly, the mod is the problem.🙂 They weren't complaining about how people were talking to each other, so they clearly don't mind. And I'm pretty sure they're old enough that they don't need someone trying to lecture them on how to behave.
Linda Young38 said:It really doesn't matter which of those two subforums they moderated before, so don't go thinking you actually corrected some vital fact or contributed anything meaningful to the discussion.
Sure, that was a threat, and now that threat has been carried out. I suppose you could interpret it however you want—as a violation of some rule, whether it was actually written down or just unwritten—but basically, whatever I posted on that subforum served as the final excuse they needed to push me toward a Partial.
Oh, right, I also forgot to mention how they were egging on other moderators from different sections to come after me with warnings and bans.
🤦 Responding to this kind of nonsense is honestly just a waste of breath.
Just so I can clear up a few things you got wrong in your post. First off, lonebadger6 didn't suddenly jump in to moderate the Television subreddit; he's actually been a regular moderator there for ages. Also, my colleague wasn't threatening you with a Partial ban—he was just passing along a decision from the Television moderators that if you kept acting this way, you’d end up facing a Partial ban on their sub. I guess you decided to ignore that warning, because last night you went ahead and called those girls from the Star variety show names, which was honestly pretty disgusting.
Matthew Castillo5 said:Instead of focusing all your energy on picking apart my comments, maybe you could try explaining to redhawk76 why you don't actually see a problem with the reported post. 🙄
Just go back and read my response to redhawk76 one more time.
Maybe try practicing some reading comprehension, especially if you're acting as a moderator! That wasn't an official response from PBS; it was just a made-up reply written by Earthse, who also happens to be a moderator.
I mean, obviously I knew whose response it was... Do you really think I need to reach out to you every single time just to have you explain how to interpret things? I'll pass, thanks!
I didn't really see what you were getting at with calling that post an ad hominem attack. It feels like you've turned this into some sort of private correspondence with PBS, which honestly has nothing to do with the PDF from the television network. My interpretation of the response that followed was basically that whether we actually enjoy the programming on PBS or not, we're still stuck paying our monthly $27 regardless; PBS couldn't care less about our opinions.
Laura Barnes said:I noticed the exact same thing. Why won't they at least give an explanation for why my post was deleted? This happened to me on the old BBS chat too... Just deleting things without saying why? Wtf
Deleting a post is just one of those moderator calls you make when a comment is pushing the limits or if it looks like the whole thread is about to spiral out of control. For instance, if someone compares a neighbor to a murderer... well, then we're probably going to delete that. As for why nobody gets a notification every single time something gets wiped? I guess there just isn't enough time in the day.
On the page you’re pointing to, there isn't a single one of your deleted posts visible🤔 Those posts were wiped because they were tied to your previous appeal, and my reasoning hasn't changed. I mean, you clearly have some level of politics knowledge since you've jumped into debates over there before—though, I guess, probably not under this specific username.
It’s not really about being biased; it’s more that the whole topic has been politicized to death. It’s lost its connection to the show itself at this point. If anyone actually wants to go on a massive, rambling tangent about it, there's already a thread over on Politics where they can go right ahead and enjoy themselves.
Look, we can have debates about international tribunal rulings here if you want, but this isn't really the place for it. In all your posts, you haven't mentioned the President even once, so honestly, this feels pretty off-topic.
Noah Sullivan said:Why was my shout-out to Blues Dada regarding the Kolinda thread deleted?
Is it because I thanked him for trying to explain our side of things in the British press after that last Hague ruling? I didn't even go as far as mentioning his protest to The New York Times about how Santiago isn't some "Butcher of [City]"—I just pointed out that the whole "joint criminal enterprise" concept used by the FBI is such an arbitrary construct that they could pin it on any commander. (Not that it was ever applied to someone like Joseph McCarthy, who actually led paramilitary groups through the Republican Party.)
I get the feeling you guys are being a bit overzealous with the moderation here.
Just put my post and Blues Dada's back up.
The posts were removed because they were completely off-topic; there’s already a dedicated thread for the Hague ruling. If you keep derailing, you might end up with a ban, but since... well, it's the holidays, let's just leave it at that.
Brenda Taylor13 said:I only got flagged because I pointed out how she’s already insulted me twice without getting caught—because if I hadn't said anything, she wouldn't have been penalized at all! I mean, you were right there in the middle of that thread, you saw exactly what she wrote, and yet you didn't say a single word.
So basically, you only handed her a warning AFTER I stepped in, and then—of course—you couldn't miss your chance to slap a warning on me too, even though I wasn't insulting anyone! All I did was point out the fact that Katherine is attacking me personally.
It is honestly pathetic how biased you are. You’re punishing me—the guy pointing out the insults (and I'm only doing it because they went unpunished!)—exactly the same way you punish the person actually hurling them. In this situation, you are treating the attacker and the victim as if they're the same.
And then you act surprised when I criticize the moderators? Seriously? With this kind of blatant favoritism, who wouldn't?
To penalize me just for highlighting verbal abuse... that is completely beyond any sense of objective moderation. And to top it off, you give me TWO warnings while she only gets ONE, even though she called me a troll in two separate posts!
This is a textbook example of bias and totally one-sided moderating.
If you had just used the report button instead of cluttering up the thread with comments—which, let's be honest, isn't allowed anyway—you probably wouldn't be dealing with this. You know that. Honestly, being called crazy is a much bigger insult to me than someone just labeling me a troll.
Brenda Taylor13 said:So, get this—on the main thread, some user named Katherine called me a troll. Not once, either, but TWICE! And mind you, there were TWO moderators right there watching the whole thing happen, and of course, neither one of them lifted a finger to discipline her. Instead, I’m the one getting slapped with a penalty just for pointing out how ridiculous it was.
Seriously, you moderators are so incredibly biased it’s actually unreal.
I’m the one getting punished for being labeled a troll, while the people actually throwing the insults around get a free pass? Makes total sense, right?
It's a joke. Absolutely pathetic.
You got the warning. You were told explicitly not to comment on the moderation decisions in this thread and to just let me handle the cleanup. So, you know exactly why you're being penalized. It’s just that, apparently, you couldn't resist one last chance to swing at the mods.