We've seen a growing trend of hostility on our forum and it's not acceptable. VizionEck forum is a club where every member knows everyone else. We'll disagree with each other regularly but we're all a single team.
We all have slightly different perspectives on the world and naturally view our own in the best light, but we all must agree that infighting is moronic. I doubt there's a single active member here that hasn't noticed and been frustrated by its increase. At the same time, I doubt there's a member that blames the infighting on themself.
The mod team is stepping up to be more proactive in stopping this. We will hand out warnings when we notice something going south. It's your job to take these warnings as accurate and true, even when you disagree with them. Most likely we've received reports for the post and it's not just our opinion. If you brush off a warning it helps no one.
On that note, Max King of the Wild is now banned. He received a warning for a post and laughed at it. We moderated him so that all his posts required mod approval before showing publically. Then he posted a mod was a "crustard." For that he was banned from posting, but he continued to use the report system to repeat that statement. This earned him a full website ban until further notice.
This behaviour is so horribly out of line yet Max still thinks he's in the right.
If you can't accept when you screw up, or even that you could have done things better, there's no way to improve our forum. Lots of members who consider themselves good posters will start to get mod messages and that's ok. As long as you don't respond like Max did, you're still a good member here.
We'll also start publically disclosing when a member is moderated (not just warned). This will usually come in the form of an edit on their post. If it starts to form some "justice" desire like on the Chertz then we'll stop, but I believe it'll be helpful for posters to see that the mods are active and involved.
I also think it'd be nice to have some positive reinforcement for great friendly posts so that might happen in the future.
-Legend
We all have slightly different perspectives on the world and naturally view our own in the best light, but we all must agree that infighting is moronic. I doubt there's a single active member here that hasn't noticed and been frustrated by its increase. At the same time, I doubt there's a member that blames the infighting on themself.
The mod team is stepping up to be more proactive in stopping this. We will hand out warnings when we notice something going south. It's your job to take these warnings as accurate and true, even when you disagree with them. Most likely we've received reports for the post and it's not just our opinion. If you brush off a warning it helps no one.
On that note, Max King of the Wild is now banned. He received a warning for a post and laughed at it. We moderated him so that all his posts required mod approval before showing publically. Then he posted a mod was a "crustard." For that he was banned from posting, but he continued to use the report system to repeat that statement. This earned him a full website ban until further notice.
This behaviour is so horribly out of line yet Max still thinks he's in the right.
If you can't accept when you screw up, or even that you could have done things better, there's no way to improve our forum. Lots of members who consider themselves good posters will start to get mod messages and that's ok. As long as you don't respond like Max did, you're still a good member here.
We'll also start publically disclosing when a member is moderated (not just warned). This will usually come in the form of an edit on their post. If it starts to form some "justice" desire like on the Chertz then we'll stop, but I believe it'll be helpful for posters to see that the mods are active and involved.
I also think it'd be nice to have some positive reinforcement for great friendly posts so that might happen in the future.
-Legend
