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Originally posted by DeltAlum
Otherwise, posters can clean up their act or risk deletions or banning.
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I'm certainly not one to be complaining about fairness, I think I'm treated fairly considering some of the shit I pull. But, to comment on what you just wrote;
I don't think banning or deleting entire threads really solves the dillema. I kind of look at it the same way I do prison. It causes more problems in the end. You delete a thread and someone posts it right back up. You delete people's posts....they start posting more and more shit. Its an endless cycle that drains both the moderator and the poster. And then there's the ships on GC, the people who intentionally report someone or some thread a million times just because they want it deleted. And if there's anything that violates TOS....its deleted. However, I find it hard to believe that if 1 person reports 1 entire thread and it does in fact violate the TOS.....the moderators are likely to delete said thread.
Here is an example of what I am talking about
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Let's take "The Random Thread", this thread has vulgar language in it, cat fights, the ousting of DGqueen17, flamings and a million other things that violate TOS and yet it STILL remains. If myself, Lindz and Otter reported the random thread and demanded it be deleted due to 1/2 of the posts in there violating TOS....it wont be deleted. Why? Because 2/3 of GC post in it and even mods themselves LOVE it. So.....it remains. Then you had Mike Jones. It violated TOS, or at least 1/3 of it did (which is less than The Random Thread's violations). Anyways, a million people reported it because of their jealousy or out of dislike for the people posting in it and next thing you know its deleted. But I want to ask, why is it I get this feeling that rather than EDITING a few posts an entire thread is deleted? Is it because it takes up too much time to edit and its just easier to delete?
My point here is, if it violates rules...fine, it should be edited/deleted. Said post/thread went against TOS. We can't argue with that. But Puhhhhlease spread the wealth a little. Mikes Jones was like my random thread, well actually mine , otter's and lindz's, and I think pretty much all of GC knew that. And because of that I believe that envy crept in and we had yet another witch hunt on GC. The mods, in order to avoid being annoyed with reported memos, just said f--k it and deleted it since it violated TOS.
-This place has become so damn PC in the past 2 years its not even funny.
