Title: Robert Plant & The Band Of Joy "Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down" Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Feb 5, 2011 Author:Robert Plant Post Date:2011-02-05 15:36:51 by A K A Stone Keywords:None Views:31100 Comments:45
I don't. I bozoed you. I can pick up any of your scant attempts at moderation by accessing another browser and skimming quickly for you doing that function.
Unlike you Stone, I know how to comport myself in a forum.
Let us go back to your graffiti-ing of those two threads the other day - one of which was mine.
You have a forum here with the operational modes of freedom of speech, unless you mis-interpret something, or don't like something and on top of that, you are capable of doing anything in response including changing returning bannee account names into highly disgusting and obscene verbiage.
I pay attention, Stone, and my memory of your antics is clear. And what you do tells me not to pander to you and to not pull punches in my criticism.
You are not a focused, consistent moderator. Believe it or not, I had no trouble not molesting posts I thought disgusting at DU when I was a volunteer mod there, because I learned how to follow guidelines while in the U.S. Army.
I could do it here by your standards, or at Free Republic by their standards.
A moderator is supposed to figure out what is allowable before they moderate and avoid how emotions of the moment move the bar. Being moderator is not just doing what the hell you want to do.
I have been called a pro Israel hack for leaving posts I disagreed with and removing those I liked at DU for example by posters who took umbrage to what I did.
It is a job. If a moderator has feedback on standards, that is something altogether different than moderating. That is done later and if you are overruled, so it goes.
Seriously you should moderate for someone else just to give you experience that will help you not be so inconsistent and governed by your emotions when you do this job. Just a fact, nothing personal in this.
And I don't put on airs here, I just have experience. I know people with more experience than I who do a better job than I do because they have a natural talent for this.
I am temperamental by nature just like you are, and I had to grow up and learn to count to ten and control myself before I act so I would do the job right.
You can easily be a very decent moderator, you have the potential, but you don't want to work on doing a better job, and your ego sometimes keeps you from being open, or learning.
Just take what I say as food for thought and get feedback like I just gave from other people. People are always willing to help you Stone. You just have to swallow your pride - as I learned to do doing this - and to make learning more important than posturing or feeding the ego. OK, I'm off the damn soap box.
