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Originally Posted by Gizzmoe
That topic (Iraq/ME) has been discussed dozens of times already. The same viewpoints from the same people over and over again... A week or two without that would be nice.
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I have no problem with people agreeing that certain topics should get less attention. Several weeks ago, we had such a thread where many people said something like that. I did not answer in that thread, but as a consequence reduced the number of my own according threads or answers accordingly. the number of threads I write about Islam is still reduced, about history and theology there is none sicne then, for example.
However, I have a problem with moderators deciding arbitrarily what to lock and what not, and not being in congurence with the published rules. This new example may not be a major thing, but it is the third time that Gizzmoe kills athread of mine and is acting in a way that I can't see to be a moderator's job, or the board policies. And without doubt I will receive a PM again soon telling me that i should not challenge a mod in public.
I miss constancy in the moderator's performance. Sometimes he acts swiftly, and sometimes he simply exaggerates.
This is not meant to be a private attack on Gizzmoe, and note that I do not use any offensive language. But the community must be allowed to reflect on the performance qof moderators - and must be allowed to do so in public. My complaint is about too much arbitrariness, and too little constancy.
I feel directly and personally targeted here, since it is a repeated case, and so I claim a case of self-defense. Therefore, I took the effort to count all threads that I personally have started (not only participated in while the thread had been started by somebody else) in the general forum since two months, since mid August. The Steel Beast and Game forum I do not count. That is the first 8 pages listing threads that you get when you search for threads with Skybir'ds participation, limiting the search to the GT forum. some threads may qualify for several categories, I then took the one that by my intention when starting it filled it best.
8 Germany
6 others
5 movies, music, books
4 US (excluding below mentioned sub-categories Bush-2, Iran-2, Iraq-3)
3 games (not moved to game forum)
3 Iraq war
3 computer, technical issues
2 Islam and the rest of us (not counting my sig
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2 lebanon war, Israel
2 global ethics, moral, society
2 sports
2 board, board members
2 France
2 Iran, nuclear proliferation
2 England, PC
2 Bush, elections
1 global economy, energy, environment, non-US-specific
1 fun, joke (2 if not counting a hijack)
1 Afghanistan
1 9/11
1 environment, energy (0 if not counting hijack)
Let's do not hairsplit if this or that thread belongs into this or that category. What should be clear is that nobody can accuse me of having a bias concerning threads I start myself. The impression that I am after Bush, Iraq/Afghanistan and Islam only is because so many different people start such threads, and then I see no reason why I should not participate. So if you plan to limit certain themes and exclude certain issues from discussion, ask Neal to make an according rule. A mod's personal taste is only acceptable as long as it is covered by at least a general rule.