Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[AnnoyedCanadian]

I hope anyone who had family in Florida is doing okay and they are safe

At least noodlesoup got banned. B-Dumbs has his moments of clarity where he does the right thing. Hoping he's realizing what a psychotic forum he runs. Then again, it's more content for us.

[Taco Bell Tower]

If you are writing 4000+ words while on break from a volunteer position, you should rethink some things. 

Also bdumbs vs noodlesoup fight getting kicked off. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/biden-administration-no-longer-supporting-an-immediate-ceasefire-in-lebanon.1005735/page-6#post-129994656

Edit: RIP

User banned (1 month): dismissing concerns of ethnic cleansing

All that protest over nothing but a one month ban 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Also, I'm not having a discussion about tankies on Era of all places. Sorry, man.

let me see what i can do about this ban

[BananaBlast]

but like... is he though?

"I worked on Ori"
"...did you?"
"WOW, GAMERGATOR MUCH"

Even if he loves Mark Kern and sucks him nightly, I don't even see how it's relevant.

God, I don't even like Grummz, but he feels like one of the few people that gain enough traction on shining the light against these demons. And one of the few anti-woke gaming personalities who don't feel like they've totally gone off the deep end (for the most part)

And even then, all concerns about someone being a gamergater aside, what does that have to do with lying about working on someone's games? If the Ori director never spoke up, wouldn't that mean she'd continue lying about on working on a game belonging to who she's preaching against? FFS.

[AnnoyedCanadian]

Noodlesoup getting a harsher punishment on a forum than in real life for his actions. Like, what?

I'm baffled he didn't get straight up expelled. If that was in Quebec he'd be fucking gone in an instant. The one positive thing I can say about the French in Canada.

I hope B-Dumbs goes on cleanup and bans all the tankies and Hamas sympathizers. Wonder if the FBI or a three letter agency warned him about that shit already.



B-Dumbs

Like, if you don't want to vote for Harris because of Gaza then that is perfectly understandable and even admirable to me. But to then prop up a bunch of assholes, nutcases, and hypocrites as being the moral choice? Come on dude, be better.

And he's back to being a retard. Fuck me. They better not complain if Trump wins and they didn't vote.

[HaughtyFrank]

If you are writing 4000+ words while on break from a volunteer position, you should rethink some things. 

Also bdumbs vs noodlesoup fight getting kicked off. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/biden-administration-no-longer-supporting-an-immediate-ceasefire-in-lebanon.1005735/page-6#post-129994656

Edit: RIP

User banned (1 month): dismissing concerns of ethnic cleansing

Noodle soup needs to get himself some of that Chief Malik immunity

[TylenolJones]

Illinois is going to go red cause NoodleSoup wouldn’t vote for Harris 😔

[HaughtyFrank]

Actually on that note I just discovered Chief Malik got a 2 week slap on the wrist , which almost makes it worse because now the entire Resetera mod team is aware and okay with declaring Hamas propaganda as less problematic than liking boobs. 

User banned (2 weeks): posting conspiracy theory content

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/post-129858462

[Nintex]

No need to vote, we have all the votes we need 

Son-kun Jumpu on the Kento-un we need to find the Dragonu ballu 

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

[AnnoyedCanadian]

Actually on that note I just discovered Chief Malik got a 2 week slap on the wrist , which almost makes it worse because now the entire Resetera mod team is aware and okay with declaring Hamas propaganda as less problematic than liking boobs. 

User banned (2 weeks): posting conspiracy theory content

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/post-129858462

Two weeks? I again love how you get permanently banned if you don't believe in this non-binary horseshit and a slap on the wrist for being a vile anti-Semite.

Fuck the lot of them. Bunch of terrorist sympathizers.

[Uncle]

If you are writing 4000+ words while on break from a volunteer position, you should rethink some things. 

Also bdumbs vs noodlesoup fight getting kicked off. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/biden-administration-no-longer-supporting-an-immediate-ceasefire-in-lebanon.1005735/page-6#post-129994656

Edit: RIP

User banned (1 month): dismissing concerns of ethnic cleansing

new lore

[Potato]

Hey what happened to the person that would make complaints on Era about people hating their guts at work?

Isn't that all of them? Which social retard are you specifically referring to?

