DarkSwan opened this issue on Jan 25, 2003 ยท 48 posts
MacSenour posted Sun, 26 January 2003 at 3:35 PM
AgentSmith, A moderator moves the the discussion along the given topic and makes sure that comments that are offensive, or off topic, are removed and the people who made them notified why. You are no moderator, you merely answer questions. Proof of this to me is that you are speaking to me about my post, where I see nothing from you about his. I can give you two instances of his poor behavior, his comment in my last post, and his comment that he admitted too suggesting that darkswan self voted. There's your proof, now act. My suggestion is that you suspend him for 15 days. For his own good, the site's good and a notice to all that use this forum other than intended. If you do that, he'll stay on topic and keep his mean comments where they should be. Otherwise you're opening the gate to more and more such comments. I realize that in some circles suspension is a last resort. Obviously if you used it here more, darkswan would have nothing to complain about and this thread wouldn't exist. I'm sorry if I sound harsh, but clearly had there been action taken when the mean comments were made in the first place, we'd all be enjoying darkswans work, with the voting being fair and the comments left only helpful. It's the lack of fear of some action on your part that gives people the "guts" to say the mean things in the first place. To sum it up, my problem isn't with him. It's with a site that lets him do this to someone else. If you truly want a site that is for artists, to help them grow and really push themselves, they need you to help them focus. Let them do that, by removing the stumbling blocks thrown down by those who have little interest in being helpful. This is my opinion...