What you view as incapable I view as spirited discussion. The mods on MMO-C if they had their way would have us post in the equivalent style of the english courts, in makeup, whigs and robes. Never speaking out of turn, never getting angry, never showing any emotion whatsoever.
In short...the mods on mmo-c are basically attempting to recreate equilibrium.
IDK it's fun to poke holes in conspiracy theories as much as it is to defend the conspiracy theories. It's when people come across like they KNOW FOR A FACT! that X is Y and Z is Y too that it goes off the rails and they get mad and start calling people names. Then again at one time "The Earth is a sphere" was just a conspiracy theory.
Me thinks Chromie has a whole lot of splaining to do!
I usually feel it's not moderated enough. Certain turnip farmers should have been shitcanned ages a go. Or certain alt-right t-word lunatics who keep regurgitating bullshit for 30+ pages straight. Tired of seeing people meticulously countering any and all crap they (almost always the same people) spew, and basically only stopping after someone gets banned or the thread locked.
There are plenty of forums that match your description if you want those. I don't think MMO-C wants to open that can of worms.
They tried in the past and it just made the site a lot worse for any other types of conversations.
100% Agree with the first sentence.
As to the infraction system, at its core it's a way to not get banned the first time a moderator takes action. The problem with moderators however is that they are like your entry-level monkey job, they are having to make decisions on things that don't really have a handbook for. There are *way* too many gray area things that the mod or the mod's mood is going to depend on what happens to you.
As to having your posts moderated, you do realize that the size of forum, or hell even the "type" (gaming, movies, etc) of forum you visit has absolutely no bearing on whether you'll be moderated? If you go join a furries forum for 12-year olds, you'll be moderated for a lot less than a car forum for 30-year olds.
Like you said, the problem seems to come when you have the slightest opinion against the mod looking at the reported post, talk facts about things that go "against the grain", etc. Don't get me wrong people do abuse the fuck out of the report option as well and that in itself should be something that's looked at but still.
You don't understand. Having an unpayed full time job that no one appreciates is the magic of classic.
It's about the journey. The journey into depression. The journey of running a daycare full of middle-aged alcoholics ignoring their SOs and avoiding social engagements to fulfill something they wanted 15 years ago before everyone realized it's not hard at all.
This. I can name some once good mods that have become power-hungry, bias, and easily triggered if you even have the slightest opinion that's different from theirs. Oh and don't let yourself be someone they don't like! Anything that you post will be considering as "trolling". Oh and people can insult you and you can report them and nothing happens to them. Take up for yourself though? INFRACTED.
"You know you that bitch when you cause all this conversation."
I get it, there has to be some control, but sometimes it goes overboard.
I made a post about being sick of rioting and they banned me for me. It was a genuine post, not a troll post but yet they still banned me.
I contacted the legal council for the parent company and they immediately unbanned me.
Mods are good in most cases.
"You know you that bitch when you cause all this conversation."
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.