[Uncle]

B-Dumbs

Like, if you don't want to vote for Harris because of Gaza then that is perfectly understandable and even admirable to me. But to then prop up a bunch of assholes, nutcases, and hypocrites as being the moral choice? Come on dude, be better.

[Besticus Maximus]

Fuck up college to impress generalissimo nepenthe and the transbian division

Get banned days after sentencing lol

[DavidCroquet]

If you are writing 4000+ words while on break from a volunteer position, you should rethink some things. 

Also bdumbs vs noodlesoup fight getting kicked off. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/biden-administration-no-longer-supporting-an-immediate-ceasefire-in-lebanon.1005735/page-6#post-129994656

Edit: RIP

User banned (1 month): dismissing concerns of ethnic cleansing

new lore

Haha, I love the mid-image twist.

"Era's been weird lately" 
 

"I simply said voting for Claudia De La Cruz..."

[DocWager]

If you are writing 4000+ words while on break from a volunteer position, you should rethink some things. 

Also bdumbs vs noodlesoup fight getting kicked off. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/biden-administration-no-longer-supporting-an-immediate-ceasefire-in-lebanon.1005735/page-6#post-129994656

Edit: RIP

User banned (1 month): dismissing concerns of ethnic cleansing

new lore

Can y’all stop. You’re y’all being creepy following cousin Noodle. Hopefully I get an apology soon.

[DavidCroquet]

If you are writing 4000+ words while on break from a volunteer position, you should rethink some things. 

Also bdumbs vs noodlesoup fight getting kicked off. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/biden-administration-no-longer-supporting-an-immediate-ceasefire-in-lebanon.1005735/page-6#post-129994656

Edit: RIP

User banned (1 month): dismissing concerns of ethnic cleansing

Noodle soup needs to get himself some of that Chief Malik immunity

He needs to adjust his approach slightly. 

1. Don't endorse any candidates. Where possible, anti-endorsement is preferable (i.e. they all suck are bad are evil hate POC are bloodthirsty genociders)
   
2. Talk about Hamas more--no one cares about your pointless college protests, but if you advocate Hamas as a legitimate fighting force that exists naturally in opposition to unjust colonization and oppression by """zionists""", well, who can fault you for merely speaking truth? 
   
3. Big ups to Xi Jinping! Not sure why, but it just works, so do it.
   

[Nintex]

If you are writing 4000+ words while on break from a volunteer position, you should rethink some things. 

Also bdumbs vs noodlesoup fight getting kicked off. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/biden-administration-no-longer-supporting-an-immediate-ceasefire-in-lebanon.1005735/page-6#post-129994656

Edit: RIP

new lore

Can y’all stop. You’re y’all being creepy following cousin Noodle. Hopefully I get an apology soon.

Half our members are just feds posting on a break

“Today I am also announcing that as part of our tax cuts, we will make interest on car loans fully deductible.”

Trump angling for the Nissan Versa votes 

[AnnoyedCanadian]

The only candidate that could unite both sides

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

WOAAAH

[DocWager]

We’re in a Crossroads in this country.

[Uncle]

who on the bore is most likely to be someone famous

is cauliflower of love actually cliffyb

[Cauliflower Of Love]

after seeing the hurricane stuff I decided to throw a little money toward Feeding America the other day.

 

anti-hero™

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Could you imagine if she dropped white bread for Laverne?

[Besticus Maximus]

I am Zaslav 

[benji]

Don’t hate myself quite enough to read this entire dreck, but I’m sure benji does

Firstly I am on break so I can't actually even look at stuff to check anything but I'll weigh in.

Okay, so "On Break" actually means they don't have access to the janny tools?

We are not educators. There are a lot of topics that we will try our best to inform ourselves on through research and such so that we can moderate the forum. But we typically don't have the knowledge to really help people understand complex topics as much, we similarly aren't expected to teach members how exactly to follow the rules if the general stuff isn't working. Not everyone is good at explaining or summarising things in a professional or appropriate way etc.

Yeah, like you, all of these paragraphs are horrible. You can't write for shit, endless meaningless meandering.

Plus there's sentences like this:

The are of course entirely bans as well.

