Can we please talk about the power abuse that is boards moderation?

Succubús GF·9/12/2018, 12:58:52 AM·5 votes·1,737 views

Like okay before this gets instalocked, deleted and me banned, like hear me out.

Whenever someone calls out the moderators being unfair/ abusing power/ not doing their job correclty (whether rude or politely) It gets locked and not talked about for bullying. Or some other wack reason. And if you talk about with them on discord they don't respond and just ban you (Like wtf.. ive seen this happen to other people like ????????)

Seriously this shit is more unfair than the old ban system where they got incentives for banning people zz

I actually just witnessed someone get kicked from the discord, no explanation to their question. What the fuck guys??

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ModThe Djinn9/12/2018, 1:24:17 AM6 votes

Like okay before this gets instalocked, deleted and me banned, like hear me out.

Reasonable discussion will not get locked, deleted, or cause you to be banned. This thread is totally fine, and I'd love to see if I can help address these issues if you can be a bit more specific.

Whenever someone calls out the moderators being unfair/ abusing power/ not doing their job correclty (whether rude or politely) It gets locked and not talked about for bullying.

If you can provide some examples of places where critique that followed the rules in tone and content (which means criticism is allowable, so long as it's civil), I'll be happy to investigate the lock personally.

And if you talk about with them on discord they don't respond and just ban you

I have never seen this happen. Banning on Discord is a rare thing (only 7 bans in the past two months, for example, two of them the same person), and something we take fairly seriously. Again, if you have individuals you have seen banned, let me know and I'll look into the circumstances. It's important to realize that most private discussion on Discord is done through a moderator pullroom for privacy reasons, so there may well have been a conversation you were not privy to.

Deep Terror Nami9/12/2018, 1:07:40 AM4 votes

Citations requested. I know moderation on the Boards is generally quite visible, as a comment is pinned to explain it. In the Discord, nobody gets banned without reason, but the discussion for that is not typically done in the public channel, but taken aside to try and come to an agreement and/or understanding. There's also no public notification that someone is banned so I'm unsure what you believe you witnessed.

If you could provide a little more context I'm sure the moderation team would be much more able to clear things up, or work to fix these issues.

i cant move wtf9/12/2018, 9:41:15 PM1 votes

People that try to become moderators are usually the last people you want for that position. It attracts people that have little to no power in real life and so they take their frustrations out on members instead of separating themselves from the job. Just a fact of life. Try to not interact with them in the first place is my best advice.