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Post by insularinsider on Jan 17, 2009 23:28:11 GMT -5
The idea that EAN is for everyone with any interest and every topic is unsupportable, however. Forums need a defined purpose, and that purpose is realized through self moderation and administrative moderation - when the former fails, the latter must act. A sensible response, so answer these for me: In precise language, what exactly is the defined purpose of EurasianNation? Are topics related to cultures and histories that are fusions of Asian and European influences a violation? Who determines what's off limits and where are these people? I know that there is a management change coming around the corner. I'm interested to hear what stays and what goes. Entertainment forum? Culture forum? General discussion? Which ones should be culled to make Swinger and Rob happy campers again? I guess this is the ultimate question. |
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Post by insularinsider on Jan 17, 2009 23:38:49 GMT -5
I personally believe that whiny threads like this hurt EurasianNation more than help it. The only people who could possibly get passionate about threads like this, assuming that they aren't dragged into it by name..., are the old-timers. I can imagine that many potential contributors would see the cliquish nature of the forum and get intimidated by the likes of some of the people calling for heads to roll. This isn't helping things. What's funny is that the same people complain that EAN has hit low point.
What EAN needs is new faces and new perspectives. Rather than focus on exclusion, the forum should be inclusion. Threads like this ought to be locked and discarded.
Let's wait for the new masters of the forum to solicit feedback, should they desire to do so. Until that happens, what's the point in trying to get the poor mods to preempt?
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Post by halfbreed on Jan 17, 2009 23:40:30 GMT -5
This is obviously what Rob, Scott, Serge, and halfbreed want, so I'll just spell it out:  LOL! I don't want ban, just a little bit of 'hush' or like LaFace said, LINKS. See title of thread -> Flooding. |
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Post by insularinsider on Jan 17, 2009 23:54:53 GMT -5
In the heat of things, I dragged in names that I probably shouldn't have. Sorry.
Still, if you actually read the original post - not just the thread title - it wasn't just about that. I sympathize that seeing bunches of long posts makes yours and LaFace's heads hurt, but the original post also included an attack on a number of new users who haven't even posted much at all yet and certainly haven't violated any rules. The thread title and poll don't capture all of the original poster's intent. It is dishonest of you to overlook that and a smokescreen for what is really going on here.
To steal Scott's 4chan/forum-speak, "i see what you did there."
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Post by insularinsider on Jan 18, 2009 0:16:46 GMT -5
She's a mystery to me too. I have no idea how it is humanly possible to gather so much information about a dispersed community and dispense it like that. Maybe there's a mestizo intelligence network out there? A front for a guerilla marketing organization? LOL. Anyway...
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Post by swinger on Jan 18, 2009 0:31:51 GMT -5
Let's wait for the new masters of the forum to solicit feedback, should they desire to do so. Until that happens, what's the point in trying to get the poor mods to preempt? I was going to answer all of your questions until I read this and then realized, as it seems you have, that the point is moot. Whenever the change goes down, whoever are the 'new masters', and whatever are their policy and/or other changes (if any), it'll make all this discussion pointless. Not that it's not pointless already. Either they'll tolerate those postings or they won't. If they do, we'll live with it, if they won't we'll live that too. I'm not going to worry about it. And you make a good point about the mods - I guess they probably already figured that out. |
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