Originally Posted by
essxjay
I wonder if some forget that mods are tasked with enforcing the TOS in toto. Enforcement entails reading each and every reported post and sometimes applying disciplinary procedures described in the TOS. If anyone believes the TOS overstates mod duty with respect to how reported posts should be handled then let's please get down to specifics. Repeating assertions of mod accountability or non-accountability are vague and not very illuminating.
Okay, I will take you up on your offer to get down to specifics. I hope you won't mind if the specific I discuss has directly to do with one of the forums you moderate.
There is a very specific section of the TOS which reads:
"Attacks against groups or classes of job holders (such as Transportation Security Administration employees) will not be tolerated."
Please note that I did not insert the words "Transportation Security Administration" -- they appear in the original quote. Interestingly enough, while this prohibition applies to all groups/classes of job holders, it was only the TSA which the writers felt required specification.
This is not a new part of the TOS. It was placed in the TOS in 2005 -- 6 years ago.
Despite what you say about "mods are tasked with enforcing the TOS
in toto" it is only in recent months that this was enforced at all. TS&S is loaded with posts calling TSA screeners "failed hamburger flippers", "smurfs", etc, not to mention the perennial favorite "perverts".
(A quick search of the TS&S forum came up with 479 posts using that term.)
I believe that I have not been vague in this post and I feel that this example is, indeed, "very illuminating" as to whether or not moderators enforce the TOS "
in toto".