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Originally Posted by Zelandi
Of course moderators are people, and doing a job without pay. That also means that there can be things they're not aware of, and sometimes a different perspective can be helpful. If I'm stepping on peoples toes without intending to, I hope I'm told so, whatever position I may have in a group. Doesn't neccessarily mean I will agree or change anything, but maybe it actually is something I don't want to stand for when I see it from a different point of view?
I don't see anyone saying the mods here are doing a bad job in any other aspect.. or doing a bad job when acting in the role of moderator. As I see it, this thread was about an incident (about moderators behaviour when being off-duty so to speak) and more or less a question if what happened that time has happened before, and that then it might be a problem. (I don't think it is, for the record. At least not in the way the OP wrote, or the way I worried when it first happened). But maybe I got it all wrong.
Oh, THAT I understood perfectly. But the name of a member is in black or green, you know, next to every post our usernames show up? That's a detail I didn't think about, so at first I didn't even realize that some posters were mods. I personally never interpreted any comment on that thread as a moderating post. But I were surprised to see that some people were moderators since I personally and in general expect a different tone from anyone in that position. Even when it's all about non-mod posts - kind of how I don't expect a police to spend his spare time as a shoplifter. (not completely perfect metafor, but I think you can see the gist of it if you use a bit of good will?)
In either case, I'm just saying that I can see what the OP is referring to. I'm not going to complain about it, it seems to just be the tone of this forum and good naturedly so. I didn't come here to change anything, especially not how it's run. It obviously works fine - but you might want to be aware that it can seem strange or intimidating to new members.
You people have a history here (I suppose anyway), and I figure it's likely that maybe you'd be more careful with how you write if, for example, it had been my post. (Since you don't know me at all). Inktelligent handeled it much differently than I would have, in a way which to me suggests that he/her is more comfortable with it all and gets the tone for what it is. As long as that's the case, I can't see any problem whatsoever. Which is the reason I'm not the one starting this thread, and I havn't reported any posts or tried in any other way to step in about the incident, it's just not in my place because I don't know enough.
I basically just wanted to say that the OP is not alone in the first impression. Especially after someone pointed out that he/she seems to be the only one to have interpreted the posts that way.
I have nothing more to add. Have a good day, and keep the good work.
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I can assure you if you do make a gaffe or error in posting, one of the mods will fix it and let you know privately what you did.
Pretty much the only exceptions are oversized images or if you don't have your PMs on.
The second one usually occurs in the introduction forum.
And if you accidentally post a thread where it doesn't belong, a mod will gladly move it.
And before you ask, oh yes I have been moderated more than once.