Moderation Feedback

While I appreciate your role as an "admin", a posting should not be in the category of a thread titled "murderous" in the context of "government".  This is especially true of the hijacking of a "Twitter" Fox news channel feed by some party over the weekend.

I would not appreciate having my words altered.  The thread discussion process can be hijacked in a capacity which is neither declared nor clear to the posting parties if editing of comments occurs, including deletion.

For the most part, we did not need such admin parties to patrol, police, or otherwise edit during the prior blog.

With the amount of sacrifice in my life for this nation and my fellow citizens, I really have very little patience for individuals seeking to either recharacterize or edit my thoughts and ideas.  I suspect others would join in that opinion.

More importantly, I am well versed in the tools of rhetoric and speech.  I have written for print publications and am directly familiar with specifics in local and regional elections.

Editing of comments by parties other than the writer should be carefully controlled.

Moderation in moderating

Probably a difficult and mostly thankless job; so far so good in my opinion Even though we're all metal heads we've been given the opportunity to explore other venues. THANKS FOR THAT!

It's up to each of us to keep things where they belong; we can do that if only out of respect for TF and all he does and has done for us.

Now back to our regular scheduled programing.

By the way, gold's up!!!

Actually, the more specific you are, the more it helps. First off, everyone has different ideas/expectations of what they might find "annoying" - and you'd perhaps be surprised if you had been going through the flagged comments to see what people flag. Some folks, after one comment they find irritating from a member, want the person booted. Others have asked for extremely strict moderation on threads they've started. Some members want all swear words off the site (seriously - though, this isn't going to happen - but yes, someone flagged a comment that was titled BITCHEZ once).

Trying to find a balance and also help shape community expectations is a challenging task - especially with this community, which can sometimes be volatile.

There's a member, and I won't name names, who regular irritates people in the blog comments. But he doesn't bother everyone. Should he be booted because some find him irritating? Right now, we're very very slow to boot people and generally give people a lot of slack and leeway.

So "annoying" doesn't tell me much - and trust me, given the amount of flagging and stuff that goes on here, the moderation could be much, much heavier than it is.

If you could be more specific and offer some productive feedback in what you would want moderators to do, that would be more helpful. I don't doubt that my moderation can be "annoying" sometimes. But it's kind of an annoyance we have to have in order to keep the site civil, at least in my opinion.

Thank you,
Stephanie

I just blocked the account - the moderators are pretty quick with the spam but sometimes miss a few. Thanks for letting us know! :-)

Turdites claiming 'first!' goes way, way back- probably well before some or most of the moderators even heard of Turd.  It started when this was a small but vigorous group of people waiting on the edge of our collective seats for the next missive from the man himself...  and has been a strangely coveted thing with our group.   I would assert that whether it annoys a particular moderator or not, it is clearly a long-standing tradition with this community, and is one fun, silly and rather harmless way we define ourselves. 

Those it annoys can simply scroll past- and for moderators, surely you have more pressing concerns?

Just my 2 cents.  And for the record, I have never got "First!".  But someday, I aspire to-   I set the bar high in life ;-)

Actually I don't care either way BUT I don't think it's a big enough issue for the moderators to actually delete the posts.

If you are going to get that picky then get picky over some bigger issues.

A little background.  This is the first (no pun intended) site I ever posted on.  I watched people on ZH post "First" everyday for many months.  Maybe they delete those posts now like you are considering doing.  Anyhow, I always thought it was ridiculous and childish to post that way.   Then one day, I posted about fifth, and I thought, hey, somebody will actually see my post instead of it being buried 77 spots down.  When I actually posted that day I think I would have been third but by the time I got done writing I was 5th or so.  It occurred to me, hey what would it be like to post on a clean board, you know---First!  I could then see why you can't post anything of substance if you're going to post first because somebody will cut in front of you.  I finally understood the inner machinations of posting First.  It didn't seem quite so silly then, and when, a couple of weeks later I happened upon any empty board I let Henateme post First because I was too afraid of looking like a moron by posting First, when I might have ended up third.  But then 2 days later completely by chance (I was mowing the lawn and had just come in) there was a clean board again.  I went for it.  It was great.  That's all I can say is that an empty board calls to you somehow, like its got your name on it or something ( I'm being silly of course), but there is a certain ridiculous satisfaction about seeing a clean board and knowing you're first in line.  BTW Pablo above doesn't get the psychology of posting First.  I say this light-heartedly.  Pablo if you think you are going to post something of significance then you will never post first because by the time you scribble down your tome you will be 6th or 7th, not First.  Just a light-hearted post to let you know I am on the side of letting those who want to post First, to be able to do so.  Yes, it's stupid and childish, but its funny and harmless and cool.  The whole reason I felt comfortable being able to post First is because the community here are a very likeable bunch of folks.  BTW Fulgamite, no, I did not hat tip myself the 19 or so hat tips I got posting First.  I think people liked that I explained why I did it.  Not that he accused me personally, but a couple of days later he accused those of us in that Elite Club (ha, ha) of hat-tipping ourselves.  Moderators- Like my friends above said, just leave it alone.

I understand the sentiment of tradition and  small town recognition that inspired a fun moment  being the one who gets to shout "First" .....back when the site was new and playing in the minor leagues so to speak.

But being a member of the second wave of Turdites who came here maybe 8 or 9 months ago...I discovered this site at the same time I discovered several serious informative  sites that offer great wisdom (as does Turd)   about the markets,geopolitics, precious metals investing, etc...and these sites are Essential to my education. For me ,this is more of a 'serious' place for learning, than a ..."Turd Fan Club,which is what I see this "FIRST"  thing being...it feels like the mickey mouse fan club...

but as Pablo mentioned,it would suit me better if the "First" poster.... might have something worthwile to comment about instead of just shouting 'first' 

Something like this maybe.......

"First! Wow, I cant believe I'm first !!   Ive never been first before.... oh, by the way....did you hear the latest news/rumors ? NATO  might be planning  to bomb Iran. I wonder if that would be bad for the markets....      see? much more meaningful that way.

or ...."First !!" .... Eurpoean banks are collapsing  like dominoes...... will the government confiscate my bank account and 401K ?

Its all about Perspective