Dear Recombinantsocks,
You really have been a solid rock of reasonableness and rationality in all this. I don't take any of it as a criticism. I think you've done exactly the right thing all the way through this, providing the voice of reason.
I'm not being malignant, or vengeful towards the Moderators. It isn't about castigation. I just think the one reality you have to face here is that the moderation was vastly in excess of anything I've ever encountered on any of a number of forums I've been on. Forums work with discrete moderation.
This forum ran though all kinds of upsets for five years; it has only gone wrong since the new moderation was introduced in the past three months.
I don't think you can safely argue that suspending people for four days (and it was in effect suspension, not delayed moderation as they try to make us believe - posts weren't held up they were destroyed) - just because they chose to interpret what was said, by quite a stretch of the imagination, caused a complaint.
The moderation lately experience, public shaming and suspension without warning for trivial incidents, was without doubt vindictive and vile. Please don't try to excuse it.
The problem now isn't about forgiveness and lets just roll our sleeves up and get on with the forum again. This latest episode has scared people. The atmosphere created is poisonous. It has made people feel ill. It shows no regard for people on the autistic spectrum (nor the slightest comprehension of adult autism), for whom the forum was, at least in part set up.
I could set about answering lots of posts and and creating new ones, and gingering up the forum, but not on my own. others have to follow. And I'm really not sure it would be right to do so.
What has happened isn't about the Mods just making a mistake, or me being forgiving (and why is it just down to me?). This isn't about the Mods learning from this and changing (when they didn't last time). Trust has broken down completely.
People are afraid to post now, for fear of public criticism. That young adult who posted a few weeks ago and got told off for breaking rules that aren't there. He hasn't come back. People who witnessed this recent episode have had enough, I am certain of that.
Suggesting I try to make up and ginger things along a bit isn't the answer this time around.
I'm afraid the Mods have to accept that the moderation tactics this time totally killed this online community.
But please other people say what you think of R'socks suggestion. Do we just forgive and forget yet again? Is that a sufficient solution for those now affected?
Dear Recombinantsocks,
You really have been a solid rock of reasonableness and rationality in all this. I don't take any of it as a criticism. I think you've done exactly the right thing all the way through this, providing the voice of reason.
I'm not being malignant, or vengeful towards the Moderators. It isn't about castigation. I just think the one reality you have to face here is that the moderation was vastly in excess of anything I've ever encountered on any of a number of forums I've been on. Forums work with discrete moderation.
This forum ran though all kinds of upsets for five years; it has only gone wrong since the new moderation was introduced in the past three months.
I don't think you can safely argue that suspending people for four days (and it was in effect suspension, not delayed moderation as they try to make us believe - posts weren't held up they were destroyed) - just because they chose to interpret what was said, by quite a stretch of the imagination, caused a complaint.
The moderation lately experience, public shaming and suspension without warning for trivial incidents, was without doubt vindictive and vile. Please don't try to excuse it.
The problem now isn't about forgiveness and lets just roll our sleeves up and get on with the forum again. This latest episode has scared people. The atmosphere created is poisonous. It has made people feel ill. It shows no regard for people on the autistic spectrum (nor the slightest comprehension of adult autism), for whom the forum was, at least in part set up.
I could set about answering lots of posts and and creating new ones, and gingering up the forum, but not on my own. others have to follow. And I'm really not sure it would be right to do so.
What has happened isn't about the Mods just making a mistake, or me being forgiving (and why is it just down to me?). This isn't about the Mods learning from this and changing (when they didn't last time). Trust has broken down completely.
People are afraid to post now, for fear of public criticism. That young adult who posted a few weeks ago and got told off for breaking rules that aren't there. He hasn't come back. People who witnessed this recent episode have had enough, I am certain of that.
Suggesting I try to make up and ginger things along a bit isn't the answer this time around.
I'm afraid the Mods have to accept that the moderation tactics this time totally killed this online community.
But please other people say what you think of R'socks suggestion. Do we just forgive and forget yet again? Is that a sufficient solution for those now affected?
