QUOTE(Mudmaniac @ Aug 23 2008, 12:53 AM)
Hey string,
thought i might put in my 2 cents on the matter.
"Professional" means getting payment to do a job. We moderators get our training on the fly and our payment is.... well.... satisfaction of a job well done?
He using it as a metaphor not literal .
QUOTE(Mudmaniac @ Aug 23 2008, 12:53 AM)
ianho deletes your posts. you complain he is shutting you up and abusing power.
ianho hears your complaints and UNDELETES your posts. you complain he is making you look like a spammer and he is abusing power.
Thats a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation isnt it?
I think he is referring to the 1st instance so that it should not happen again
QUOTE(Mudmaniac @ Aug 23 2008, 12:53 AM)
What power do we moderators have over you? we cant raise or lower taxes/petrol price. we cant take away your job. we cant even mess your internet connection.
How about the power to censor , delete and warp the discussions to a personal agenda
[ note : this is general not specific reference to any 1 mod]
QUOTE(Mudmaniac @ Aug 23 2008, 12:53 AM)
I'm glad you have a criteria for welcoming new members to the club. Last I remembered, this was a forum. A place of information to flow and exchange freely(also meaning without charge). Openly giving without hoping for anything in return. No rewards, no pats on the back, sometimes the newbs even leave without a simple "Hey Great! it works now! !" I say its their loss more than yours.
Good , glad you realise it but a forum cannot be truly " free " if it is constantly being perverted to suit what one like and does not like to hear.
Nothing free about that , the implication and follow on as many have noted is that you have to grovel to the " right " people for " free exchanges " . Not free at all.
QUOTE(Mudmaniac @ Aug 23 2008, 12:53 AM)
so ianho has a different opinion as you do about "touch-n-go" posters. he deletes your comments because he feels you are intimidating them. Is he not allowed to express that opinion? If anything he just needs to be more diplomatic about it. Its so easy to read things the wrong way these days.
I think if you put that to a real vote on LYN the answer would be NO. Who's to say who is intimidated unless there is a direct complaint from others. How can an opinion be " expressed " by deletion ? makes no sense .
QUOTE(Mudmaniac @ Aug 23 2008, 12:53 AM)
As for how important your opinion is, doesnt the fact that about 1/2 dozen mods and admin talking to you say something?
Hmmm. I guess I'm too much the slow old fool in this internet generation. Everyone already got their say.
that's not the point , we are pointing out that some Mods are abusing their power ie) that it is OUTSIDE the remit of LYN own guidelines