JcDc said:
As long as you are within the guidelines there are no problems.
Theoretically that's true, but as evidenced, that doesn't always happen. If a mod decides to pick on someone just because they can, and with blatant disregard to the "rules of moderating" (that being primarily to set an example to other posters), there are definite problems.
JcDc said:
That's what you have to realize in regards to how the mods deal with things.
I do. Perhaps I shouldn't have said "mods". I should have specified "mod." There's only one who's gone around doing things that would get normal members a warning...
I think the rest of your post is missing the point of mine... I'm well aware of what flaming is and I wasn't referring to that. As you may have noticed, I had no problem with you saying an episode of Smallville wasn't all that good. I didn't like the most recent one much myself.
Paradoxium said:
You are right James, I don't think treating people equally is possible - to many difficult circumstances (returning banned users, advertising a lot, making threats to female posters). I think the better term is equal consideration.
Which is fair enough, as long as there really is some apparent consideration involved. If someone repeatedly comments on one actor, and you do nothing, and then someone else comments similarly on another and you decide to be judge, jury, and executioner... how is that equal consideration, really? Especially when Pat has never caused any particular problems when compared to those instances you mention.
The comments about Tom have been far, far worse than "He needs a nose job" or "his teeth are yellow." But you've never linked any of those posts in order to cause trouble in the way you did Pat's. I really don't know what to say to that. I get that people can have bad days, really I do, but you
always seem to pick on the same small group of people.
I used to mod on some pretty big boards, and I would have bad days where I said or did things that were really stupid and upset a lot of people. I ended up quitting for my own sanity, not just for the good of the board...
I admit I am not exactly the biggest Welling fan on earth
That shouldn't matter. I didn't think you were the biggest Routh fan, either, but you're still over on BT feeding Pat to the wolves. I'm sure there's some Welling bashing over on BT that you could link to and give us some of that good old "turnabout".
You've been around SHH! for years, so you must be aware that the Welling bashing over the years has far exceeded (in both viciousness and frequency) anything that has been said about Routh? You've even parcipated in some of it yourself.
It's this kind of thing that has caused many of the Smallville/Welling fans to stop posting on the Supes forum and, to a lesser extent, BT. There's bashing of Tom over there to this day, but if someone goes over there to be negative about Routh they're picked off like a fly. And then when they comment on that, they're told they're imagining it. Nobody's imagining anything, and now there's indisputable evidence to prove it.