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My personal scrape with the Mods was when the XV179 debate reared its head after the MOD announced it wasn't contesting the compensation claim. With a large prod from me, the debate turned towards the other two contributary factors - Crew Tactics & Int. Apparently a relative complained, and the complete thread was deleted. And another two threads soon after.
I realise I'm not entitled to an explanation, but the debate was supressed, maybe the truth was supressed, and the relatives motive may not have been grief, but a different agenda.
I loves me PPRuNe, read it every day, but felt a dangerous injustice was done that day.
I get the same feeling from time to time but hate the notion that I am turning into a conspiracy theorist. I'm sure the explanation for the odd post removal is much simpler and comes down to swearing or possibly legal reasons.
I also understand the time that would be consumed providing explanations to all of the offending posters but there have been occasions when I simply don't understand why a post was removed.
I guess there's a compromise possible between free speech/open debate, and keeping some of the rubbish away that sometimes appears on here.
By way of an example, the FLt Lt Anderton thread on ARRSE, has a posting saying something like "My mate has stuck his thumb in her ****". That posting should very obviously be deleted by the mods, and the poster should be sent a PM notifying him of this, and warned of the consequences of repeating such posts. That doesn't mean the whole thread should be deleted.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for moderation, and I thank you for doing your job, just not at the expense of openess
You have it in one. We would not delete the whole thread, but we would most certainly delete the post and probably put him on a short term ban to remind him of his responsibilities when he signed up to PPRuNe.
Does make you wonder doan it.
__________________ Cool Mod - Here, and was there.
After reading your CV, I have a serious bone to pick with you sir! I note you worked in a nuclear shop!. If some of the lock knives in my local outdoor shop are illegal, then I shudder to think about the stuff you sold, and the kind of customers who visited. It kind of makes a chav with a fighting dog seem suddenly tame
I was placed in the 'sin bin' for making derogatory remarks about a certain woman's physical appearance. My remarks were no worse than many others that appear daily in other threads, in fact I think the only thing wrong with my remark is that it insulted the animal with which I compared this woman.
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However, this all left me with a very bad feeling of being too harshly treated without adequate warning - the warning came with the ban!! Hence, I posted in my "hissy fit" state about a fortnight ago that I was finished with Prune - whilst I still feel agrieved, I don't feel alone as this would also appear to be happening to others.
So there we have it. I'm in the 'hissy fit' state right now.
I noticed that this Forum had a 'mod' in 2003 - during the Spring Offensive of that year. I also note NOW that there is nominated Moderator.- Agree that this is not MY train set, and that Pop et al say their piece every now and then (their train set) - Are there any 'new' rules?, especially given the amount of 'sin-binned' posters who may step over the boundary with THEIR interpretation of 'Banter' ...?
I think the moderation on this forum is a lot more even handed and fair compared to the JB, forum. At JB they are like children with not enough to do. Titles of threads changed, threads and posts disappearing, closing threads with no explanation, all with monotonous regularity, banning, you name it, they're at it. I don't even bother sticking my oar in there anymore.
The "stable" is the height of instability.
Yes it's their train set and they can have it.
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HNS, agree, I was sin binned in a diffeent forum much to the surprise of a Mod here who was present at the time.
I know why it happened and it was a people thing rather than what I had said. That mod was operating to a rigid set of rules and no deviation had been permitted.
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Chum of mine did once 'slap' a tank...
During a posting with the folk who used to creep around various parts of East Germany, some boffin wanted to know how thick the armour was on some Sovietski tankski. So they gave him a device and told him to press it against the tank, press the tit and it would take a reading.
They didn't quite tell him everything though.
Chum finally found out where one of these tanks was parked, crept out in the dead of night with the boffin's toy, pressed it against the tank and pressed the tit.
A loud 'BOOOOOIIIIINNNNG' came from the device, which was obviously some sonar system. Chum legged it sharpish and about half-a-heartbeat later the turret hatch flew open and a dazed East German tank mate peered out in terror wondering what the hell had just woken him up..... It seems their crews sleep with their horses and/or tanks!
Nothing to do with moderators, who are all very fine chaps indeed!! But whenever anyone mentions tanks, I have this image of our amateur snoop waking up the East German tankie with that bit of boffinry!
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