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Originally Posted by Tomkat

Right. GD doesn't. So applying your AR rules to GD isn't very sensible.

I didn't say that the AR rules applied to GD. I used AR as an example because modding decisions have to be taken frequently there, probably at the same level as PD/Suggestions despite a lower turnover of posts.

Originally Posted by Tomkat

A Moderator is free to close/edit/remove/move any thread he/she wants.

It doesn't say anything about banning users. Oh except that in 90% of cases the user receives a warning before a ban. I'm willing to bet you didn't warn him, did you?

Of course I didn't. Would you warn a forum spammer and wait for him to defend himself before banning him?

Originally Posted by Tomkat

What you're doing is no better than what Marv did. In fact, in a lot of ways it's worse. Marv at least had a complaint. s|k also broke the rules. s|k was also only banned for a week, and (I believe) was warned.

There are GD mods for a reason. You were recruited as an AR mod, to moderate a forum noone else really wants to. Using it as some sort of backdoor to become a GD moderator isn't what it's for.

Sorry if I'm being a bit anal about this but I'd have thought that especially given the recent forum drama that you'd have realise people don't like this forum being over-moderated

Just get off your high horse pretending that you know anything about how to mod a forum.

For starters, modding is a proactive job, not a reactive one. This means that if you see something that needs to be modded, you do so. You don't see it, then hang around hope that someone's going to use the report post function so that you can do something about it.

Mods have different forums in order to specialise. We could all be super-mods without being attached to particular forums, but this wouldn't work as well. For example, a key poster on the Programming forums wouldn't usually be as useful on PD - e.g. megla. You will observe that mods are generally given forums that suit them best - T&F is solely a GD poster, Ultimate Newbie is heavily involved with Strategy and lokken is an important AD figure.

Since most of the mods aren't super-mods and can't mod particular threads on every forum, all they can do is react to spamming and advertising by banning the user involved. If it was a regular poster who they thought was spamming, it is unlikely that they would take action unless it was at Shai Gar levels. And as I said before, we only intervene where a new user is advertising/spamming. Please try to get this into your head.

Originally Posted by Tomkat

If judging properly is "he's a new user and he's made a crap thread so therefore he must be an advertising gimmick/spammer so I'll ban him permanently" then maybe we should rethink who the mods are

TOMKAT FOR MOD!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, do you actually have any idea what you're talking about when it comes to modding these forums?

Originally Posted by Apothos

I thought this looked familiar.

You just won on the internet.