Quote:How can you say the dii.net admins have the right to run their site as they please, yet, "it doesn't give me the right to just boot off someone I disagree with" on the LL?
Because that's the way I've chosen to run the forum. I try to be as fair as possible. I might not agree with what someone is saying, but if they say it in an intelligent way then I gotta deal. People can sometimes get confused though. If they say something I disagree with but then use profanities or personal attacks, they'll think I'm censoring them because I disagree with them. That's the way it goes. You make few friends as a forum moderator.
Quote:In fact, if the disagreement is over cheating, you do claim that right.
True. I do. I also let people know in advance about that rule, so they're duly warned. I believe that most posters here appreciate the moderators' enforcement of it as well. Let's face it, if you post here you WANT a multiplayer cheat-free environment (single-player cheating I have no problem with and never have; you're only cheating yourself).
Quote:You know you took some grief over the "whole new game" thing, yet I don't recall you nuking your critics. Same thing goes for the "Ten Things I Like About You" rant. I've posted that I disagreed, and I don't think you nuked those posts.
Haha, that was a debacle, wasn't it? Blizzard went ahead and proved me wrong on a number of counts, especially when they applied the changes to D2C and really screwed it up. I took my licks there for sure. That's what happens whenever you stick your neck out so far. Or maybe it was a conspiracy to make me look bad, and you're all against me! *looks around furtively*
Without free discussion, a forum is of little use IMHO. However, completely free discussion is useless. It is up to each site to develop a game plan for what is and isn't allowed on their forum, and try to stick to it as best they can. We tend to be pretty lenient here and let some people hang themselves with a LONG rope when they don't seem to be getting the point. Sometimes that has actually helped, giving people enough time to correct their early mistakes. Other times it just aggravates the regulars and doesn't help at all, leading to eventual ban long after everyone wanted it.
Believe it or not, but I think I have the shortest fuse of the moderating team here (myself, Griselda, Elric, and Mavfin). I am sometimes amazed at the patience those three possess, and it helps me be a cooler head when making decisions. In the end, though, sometimes the best way to be a mod is to keep a distance from discussions. When you get personally involved, it's much harder to be impartial. So when people make posts that disagree with my writings/opinions, I just usually stay out of it.
Then there's the most important factor: sometimes it's better for me to stay silent and be thought an idiot rather than speak and remove all doubt.
Ok, I'm blathering, but you get some idea of my thought process sometimes.
-Bolty
Quote:Considering the mods here are generally liberals who seem to have a soft spot for fascism and white supremacy (despite them saying otherwise), me being perma-banned at some point is probably not out of the question.