09-07-2003, 12:30 PM
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#37 (permalink)
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A Real American
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Originally posted by oberon
Opaque enforcement bothers me too. How can you trust people who enforce a rule if you can't see for yourself what happened? How do you know they broke a publically-announced rule (all of which are perfectly reasonable) or if they just pissed off somebody?
Problem is this creates even more drama to "leave the body" and let you see what happened. I've seen this at other forums I've modded. As long as all posted rules are not broken you should be given the benefit of the doubt. Of course there are invisible rules and each mod has things they tolerate less than the other, it's called being different from others and human. I might not lock a thread at other forums that another mod did, and I might delete a thread that spirals out of control with drama. Believe me it's better to let a person be banned for whatever reason than to raise a bunch of questions about it. They can always rereg unless they're IP banned, and if they went to the trouble to do that then they really aren't wanted there so they should take the hint.
It's just a forum...this or any other free forum owes you nothing, and you should expect nothing for what you pay. I have learned this the hard way in times gone by.
I'm personally still a bit paranoid about my participation on TFP for these reasons. I can tell you this is not true in other groups that I am part of (they are mostly orthagonal in purpose, don't worry).
this forum is the most "strict" one I go to, but I do like the fact that ppl are expected to reply to efforts made in the Erogenous Zone and the lack of pointless flames in topics I read here. I get more responses to one thread of porn here than all posts combined at other forums where I have now stopped posting . That's what keeps me coming around, that respect for effort made is enforced.
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