How Request Moderation Action Revision
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Due to a mistake by an obviously senior moderator, I got put on the review hold list. I went on to solve the problem with the developer off line which was a damn nuisance but we got it sorted and that fixed a serious issue for thousands of people. Yet, due to “over enthusiastic moderating”, I was booted off. The Mod was convinced I was taking over the topic with my own issue when any reading of it that clearly wasn’t true.
I just continue to be myself and help people out occasionally and always comply with forum rules. Yet a couple of months later I come back and find myself still on the hold list to leave some 5* feedback. It is pretty sad that I was ever blocked in the first place and again that there is no auto release or review mechanism set up.
At the time I had a whinge about my treatment and even started a topic about natural justice. Everything I wrote got deleted. Maybe this one will go the same way. But, just before you press that mod delete button, ask yourself if somebody that would spend a whole lot of their personal money and go to the effort of doing the thing described on the prototype page is really somebody that would actually behave badly? It was a mistake in the first place and needs to be reversed.
Separately, there should be a transparent process to manage the block list as it is a fact that people learn. Even if the issue was legit in the first place, you want good members here and admonishment and rehabilitation is a much more likely thing than permanent ban on a poorly made judgement call, don’t you think? To me, so far, I have seen no adults in the room as I was continually getting lazy deletions to posts I made raising the legitimate issues I have been encountering here. I am hoping there is an adult that will actually reply and deal with the content. Thank you.
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Ok, so here’s the thing. You were put on moderation watch for breaking forum guidelines, and instead of continuing on without breaking any further guidelines, you decided to argue about it. That argument showed a willful disrespect for the established guidelines of these forums and your account was placed on moderation watch.
Moderation watch isn’t some sort of ban, it just means that one of the many volunteers on the moderation team has to review your content before it’s published. We’re always watching, and your content won’t be held for long. This particular one was held for only 30 minutes.
Normally moderation watch is temporary, but to be honest, each of your requests over the past weeks to be removed from the watch has included some form of insult towards those volunteer moderators. Rightfully, they been read and discarded immediately. This one isn’t so bad, so I’ve allowed it without censoring what you’ve said to at least start the discussion since you want more transparency.
So, to recap, your response towards the volunteer moderators for enforcing the forum guidelines has been to regularly insult them. That’s not making a very good case for why you should be removed from moderation watch.
We don’t demand respect for us, but we do expect respect for the established guidelines of these forums and a certain level of decorum. Until then, your content will need to be manually approved by a moderator before it’s made public.
PPS: If I am just being totally analytical and detached about the whole thing I would say what really happened is the moderator that originally hit me has a few blocks of text to copy paste into mod posts and picked one that seemed to fit the pattern. After all I had put up one heck of a lot of material, including some code which I didn’t know there was a smarter way to do. I actually and genuinely needed to learn about how to post blocks of diagnostic info – a well worthwhile use of Moderator powers. That was done and useful.
But this other “take-over” block of text went in, just because of the pattern not because the person actually read what happened. I of course knew exactly what was going on there and arced up about being told off for something I didn’t do. So I got pretty solidly insulted myself and was less than flattering in my response that this moderator was just being lazy and still hadn’t bothered to read the topic and understand there was no taking over going on. That got the ban slapped on.
This extra explanation is not meant to be “argumentative”, just a factual summary of the way something that wasn’t broken got broke. Think about how it would be for you if this explanation was exactly your truth? How would you feel about the bad handling of any attempt you made to right the original wrong? Whilst I note we are all volunteers here and I am admin of a couple of forums myself, sh*t happens. Better to take a tolerant view and move on…
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