Modding this place is never easy and certainly doesn't attract cohorts of grateful posters mate. Probably for the reasons you complain about below, people are largely self--opinionated.
the place (Flagpole Corner aside) has gone to shite...in my opinion you opened the doors too wide and watered down what the essence of the place was...its now just full of countless ten-a-penny internet-fan dullards all parrotting the same cack
Some of the the people who you place in that category may disagree and have a strong opinion on you - how do we go about moderating that stance and filtering who should remain? We closed registration for 4 years to protect the site and the Hillsborough campaign - we can hardly be blamed for an influx of posters when it re-opened. Are we supposed to ban them after a few posts .....?
you see it in other threads too, the Anfield Wrap thread is a good example..where it seems nothing but unconditional praise for its entire output is deemed acceptable..and where the pettiness of the mods interjections for even the slightest straying off the back-slapping party-line makes it a waste of time unless you just want to experience an echo chamber / puffpiece
As far as I know I've intervened when people have disrespectfully ridiculed Mel Reddy's voice, can't think of any Mod interventions and I've been back 4 weeks to have a look, it runs quite smoothy so I'd like to see those examples?. With respect though mate, you're being selective. It's ok for you to have an extremely disparaging opinion of certain contributors to TAW and you refuse to listen when he's on but you considfer Mods can't have a say though.
what im saying is lighten up a bit ffs....allow some disagreements and even argy bargy and piss taking...the place is never going to turn into RAOTL (thank fuck)...it just doesn't attract that kind of crowd (thank fuck) so let people do a bit of sparring and let them disagree with each other without taking sides and wading in with the size 12 boots and stamping MOD all over the debates...otherwise that main board is going to wither on the vine
I can't disagree that sometimes we seem to moderate strictly but there'd be more of the stuff you refer to in the first line and you haven't got access to the Report to Mod list. You are all reporting and bitching about each other for really silly reasons. I'm sick of getting reports from someone who simply disagrees with a poster and may even suggest he's 'a manc'. And there's serial reporters mate, believe me. Part of the disadvantage of becoming a Mod is that you're no longer a poster - you can't post an opinion of your own without being considered a bully, fucking sad that for me.
So, we don't claim to be perfect at all Pistolero mate but we do try to be balanced (and left wing
), I look at other sites and they are dross compared to here.
Before you posted this week I'd noticed you hadn't been on since the season ended - don't you think you have a duty to keep the place to the standard you expect?
If you could see the recycle bin and the reports log you'd perhaps be less critical