WARNING: long post, but i feel some very important things, i would appreciate if you would read, thanks
i have just woken up, and thought, as i do every morning, "i'll check AT forums now", and what do i find??
lots of locked threads, posts saying that our TeAm members have left and either gone alone or joined the opposition, and general bad TeAmman ship (ok, that may be a bit harsh, but i'm actually quite hurt).
i can only remember about 3 locked threads since i came to the DC forum earlier in the year, and i wake up this morning to find about 10 :| i, like most others here, like DC because we are "trusted" with less moderation. many people here like the occasional "Nef" or "dasm" or "mn" thread, because there aren't ones appearing every 5 minutes.
to give an analagy(sp?):
it doesn't matter if a child is the best behaved child when he is with his friends, and normally around his parents, but if he plays up once in front of his parents, and they say stop, but he doesn't while he is still being watched, then the parents are going to think that he is a bad child, and won't let him go out an play.
that is how it has been here, we get the mod's attention with one locked thread (on whatever, i don't CARE what the subject was, that's not for me to decide if it was appropiate), then we continue to act up and post lots of threads on how the mods are, quite frankly, DOING THEIR JOB, then that is just not right.
i have to agree, if I wasn't asleep and i saw this, i'd probably be the first to post and say how i didn't like it, but i had the advantage that i was asleep, and now i can look at the whole thing and say either "yeah, the mods were right", or "the mods were a off in locking all those threads". i'm not gonna say which i think it is, that's your own personal opinion, not to be shared.
i think that the MOST IMPORTANT thing about all this is that we've lost many, many members over this debate. this makes the TeAm look bad and small compared to the others in the world. i like it here because everyone is so friendl and helpful if anybody has a problem, even those from other teams sometimes!!
Dennis, i also have to agree with you here, although locked posts and stricter modding here could seem important within our family here, we all have to step back and realise that this is all just a virtual thing, and that it is OK to just say nothing for a while, if needbe make an excuse like your computer died, don't give in to them. anyway, as i was saying, there ARE more improtant things other than how it's been moderated here, like those people who have lost loved ones, be that due to illness, accidents, or the tragic events of 11/9 (sorry, i'm British, and you write the dates's wrong ), THAT is the improtant stuff in life!
ok, that's my rant over, and thanks for taking your time to read this far
and this is all i'm saying on the subject!
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