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RE: The "Report" button, and how not to treat your staff.
November 11, 2016 at 4:35 pm
(March 27, 2015 at 11:22 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: The vast majority of you appear to either understand the proper use of the Report button, or are perhaps unaware of it's existence. For you - kudos for using it properly. Have a Scooby Snack.
Some of you, however, are unclear on what it's for. Its for reporting real violations of the rules (conveniently linked from every page), not things that you ought to be violations if you had your way.
Likewise, it isn't for flooding the staff with frivolous reports when one of us tells you something that upsets you. This creates a lot of unnecessary work for us, and hardly incentivizes the staff to view your case in the best possible light. Would you, if you were a defendant in a trial, leave a flaming bag of shit on the judge's porch, ring the bell, and run away? Would that tend to make him more, or less sympathetic to you?
Likewise, doing things that piss off the staff in retailiation for receiving a warning is the same. Its not going to end in your favor. Arguing with the mod who is assigned to deliver the message isn't going to help. Accusing them of having a vendetta isn't either. The staff member who delivers the message isn't the person who made the decision - that decision was made by the quorum of staff available while the issue was being considered.
If you happen to get a warning, its not that big of a deal. Usually, it will expire in 30 days and nobody is going to care that you got one. Just don't keep doing whatever it was that got you warned in the first place. We'll like you a lot better for it.
If instead, you decide to go the other route, that simple warning might just get upgraded to something more serious - or even permanent. We don't want to have to do that in most cases.
So please, be smart.
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RE: The "Report" button, and how not to treat your staff.
November 11, 2016 at 4:36 pm
*Starts abusing the report button*
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RE: The "Report" button, and how not to treat your staff.
November 11, 2016 at 4:38 pm
Pmsl.......
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RE: The "Report" button, and how not to treat your staff.
November 11, 2016 at 5:07 pm
*starts wondering when people will learn to stop necroing threads* 
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RE: The "Report" button, and how not to treat your staff.
November 11, 2016 at 5:09 pm
Never!
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RE: The "Report" button, and how not to treat your staff.
November 11, 2016 at 5:10 pm
Shush and go rep me dammit.
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(November 14, 2018 at 8:57 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Have a good day at work. If we ever meet in a professional setting, let me answer your question now. Yes, I DO want fries with that.
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RE: The "Report" button, and how not to treat your staff.
November 11, 2016 at 5:11 pm
(November 11, 2016 at 5:09 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: Never!
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RE: The "Report" button, and how not to treat your staff.
November 11, 2016 at 5:14 pm
(November 11, 2016 at 5:11 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (November 11, 2016 at 5:09 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: Never!
^^^^
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RE: The "Report" button, and how not to treat your staff.
November 11, 2016 at 5:16 pm
Sounds like a recipe for an STD if you ask me
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RE: The "Report" button, and how not to treat your staff.
November 11, 2016 at 5:39 pm
My idea (several pages back) is bloody brilliant.
A big blinky report post button that doesn't actually do anything is fucking awesome. Now that I am a mod, it seems like an even better idea than when I was a mere prole here.
I'm also surprised at the time I made that suggestion the mod staff then didn't make me a mod on the spot. My potential even in that early era here is clearly evident.
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