Boni opened this issue on Apr 14, 2015 · 119 posts
pumeco posted Thu, 16 April 2015 at 5:50 PM
Nothing wrong with the arrows, Boni, they're fine.
Personally, I'd call the Top of Forum button, Back to Index, but it's not really the naming of it, it's where they put it. No matter what, you only reach for that button when you've reached the last post, that's why that button should automatically 'tag along' after the last post, so that no matter whether you just wrote the post or read it, the button is there. It's just carelss design the way it is, it's extremely amateurish.
Regards you becoming a mod, good, I'm definitely pleased to hear it, you seem very sincere to me :-)
Maybe it will give you extra powers to keep an eye on Shane as well!
And speaking of Shane ...
Shane, don't think people are so stupid that they don't know you have your hands tied being a mod. I'm aware a mod has to deal with that, but you've singled me out so many times now it's become set in stone - you couldn't even be arsed to delete a harmless post I asked you politely to delete in that thread of yours. Not that it matters, it's not important, but it's the fact that there's not even enough respect from you to do something as simple as that.
When you took a job as mod, you must have known it's going to get you disliked if you don't balance what your job is, with what's right. Put yourself in the shoes of the non-moderating members here, and you'll see that it's the secrecy that is the biggest problem (not including the state of the site itself). Even the simplest thing like leaving a placeholder for a deleted post would stop that, or at least go a long way towards stopping it.
If you delete a post then it should say "Post deleted by AmbientShade", and if Boni does it, "Post deleted by Boni", same with the cooridinators if they have the ability to delete. No moderator should ever have an issue with leaving a placeholder for their actions, because that way, a person isn't going to fly off the handle, and instead, is going to be more inclined to contact the mod and ask about it - because they know who it is. It also means that moderators wouldn't be so trigger-happy at deleting posts in the first place, because other members can see whats going on - the secrecy is gone.
Being able to delete posts and have your actions be anonymous from the members you share this forum with, is always going to cause friction. It creates a kind of "them and us" atmosphere, and that's exactly what you have here right now between the members and the admins/mods etc.