Fatal Mistakes By The Moderators

[Red Brigade]

http://forum.armenianclub.com/showthread.php?t=5610

This is what one of the Moderators anounced a week ago.

Loseyourname

People of any ethnic background are welcome to post here and to give their input. What is not allowed, however, is any insulting or malicious language, any personal attacks, any ethnically motivated anger or ridicule, of any kind. This is of particular import in the Armenian specific threads, as many of the topics being discussed are of a sensitive and emotional nature. These forum will be regulated more strictly than the general forums.

This applies to everyone. Any Turk who comes in and insults the Armenian people, or denies or justifies the genocide will be immediately banned and the thread(s) will be deleted. There will also be no further threads posted ridiculing the Turkish people, suggesting that they are generally stupid warmongers with subhuman sensibilities who ought to be banished to the far corners of the earth. Any that are started will be immediately deleted. No ethnically motivated hate of any kind will be tolerated here.

http://forum.armenianclub.com/showth...?t=5637&page=2

eMachine posted the most disgusting and irritiating thing i ever saw in a Forum yet, you Moderators were proved incapable for this job.

step by step to ankara:
1st you will be like this:

2nd you'll be like this:

than maybe you can use any kind lotion, cream or vaseline for your bone-@ss =))
how an idea?

you know turks are barbarian. your great dads were trying to come to ankara, and you see results. well, always welcome to ankara mr ASALA(K)

After this disgusting post ,your Moderators not only you didnt deleted this message and bann him,but you let him free to continue his disgusting provocations.You are giving him the ok and his fascist likes to continue his posts.

Its is 28th of May today , that i write the message.
His post was made 2 days ago, 05-26-2005, 04:41 PM, so i am sure
you have seen them and on purpose you didnt delete his messages.
Delete his message and Bann him immediatly.
This individual is going to be banned immediatly i don't even want to see any attempts of his to come in this thread and try to ''defend'' himself.
Honestly i dont know who i want tear apart this moment the Moderators or the Turk.
I am excpecting a response immediatly.

[Siggie]

We don't have moderators working in shifts to make sure we read every single thread. We have jobs, school, etc that take up our time as well. We do our best to keep up and read everything that is posted, but sometimes that isn't possible. For example, at the moment, one of our moderators is on vacation and I personally had 2500 pages worth of papers to read and grade. It's difficult to read everything that is posted everyday.
This is why there is a report post feature. All members can help up moderate the forum. In the future please use this feature to assure that offending posts like this are removed in a more timely fashion. Between the moderators and our members every post is much more likely to be read.

I apologize if you were upset by this individual and their post, but I assure you, it was not read and considered okay by us. Thanks for bringing it to our attention and in the future, please do use the report post feature if you see a post that violates the forum rules. It is also, not appropriate for you to criticize the moderation team, throw around accusation like the endorsing of posts like that, and demanding immediate responses, actions, and such.
You expect members to be respectful of one another, the Armenian culture, and the Armenian people in general, but you should also be sure that you conduct yourself in the same way as well.

Thank you.

[Red Brigade]

We don't have moderators working in shifts to make sure we read every single thread. We have jobs, school, etc that take up our time as well. We do our best to keep up and read everything that is posted, but sometimes that isn't possible. For example, at the moment, one of our moderators is on vacation and I personally had 2500 pages worth of papers to read and grade. It's difficult to read everything that is posted everyday.
This is why there is a report post feature. All members can help up moderate the forum. In the future please use this feature to assure that offending posts like this are removed in a more timely fashion. Between the moderators and our members every post is much more likely to be read.

I apologize if you were upset by this individual and their post, but I assure you, it was not read and considered okay by us. Thanks for bringing it to our attention and in the future, please do use the report post feature if you see a post that violates the forum rules. It is also, not appropriate for you to criticize the moderation team, throw around accusation like the endorsing of posts like that, and demanding immediate responses, actions, and such.
You expect members to be respectful of one another, the Armenian culture, and the Armenian people in general, but you should also be sure that you conduct yourself in the same way as well.

Thank you.

I am sorry , i was agressive.Honestly my intention was not to to disrepsect the Moderators, but the time that i was writing that message i was really
blinded by my anger.Of course i would love to help the Moderators , i am sure all the members would agree with this, in their obligations and infrom you when they see posts of this nature, and make your life much easier. I just had the mistaken impression that the Moderators saw the message and intentionaly they didn't took any measures.

[Siggie]

A lot of what we do doesn't get seen by most of the members (unless it's one of their posts that gets removed ). There have been many posters banned for posting things like that and their posts removed. Since you are very active in the Armenian area of the forum, especially in threads concerning the genocide, it would be very helpful if you could report offending posts (you dont need to do every single one in the same thread, we'll look at the whole thread) or just private message either loseyourname, ckbejug, or myself, informing us of the problem and we'll look into it.
I appreciate your apology and understanding.

[hyebruin]

It is also, not appropriate for you to criticize the moderation team...

why are you "offended" by that? criticism that has some basis and logic to it CAN be constructive if the reader does not take a 'holier than thou' stance.

this "superiority" of moderators/administrator is silly and illogical; you guys should REALLY learn from some of the other forums around where the atmosphere is more friendly and relaxed.

dealing with the serious offenders is one thing, but to put yourselves on some kind of an imaginary throne and actually believing you are superior is a big turn off; and of course any "attack" to your authority can be remedied by post deletions and member suspensions...not like we haven't seen that before on small and big scales...

[Siamanto]

dealing with the serious offenders is one thing, but to put yourselves on some kind of an imaginary throne and actually believing you are superior is a big turn off; and of course any "attack" to your authority can be remedied by post deletions and member suspensions...not like we haven't seen that before on small and big scales...

hyebruin,
Nice knowing you! We will miss you!

[hyebruin]

hyebruin,
Nice knowing you! We will miss you!

don't cry for me argentina....errr....siamanto

[Siamanto]

don't cry for me argentina....errr....siamanto

It takes two to tango! How will I practice my moves when you're gone?

[hyebruin]

It takes two to tango! How will I practice my moves when you're gone?

haha, i used to dance decades ago, i have been retired for the past few years now, give my ol' bones some rest


*great! now we're gettig off topic, get your butt ready siamanto, your'e going to get spanked by the moderatorship*

[Siggie]

This is not a discussion forum.
Bruin, you've been here long enough to know this and to also know that it is in the forum rules (#5) that there is no public discussion of moderator or administrator actions. Whether or not you agree with that does not matter. Those are the rules and through your membership, those are the terms of service all members agree to.

Every time the opportunity presents itself for you to criticize the moderation, you do so and every time you're warned and/or your post is edited/deleted. I'm sick of it.
If you don't like this forum and you don't like how things are run, you are welcome to leave.
Bottom line is that some rules are necessary to keep things organized and to keep the forums a pleasant place for everyone.

Moderators aren't on any sort of throne. It's more a position of service than anything else. You seem to think we live for the opportunity to delete a post or to suspend people. Frankly it's a pain to have to clean up the posts of people who don't follow the rules and we don't like being disliked by many members because we moderate the forum. If you take a moment to really think about it, you'd see that.