Welcome your new mods, flar and SteelTown

Mike K. · #1 Posted **May 1, 2008, 4:41 PM**

Flar and SteelTown have offered their time to help keep this forum moderated.

Thanks to both of you for your help!

oldcoote · #2 Posted **May 1, 2008, 4:46 PM**

Hey now!

raisethehammer · #3 Posted **May 1, 2008, 4:52 PM**

up yours.

raisethehammer · #4 Posted **May 1, 2008, 4:53 PM**

Lol....Just Kidding!!

Welcome guys....you both rock.
Cheers

beanmedic · #5 Posted **May 1, 2008, 4:56 PM**

Let me be the first to say...

Who edited my post?

(flar did!)

(or maybe it was SteelTown?)

beanmedic · #6 Posted **May 1, 2008, 5:17 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by beanmedic

Let me be the first to say...

Who edited my post?

(flar did!)

lol

HAMRetrofit · #7 Posted **May 1, 2008, 5:47 PM**

Congrats...

Remember absolute power corrupts absolutely.

holymoly · #8 Posted **May 1, 2008, 5:47 PM**

Thanks guys!

(Even lurkers like me enjoy good info and discussion more than baiting/bashing.)

SteelTown · #9 Posted **May 1, 2008, 4:56 PM**

Bow down my subjects! muhahahaha lol

I already made a change, changed the GTTA to Metrolinx in one of the thread title. Little things like that gets to me lol.

If you have any other suggestions just let me know. I remember RTH requesting an environmental thread.

flar · #10 Posted **May 1, 2008, 5:57 PM**

Thanks!

Like SteelTown said, if you have and suggestions or concerns, PM me.

chris k · #11 Posted **May 1, 2008, 7:52 PM**

Congratulations!

I have full confidence you guys can keep things straight around here. Good luck with the new powers.

matt602 · #12 Posted **May 1, 2008, 8:06 PM**

command me lord's, command me! i shall do your bidding!

SteelTown · #13 Posted **May 10, 2008, 2:55 PM**

I just wanted to say that I don't care if you go off-topic. I've personally done that a lot of times.

What I don't want to see is bickering and head butting, as that leads to off-topic discussion and distract readers and therefore effectively kills the topic.

If you have issues with this or have suggestions than please do type them down.

BCTed · #14 Posted **Jun 4, 2008, 1:57 AM**

The new mods are way too trigger-happy when it comes to deleting posts and are way too tolerant of raisethehammer, who continues to post nonsense about "idiots" here and "idiots" there and accuses half of the people on the city of having their "heads up their asses".

He also seems to have added the word "squelcher" to his vocabulary in the last couple of weeks. I guess there is nothing wrong with that but it is annoying to see him overuse his fancy new word.

I believe that SteelTown and flar are both good people but raisethehammer clearly has them in his back pocket and prevents their judgment from being objective.

FairHamilton · #15 Posted **Jun 4, 2008, 12:55 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCTed

The new mods are way too trigger-happy when it comes to deleting posts and are way too tolerant of raisethehammer, who continues to post nonsense about "idiots" here and "idiots" there and accuses half of the people on the city of having their "heads up their asses".

He also seems to have added the word "squelcher" to his vocabulary in the last couple of weeks. I guess there is nothing wrong with that but it is annoying to see him overuse his fancy new word.

I believe that SteelTown and flar are both good people but raisethehammer clearly has them in his back pocket and prevents their judgment from being objective.

Agreed!!! 100%!!!!

You can't post something on this board which illicits discussion. But, you can call people names (i.e. idiots, squelchers, etc), degrade them (i.e. Andrew Dreschel personally degraded because of his stature and the fact he's a responsible cat owner who leashes his pet), and paint large groups of people with the generalization brush (i.e. sad fat 905ers, Borington, etc), with complete impunity.

Honestly, I haven't seen very much in the way of 'trolling' at all on this board. What I have seen are people who aren't open to others points of view.

rousseau · #16 Posted **Jun 5, 2008, 5:20 PM**

I'm just a lurker and occasional poster,* but I'd like to register my voice in protest of the banning of Goldfinger. A free-for-all style of give-and-take is far, far more desirable and productive than micro-managing threads that have the potential to offend some of the hypersensitive posters on this forum.

*Yes, I admit I got carried away in the "religion" thread.

SteelTown · #17 Posted **Jun 4, 2008, 2:04 AM**

Warnings have been sent. We are now at the tipping point where if rules are broken again actions will definitely happen. I didn't make up the rules. It's just my job to make sure that the rules are being enforced to create an enjoyable and productive forum.

I'm and I know flar are getting tired of having to edit post to soften them up or having to delete them. Everyone can do their part and simply IGNORE post you believe to be offensive in any way, take the high road. If you don't and you feel the mods are being hard on you than you should have simply just ignored the post first the start.

It's time to stop trolling and add onto the discussion.

SteelTown · #18 Posted **Jun 4, 2008, 2:24 AM**

I just wanted to add another suggestion. If you find a post that's offensive or have an issue with it click on this button

and report it. Once that's done some kind of action has to be taken.

beanmedic · #19 Posted **Jun 4, 2008, 3:52 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by SteelTown

I just wanted to add another suggestion. If you find a post that's offensive or have an issue with it click on this button

and report it. Once that's done some kind of action has to be taken.

I do that all the time, but I can't tell if anything was done.

I have a question: If an individual gets banned, what's stopping them from making a new username? Is the IP address banned or what?

SteelTown · #20 Posted **Jun 4, 2008, 4:38 AM**

Yes, the IP address is banned.

Whenever a post is reported some sort of action will be done. I suppose next time one of the mods will notify the person what kind of action that took place.