Jester75
Well then Hans, you can have it buddy. I never said that you can't get to know folks here on the forum. But to follow people around and post in their thread just to be annoying?? Come on , surely even you can see the immaturity and the need for a fix to that problem. And that happens ALOT!
And I think alot of people were denied their right to participate in the forums this weekend due to jdice80's unfortunate breakdown. I say unfortunate, because in the begining he made ALOT of very valid points about the state of the forum. The unfortunate part is that he took the focus off of that and put it all on himself by the rant.
Well, following people around the forum to screw with 'em is "stalking"... And that, while annoying, isn't specifically against the TOU, but it IS inflamatory, and that can be dealt with.. But that isn't a moderator's responsibility... That's an Admin job... The Mod's job, in that case, is to make the admin aware of the problem... Meanwhile, the mod has to have a means of dealing with it... A simple "Knock it off", back-channel, usually will suffice, if it's a forum member in good standing, who wishes to REAMAIN one..
If it continues, then it's time for sterner measures, IMHO....
jdice may have made some valid points in his "manifestor".. Where he screwed the pooch however, is that his post was inflammatory, and "called members out", which is a violation of the TOU.. His rant probably would have locked, pending review by Admion... If the Admin would have felt it was ok, then it would have been unocked, and oob-la-dee, life goes on...
It woulda got locked down (and the thread not just locked, but deleted), later... Provided it took the same direction it did, and there is no reason to think that it would do otherwise... The same people would have posted the same things, and the fight would been on...
The fact that jdice is still running around loose in here just tells me that there's no one at the helm in Milwaukee today... Guess the Boss took a sick day.. The "weekend mod" would be still be needed to continue to pull Charge of Quarters...
I have three windows open right now, monitoring three different hooches in here... Think there's someone that's working full time can do that?
As for jdice's "denying" anyone the use of the MODELING forums, I didn't see that.. There were still plenty of postings going one in the respective hooches... One thing I DID notice though..
A newer guy made a post about PennCon 2011in the same hooch as all the bull going on, and not ONE of you clowns even told him, "Attaboy"... 'Cept one, that is... All while everyone was running theor mouths about a buncha green squares, post counts, and whatever the hell it was that gomer up there was yammering on about...