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Feb 1, 2007kingcobweb posted a message on My Deppressionmy depression is often greatPosted in: Cecilia's Teardrop
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Jan 28, 2007kingcobweb posted a message on my life..... it has no real reason.........guys I am serious stop making fun of mePosted in: PODOBLOGOCAST 2.1
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Let's spend all our time discussing instances when a moderator has wronged you in some way.
Have you considered that maybe, all this drama and **** is just a horrible distraction, and makes everything and everyone look way worse?
The staff is graciously asking for feedback on what the site is like, and all I can see in this thread is bull**** so incrediboring that even I, who really enjoys MTGS drama, find it entirely unreadable.
edit: while I certainly disliked MTGS when I was here last time, so many aspects of it have become sick caricatures of themselves since I left. Staff drama, such a fascinating idea when it happens behind closed doors, swiftly devolves into long rambling "WELL I HEARD THAT YOU SAID TH-" high-school style crap when it's spilled into the open. The Gutter, which I put a lot of effort into trying to make into a readable, irreverent, funny forum that threw rocks at staff members and snickered from the bleachers, became a horrific assemblage of people making extended humorless effortposts about absolutely nothing, and I'm glad it closed to avoid tarnishing my memories of it further.
Instead of me spending time provoking staff in Community Issues, those staff freely and of their own volition get into extended post-offs with people that blatantly have no interest in the forum other than posting about the forum.
****.
edit: to clarify something Harkius said, was mystery45 told not to post in Debate any more? On a totally unrelated note, what would the mod or admin who did this like to receive for Christmas?
"Transparency" is really just a code word for "doing whatever the user base wants," and unsurprisingly, the current user base is always going to want to continue along the same path, rather than attempting to make that user base a better user base.
Are... have you... does... what? This happens all the time and is necessary to tell people to knock it off when they're acting dumb v:confused:v
This is a wonderful feature of them, not a bug.
Because it's still not an immediate punishment when people do something wrong, and it still tries to categorize posts into neat little boxes.
People respond to incentives. Specifically, people respond to immediate incentives. Make bad post -> maybe get suspended when you make two more: this is a bad incentive structure. Behavioral economists have repeatedly proven that, for incentives to work, they need to affect things now. People are fundamentally loss-averse, and MTGS can exploit this by, whenever something bad happens, immediately taking away something the user has (ie their ability to post).
People know where I stand on General Site Philosophy, so I'll keep this post to simply discussing the infraction system. FWIW, former admin Goblinboy (who implemented the infraction system in the first place) agrees with my position on this.
An argument is just a discussion you're losing.
Post reported for attempting to hit on me.
Why shouldn't a mod have a vocal interest on the issue of "don't use insulting and degrading terminology toward other people?" I'd be uncomfortable if mods weren't vocal on that topic.