Welcome your new mods, flar and SteelTown

[vid]

You mean the post reporting goes somewhere? I report them all the time but it never seems to do anything because the behaviour continues, and administrators don't seem to take me seriously, so I usually end up taking things 'into my own hands', so to speak.

[FairHamilton]

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]

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]

He shouldn't have PMed the Mods vicious comments. He got a warning but apparently he didn’t like that so he went all ape crazy with his PMs. Not a wise move to make.

[raisethehammer]

[QUOTE=rousseau;3594965]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.



"hypersensitive posters"??
none more than Goldfinger/BCTed. apparently he/she can't take reading the word 'moron' on a computer screen (despite the fact he once dropped a nice f-bomb on here).

[matt602]

Originally Posted by SteelTown

He shouldn't have PMed the Mods vicious comments. He got a warning but apparently he didn’t like that so he went all ape crazy with his PMs. Not a wise move to make.

Wow. I gave him way more credit than to do something like that. Very not cool.

[BCTed]

[QUOTE=raisethehammer;3595280]

Originally Posted by rousseau

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.



"hypersensitive posters"??
none more than Goldfinger/BCTed. apparently he/she can't take reading the word 'moron' on a computer screen (despite the fact he once dropped a nice f-bomb on here).

Do yourself a favour and stop working under the assumption that I am Goldfinger, because you look a little bit sillier each time you reference "Goldfinger/BCTed". I played a trick on you to make you believe that he and I were the same person and it worked far too well.

[raisethehammer]

wouldn't wasting everyone's time by "playing tricks" also fall under the realm of trolling??

[BCTed]

Originally Posted by raisethehammer

wouldn't wasting everyone's time by "playing tricks" also fall under the realm of trolling??

I have already conceded that it was a trollish thing to do in some of my many soliloquies [it was an exception --- anyway, I am done explaining myself], but it was also easy and delicious.

You waste your own time.

[rousseau]

Hi, just checking in here after viewing the Stinson thread that was locked. May I make a suggestion to certain people on the board who whinge and throw hissy fits every time certain other people say things they don't like or agree with?

Here's my suggestion: grow up, fer crissakes.

[BCTed]

Originally Posted by rousseau

Hi, just checking in here after viewing the Stinson thread that was locked. May I make a suggestion to certain people on the board who whinge and throw hissy fits every time certain other people say things they don't like or agree with?

Here's my suggestion: grow up, fer crissakes.

Yeah, that was pretty silly stuff --- I honestly wasn't expecting it. Oh well.

[matt602]

I can't even find this thread that was locked...

[FRM]

why doesn't this forum have the option to ignore a certain members posts? just like any other regular forum, this would easily keep the useless bickering to a minimum, and make the threads more informative.

[flar]

There is an ignore function on here. Click on the user's name and select "view public profile." On the blue bar running across that screen there is an option to add the user to your ignore list.

[BCTed]

flar is seriously out of control with his deletion of posts. In ryan_mcgreal's thread about converting the west Mountain to one-way, I replied with "Are you a troll?" and it was deleted immediately.

Two things that I find wrong with this deletion:
1. I was just kidding around and trying to make light of the "troll" fun we have had in recent threads.
2. If I had written the exact same post as ryan_mcgreal, I am betting that it would have been deleted.

I have watched my posts (and those of many others) disappear on a regular basis over the last little while --- a number of these posts did not involve anything contentious. Goodness, there were a couple of times when raisethehammer and I were actually getting along and our posts were deleted.

Entire chunks of dialogue are being removed and leaving gap-toothed conversations in some threads. I would rather read an archived thread that includes some contention than read something that is full of disconnects.

flar also essentially accused me of being a troll when I highlighted what I honestly found to be the only real piece of new information on the Connaught project in the Harry Stinson weekend article --- given flar's trigger finger, I am actually somewhat surprised that that post was not deleted as well.

What is going on here?

[flar]

Watch yourself BCTed, other mods would have banned you a long time ago. You've had several warnings already.

[BCTed]

Originally Posted by flar

Watch yourself BCTed, other mods would have banned you a long time ago. You've had several warnings already.

Banned me for what exactly?

When there was a bit of hubbub about McMaster being mentioned in an article, but not Hamilton, I quoted an article from that day which mentioned three universities but not their host cities. The topic of the article happened to be Henry Morgentaler, who had no relevance to me other than that he happened to be the top story of the day and thus made for a convenient source for an example, and you falsely accused me of selecting that specific subject matter strictly to incite raisethehammer. Your accusation was completely false and ungrounded --- I had no such intention with the Morgentaler thing. Also, had raisethehammer indeed gotten out of sorts, that would have been his doing, not mine.

I have been steadfast in my comments and stuck to my guns, but I have been courteous for the most part. People have treated me like absolute dirt, telling me to get lost, calling me a troll, a "genuis", "Mrs. Ted", etc. etc., and save for calling one person a jerk, I have not retaliated.

You are biased. You are also too trigger happy. I would like to see you removed as a moderator.

[coalminecanary]

Ted, most of your posts are simply there to point out the problems in other people's posts or to air your issues with their tone. If you really have a problem with someone's post, use the report post button, don't derail the topic by commenting on posting style. If another person's post is really causing a problem, the mods can deal with it if you let them know through the proper channels. Discussing it within the thread starts fights and causes more problems than solutions.

Because you consistently post commentary that is centred around: a) how others posts are worse than yours, b) how the moderation team is handling things poorly, c) how you are unfairly treated and d) how nothing is wrong with your own posts, I consistently ignore your posts and get frankly annoyed with how they derail actual discussions.

You have taken things very personally, but you have to realize that no one is here to gang up on others and no one's opinions are squelched. But you seem to have a perception that the world is against you.

It probably seems that way because you have created a situation where people are automatically on the defensive as soon as they see your name attached to a post. This may seem unfair but you've brought it on yourself, and the only way to reverse it is to stop arguing in public and start posting more constructively.

I'm sorry if this sounds mean or whatever, but I'm speaking honestly as a reader and contributor. You can take from it what you like. I don't agree with banning people, and I barely agree with removing posts, but it seems like every time there is a totally derailed discussion, you are involved. I'm not saying that each one is your fault nor necessarily instigated by you, but it's as if you are magnetically drawn to these "flame wars".

You gotta learn to ignore the posts that hit you personally, just like the majority of us ignore your posts.

[raisethehammer]

I agree with Coalmine, and I've suggested it to Ted several times - add constructive comments and IDEAS to the discussion instead of just ragging on everyone.
His response is always - 'stop telling me what to do'.
Fair enough. But the act gets tiring.
You must have something good to add to the discussion...please do. I'll be more than happy to carry on civil conversations with you if you bring great thoughts and ideas to the table.

[Jon Dalton]

It takes two to argue. It takes more of a man to hold your tongue than to insist on having the last word. It's so easy to be a shit disturber on the internet where there's really nothing to lose. Let's just stop adding more shit to the same pile. It really is getting old.