elrod-tom
Moderator - Prefers "stereo weirdo" to "audiophile"
I've just spent the better part of a half an hour cleaning up the following thread:
http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showt...2&page=1&pp=20
Some of you will not be familiar with this thread. Others will hardly recognize it, as it's been changed pretty dramatically.
This thread seems to have had a LOT of things that we see reported around here - thread crapping, discussion of politics, personal attacks, and so on. Apparently this has been going on for days now. Yet NOBODY reported it to the moderators. Why?
This thread, prior to clean up, was THE poster child for moderator action due to nuisance posting. Yet the only reason I ended up finding it was by accident. As much as we moderators would like to be everywhere all the time, that's not the case. We could do our jobs regarding this sort of thing if we were informed about when it was occuring.
At any rate, I've just spend the better part of 30 minutes deleting posts, because I happen to think that this thread is worthwhile...or at least it has a chance to be again.
To all of you who have ever been trying to have a productive discussion of an interesting topic, only to have it disrupted by thread crapping, discussion of contentious issues, or personal attacks: please consider how the involvement of a moderator early on could have ended this nonsense much earlier. Please remember this the next time something like this crops up. Get a moderator involved - report the offending posts. It will do nothing but help this community remain a pleasant and enjoyable place to be.
Thanks...
http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showt...2&page=1&pp=20
Some of you will not be familiar with this thread. Others will hardly recognize it, as it's been changed pretty dramatically.
This thread seems to have had a LOT of things that we see reported around here - thread crapping, discussion of politics, personal attacks, and so on. Apparently this has been going on for days now. Yet NOBODY reported it to the moderators. Why?
This thread, prior to clean up, was THE poster child for moderator action due to nuisance posting. Yet the only reason I ended up finding it was by accident. As much as we moderators would like to be everywhere all the time, that's not the case. We could do our jobs regarding this sort of thing if we were informed about when it was occuring.
At any rate, I've just spend the better part of 30 minutes deleting posts, because I happen to think that this thread is worthwhile...or at least it has a chance to be again.
To all of you who have ever been trying to have a productive discussion of an interesting topic, only to have it disrupted by thread crapping, discussion of contentious issues, or personal attacks: please consider how the involvement of a moderator early on could have ended this nonsense much earlier. Please remember this the next time something like this crops up. Get a moderator involved - report the offending posts. It will do nothing but help this community remain a pleasant and enjoyable place to be.
Thanks...