The backseat modding issue isn't something that directly affects me, so I won't talk about often. With that in mind, I think what THEJamoke said about it with his examples is possibly the best way of looking at it. If we pretend for a moment that my opinion is incredibly important, I personally wouldn't see a lot of it as banning material, but I think it's worth considering when the whole thing is evolving into a flaming mess. As Jamoke said, it doesn't do much for the maturity of the place. I'm not one of those people that thinks things should be a lot harsher here, with solely "intelligent" discussion being allowed, but let's face it: getting into arguments about whether a thread should be locked, a user should be banned or whatever is... well, pretty stupid really.
My opinion is that if you see a thread that might benefit from a bit of assistance as to where it should be posted, just have your forum link ready to post, or even better, a specific thread where discussion on a subject is already in progress. You can leave it at that, I'm sure. However, if you see that it's already been posted by another user, you can leave the thread and just live your life (aeey, aeey, aeey). As I said, I'm no expert on this topic, but I think taking a bit more of a light-hearted approach to it results in a no-more-tears formula. I think it's important that if a user doesn't want to get banned for this sort of thing, they should try not to be so post-happy with the sort of thing that Jamoke listed as a bad example.
That's just something I've taken away from looking around here anyway, hmm. It applies to other things apart from backseat modding too, but I'm going off-topic, and I already can't really remember my original point.
At 7/13/09 06:13 AM, B4gle wrote:
It doesn't help that it seems like mods are all competiting for the title of "biggest nazi mod".
My only problem with newgrounds is that the average user is a lonely, angry, asshole.
I think these are important points. I've posted the principles of what I think about the whole thing in some form or another a few times now, but I'll try to make this quick. People, regular users and mods alike, can do little things just to improve the atmosphere. It's bad news for your oh-so-important e-health if you set yourself on posting in every topic imaginable. For you try that, I'm betting that somewhere down the line you'll end up posting in a thread that a mod considers to be spam, and then you might end up banned. What happens then? You start forming negative attitudes towards all mods, and the resulting mix of accusations of abuse and "badassery" isn't fun at all.
I'm being as idealist as ever here, and it's not something that you'd change overnight. Still, it's a nice way of thinking if you just like having fun, laughing at some of the stuff users come up with (I mean that in a good way too), etc. Again, it's just little things you can do. My post on the last page responding to a post by EyeLovePoozy pretty much covers my opinions on the mod side of things.
I don't know if this post is even going to be read since it's probably going to land in the middle of page 23, but I'll check back for a responce every now and then.
No worries, I think I've read most posts in this thing because I don't have much of a life, or because I have some sort of unnatural binding obession with this place. It's interesting just to see what people think of the place though. I'm pretty sure quite a few others are looking over this thing time and time again too, so it's not gone to waste :)
At 7/13/09 06:39 AM, michelinman wrote:
well stuff like that is bound to happen because all mods have different opinions on things and they act accordingly. some think if a video is funny enough it deserves its own topic and won't even lock it, and others will delete it and ban people for it. it's just a matter of liberals and conservatives i guess. haha.
Now that you've brought videos up, I believe it's generally a matter of whether you're using a video to trigger a discussion. It's something that's done more frequently in the politics forum, but it can be done in general too, easily. I remember Rucklo once made a thread (I can't remember for the life of me what it was called, so I can't link it) where he posted a link to a video on YouTube and wrote a few paragraphs of his own to go with it. A considerable amount of people got pointlessly upset at him because "he's a mod and just broke the rules". I think there's a real difference between posting "i just found this funny video" and actually finding something to talk about. The video thread was made for a reason, and I remember what it was sometimes like before it was created. On the flip side of things, if you want to see some random videos, flick through the video thread. It might be a typical thing to believe no one uses it... so go and use it!
That's that one out of my system. It's not specifically directed at you, just my thoughts and all that.
Last but not least for now... oh boy, the fag situation. I don't really have anything to say on it, and it's been discussed lots of times here already by mods and regular users. Put a little basically, I figure that if it's causing that much trouble, then just don't use it. Find another word or something, providing you're not all-out breaking the rules.
Hmm, I'm really not sure on this one, haha.
