Warnings and etc

[Kudistos Megistos]

>double posting

Mods, ban him!

As for the problem of how to deal with the ambiguous nature of board descriptions, the only solution is to realise that there will always be grey areas and use common sense in enforcing the rules.

No matter how clear the rules and board descriptions are, there will be threads that a reasonable and informed person won't be able to decide on a board for. There will be threads that one reasonable and informed person will think belongs in one board and another reasonable and informed person thinks belongs in another. There's nothing we can do about this. In these cases, it is unreasonable to discipline anyone.

Furthermore, people should think about why these rules exist. Surely, they are there so that the forums will be easier to use for everyone? They're not some retard filter and they're not there just so that we can punish people for breaking them. If there is a situation where it isn't clear what users or mods should do, then the rules are not fulfilling their purpose. In fact, they're doing the opposite of what they are designed to do by making things confusing and starting arguments

Personally, I think the most important question to ask, when deciding whether or not to punish someone for putting something on what one thinks is the wrong board, is "is this person being a dick?" "is it possible that a reasonable person could have looked at the rules and, bearing said rules in mind, have decided that this was the right board to post the thread in?". If one deems it possible that the posting may have been an honest mistake due to it not being obvious which board the thread belonged in, there is no reason to discipline the user. If, however, it is obvious that the person was ignorant of the rules or just completely disregarded them, then there is reason to reprimand the user. When in doubt, the user must be given the benefit of said doubt. If it turns out that the user actually is a dick, there will be plenty more chances to stick some green writing under his name.

 

[obesebear]

This needs to be cleared up, a warning means absolutely nothing unless the person who receives it continues breaking that rule or others back to back to back.  The boards are clear enough that most people have no problem at all putting posts where they need to be.  There are plenty of gray area ones that stay where they are, and there are plenty of gray area threads that have been silently moved to where they better fit.

There are separate boards for separate topics, and if no one enforces having threads put in their proper place, then qhimm.com will return to how it was before I became a moderator and 90% of threads ended up in Game Tweaking/Projects.   Could the boards be clearer?  Yes, definitely.  Are they clear enough to keep most threads where they should be?  Yes.   Will anyone be moderated or banned for putting threads in the wrong place? No, unless they are obviously doing it on purpose.

Punishment via our warning system is being moderated or worse. Getting a green tag under your name means nothing other than to show other moderators what you were warned for, and to serve as a small reminder to the person who received it.

Also, double posting is cool here... unless it leads to flooding.

 

[Opine]

Just a thought - but I frequent another forum, where they have an infraction point system. I don't know if this would be possible to implement on this board or not.

There, if you are warned once for something trivial it only appears on your User CP and as a message in your inbox.

It only shows up publicly, under your username in threads, if your infractions points are greater than 0 (Minor warnings have no points, unless you receive a second minor warning before a previous one has expired.)

Also, different violations carry different weights of points. So if you do something obviously being rude, your warning could carry high points - whereas if make an honest mistake, it can have low or none.
Or if you do something warn-worthy before a previous 0-point warning has expired, then second warning carries more weight.

I realize this might make it harder for the mods to keep track of who was warned for what. I also realize this might not be possible on this board. -Just a thought.

 

[Tenko Kuugen]

I don't think we need an elaborate system like that. In a bigger forum, maybe.
But on average, I'd say we have less than 100 relevant posts in a day. ( Or maybe a little over that, I don't really read EVERYTHING, especially not off-topic )
As such, mods can actually decide on a case-by-case basis what is handled how. It's not like we have 50 mods, where half questions the actions of the others.