Re: Important moderation message, please read
@Dark: speaking as a netizen since about 97, but by no means for everybody, then yes, if someone addresses a message to me alone then I think it's for me to deal with. It's great to have support of moderators and indeed others, but as long as there are trolls on the Interwebs then my only realistic option is to dwell briefly on how unfortunate it is that people can't be respectful to one another's differences, and move on. I will of course report any clear technology abuses or violations of the law, but it's up to you to set rules that clearly stipulate what you do and don't tolerate, so if you wanted to prohibit, say, hate speech, you would need to make it very clear, and say that this also applies to PMs which you regard as a part of the forum experience; then I can reasonably expect to get a useful result by reporting a bad person to you so that you can deal with it. You may do this, if you think it's for everybody's benefit, but I don� 39;t hold it against you if you choose not to do so; you aren't there to protect my feelings, and the fact that anybody can bypass you by sending me email is precisely why I don't believe moderating PMs makes any sense at all.
Now, if a similar exchange occurs in public, the rules are really quite different, because as a moderator you are *expected* to keep the wheels turning, and are therefore entitled to reject what you see as unruly behaviour unsuited to the operation of the forum.
Again, I understand that you protect game developers, I just don't see how you can realistically change anything about the way people choose to conduct themselves in private; whether it's a predisposition to cracking or a predisposition to heartlessness, it simply isn't something you can do anything about. It really is a testament to how well you and the other mods perform that there is both no killfile function on this board, and no need for one. You should be prou
d of that, and I congratulate you.
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