Are you satisfied with the ILP moderation?

I am well aware of both sides of myself, good and bad.

I know that i have right mindset and understanding for a mod, but there are two very serious shortcomings with me too.

Due to my circumstances, i have to skip ILP for days quite often. That is certainly not a good quality for a moderator. It needs daily attendance. Secondly, as the English is my second language, i sometimes misunderstand or unable to understand when it comes to spoken English or slang, which is almost a norm with US English.

with love,
sanjay

Hey, Laughing Man! Welcome back again! :smiley:

If you believe that, you must be wrong. :wink:

Greetings again.

Let’s have an interim result for the question: “Are you satisfied with the ILP moderation?”

We have 50% for “yes”, 30% for “no”, and 20% for “I don’t know”.

Please vote!

Yes. I don’t see much wrong with the moderation around here aside from the fact that a few of the mods are some of my favorite posters and they’re hardly ever around anymore.

I’ve been warned many times and even banned for a few days, but I knew damn well that I was violating the rules in most of those cases.

Concerning the thread “Jesus came to Earth again! What?! Would we recognize Him?” (forum: Philosophy; subforum: Religion and Spirituality; Moderator: Dan~). This thread is just one of many examples, because many other threads are also concerned.

This forum is called “I Love Philosophy” and this thread I chose as an example is called “Jesus came to Earth again! What?! Would we recognize Him?”. So those people who want to talk about soemthing else can do it e.g. in other threads of other forums; but if they do it in that thread, then they derail that thread.

For example: 50% of the first page of that said thread (|=>) is nothing else than deraling text. … Dan~, where are you?

Here are two examples of threads where people can post if they want to derail threads or keep them off-topic:

Arminius,
I don’t necessarily disagree with your critique, but I think it’s worth pointing out that there isn’t a single open report on the entire first page of the Religion section. It could be that Dan is assuming that if people aren’t reporting, things must be the way the members want them.

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That’s the retail experience but it’s applicable to this forum. Most people won’t complain(report). They will simply be dissatisfied and eventually leave. Moderation has to be proactive rather than reactive, otherwise the forum slowly deteriorates.

Emmm… ???

An “open report” merely means that the issue has not been addressed (usually by issuing a warning or threat of a warning - moderator mindlessness issues). The last formal warning that I got didn’t even mention what it was for (“just hadn’t warned you for awhile, so…”) and from the religion forum (I even had to ask what forum it was involved).

That’s the truth of it.

I don’t necessarily disagree with that either, and we all run our individual sections of the forums differently. Just saying, if people were called out for taking things off topic or posting nonsense or whatever, maybe things would change a bit.

(1) My first (and main!) question was and is:
[list][list][list][list][list][list][list][size=114]Why can some ILP members not even respect philosophical themes?[/size][/list:u][/list:u][/list:u][/list:u][/list:u][/list:u][/list:u]
(2) My second (and not main) question was and is:
[list][list][list][list][list][list][list][size=114]Why do ILP moderators acept or even respect ILP members who do not even respect philosophical themes?[/size] [/list:u][/list:u][/list:u][/list:u][/list:u][/list:u][/list:u]

(1) Those who are not able to respect philosophical themes derail threads, subforums, and the whole philosophical forum of a board named “I Love philosophy” (“ILP”).
(2) Moderators are those who should prevent other ILP members from derailing threads, subforums, and the philosophical forum of a board named “I Love philosophy” (“ILP”).

I have since cleaned up a couple of threads on the R&S board… without being too intrusive I hope, and I will continue to visit the board throughout each day, so apologies for forgetting to do so of late.

Magsj, would you consider notifying people if their posts get deleted? I know you deleted a couple of mine, but I dont know which ones.

Other than that I am certainly satisfied with the mods. My favorites are Uccisore and Carleas, the latter because of his undeniable commitment which makes this community as reliable and stable as it is.

The posts I delete are only those with off-topic bickering for content, so please be assured that all your posts are otherwise safe.

Why is Dan~ no practising moderator anymore?

Is the word “woman” misogynistic?

:-k

It’s misogynstic to even suggest that the word woman is misogynstic… unless you’re a woman :stuck_out_tongue:

Isn’t it interesting how on this site you can troll and basically post whatever you want to regardless of what the topic is, but god forbid you call somebody a name.

I mean, you can be the most obvious troll ever and you get a free pass unless you directly insult people. You can uncover the secret about the origin of reality itself but woe unto you if you call somebody a name, even if it is an accurate description of that somebody… just something I dislike about the moderation here.

Four questions, please, Arbiter (b.t.w.: the spelling of the German “Arbeiter” which means “worker” is very similar to the English “arbiter” - if “arbiter” did not lack the “e”, then it would be even the same spelling :slight_smile: ):

  1. Is your disliking about the ILP moderation strong enough to answer the question of this thread with “no”?
  2. May I ask you whether you also answered the question of this thread by voting?
  3. If I may ask you: Did you vote?
  4. And if you voted: Did you vote “no”?

I didn’t vote.

Other complaints I have is that half the mods are almost never here, and only Ucc ever actually participates in discussions.
Some good things are that the other half of mods are active on an almost daily basis and do their job properly.

I just dislike the overall style of moderation I described in my post above, where a person can blatantly troll and spew non-philosophy but get away with it, but one insult and everybody gets all jumpy. That makes me lean slightly towards no, but I still don’t feel inclined to vote.