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Originally Posted by SpiceItUp
Lol, point taken!
But, we're all volunteers here, therefore resources are limited. I'm sure you understand that not every infraction review warrants or motivates an equal amount of staff attention. It's a matter of prioritization.
Further, there are certain gray areas of the guidelines where moderator interpretation and discretion are a larger factor than others. Hijacking happens to be one of those. Not all of the moderator staff share my philosophy on hijacking but for the record I voted to reverse those points of yours.
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I was pretty sure you voted that way. Hippos are bellwethers for moderating.
What gets me the most....and my case is a perfect example....is the inconsistency. I've got several pages of points and warnings. The first time I was pointed, I broke rules I didn't fully understand (repeated email corrospendencing thinking the rule was only for PMs) and I got pointed. Lesson learned.
Then there has been the occasion that I got a warning....and warning was the right thing to do although pointing would not have been unreasonable. I felt lucky my fuck up escaped points although they wouldn't have destroyed me. For instance the last warning from the hippo. My words "on the one hand, fuck him" were meant to be a guide to the other poster and should have been "on the one hand, tell him to fuck off"
The warning was appropriate. Points just the same.
There have been other warnings were I should have just been pointed...matter of fact. Pointed.
Clearly there is so much inconsistencies around here. These outing cases are good examples.
In my last case, a mod felt he had lost control of a threAD that was useless shit anyway and the only benefit of the thread was making fun of a bitchy whore and running up click count for the advertisers.
The op changed the subject for the umpteenth time because she was losing and I get pointed for replying to a direct comment she made to me. Hey, it's my only 5 points right now so that's not the point (no pun). The point is that we chronically have inconsistent moderating (which was rampant in that thread) and often have shoot-from-the-hip "pointerating" when really no harm was done even if the infraction would have been correct. We all stay for the drama and humor and paraphrasing pp himself, Houston would be a fucking ghost town if every infraction here resulted in points.
We'll see what comes out of my complaint. But as long as the points stand, I can nag about them.
That in itself is worth 5 points.
gnight mitches