Is criticism of Moderators a bannable offense?

[DandyDon]

"Is criticism of Moderators a bannable offense?"

In summation, no, it is not.

The Kraken

Great - it's settled. TG...!

 

[The Kraken]

Let's not start moving off topic.

The Kraken

 

[RonDawg]

Often, a mod's mistakes have nothing to do with SB policies. Either they misunderstand them or are ignorant of them. I would wager that ANYONE can make a mistake and that we have enough spin doctors here that they can make it look like a heinous conspiracy to usurp the rights and fun of the users.

Again, if you feel a mod has acted improperly, a simple PM to them (and maybe to me) will more than likely resolve a simple misunderstanding. I understand that the more public executions have their entertainment value if your goal is to disrupt, harm embarrass or cajole. But, if you simply want to help, then PMs are the way to go.

Pete,

I think you're "missing the forest for the trees" here.

Most of us have not gone through the "mysterious changing of passwords" and "sudden vacations" that has been mentioned. But, I have witnessed quite a bit of heavy-handed moderating here. I've been a victim of it myself, on another similar thread, where I actually COMPLIMENTED a mod only to be given a stern warning to remain on topic ON THE VERY NEXT POST!! Needless to say, I won't be giving that mod any more compliments.

The fact that these threads go on for pages and pages tells a lot about management's relationship with its members. If things were so hunky-dory, not only would these threads not go very far, but management would be supported by its' members responses. With one or two exceptions, I am not seeing it here or any other similar thread.

I'm in a profession where "keeping people in line" is the definition of the job. However, in today's society, I cannot hide beh "its the law" and "if you don't like it, complain to the Sergeant." Neither should SB mods hide behind "It's in the TOS" and "if you don't like it, compalin to Pete." People will simply not tolerate that anymore. An often-mentioned saying where I work is "It's not what you say, it's how you say it."

I've got to make this short as I've got to do my own "people herding", but I'll say this: Scubaboard's management has a major customer relations issue that it needs to solve.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

No Bob, I am not interested in trading barbs with you or anyone here. If you have a substantive reccomendation for improving things, please PM me. If you just want to continue in your efforts to try and embarrass me and the mods with unfounded criticisms, then the floor is all yours.

Unfounded? All I did was report what happened to me, Pete ... a report which it seems got "disappeared".

I don't want to embarrass you ... I do want your new management to give some thought to how they've decided to run things. I've never seen this board managed in such a heavy-handed, disrespectful manner ... and I've been here a long time.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[mike_s]

"Is criticism of Moderators a bannable offense?"

In summation, no, it is not.

The Kraken

hmmmm.... interesting.

Here you say it's not, but yet you are the one who closed this thread after post 462.

(of course to be fair, you did re-open it. )

 

[The Kraken]

If you will note, I asked the participating members, at that point, if they felt that the thread could be closed.

And the consensus of the participating member at that time was that about all that could be said had been said.

And so, in concurrence with the agreement of the participating membership at that time, the thread was closed.

And I doing so, I also made mention that the thread could be re-opened.

Is there a problem here?

The Kraken

 

[mike_s]

Is there a problem here?

The only problem I saw was that I thought the thread should have died on it's own w/o closing it. Closing it just makes it seem like moderators don't want to hear criticism.

Many other people apparantly didn't think it should have been closed either... (hence it being re-opened). If it was a true consensus, there wouldn't have been a question about that.

However, I do think it was good that you and other moderators were open minded about re-opening it.

But like I said, closing it just makes the moderators look bad.


Ok... stick a fork in that horse also. This thread is 'done'.

 

[The Kraken]

In the cyber world, things NEVER die of their own accord.

HAL

 

[The Kraken]

Well, it's been a long week in Lake ScubaBoard . . .

May all of your dives be deep,
May all of your ascents be safe,
and may all of your S/I' be warm and comfortable

I'm tired, it's been a long thread and I'm going to bed (to may members' delight)

But above all, I wish ALL of you . . .
Safe dives . . . . . . . .
. . . and safe ascents !

The Kraken, the K, and ?

 

[H2Andy]

Well, it's been a long week in Lake ScubaBoard . . .

where all the members are nice
all the Mods are polite

and all H2Andy's are above average