How to remove or ban a moderator re Starter?

[patnicholls]

Do not send rude pm's like to people relying on threat and intimidation over nothing and be willing to post what you say about whoever for the world to see, and you will be fine. If all else fails, drink some kool aid and you will even do an even better job.

Completely disagree with the highlighted bit of what you've posted - moderation is something that goes on behind closed doors and that's the same for all mods on all bits of the forum.

If I or any other mod tell someone off via PM, that's where it stays. Public slagging matches - like the one you've started with this thread - are not the point of this forum and never will be. Bringing personal disputes into the forum-at-large are a deliberate attempt to provoke and bring threads off-topic, which is the number one reason why threads get closed and people end up getting told off.

[Jag_Warrior]

Do not send rude pm's like to people relying on threat and intimidation over nothing and be willing to post what you say about whoever for the world to see, and you will be fine. If all else fails, drink some kool aid and you will even do an even better job. But you better be nicer to sara palin as what kind of example does that set? afterall, she is a public figure--no matter how deserving, she be!

The main reason I would not/could not be a moderator here, Markabilly: after one week of my reign of terror, the herd would be so thin that they'd have to hold a recruiting drive for new members. There wouldn't be any rude emails or PM's - certainly not coming into my inbox. There would just be a lot of people with the words "Banned" under their names.

No offense to you or anyone else. But generally speaking, these days, I can usually see it coming when someone eventually gets a ban (temporary or permanent). Now, years ago, there were a couple of pretty funny, witty and/or crazy people who just barely stepped across the line (as far as I could see), and they got executed. But these days, you almost have to beg to be banned.

So no, it wouldn't be me as a mod. But just think about that... the next one could be a lot worse than whatever you think of Starter. There HAS to be some amount of order on these boards. And the reason that I've stayed here for so long is because there is a very good balance of order, fun and information.

And no, my feelings about Sarah Palin are not at all balanced (or fair). But you and I both know that she probably comes here every other day to read my diatribes about her - she's an attention wh### (word that'll get you banned... see how that works?!). The multisyllabic words might throw her. But she just loves the way the big Jag rides her like a rented, three legged government mule. Oh yeah, she's freaky like that! :

Now calm down and carry on! mokin:

[markabilly]

Completely disagree with the highlighted bit of what you've posted - moderation is something that goes on behind closed doors and that's the same for all mods on all bits of the forum.

If I or any other mod tell someone off via PM, that's where it stays. Public slagging matches - like the one you've started with this thread - are not the point of this forum and never will be. Bringing personal disputes into the forum-at-large are a deliberate attempt to provoke and bring threads off-topic, which is the number one reason why threads get closed and people end up getting told off.

I get it now, you are a moderator; therefore you are free to be as nasty and as rude as you please as long as you do it in a PM. In other words, like some parents who wish to practice the old rule of do as I say, but not as I do, because I am the boss.

As I told him last night, when he threatened me with a permanent ban in response to me repeating his threats, if I spoke to you like that in person, you would want to hit me.............but that is okay to make such threats if you are a moderator and you do it in a PM.

And he never took me up on my offer to publish it all.

Whatever, the rest of you can live in fear and take such in silence, but not I.

[markabilly]

The main reason I would not/could not be a moderator here, Markabilly: after one week of my reign of terror, the herd would be so thin that they'd have to hold a recruiting drive for new members. There wouldn't be any rude emails or PM's - certainly not coming into my inbox. There would just be a lot of people with the words "Banned" under their names.

No offense to you or anyone else. But generally speaking, these days, I can usually see it coming when someone eventually gets a ban (temporary or permanent). Now, years ago, there were a couple of pretty funny, witty and/or crazy people who just barely stepped across the line (as far as I could see), and they got executed. But these days, you almost have to beg to be banned.

So no, it wouldn't be me as a mod. But just think about that... the next one could be a lot worse than whatever you think of Starter. There HAS to be some amount of order on these boards. And the reason that I've stayed here for so long is because there is a very good balance of order, fun and information.

And no, my feelings about Sarah Palin are not at all balanced (or fair). But you and I both know that she probably comes here every other day to read my diatribes about her - she's an attention wh### (word that'll get you banned... see how that works?!). The multisyllabic words might throw her. But she just loves the way the big Jag rides her like a rented, three legged government mule. Oh yeah, she's freaky like that! :

Now calm down and carry on! mokin:

see, you have just proven you have all the talents necessary to be a major upgrade.

[patnicholls]

I get it now, you are a moderator; therefore you are free to be as nasty and as rude as you please as long as you do it in a PM. In other words, like some parents who wish to practice the old rule of do as I say, but not as I do, because I am the boss.

As I told him last night, when he threatened me with a permanent ban in response to me repeating his threats, if I spoke to you like that in person, you would want to hit me.............but that is okay to make such threats if you are a moderator and you do it in a PM.

And he never took me up on my offer to publish it all.

Whatever, the rest of you can live in fear and take such in silence, but not I.

No, it's nothing to do with 'authority' (I don't think 'authority' is the right word to describe us moderators - we're the street-sweepers cleaning up all the rubbish, not the mayor telling everyone what to do).

If you have a disagreement with another member, you keep it to a PM rather than posting it on the forum - that's common sense. Much in the same way that if you fall out with someone in real life, you talk about it with them and not with other people because that can make it worse. It's not the same analogy as parenting - as a moderator the last thing we want to do is get into conversations like this, it's a waste of our time (in addition to clearing spam etc, doing fantasy league/pickems admin, etc and actually making normal posts about racing). Our ideal moderating scenario is everyone behaving themselves so we don't have to tell them to - us intervening is a last resort.

I don't know what you're talking about with 'fear' and 'threats' - what does that even mean in the context of an internet forum?