Dear ILP members,
ILP Staff have introduced a new system of Forum Leaders to help share the responsibilities of the growing forums. You can read more about their roles via the link below.
http://www.ilovephilosophy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=146038
All the best,
Ben
Bob - Xander and Ben - what happened…? You drew the short straws…?
Not jobs to be envied. 
I just want to alert the members that the oberpsychologyforumfuhrer liquidangel have let the psychology forum degrade to the level of the Jerry Springer show, further more, she deleted my thread which I worked hard on, of which I now intend to repost! This time I hope she’ll have the decency to delete my post and not my entire thread!
Can we have a system whereby the mods let us know when they are going to delete something of value to us. If anyone want to delete this post, please PM me, and I’ll create a back up and delete it myself. or you can send the post to me, then delete it. I believe everything I write is important, it’s like my diary.
For once I agree with PoR. Liquidangel was a terrible choce for moderator. Self righteous to the extreme and deletes whatever crosses her narrow moral boundaries.
She doesnt have what it takes to be a mod.
True. She appears to lack the maturity and good judgement you like to see in a forum moderator. Her actions thus far seem biased and often irrational.
If the worst LA has done is remove yet another smattering of illogical inanity posted by PoR then she should be commended, not punished. If the person who claims someone is acting is irrational is Doctor S, shouldn’t we first understand that what Dr. S means by rational is defined by self interest. Ergo, if someone is acting in an irrational manner then they are acting outside of their own interests. Is this not a characteristic needed for someone to moderate fairly? Besides, from Dr. S’s perspective, how much of his complaint is truly objective, and how yet more subjective drivel?
As for Phaedrus, how often does he actually visit, once a year?
What does the frequency matter? At any rate, even the most mathematically challenged here can decipher the post counter and answer that question. Roughly 2/3 as much as you in about 6 months less than you’ve been here. Certainly enough to recognize the haphazard and inconsistent moderation style that predominates ILP.
I mean nothing personal- s/he is probably a wonderful person in “the real world,” and you can retain membership in his/her fan club.
Perhaps we differ in our opinions of the role of a moderator. Surely it’s not to “remove yet another smattering of illogical inanity posted by PoR”? That’s editing, not moderating. Surely you’d be the last person to advocate posts being removed merely because they’re illogical or irrational? 
I think your own post count might drop a bit there. Mine too, perhaps.
Well, that went badly.
Okay, trying again.
As I hadn’t noticed you around as of late, I did a search to determine if you have been active here, especially during the recent ILP drama, and to my surprise, you have been posting quite a bit lately.
Nothing of significance, mind you, which explains why I haven’t noticed your presence, but still, you have been around. Therefore, I will no longer continue to assume that you are uninformed as to what has been going on around here lately.
As you are, no doubt, well aware, there has been a recent crackdown (supposedly) on posts, coupled with an increase (supposedly) of moderators policing their own forums.
As you state, concerning the moderation style at ILP, I find it precious that the one Moderator Dr. S objects to is the one that seems to get along the best with Dunamis. In what is surely one of the great coincidences in this entire sordid affair, Dr. S does not object to people being admonished for when they mock Dr. S.
This has to do with Dr. S’s definition of rational as being entirely representative of self interest. Dr. S, he will admit, is all about Dr. S. He could give two shits about how mods conduct their business at ILP unless it has some impact on the aforementioned Dr. S.
What is painfully obvious to me is that
As a matter of self interest, Dr. S feels threatened by this friendship because, as it turns out, he holds an intense dislike for Dunamis.
As for fan clubs, I do not know LA, have not talked with LA, and would not care one way or the other if LA left ILP tomorrow, just so long as it is not the result of petty bullshit on Dr. S’s part. The only reason I know that LA gets along with Dunamis is their public interaction on the forums, which, I believe, is why Dr. S is here to complain.
As for clubs in general, I have joined one recently, it is the “ILP has gone to hell recently so I might as well take my disappointment out on the people responsible” club.
Membership in this club requires identifying people who add nothing to any of the discussions at ILP, whose presence in fact, lowers the entire level of dialogue at ILP. People not unlike Dr S and PoR.
After identifying such persons, I then heap scorn upon them lest certain mindless cretins should come along and agree with whatever crap they advocate because said cretins simply don’t know any better. Do not fear, however, as I am entirely certain that I will not be at ILP much longer. Various mindless cretins will then be free to agree with the great minds of PoR and Dr. Satanical.
