tell ya what......if I EVER hear somone say something like that again....they will be on my personal sh!t list! Fuggin' idiots have no clue about someone's history.......that comment REALLY pisses me off! Why not PM me who said it?Today I was told to get off my lazy unemployed azz and delete someones garbage. They dont know me,or why I'm here moderating,but to them it seemed like the right thing to say.(Their opinion).
I believe the org's involvement stopped as soon as Rub realized what was being sent around...we can only encourage the user that received that email to contact authorities themselves and I don't know if that member did so...Did the police take a report on kilrbusa or what ever his name is? I say zero tolerance for that kinda shid! Sooner or later.all their pc's,laptops, and neighborhood internet cafes IP's will be banned.::
I don't think I can ever remember the site being total self disciplined, and I have been here a long time. The site is like the tides each year. You have some out of controol and then back to more of a norm. We don't ask much to keep the site to what the majority wants. I can even remember saying I had enough last year (just had a bad day with lots of arguing on the forums). In most cases you are right members do a good job of moding themselves, unfortunately not all the time. All of you keep up the good work, and keep telling us of your needs and dislikes.I must be missing alot or something.. I can't tell one bit of difference in the site today... and 6 months ago... other than all the mods seem to be freaking out.
and yes I know what your thinking rub.. but nope.. my biggest problem with that is your complete lack of tact, respect, or people skills... thats private stuff.. and I'm not bringing it out.. I just knew you would jump to conclussions and get yer panties in a wad if I didn't exclude it right off.
I'm talking about all this other stuff dire stuff that seems to be going on.
Either we've picked up some seriously bad people that I haven't noticed (kiddie porn would fall into that category of course) or we've picked up some people that can't find anything better to do that whine about every little thing that comes up on the boards.
I have no stats to back this up.. but it seems like we've had more topic deletions/post editing/mod intervention in the last 2 weeks than we've ever had in the history of this site.
2 months ago I couldn't even have told you who the mods were... Now half the threads coming or going are talking about modding this and modding that..
.. and I still can't one bit of difference in the site. We've had the occasionally half naked chic... but thats a pretty common thing... other than that.. all I've seen are a bunch of locked topics that topics or posts that disappeared for no apparent reason.
We seemed to be pretty much self moderating 2 months ago... whats changed?
Very well put!This site is privately owned/operated, and yet all it costs most of the members is the price of their Internet connection to use (some of them not even that if they're surfing at work)
It's a privilege to post here, not a right.
If you can't follow the (simple) rules, go somewhere else or set up your own board that's better suited to your personal tastes.
that was beautiful Doug.Okay. Here's am easy way to think of the rules: (for me anyway)
When you join a webforum, and you agree to the rules, you are virtually entering someones home. When you're in someone elses home, how do you act? What kind of behaviour would you have?
Better yet, how about if you invited someone else into your house? Would you want them to follow your rules? Would you expect them to have behaviour that you feel is appropriate? If they don't, would you ask them to straighten up? Would you ask them to leave, or escort them to the door, if they didn't? I know I would!
Maybe the welcome page should say something like this:
Welcome to Hayabusa.org!
You have arrived in my house, and are welcome to stay as long as you want. Feel free to look around and chat, but please follow these simple rules.
Please respect the rights and opinions of other visitors, and they should respect yours, too. The Moderators are here to keep the house tidy. Please help them by not leaving your own garbage, as my house is quite large and they already have too have much to do!
If you don't follow my rules, the Moderators or myself may ask you to leave.
Thank you, and enjoy!
Captain