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

[Tiberius]

Tell me again why the Richard Dawkins forum collapsed.

I have no plans on closing the forum down.

[Shell B]

CL, you have no evidence whatsoever on which to base your suspicion that he’s not actually contemplating anything or doesn’t actually hate women. You’re not an expert in grief, alcoholism, mental health, etc. None of us are, either. I’m just going to take him at face value. He’s a shit who thinks people who don’t give him what he wants deserve his scorn and perhaps violence. Again, he calls himself a beta cuck. He is an incel. You claim to have disdain for incels. One is staring you in the face.

[Losty]

I think people tend to forget that staff are members first and staff second. It's a volunteer position filled by humans.

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And I have been guilty of forgetting that myself on more than one occasion.

You have that exactly back to front.

A moderator is someone who mediates disputes and should never get personally involved.

You’re confused. I see nothing but members commenting here.
If someone were commenting as a moderator it would look like this:

Moderator Notice
This is what a moderator comment looks like.

[Shell B]

There isn’t an issue to mediate here.

[Joods]

Clearly succubus thinks he knows how to run this place better than, you know, those actually running the place.

[Succubus]

Then ban is sorry arse and be done with it.

He didn’t break a site rule...

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And yet without him breaking the sites rules some forum members were concerned enough that they reported him to plod? 

Wouldn't an efficient moderating team delete the problem before it developed that far?

[LastPoet]

If I had an euro for every one that come here claimjng my incompetence as staff, i would have enough to buy 2 beers. Hmmmm.

[Succubus]

There isn’t an issue to mediate here.

If Cyberman is the disgusting bastard he's portrayed here then I must disagree.

[Tiberius]

He didn’t break a site rule...

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And yet without him breaking the sites rules some forum members were concerned enough that they reported him to plod? 

Wouldn't an efficient moderating team delete the problem before it developed that far?

We reported him to the police the same time we removed him. We weren’t aware of the problem until his behavior was reported, so unless you have a suggestion on reading minds over the Internet or predicting the future, I’m not sure how more efficient we could have been.

[Joods]

He didn’t break a site rule...

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And yet without him breaking the sites rules some forum members were concerned enough that they reported him to plod? 

Wouldn't an efficient moderating team delete the problem before it developed that far?

They contacted the police because there was enough cause to do so. It's called doing the right thing. You should try it sometime.

The fact that it wasn't about something site specific, is of no concern to you. If someone is presenting themselves as a danger to the public, there's a moral obligation to the public to keep people safe. If you have a problem with that then perhaps you should go play in fucking traffic.