Goldlust posted:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by nikbruno:
Look essxjay, I was posting my opinion per the original topic "Do we need moderators?". I was expressing my dislike for the changes to the FT boards, I do not need to be criticized in such an offensive way ("sorry kiddo") for an opinion that many others agree with. If we can't have a civil discussion, why hold one at all?
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You have got it all backwards! Since there are nobody to moderate the moderators
they can use derogatory sentences as much as they like... and they do.
In general, most people who
volunteer to be moderators are those who are
least suitable. Also a classic to (1) try hard to become a moderator, (2) misuse your power, and then (3) tell everyone that you really are using all your spare time to help everybody. Oh please, I am getting
so sick of this.
On a side note I watched a documentary on Hitlerjugend last night, and I did draw some lines between that and current events.
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Goldlust (and nikbruno) re your posts above I smiled to notice essexjay is ALSO a
Moderator on one or two of the other Forums here! That is not noted in his post or profile, which really should be the case surely with all moderators, now and future, for total transparency? I too really wonder whether moderators addresseing others here they appear not to know as "kiddo" is really good policy or manners? And I agree with some others here the second post in this thread appeared to be an attempt by another moderator to say "back off buddy" to a perfectly reasonable new post.
If there were moderators doing their job, that pest of a kid on the Coupon Connection under the long "swap 30,000 Delta miles" thread would have been cancelled as a user under all his names a month back and that thread long closed. He is now allegedly "suing" all kinds of posters there, and if any thread needed the chop, it is that one. Letting it run to over 200 posts is just feeding his mental problem, and it has zippo business being on that or any Forum. It was clearly a very dangerous scam to start with, the kid got caught red handed, yet FT and all its new Moderators seems oblivious to cutting off his posting access.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/003619.html
[This message has been edited by SkyMiler (edited 08-23-2001).]