As you may know, reports are generally handled by 1 or more mods each. Usually if it isn't a super obvious troll on a rampage, we want discussion before moderating it. By the time the ticket comes in, there is a chance it is a different set of eyes viewing it. I've talked about tickets being one of the more difficult parts of the job before. We have a lot less staff working in tickets than we do in reports. Tickets work best when a few mods schedule time in to try and resolve as many as we can. I haven't been involved in many as of late, they aren't that frequent any way. We mostly try to chip in when we can. The last time I remember doing this it was a 6~ish hour block with mods working on resolving tickets. We would discuss issues then one person drafts while the rest looks through other tickets. Some tickets can be resolved easily with a single mod, so we call it out so we don't double up on drafting a reply for the same thing, anything complicated we bring back and do the same which can disrupt the draft writing but discussion takes priority since it isn't as common these days to have many mods on hand working in tandem like this. When a draft is done we ask for quick review, fix things then fire it off. Sometimes we even get a quick reply and can work on that while it is fresh on everyone's memory too. This also helps as often there is an admin around so we can sign off stuff like complicated histories and specials cases. Sometimes we take a break and come back later to finish where we left off. When the queue is crazy big I also don't even finish the draft and just note what I want in the draft to complete over the week so I can have more time to get a deeper understanding and discuss the other challenging tickets. Often, these sessions would be on weekends. For the US staff, their Saturdays are my Sundays. Sometimes we do Sundays which is actually my Monday and there has been more than a couple of late night ticket romps. Just typing this out I can say with confidence that this system feels a bit broken and needs something to help it. If anything, we would benefit if we had more sessions like this but I also don't think any of us could put the time in for it as a regular thing.


So what about other times when we aren't scheduling it into our lives? We chip in when we can. We chip at it however we can. Discussion is slower. Motivation is lower. Sometimes singular mods will do a long session and leave a bunch of drafts for reviews while other times we might post just the one or spend the time following bread crumbs and discussing an issue.

This is so fucking stupid. You're all idiots.  

If you ask me, it would be great to have 2 new people on this. Perhaps twice a week they crunch some tickets together. This should be what they do, not reports, not warnings, not banning or unbanning or title changes. Just straight up investigating issues and answering questions, drafting replies and communicating with staff and members, maybe even popping into this thread at time maybe.. They should be able to access other staff to help them when needed. They should be experienced in customer support because that is what this part of the job is. They should absolutely be paid for this.

 

I do it. That said, trolling can happen in a lot of ways and moderating it can be difficult. For one the definition of trolling suggests posting to provoke or bait others. This can also be done entirely unintentionally. There are tickets that are basically "How can this be trolling? I'm just posting my genuine feelings and opinions. I am not trying to troll any one. Is this opinion not allowed?" The user is confused. They don't understand so I look into it and say I read through the stuff and... I think they were trolling. These conversations can go a few ways. Semantics and definitions. Interpretations vs intention. Ultimately there isn't a lot to say that can change the user's mind.

 

In the earlier days of moderation we were much stricter about tying things back directly to a rule in the book. And over the course of many years we have relaxed this because there were a lot of trolls that cleverly danced on the side line of the rules. These days we might be a bit more relaxed so we can catch some of the people that have been annoying communities.

Well, at least you admit the rules are meaningless and it's all just cops getting triggered.

Looking at this post, it doesn't really answer any ones question. There is no answer I can give.

wow thx

[benji]

The are of course entirely bans as well.

newsfeed

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Mods just don't want to admit that they can't explain how that ban was concern trolling.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I tried to wake them from their nap.

I'm starting to think it's just a bunch of pillows on the couch.

[Uncle]

genuinely though the post where dubs banned noodlesoup is baffling

I've never been a moderator but when you are arguing directly with someone, that's when you absolutely can't ban them, sometimes even if they deserve it

you put yourself in that position to be talking to them, so you need to be extra careful about the power you wield when you get heated

even asking other mods to review the conversation and ban him if necessary would be a bit irresponsible, because it's motivated

people need to know they can talk directly to administrators without being on pins and needles

[Cauliflower Of Love]

genuinely though the post where dubs banned noodlesoup is baffling

I've never been a moderator but when you are arguing directly with someone, that's when you absolutely can't ban them, sometimes even if they deserve it

you put yourself in that position to be talking to them, so you need to be extra careful about the power you wield when you get heated

even asking other mods to review the conversation and ban him if necessary would be a bit irresponsible

people need to know they can talk directly to administrators without being on pins and needles

benji you know what to do