Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-10112739-20160215054833/@comment-4845243-20160216185749

Man.city1 wrote: Obi the LEGO Fan wrote: Man.city1 wrote: Jdude420 wrote: Man.city1 wrote: To be honest, I believe that the rules need amending - an accumulation of bans gives rise to a large ban (similar to the yellow card accumulation system in football). Furthermore, I also think the rules need to add that whenever a user is found to toe the line excessively (push people's buttons, without breaking the rules per se, but always on the borderline limit) should be banned appropriately for an accumulation of offenses. Lastly, the idea of saying "it was a joke bro" yet insulting a user (even threatening them) needs to be looked at more seriously (as was evident earlier today, and this lenient policy we have to "jokes" is too absurd, one doesn't joke hoping for ill fate on people's family) I'm sorry I ha dot post this here, but all my previous complaints and suggestions to the admin team had fallen on deaf ears, or met by opposition by a select few. As was seen by the psy incident, we have become to lax of late. I agree, but on the topic of "jokingly" insulting someone, I think LEGO_Message_Boards_Wiki:Personal_Attack_Policy covers it pretty well, the key is that it's enforced.

Then why isn't being enforced? I was shot down by a fellow mod for trying to enforce it... Bad moderation, sounds like.

Anyone can say "bad moderation" and wash their hands of it mate, but this "bad moderation" may be due to a lack higher up in the line?And what's gonna be done about this? We can't have mods arguing over the rules due to ether lack of experience or clarity. Well, since I'm retired I really don't know the exact details of what's going on (I'm only active in this thread because I think it is important). That said, the fact that individual moderators criticized you for that certain type of action (assuming you aren't leaving anything out of the scenario) is symptomatic of poor moderating. Could administration seek to correct this through proactive moderation themselves? Yes, but that doesn't change the answer I gave.

It's also not "washing my hands of it." As a 99% retired administrator I won't personally be doing much of anything about it, but I have long advocated for a moderation model that would solve this kind of problem.