Re: a few questions about moderator actions, please read
Hi,
@Jayde and others
The question of good faith/bad faith is subject to variation of judgement as you can't define an action as done in good faith or bad faith without fully realizing the intentions of the original poster; although the points raised in post 28 have been agreed by at least 2 other members, which suggests they had been logical to a great extent. If someone wants to avoid double standards, a viable way is to stop shielding a bunch of members for the sake of the entire community. to explain further, under current circumstances and depending on his own judgement, Jayde, demonstrating the best of his intentions closed the thread in order to avoid further heat and confrontation. since most of you guys are regular visitors on this forum, it may not count as something entirely odd and off the shelf. but think of the bigger picture for an instance. according to the front page of audiogames.net, one of the main purposes of this site is to promote audiogames both among the VI and the sighted individuals. Now, if it had been an independent forum with a separate host and its own rules, the moderators could have done as much to close all the 10,000 plus topics spread out neatly over about 14 plus years and no one would have been able to do a thing about it. as this forum belongs to audiogames.net, and caters to the audiogaming community and not just its members, I think the moderators should hold a bit of consideration towards the community as a whole. the current system of bans or the severity of warnings are internal matters which the moderators are supposed to work out among themselves, but seriously, looking at various forum rooms in a nutshell and finding dozens of recently closed topics is what makes the atmosphere comparatively toxic for someone who intends to visit the forum once in a while, or create an account to become a member (including a potential sighted gamer or developer). in other words, there are other ways to stop the fire from spreading out and I respectfully disagree about closing/locking a thread being a plausible means to do so. if the moderators are able to delete and edit posts, why not considering editing the original post to reflect their position, or delete certain phrases from a post, or the posts themselves, or entire topics when the matter gets out of hand? what I'm trying to put out here is closing a thread represents putting a lid on the topic, making it impossible for rest of the members to reply on that topic. such closed threads being visible once every 500 topics is a thing, but encountering them more than a couple of times per page suggests that something horrible is going on. coming back to the example from post 28, you don't start closing down businesses and establishments just because a group of criminals decided to show up and make the places insecure. when the same is criticized, the enforcement officials blame the citizens one way or the other and fail to realize the actual motive behind such criticism at first place. I'm not trying to disregard what the moderators have done but as a member of a community, it doesn't do well to see every 4 out of 50 topics closed across various rooms just because a group of people could not be handed out harsher punishments. looking at this particular topic, it probably needed to be dealt with, but show the topic to a sighted game developer who intends to be a part of this community as a potential developer, and you get how damaging the action and the moderation post might come across to someone who is not aware about those members in particular. you can't just keep on doing what is dictated by good/bad faith, and ignore the rest of the bystanders who did not yet contemplate entering your bar, eg a particular thread. this is not about a single topic; there have been far more closed threads in recent past. if one takes the defense of stating an increase in number of people who cause fire, I'm certain that the same kind of people used to post on the topics 10 years ago; and there was rarely a closed thread. back then, the moderators had mentioned the fact that games are indeed played by teenagers the most; they deserve to be a part of the forums. unfortunately, things have spiraled down to a point where there are more than 50 different topics concerning a user's behavior, although he ultimately got banned. As a bottom line, please don't curtail free speech. please don't restrict people's ability to post on the forum by closing dozens of topics. please don't make the forum a bigger mess eventually encouraging potential visitors and developers to view the forum in a bad light.
and, that is all.
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