Originally Posted by BuddyBontheNet:
“Three years ago I would agreed with your first paragraph, but not any more. Pressing the Alert button when posts are 'not well within the forum rules' doesn't work most of the time and and I have told Tom Miller that too. Personally I hardly ever press the Alert button and tend to leave a post when I see the direction a thread is taking, especially if certain posters have joined in. At the risk of being over sensitive, If I'm the one you have cast in the roll of Lord Chamberlain then quite honestly I don't care. I've already decided when this series of SCD is finished I'm not posting on DS any more. I've got better things to do with my time than pick my way through threads that look friendly enough to join in on.”
“Three years ago I would agreed with your first paragraph, but not any more. Pressing the Alert button when posts are 'not well within the forum rules' doesn't work most of the time and and I have told Tom Miller that too. Personally I hardly ever press the Alert button and tend to leave a post when I see the direction a thread is taking, especially if certain posters have joined in. At the risk of being over sensitive, If I'm the one you have cast in the roll of Lord Chamberlain then quite honestly I don't care. I've already decided when this series of SCD is finished I'm not posting on DS any more. I've got better things to do with my time than pick my way through threads that look friendly enough to join in on.”
In the time I've been posting on DS I've made sparing use of the Alert button. I've probably used it most on the SCD board, but that's been alerting posts that give away the spoiler outside the spoiler thread. I've alerted a couple of posts on GD or Politics where I've found the views posted particularly offensive. There are some posters down there who appear to think Muslim is synonymous with terrorist and where I've felt they have been particularly offensive to individual Muslim posters. I can remember one occasion when such a post remained on the board. I didn't conclude from this that the mods were wrong and weren't doing their job properly, but that having reviewed the post they disagreed with me and had judged in to be within the rules. I've always felt that the ultimate decision as to whether a post should be removed or not rested with them.
No, you're not the one I've cast in the role of Lord Chamberlain. That's why I used the plural. There are several posters who spend more time arguing about posting style than engaging with the content. Personally, I never disagree with posters. I disagree with posts...and most of the time I can't remember who said what, just what was said.






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