Aces High Bulletin Board

General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: rc51 on May 05, 2003, 11:32:47 PM

Title: Silly moderator
Post by: rc51 on May 05, 2003, 11:32:47 PM
Moderator tonight was very silly!

40dogMAw was squelched with no warning for 10mins.
For the following
Albacore) told him to lick his sack
40dogMAW replied grow one first.

And that was it!!
For that he got squelched with out warning for ten minutes!!!
Sorry people but who ever the moderator was he needs to be removed!
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: Swag Abroad on May 06, 2003, 01:12:07 AM
Maybe so, but why reply at all?  Just fly!  :)

Maybe it was a series of things and not just this one incident.  

They may have been some ongoing history that night in the text.

Hard to say!
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: lord dolf vader on May 06, 2003, 01:42:26 AM
he knows the guy and the whole story im shure or he would not post, this stuff has happend befor, and as long as there are secret police will happen again.
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: Creamo on May 06, 2003, 02:01:30 AM
Never flown for a country that didn't 'police' itself. It's always has been easy and immediate shutting them up.

Don't give the MODs any more attention here. They have assumed a 'title' for a reason.
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: Steve on May 06, 2003, 03:40:34 AM
Geez Creamo... you couldn't be more off base.. more wrong headed. Sure the mods make mistakes... but I think we need MORE mods than less.  A lot of over the top smack talking is allowed that really shouldn't be.
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: Creamo on May 06, 2003, 04:21:57 AM
Jeepers Steve, don't be mad at me and junk. :(
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: T0J0 on May 06, 2003, 07:41:36 AM
Cudo's to 40dog for being so polite..!
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: lord dolf vader on May 06, 2003, 10:28:16 AM
i can remeber any number of incidents where people went crazy with the language and insults. never a moderator around then. somone says nut sack in response to a cursed insult at the wrong time they get squelched.


same ol thing secret power = bad news.
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: Steve on May 06, 2003, 11:31:02 AM
Creamo, jinkies  I'm not mad!



Vader,  the varying degree in which Ch1 is controlled would be better served by having more moderators as opposed to less.  40dog got muted the night before as well.  Perhaps it was the same moderator who remembered.  I'm not saying 40dog deserved either mute...but I can speak for myself: I have been muted a handful of times and deserved every one.
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: WineMan on May 06, 2003, 12:20:32 PM
So you get muted?  Big Deal!  Squelch ch. 1 and fly for 10 minuets without a distracting buffer!
Title: muting was totally uncalled
Post by: FortyDog on May 06, 2003, 12:24:09 PM
Well steve last nights muting was totally uncalled for no matterr how you add it up.  My reply to someone saying lick my sack with grow one, barely warranted a warning.  The moderator/censor obviously was a little over zealous.  The funning thing was I answered Albacore in a manner to make sure I didn't cross any censorship lines and was immediately censored.  Now. I for one think there should be censors in the arena but at the same time I believe there needs to be clear lines drawn in the sand.  Bad language should certainly be censored.  Argumented language should not.  We are fighting in a war scenario.  To think there won't be bad blood spilled over channel 1 is ludacris.  Censors need to be trained to know whats over the line and whats not.  What I said last night was not.  Below is a screenshot of our encounter.  

(http://www.marineairwingah.homestead.com/files/ahss99.jpg)

I want you steve, or anyone else, to tell me where a muting is warranted.  At best a warning may have been warranted toward Albacore but no way me.  Also as it turned out Albacore wasn't even talking to me.  Just a simple mix up.  

I was going to send a complaint to HTC but decide later after I calmed down, that it was probably either a mistake by the censor, as someone mention that night or an over zealous censor who I'm sure after my unmuting figured that I was pissed an that he may have made a mistake.  Who knows for sure, but I felt better after venting on channel 1.


40DogMAW
M.A.W. Commander And Chief
Marine Air Wing (http://marineairwingah.homestead.com/enter.html)
(http://www.marineairwingah.homestead.com/files/USMC_Emblem_001_100x100.gif)
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: Steve on May 06, 2003, 12:36:42 PM
40dog.  I tried to make it clear in my previous post:  I'm not passing judgement on whether you deserved to be muted either of the two times I discussed. Cmon bro, I can see why you would be irked about the whole thing but I'm not making any kind of statement regarding what you typed.  First off I luv ya man, second off we both know how hypocritical it would be for me to directly criticize anyone's behavior on CH1 without addressing my own as well.  You have my full agreement though that MUCH worse banter goes on , unchecked, in the buffer than that which got you muted last.
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: CavemanJ on May 06, 2003, 02:59:30 PM
40dog looks like you may have the same problem I do... one of the anony-jerks just plain doesn't like ya.
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: WldThing on May 06, 2003, 03:02:14 PM
Well 40Dog you should be muted for just flying that plane! :D
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: anton on May 06, 2003, 03:03:21 PM
yer all right,
Moderators are human & therefore subject to mistakes.
Moderators need to be held accountable for  properly asserting their control.
Being muted really is no big deal.
More moerators are needed, during off-peak for instance.

