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Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.

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Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 3, 2018 at 8:24 am (This post was last modified: January 3, 2018 at 8:26 am by Cyberman.)
I was with you right up to this part: "So the problem I think is the staff that are supposed to be making decisions based on the atmosphere of this forum....rarely know the atmosphere of this forum.."

Just because some of us 'rarely' post out here - and I'd be interested in knowing how you're quantifying that - doesn't mean we don't post at all. There's a whole hidden forum behind this one, for Staff only (and a super-top-level one only available to Admins). One downside is that nothing posted there adds to our postcount, nor do we have kudos. Notwithstanding all that, we do keep our fingers on the pulse of the forum proper, even if only passively.

Just because you can't see us doesn't mean we're not watching. It sort of goes with the job.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 3, 2018 at 8:46 am
(January 3, 2018 at 8:24 am)Cyberman Wrote: Just because you can't see us doesn't mean we're not watching. It sort of goes with the job.

This. I'm here every day even if I don't post.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 3, 2018 at 8:53 am
It's one of the features that endeared me to the site, that there is no overt Big Brother micromanaging every post. Just a covert one, spying on your every thought from the shadows. Tongue
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 3, 2018 at 11:19 am
The post count thing and the lack of kudos 'behind the curtain' are particularly difficult crosses for some of the more diva-like staff members to bear.


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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 3, 2018 at 11:26 am
(January 3, 2018 at 8:53 am)Cyberman Wrote: It's one of the features that endeared me to the site, that there is no overt Big Brother micromanaging every post. Just a covert one, spying on your every thought from the shadows. Tongue

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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 3, 2018 at 11:43 am
(January 3, 2018 at 6:12 am)Cyberman Wrote:
(January 3, 2018 at 5:00 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Some of us are or have been moderators at busier sites than this. Are you urging us to suspend judgement, or simply to shut up?

Neither. I'm asking that the Staff at this site be the ones doing the moderating.

No one else is doing any moderating -- we obviously lack any power to do so. The only thing we can do is opine ... and that's the topic of this thread, no?

I should think the staff would want performance feedback.

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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 3, 2018 at 12:38 pm
(January 3, 2018 at 8:46 am)SteelCurtain Wrote:
(January 3, 2018 at 8:24 am)Cyberman Wrote: Just because you can't see us doesn't mean we're not watching. It sort of goes with the job.

This. I'm here every day even if I don't post.

I also have been here nearly every day for six and a half years, except when I have been physically unable.

Like hell we don't know what's going on in the forum.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 3, 2018 at 12:39 pm
There's feedback, and then there's just an annoying high-pitched whine. I think we need to be clear on the difference.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 3, 2018 at 12:50 pm
(January 3, 2018 at 12:38 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(January 3, 2018 at 8:46 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: This. I'm here every day even if I don't post.

I also have been here nearly every day for six and a half years, except when I have been physically unable.

Like hell we don't know what's going on in the forum.


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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 3, 2018 at 12:58 pm
(January 3, 2018 at 8:16 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Former staff wouldn't necessarily be apprized of the logistics or gestation process of new rules or adjustments in implementation of existing rules/policies so their familiarity with how new rules and other changes are being administered/implemented is not a given.

Yarp. I was staff like five years ago. I could hop on board again to get up to speed on the rules. Tongue
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