Abuse of Powers

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Okay here is my short view on this issue I don't really care if anyone says anything about my recent absence for that will be explained here as well.

1-Phate has received an infraction on my part for going over the lines of respect.

2-When you sign up for this board, you have to sign a agree to the rules, when you click that box you are agreeing to the rules under the contract of your name, technically just posting under Chillen name the wife is violating a contract rule and she certainly has no right to give an infraction.

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4-This new breed of posters who talk with over exaggerated !!!! marks, way to long of posts and poems that I don't understand nor care to try to is part of the reason I haven't been posting as much, its annoying and it takes away this boards level of intelligence which is really quite elite among online forums
but you wouldn't know it, especially recently. I say we see this as the final straw and take our board back to a higher level of posters again. Re-work the stickies, re-focus our presence and return these kinds of powers to mods only.
 
tonymcclellan said:
To Wrangell:

With the inception of the infraction system, we have the ability to Warn and temporarily ban people for various reasons. The go as follows:
- signature violations
--- these are obvious now, i think to everyone
- offending other members
--- if members are posting only for the reason to offend other members
- using profanity
--- some swearing is ok. It is part of our language, and, to a degree, i do not think it is worth banning
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An FAQ would do nicely thank you as it would help those already used to V.B forums to understand what goes on here. I don't understand why the rep system is not like the standard V.B setup so again the FAQ may help rather than 1000 p.m's to the Mod's from new users.
 
AZN_Dave said:
anyway to see the post? or were you joking about the reported psots section.
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No. There are two sections that cannot be seen by anyone but admin and mods. There is a section that we can use to communicate to each other, discuss issues, etc.

Then when any post gets reported, including spam, a message is created in a designated section to alert to mod attention.

Yes we can see those that are online even if they have chosen to be invisible to all other users.
 
theleip said:
When you sign up for this board, you have to sign a agree to the rules, when you click that box you are agreeing to the rules under the contract of your name...

......technically just posting under Chillen name the wife is violating a contract rule and she certainly has no right to give an infraction.
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Unfortunately both Derwyddon and myself were given ' infractions ' and negative reps by Chillen's wife, even though according to you " she certainly has no right to give an infraction ".

I agree with your comment below......


" return these kinds of powers to mods only "​


theleip said:
This new breed of posters who talk with over exaggerated !!!! marks, way to long of posts and poems that I don't understand nor care to try to is part of the reason I haven't been posting as much, its annoying and it takes away this boards level of intelligence which is really quite elite among online forums

but you wouldn't know it, especially recently. I say we see this as the final straw and take our board back to a higher level of posters again. Re-work the stickies, re-focus our presence and return these kinds of powers to mods only.
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Very well said.
 
theleip said:
4-This new breed of posters who talk with over exaggerated !!!! marks, way to long of posts and poems that I don't understand nor care to try to is part of the reason I haven't been posting as much, its annoying and it takes away this boards level of intelligence which is really quite elite among online forums
but you wouldn't know it, especially recently. I say we see this as the final straw and take our board back to a higher level of posters again. Re-work the stickies, re-focus our presence and return these kinds of powers to mods only.
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THANK YOU! For the love of god! My life hasn't been exactly stable lately but I have to say that my less posting also had a lot to do with those "!!!!ROCK ON!!!!!" posts as well. I would come on once in a while and just get annoyed by some of the posts. I didn't want to seem petty by constantly complaining about it. Honestly I was hoping that at some point it would just go away. It does cheapen the board immensely and if I were looking for a forum to become a part of I would look at those posts and go "ok this place is full of spam" and move on to look for a different board.

Just my thoughts on the matter. Hope I don't get an infraction.
 
No no no calcium, no infraction.. You're being banned :p lol


And to see the mod/admin section you must have a special decoder ring, and go through the initiation process..
 
calcium said:
THANK YOU! For the love of god! My life hasn't been exactly stable lately but I have to say that my less posting also had a lot to do with those "!!!!ROCK ON!!!!!" posts as well. I would come on once in a while and just get annoyed by some of the posts. I didn't want to seem petty by constantly complaining about it. Honestly I was hoping that at some point it would just go away. It does cheapen the board immensely and if I were looking for a forum to become a part of I would look at those posts and go "ok this place is full of spam" and move on to look for a different board.

Just my thoughts on the matter. Hope I don't get an infraction.
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Out of curiosity can you show 5 or so links to such posts. Although I signed up the other day I was shocked to see spammers posts being put as stickies. That and the unanswered questions I raised earlier in this post would need "addressing".

:)
 
calcium said:
THANK YOU! For the love of god! My life hasn't been exactly stable lately but I have to say that my less posting also had a lot to do with those "!!!!ROCK ON!!!!!" posts as well. I would come on once in a while and just get annoyed by some of the posts. I didn't want to seem petty by constantly complaining about it. Honestly I was hoping that at some point it would just go away. It does cheapen the board immensely and if I were looking for a forum to become a part of I would look at those posts and go "ok this place is full of spam" and move on to look for a different board.

Just my thoughts on the matter. Hope I don't get an infraction.
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I don't see how when someone puts "rock on" at the end of their post that would be considered spam.
 
She is not saying it is considered spam, she is saying that it cheapens the "feel" of the board to the degree that you would think this place was full of spam.

Difference.
 
Santa Claus!!!!!
 
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