I will agree that there isn't currently enough consistency in the applied muting practice. Some are allowed to  spew negativety consistantly, the entire time they fly, for hours on end, while others get muted  for seemingly harmless situations.
 my 2 cents

Anton
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: mosgood on May 06, 2003, 03:49:05 PM
ANTON!!!

MA BRA THA !!!!:cool:
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: RacrX on May 06, 2003, 04:15:54 PM
I have been muted several times for "veiled profanity" lol, and other nights I can curse like a sailor all night without a peep from the mods. What we need is some Godd*** F***ing consinstency from the A**hole F***ing moderators! :D
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: Shamus on May 06, 2003, 11:57:21 PM
The censors should be firm, fair and impartial, but they wont be, censors seldom are.

It takes a special type of objectivity to do that job, our censors many time dont seem to have it.

shamus
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: Steve on May 07, 2003, 12:35:26 AM
Perhaps,   but better to have moderators that occasionally err than to have none at all.
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: Shamus on May 07, 2003, 12:44:37 AM
Not necessarily
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: Steve on May 07, 2003, 01:01:59 AM
Yes, Necessarily.  At the end of AW there were no mods... it was awful.
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: Gooss on May 07, 2003, 01:08:08 AM
Mods are good.  More are needed.  I wasn't very happy with F*cknut and P00 and their conversation over the weekend.

HONK!
Gooss
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: Shamus on May 07, 2003, 05:16:25 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Steve
Yes, Necessarily.  At the end of AW there were no mods... it was awful.


You seem to have missed my point, I am saying that it is not acceptable for the censors to feel that it is fine to "occasionally err".  

They had better take the position before they act that there will be impartiality at ALL times.
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: Steve on May 07, 2003, 05:37:51 PM
LOL Shamus.   It is fine for everyone to occasionally err.  As soon as you find someone who doesn't let me know, I've never met a perfect person.


LOL
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: Sixpence on May 07, 2003, 05:55:52 PM
"err" is one thing. Prejudice towards a squad or person is another. That muting did not seem fair at all.
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: Steve on May 07, 2003, 06:09:57 PM
Well, he really didn't deserve to be muted it would seem, assuming we know all the factors..  But I'd rather the moderators erred on  the side of caution than otherwise.  Again, I don't see a trend where people that get banned often do NOT deserve to be.  I mean sure 40dog got muted.. but 10 minutes of mute... is it that painful?
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: Shamus on May 07, 2003, 06:14:35 PM
Hey Steve..do they teach in medical school that it is fine to occasionally err in surgrry or in the law enforcement accadamy that the occasional shooting of an innocent bystander is ok because nobody is perfect?

You still aint getting it, but thats ok, im done trying to explain it to ya.
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: Sixpence on May 07, 2003, 08:19:42 PM
I've seen some pretty rude stuff on ch1, and they are very tolerant, imo. To "err" is not the problem, to be "bias" is. As long as they don't "err" to certain individuals. I'll leave it at that.
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: Steve on May 07, 2003, 09:11:44 PM
Shamus the reason you  cannot "explain" it to me is that your argument is foolish.
I don't fail to understand what you are saying. You're argument is wrong.

You're saying volunteer people who are policing an online game while playing that game should have as much training/expertise as a cop or Doc?  Read what you are typing.  

Don't attempt to condescend to me when your argument is assinine.
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: Shamus on May 07, 2003, 10:20:25 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Steve
[

You're saying volunteer people who are policing an online game while playing that game should have as much training/expertise as a cop or Doc?  Read what you are typing.  

Is that what you thought I said? you better read it again.
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: Steve on May 07, 2003, 10:24:20 PM
Ya you insinuated that.  Look, you've bored me off the page... I am out of patience... you got in a position that was indefensible and  your time is up. I'm off to deal with less stoneheaded people.

Have fun in your ignorance.
Title: Silly moderator
Post by: anton on May 07, 2003, 11:40:07 PM
Shamus said nothing of training, or expertise, he refered to accountability for their actions. And how exactly does one "insinuate" with text?
 "The question is moot"  (J. Jackson on SNL)
At any rate,  IMO what shamus was saying (rather clearly to most I'm sure)  was in line with my 2nd point of "yer all right"
which was "Moderators need to be held accountable for properly asserting their muting control".
 Much the same as law enforcement, as well as doctors.
Mistakes  showing any kind of pattern of prejudice need to be dealt with accordingly.
 Seems pretty simple to me, & Im always glad to help.
Anton