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Mod inaction and the future
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Yesterday Rusty Myers, owner of Soul of the Warrior and very long-standing member of RAT announced he would no longer post here because he felt he was unjustly treated and, though he requested the mods interfere, we debated the issue in the private forum but did not act. That, in general, has happened several times over the last months, and this case was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.

I am not going to comment on everything Rusty said, but as far as I'm concerned, he's right about one thing: if a member requests the moderators to step in, the mods should do so and should reply to the member in question, even if it's to say that they disagreed with their concerns.

So there it is, we, as admins and moderators, have been juggling the ball lately, and it's dropped to the ground. That we have lost an esteemed member of this community I consider a personal failure.

What have we done to prevent this from happening in the future? Two things. First of all, we're now talking to several of the members who stepped forward to offer their service as moderators. I plan to to formally announce these on November 20th. Henceforth that date will be the yearly 'birthday' of the moderator team on which new moderators will be presented and, if necessary, honorable discharge given. Second, we have revised our procedure so that offensive posts will not be allowed to stand to add insult to injury. That may occasionally mean we act too quickly, but we feel it's better to restore a mistake than dither. Nonetheless, we'll do our very best to be minimally invasive if at all possible.

Please help us out by considering how your posts may be received when you write them, and as a friend of mine and admin on another forum on the web says "Just don't be a d*ck!". That'll make everyone's lives easier!
Greets!

Jasper Oorthuys
Webmaster & Editor, Ancient Warfare magazine


Messages In This Thread
Mod inaction and the future - by Jasper Oorthuys - 11-14-2012, 11:37 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-15-2012, 01:06 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Robert - 11-15-2012, 01:39 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by jkaler48 - 11-15-2012, 09:57 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-15-2012, 11:12 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by Caballo - 11-15-2012, 11:54 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-16-2012, 12:07 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Robin Brown - 11-16-2012, 12:24 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-16-2012, 12:29 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Robin Brown - 11-16-2012, 01:13 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-16-2012, 01:16 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by M. Demetrius - 11-16-2012, 01:40 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-16-2012, 01:41 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by kevin mills - 11-16-2012, 01:41 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-16-2012, 01:44 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Robin Brown - 11-16-2012, 02:09 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-16-2012, 02:17 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by kevin mills - 11-16-2012, 02:41 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by M. Demetrius - 11-16-2012, 02:56 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-16-2012, 03:15 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Marcus Mummius - 11-16-2012, 04:22 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-16-2012, 05:13 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Marcus Mummius - 11-16-2012, 05:27 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by caiusbeerquitius - 11-16-2012, 05:45 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Robert Vermaat - 11-16-2012, 02:49 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by Epictetus - 11-16-2012, 03:38 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by Virilis - 11-16-2012, 07:02 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-16-2012, 07:11 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by Jvrjenivs - 11-16-2012, 11:05 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-16-2012, 11:07 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by M. Demetrius - 11-17-2012, 12:00 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-17-2012, 12:08 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by caiusbeerquitius - 11-17-2012, 12:15 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-17-2012, 12:18 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Markus Montanvs - 11-17-2012, 12:32 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by M. Demetrius - 11-17-2012, 12:40 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-17-2012, 12:48 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Robert - 11-17-2012, 12:48 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-17-2012, 01:05 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Markus Montanvs - 11-17-2012, 01:12 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-17-2012, 01:19 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Jasper Oorthuys - 11-17-2012, 02:00 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Robert - 11-17-2012, 02:01 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-17-2012, 02:07 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by arklore70 - 11-17-2012, 02:49 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by caiusbeerquitius - 11-17-2012, 03:01 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Patrick - 11-17-2012, 04:19 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Robert - 11-17-2012, 04:36 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Epictetus - 11-17-2012, 01:08 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by Renatus - 11-18-2012, 12:37 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by antiochus - 11-18-2012, 07:23 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Macedon - 11-18-2012, 09:21 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-19-2012, 04:33 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Dan Howard - 11-19-2012, 05:43 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Renatus - 11-19-2012, 05:55 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Dan Howard - 11-19-2012, 06:00 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Renatus - 11-19-2012, 10:03 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Renatus - 11-19-2012, 10:04 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by M. Demetrius - 11-19-2012, 10:11 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by Vindex - 11-19-2012, 11:33 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by caiusbeerquitius - 11-19-2012, 11:56 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by Virilis - 11-20-2012, 12:37 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by caiusbeerquitius - 11-20-2012, 12:44 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-20-2012, 07:12 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by M. Demetrius - 11-20-2012, 08:36 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by Epictetus - 11-20-2012, 08:53 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-20-2012, 10:42 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by Vindex - 11-21-2012, 04:41 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by M. Demetrius - 11-21-2012, 05:23 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by Sean Manning - 11-22-2012, 05:33 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by M. Demetrius - 11-22-2012, 08:19 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by Sean Manning - 11-23-2012, 02:17 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by M. Demetrius - 11-23-2012, 09:38 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-27-2012, 12:28 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by M. Demetrius - 11-27-2012, 08:09 AM
Mod inaction and the future - by Ben Kane - 11-27-2012, 05:20 PM
Mod inaction and the future - by Flavivs Aetivs - 11-27-2012, 06:59 PM

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