Mod commentary

[bell-the-cat]

Re: Mod commentary

Threads/discussions always diverge. That's just the nature of human conversation.

However, there is a difference in an existing thread forking into a new direction, and posters who start new threads containing completely off-topic material and posting it the wrong forum sections to satisfy their own perverse aims.

[Mos]

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What about keeping the thread on topic? Why should Tigran the great be discussed in a thread about Armenian elections? (to give a clear example)

Threads/discussions always diverge. That's just the nature of human conversation. The best thing to do in order to avoid being labelled 'biased' is, if a thread is already for many posts way off-topic, and it seems won't come back on topic, you simply make a warning saying that continuing more of the off-topic posts will be deleted and you make a post related to the topic at hand to change the flow of conversation. You pose a question that pertains to the topic or something like that. If you are in a debate with someone in that stream of off-topic posts, than doing so, you will look biased.

[KarotheGreat]

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The only time a post should be deleted is if it is a threatening message, clear harassment, very vulgar, spam, etc. Other than that, people should have the freedom to post what they want.

What about keeping the thread on topic? Why should Tigran the great be discussed in a thread about Armenian elections? (to give a clear example)

[Mos]

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The only time a post should be deleted is if it is a threatening message, clear harassment, very vulgar, spam, etc. Other than that, people should have the freedom to post what they want.

[Sip]

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So where have the moderators of this forum been biased?

Emmm ... by definition every time you edit or delete a post you show bias. Fortunately that bias is usually towards "sanity" but it is a bias

[Mos]

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So where have the moderators of this forum been biased?

There have been instances of this in the past. I don't want to start accusations and quarrels with the staff here, as I don't want to be banned.

[KarotheGreat]

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biased mods usually signify the downfall of a forum. That's the worst thing for a forum.

So where have the moderators of this forum been biased?

[Mher]

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Great job of showing your intellect and maturity by attacking someone based on their background and doing the biggest thing one can do to hurt the Armenian cause: by dividing us. There is one thing I have been wanting to ask a lot of the people on this forum who consider it a treason to question anything in Armenia: If you think everything is so well in Armenia, why don't you move their right now? Yeah that's right, because life is much better where you are. Yeah people there should be patient, calm, reasonable and love their country, AND LIVE IN CONDITIONS WHICH YOU DON'T LIVE IN. Am I right? If you are such a patriot, why don't you make the sacrifice now? Why don't you give up your comfortable life in imperialist zionist world destroying west and move to Armenia or even all mighty Russia. Why don't you stop waiting for an imaginary perfect future that will never come when Armenia is good enough to meet your standards before you move? Yeah visit once a year, have a Kotayk in front of the Opera, and go back to your lives, and consider yourself a true Armenian. Maybe what you don't hear about is what happens after you leave, when the sunshine turns into snow, when the money from tourism is gone, when in parts of the country the little business that exists shuts down six months a year cause of the cold, and people have to wonder how they have to pay for their kids education or their kids cloths.

And in case you never saw Armenia in the 90's, people didn't "run away from the chaos". Every time I would visit my Hayrenadarts relatives from Iran in the 90's I would see my relatives hungry, living on nothing, relatives having no way to feed their kids. So, don't make it seem like its people leaving Spain or Italy today cause things got a little rough. It was people having to leave because they couldn't watch their kids go hungry.

For what its worth, I think Karo has a very moderate voice, that is very much suited for a moderator. I think its just the fact that this forum has moved to far to the extreme on one side, that the moderate looks like the radical.
Its like how the moderate centerist/conservative democratic party is considered the socialist/commie left wing part in America.

[Mos]

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biased mods usually signify the downfall of a forum. That's the worst thing for a forum.

[TomServo]

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And where do you live, if I may ask?