As for editing vs Moderating, you assume that PoR is capable of creating content worthy of editing or moderation. I kindly submit to you that whatever PoR contributes to ILP is only worthy of deletion.
I advocate the removal of all inane crap, regardless of the author. If I write inane crap remove it. If I complain about the removal, ban me. If I try to sneak my way back in track me down and please kill me.
As for my post count dropping, it already has. I post far fewer one line quips than you do yourself.
And by that, of course, I mean nothing personal.
If you have an issue with a moderator please email Ben. No other course of action will be of any use to you.
I don’t want her/him drawn and quartered- there’s no need for a tempest-in-a-teapot here. To my way of thinking s/he simply does a lousy job, but I’ve never ran afoul of her or had a problem with her. I guess it’s like bitching about President Bush; no one who does it has ever met him or knows anything personal about him, they merely don’t like his job performance. Same deal for me. For my own part I rarely do anything that would bring me into contact with the wrath of a moderator- perhaps I too often act the clown, but I rarely post with malice and keep ad hom posts to a bare minimum.
As for how often I’m here, I sometimes go into my settings and select “remain hidden” or something to that effect. I work 65 to 75 hours per week, so often I just lurk and don’t take time to post. But rest assured I’m here almost every day. My posts are, of course, “Nothing of significance” but at the risk of bursting your bubble, pretty much everything posted on this site is ephemeral fluff. You’d have to be truly daft or utterly uneducated to find much of it enlightening. There are exceptions, of course, and there’s a reason Dunamis is the beneficiery/victim of so much name dropping.
To GCT, it would be a shame if you left ILP. I often disagree with you, but you’re posts often verge on thought provoking. If my casual manner and flippancy are off-putting to you, my apologies. I’m sometimes that way “in real life,” too, but it doesn’t mean I don’t take anything seriously.
As for PoR being “an imbecile” or whatever, I’m not so sure. Obviously the “PoR Character” is written as a dunce, but how much of the real person resides in that moronic farce is unclear. I have to believe it’s an elaborate put on myself. Still, I strongly disagree that simply the fact that he comes across as a ninny is sufficient reason to delete everything he says. Better to expose foolishness for what it is than give it artifical credibility by dignifiying it by editing or deleting it.
JMOHO. 
Left and right, eh?
Forums wax and wane like the moon. Perhaps ILP is in a “down period” right now. The Giants and Legends of the past have left, or at least lie sleeping, and there are some real assclowns hanging around. Very little “real philosophy” gets discussed, I’ll grant. But eventually the pendulum will swing back the other way.
Oh, Phaedrus, I wish your prophecy would come true. 
As long as it’s not degraded to your level, people are content. I’m only telling a general truth, no offence.
I believe this applies more to the author of the quote before yours. Or to any particularly religious person in general, that’d include yourself if you count Satanism as a religion. But for the free spirit, most non-immoralists deserve the line, even a certain immoralists.
I have yet to see a forum moderator whose actions would won general approval from my Nietzschean eyes, maybe zenofellor, at least he tries to reason in a fairly complex and impersonal basis.
Now it seems that I’ve tried to bash everybody in the thread, so in order to appear less disagreeable, the following is a comment here that I agree more or less whole heartedly:
I said the maturity you’d like to see- I never said it was the norm. For the record, I’m an Admin on one site dedicated to audio and a mod on another. I’m extremely laid back in my moderation, only taking action in extreme cases and then only after warning someone. And then it’s pretty objective, not just someone who rubs me the wrong way.
Wow…GTC…that was a great story. And your armchair psych analysis was brilliant. Too bad it was totally wrong.
I object to LA being a moderator because she often deletes my posts, and I am damn sure it is because she doesn’t agree with what I have to say.
And I am not the only one. She hacks though posts like butter.
The fact that her and dunamis are friends has nothing to do with anything. Why would I give 2 shits about dunamis? He is just another wordy typer/fuzzy thinker among many. Never really left an impression on me.
Anyway, if you see no problem with a moderator editing content to fit her own liking, than I have nothing to tell you.
S,
He has left a huge impression on you , or you wouldn’t be so obsessed with going after him. It’s quite obvious to everyone here.
please put the Bessy voodoo doll down… right now
LoL.
If you will review the thread history, you will notice it has been,without fail, in 100% of all instances, him jumping on MY jock and not vice versa. What a creative memory you have.