Originally posted by Oldman731
One of the nice things about the AvA - about all arenas, really - is that you can speak to the people on the other side. By default, people have adopted channel 200 to do this. Why not turn your solution around a bit: If someone wants to mouth off on the text buffer, could he not do it by personal message just as effectively as by posting on 200? Of course he could, but then no one else in the arena would see how clever he is.
- oldman
Pretty much what I've said earlier Oldman. Look guys I've modded and admin'd sites that make the chatter on 200 and the chest thumping on these boards look like a kindergarden pushing contest so it really doesn't bother me in any way, shape, or form.
That said I've found the most effective method to stop things from getting out of hand as a mod or an admin is to tell the parties in question to take it to pm's ONCE and if they didn't then I bounced them. After a while the offending parties either got the message or left. Great if the did and no great loss if they left.
I'm not about to question any of the staff on the way they do their jobs because I've been there. You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.
I'm just making a suggestion here that if people want to hurl invective at each other to take it to pm's or another channel. As I said previously most of these 200 fights and forum battles start and drag out because someone gets called out in front of their peers and that, in general, automatically puts them on the defensive whereas discussing it privately has more of an opportunity to come to a common understanding.
Of course good natured ribbing on 200 is always a laugh particularly when its aimed at me. I laugh at myself all the time I expect the rest of you guys to join in every now and then. If Bug shoots me down 3 times in a row (like you did the other night you rotton !#@%!!$%!%!
) I start looking at my plane skin for the 'kill me' sign.
Anyway that's just my opinions for what they're worth. *shrug*
