The ban thread is pretty annoying lately. I feel like most people complaining about bans don't understand the mods are trying to make this a healthy community, they instead want to find loopholes in the exact wording of rules to unban some people while getting others banned, even if the community as a whole isn't in favor of it. "X poster got perm'd and then was allowed back!" yeah, the community wanted them back. They recently made a long post about how they don't add new rules exactly because of this level of lawyering some people would try and pull. If you don't like how things are done here you can either leave or try and sway people to your position but these people have no clue how to sway anyone, they know how to whine, complain and stamp their feet and go home when they don't get their way. Which is exactly why their point of view isn't the majority here.
I'm also so sick of x community is more moderated than y community bs. Anyone who posts here enough can see that it's crap but the problem is when you're entrenched in your stance you only notice your side taking losses and can't see the other side being just as affected, as if it has to be 50/50 anyways, though, what is it... for every XBOT banned a SONY PONY must also go? Or republican/democrat the same? No, that's not the rules lol, who the fuck would run a community that way?
I think the mods have hard enough jobs without having to deal with this crap. If moderation could be perfect my wish would be more OTs instead of a billion threads about the same subject but whatever, it's just an annoyance. I also get why some stuff gets it's own thread, because some OTs become so long and tend to be populated by a small group of regulars, if there's news posted in the next-gen thread what are the chances you see it before it's buried behind 3 pages of comments? Might as well give it it's own thread if the news is important enough. But, that balance is tough to figure out, it's all balancing acts and these people are mad the mods aren't perfect at it... well... I think they should shut up. I spend way more time here than I should and the rate people post at is too much for me to keep up with, not sure what people expect of the mods?
I also notice most people who say "but what about x person?" will also admit they never reported the person. Send in a report, don't wait until one of your comrades falls in battle to point out some post from a few days ago you were upset by. It reeks of vindictive and childish behavior to me. If you feel a post doesn't belong just report it (I seriously think I've sent 3 reports my whole time being here, could be wrong) otherwise you can't assume a mod noticed and you certainly can't assume a mod cares about a post no one even reported.
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