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F4
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A simple google search will show you that a lot more people have disliked how these forums have been moderated throughout the years.
https://www.google.com/search?q=runescape+forum+moderation+site:www.reddit.com&sca_esv=f9536568f210c1d3&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ACQVn08k-X3slTna-hIh0NAMXCNV71qJvw:1705949370100&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwicoNbR1PGDAxXNibAFHYyOABoQrQIoBHoECBUQBQ&biw=1278&bih=1311&dpr=1
Some of those were a good read, thanks for sharing.
I'm pretty sure I had read most of them around the time they had been posted, but with the closing of the forums coming up, a blast from the past can be fun too.
That first topic is particularly interesting because it points to the title of this thread being false. Allow me to elaborate:
One part of that topic read:
"You cannot even call out someone who is going out of their way to derail your thread as the mod sides with the troll every single time and shows it by deleting your posts while leaving the posts of the troll.
I get some moderation is necessary to prevent anarchy, but you really need to tone it down." (https://www.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/q0d5ug/reduce_the_excessive_moderation_of_runescape/)
First things first, most of the time those 'calling out' posts often aren't the most polite, and are flaming. And as was touched on earlier in this thread, flaming doesn't really go well on any platform.
But there's more to it - while understandably it looks like an FMod might be siding with a troll, is 'being annoying' a forum rule? With today's rules as written (which were the rules when that topic was posted), the answer is no. Most could agree that certain players that seem to be everywhere you look on every topic, but their posts on their own, while not always the most constructive, weren't necessarily breaking rules either.
With the above in mind, if an FMod opted to issue a mute for "being annoying" it probably wouldn't hold.
A simple google search will show you that a lot more people have disliked how these forums have been moderated throughout the years.
https://www.google.com/search?q=runescape+forum+moderation+site:www.reddit.com&sca_esv=f9536568f210c1d3&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ACQVn08k-X3slTna-hIh0NAMXCNV71qJvw:1705949370100&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwicoNbR1PGDAxXNibAFHYyOABoQrQIoBHoECBUQBQ&biw=1278&bih=1311&dpr=1
Some of those were a good read, thanks for sharing.
I'm pretty sure I had read most of them around the time they had been posted, but with the closing of the forums coming up, a blast from the past can be fun too.
That first topic is particularly interesting because it points to the title of this thread being false. Allow me to elaborate:
One part of that topic read:
"You cannot even call out someone who is going out of their way to derail your thread as the mod sides with the troll every single time and shows it by deleting your posts while leaving the posts of the troll.
I get some moderation is necessary to prevent anarchy, but you really need to tone it down." (https://www.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/q0d5ug/reduce_the_excessive_moderation_of_runescape/)
First things first, most of the time those 'calling out' posts often aren't the most polite, and are flaming. And as was touched on earlier in this thread, flaming doesn't really go well on any platform.
But there's more to it - while understandably it looks like an FMod might be siding with a troll, is 'being annoying' a forum rule? With today's rules as written (which were the rules when that topic was posted), the answer is no. Most could agree that certain players that seem to be everywhere you look on every topic, but their posts on their own, while not always the most constructive, weren't necessarily breaking rules either.
With the above in mind, if an FMod opted to issue a mute for "being annoying" it probably wouldn't hold.
23-Jan-2024 01:04:27
That doesn't mean that nothing was done, though. As a team we were well aware of the concern with these 'annoying players' and we did what we could to make the current forum curator, whoever that may be, aware (easier said than done sometimes). And with that in mind, there were times that things
were
done to curb that annoyance factor. That relied on us having an active curator though, something that couldn't always be taken for granted. There hasn't been a proper forum curator in some time now.
So with all of the above said, back to the title of that Reddit topic, "Reduce the excessive moderation of Runescape forums", I'd argue that the real thing was that the moderation that they wanted to see wasn't what was happening, which would be the removal of the annoying player. If the moderation that they wanted to see was to happen, it would require a policy change - which required a forum curator to intervene that didn't exist.
FMods don't make policy change - that resides with gold. Are FMods really the reason for the decline of the forums? Certainly doesn't seem like it with that in mind.
So with all of the above said, back to the title of that Reddit topic, "Reduce the excessive moderation of Runescape forums", I'd argue that the real thing was that the moderation that they wanted to see wasn't what was happening, which would be the removal of the annoying player. If the moderation that they wanted to see was to happen, it would require a policy change - which required a forum curator to intervene that didn't exist.
FMods don't make policy change - that resides with gold. Are FMods really the reason for the decline of the forums? Certainly doesn't seem like it with that in mind.
23-Jan-2024 01:04:37
Applejuiceaj
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Are FMods really the reason for the decline of the forums? Certainly doesn't seem like it with that in mind.
You people live in an alternate reality. All the top comments are about the moderation.
https://www.reddit.com is /r/runescape/s/5n5zcpR8qS
Are FMods really the reason for the decline of the forums? Certainly doesn't seem like it with that in mind.
You people live in an alternate reality. All the top comments are about the moderation.
https://www.reddit.com is /r/runescape/s/5n5zcpR8qS
23-Jan-2024 04:59:11 - Last edited on 23-Jan-2024 05:13:37 by F4
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