Lee
07-12-10, 11:06 PM
Ah, this wonderful time of year, where its cold outside, and everyone starts getting all angry and stuff and abusing people on the interwebz. This year in particular due to the recession still biting hard I would imagine.
Just to address a few points ive seen fleeting accross a few nameless threads.
I love the multiple times the age old accusation that the 'forum is going downhill' and ' its all got a bit lax of late' etc.. Someone even said 'oh, its getting like Novaload used to be'! Well there was a fecking thread the other day saying that it SHOULD go back to how it used to be! The same thing happens every winter! It happened last year, and it will happen next year.
The thing is, no matter how we deal with it, there will always be someone who decides to have a moan about it. Fine, I could quite easily instuct the moderators to delete anything that is remotely aggressive? We could also delete anything that isn't aggressive, but could be taken the wrong way by someone who gets offended? How long before we're being bitched and moaned at about it being a police forum where no one can voice an opinion?
SOmething i will agree on is that there are some holes in the consistency of things being acted on, but again, the moderators are all different people, and every situation is different, as well as the fact as some things will be seen, whereas some things won't be seen. We all make a joke about rule 15, but it wasn't put there as a joke at all, and we have to use discression when attempting to balance the dynamics of a forum.
Yes, there are a few idiots passing through at the moment, but like trolls, they love to be fed, and if they say something that offends you, do you really think it helps to start giving some abuse back? Just ignore them, report them if required, and they'll go away! Start arguing and then the band wagon jumpers will smell a fight and then we have a thread full of useless poo where everyone is venting the winter wobblys on everyone else. Just step back and look at yourself for a second, Its a message board ffs, your life is not ruined if someone thinks Nova's are crap! Mike thinks Nova's are crap, and he's one of my best mates lol I think Cav Turbo's are crap, and me and Spudly get on like a house on fire!
Its very easy to get heated when someone is slating your pride and joy, or arguing about tuning an engine and calling you a fool etc. Hell, ive done it enough times, and spudders gets all emotional where cavs are concerned, but it just seems that everyone wants to get in everyone elses business and I swear to god its the winter that does it!
SO to recap, lets not get into a slagging match and fill the forum with bile, and THEN start making posts that the forum is going to crap because of all the abuse! You lot make the forum what it is, and no matter what the moderators delete or don't delete, you lot are the ones who post it all up. If someone is posting something that you feel is out of order, or abusive, report it! Don't just sit there expecting a staff member to happen accross it, and also don't assume that the moderator will read said comment as abuse! Most of the time, we will act upon something if it has truely bothered a member, and is a valid complaint, but before you do, just take a deep breath and realise that most of the time, it probably doesn't matter!
Everyone is different, and when a load of different people start talking to each other, then friction is bound to occur, but please don't expect us to delete every arguement that appears because we just don't want to run the site like that, as we would get ten times the abuse ourselves if we did!
Its christmas in a few weeks for god sake, lighten up!! lol
Just to address a few points ive seen fleeting accross a few nameless threads.
I love the multiple times the age old accusation that the 'forum is going downhill' and ' its all got a bit lax of late' etc.. Someone even said 'oh, its getting like Novaload used to be'! Well there was a fecking thread the other day saying that it SHOULD go back to how it used to be! The same thing happens every winter! It happened last year, and it will happen next year.
The thing is, no matter how we deal with it, there will always be someone who decides to have a moan about it. Fine, I could quite easily instuct the moderators to delete anything that is remotely aggressive? We could also delete anything that isn't aggressive, but could be taken the wrong way by someone who gets offended? How long before we're being bitched and moaned at about it being a police forum where no one can voice an opinion?
SOmething i will agree on is that there are some holes in the consistency of things being acted on, but again, the moderators are all different people, and every situation is different, as well as the fact as some things will be seen, whereas some things won't be seen. We all make a joke about rule 15, but it wasn't put there as a joke at all, and we have to use discression when attempting to balance the dynamics of a forum.
Yes, there are a few idiots passing through at the moment, but like trolls, they love to be fed, and if they say something that offends you, do you really think it helps to start giving some abuse back? Just ignore them, report them if required, and they'll go away! Start arguing and then the band wagon jumpers will smell a fight and then we have a thread full of useless poo where everyone is venting the winter wobblys on everyone else. Just step back and look at yourself for a second, Its a message board ffs, your life is not ruined if someone thinks Nova's are crap! Mike thinks Nova's are crap, and he's one of my best mates lol I think Cav Turbo's are crap, and me and Spudly get on like a house on fire!
Its very easy to get heated when someone is slating your pride and joy, or arguing about tuning an engine and calling you a fool etc. Hell, ive done it enough times, and spudders gets all emotional where cavs are concerned, but it just seems that everyone wants to get in everyone elses business and I swear to god its the winter that does it!
SO to recap, lets not get into a slagging match and fill the forum with bile, and THEN start making posts that the forum is going to crap because of all the abuse! You lot make the forum what it is, and no matter what the moderators delete or don't delete, you lot are the ones who post it all up. If someone is posting something that you feel is out of order, or abusive, report it! Don't just sit there expecting a staff member to happen accross it, and also don't assume that the moderator will read said comment as abuse! Most of the time, we will act upon something if it has truely bothered a member, and is a valid complaint, but before you do, just take a deep breath and realise that most of the time, it probably doesn't matter!
Everyone is different, and when a load of different people start talking to each other, then friction is bound to occur, but please don't expect us to delete every arguement that appears because we just don't want to run the site like that, as we would get ten times the abuse ourselves if we did!
Its christmas in a few weeks for god sake, lighten up!! lol