Hierarchy on GC?

[sugar and spice]

Now let's try replacing "on GC" with "in the real world."

1. Is there favoritism in the real world? Absolutely.

2. Are there people that hate other people in the real world and will talk badly about them at any given opportunity? Absolutely.

3. Are there cliques in the real world? Absolutely.

4. Are some of the cliques pretty negative? Subjective, but absolutely.

5. Are there networks of people that share hatred of people in the real world and will talk isht about them behind their backs? Absolutely.

6. Are there really nice people that enjoy life in the real world, even given these drawbacks? Absolutely.

7. Are there people that don't get involved in the silly drama in their offline lives? Absolutely. Probably 80 percent of them.


I just don't understand why people expect this to be so different from the way things are offline. Yes, we have moderators here -- something that is lacking in the offline world -- but they're not supposed to serve as our parents. What are they supposed to do to fix this situation? Say, "Kath, Blaine, and Heather -- you guys aren't allowed to be friends because that's too cliquey and other people on GC are upset by it"? Give me a break.

The reason that posters that have been here a while get cut more slack than those who haven't is that we know the context of their posts. Yeah, we know damasa can be a jer but we also know that he is an awesome guy who is serious about 90 percent of the things he posts. We know Rudey can come off as an ass, but we also know that he's just messing around. New posters don't get the same benefit of the doubt.

Now it would be great if the moderators were one hundred percent fair and objective and wonderful and were able to please everyone all the time, but guess what? They're human, they see things subjectively, and they can't. I know that even those at the "top of the GC heirarchy," people who have been here for years or people who have thousands of posts, even moderators, have had posts deleted or contributed to getting threads locked. Nobody is immune to it.