Boogie711:
Read the second post of this thread. What problems do you have with that?
I'd have to do some digging, if it's even still around. We've tried that before. It doesn't work. "I just read all their posts and they never did anything they are being accused of". Everyone wants to make their own judgements and confirm the judgements.
And again - we don't feel such a system is trustworthy. IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO SAY "YOU'LL HAVE TO TRUST ME ON THIS." I know by association who was responsible for launching the action against Seajay and the like... and that particular moderator hasn't said a peep on this or any of the related threads.
Unfortunately I don't know who it is, nor do I know anything about what happened so I can't really comment. But it's likely that moderator is a little busy explaining and dealing with the back room discussions.
I have posted evidence of hypocritical behaviour and actions by moderators, yet nothing happens. NOTHING. Such lack of action betrays your assertion that "mods are extremely responsible for their actions."
Posted, or privately presented? Personally I get really pissed when stuff gets posted? Why? Because it's a waste of time. I would then have to spend countless hours debating publicly and privately with the masses that want answers, when they have no need for answers other than their own personal curiousity. If it's not hard enough dealing with the private and back room discussions, you then add in the disruption of threads like this, and it's just unbearable. However if this one is anything like situations in the past, I can guess with the 100 plus posts in the public forum on this, there is probably closer to 400 plus posts in the private moderators forum about this stuff.
If people would just ask privately, and accept that times are crazy when this stuff is going on, things would be a _hell_ of a lot more smooth. I can't count the number of times a thread has been pulled for a little clean up, or locked, or whatever, and other threads pop up in seconds screaming "Where's my PM!". They never end up getting a PM because the mod that was trying to write it ends up sucking away all their free time dealing with the continuous screaming by the members, while trying to also report their actions to the other mods. And god forbid the ones that are pulled temporarily for discussion to make sure it's appropriate... Ooh... and the ones that are pulled for cleaning up... after fighting with members for a couple days, do you really think that mod is going to have any desire to take the time to clean up the thread that they pulled and thus created all the fuss because it got pulled temporarily.
Until you see it from both sides, you just aren't going to understand how much of a disruption these threads are, and hense my supreme hatred of them.