I frequent another message board which, quite frankly, carries no punishment at all for rule infractions. I mean, sure, people get banned every now and then for stepping to far out of line, but I've never known any moderator to hand out a lifetime ban, and those little taps on the shoulder does nothing to make a certain few members stop stirring up trouble. I applaud the moderators here for taking a more proactive stance to rule breaking, but I can't help but feel the moderation of this forum has been taken a bit to far.
You see, I received a rule infraction for posting this:
SuperXero said:
I'd like to see Raven, AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, Mike Tenay, Jerry Lynn, and America's Most Wanted all inducted one day if they haven't been already.
Now is that a short post? It's a pretty big sentence, but it's pretty short overall. The topic was superstars we'd like to see in a TNA Hall of Fame. I believe I answered that question. I didn't simply list one or two names. I answered the question in a clear and complete sentence. It may be short, but it's not spam. I believe it should be clear what spam is and what spam is not. It would also be nice if everyone had the time to write out detailed and well planned responses but we simply don't. This is a web based message forum, not an army regiment. As long as no one is making statements totally unrelated to the topic at hand, and giving clear legible responses to everything, I don't see a problem, and I feel that the moderators here should rethink the rules. The key to establishing a good relationship between mods such as yourself and your forum members is not to talk down to them, and not to make them feel inferior to you. Unfortunately, I get the feeling that I am very much inferior to the moderators here. Now I understand that it is quite easy for one to get somewhat of a "cyber ego" when put in a position such as this. When I first started moderating forums on the net and leading gaming clans I had the same issue. Over time I actually learned that there's no reason to make yourself look any more important than the rest of the members and to treat them with respect. I'm sorry, but I do not feel like I was treated with respect after receiving not a warning, but an infraction on what amounts to only about my third day of posting here just because I did not give explicit reasoning as to why AJ Styles, AMW, and Mike Tenay should be inducted into the TNA Hall of Fame, as if any reason is really necesary.
Now as you can see here, and here at:
http://forums.wrestlezone.com/showthread.php?p=276761#post276761 I post well thought out material and do not enjoy being considered a spammer. In fact, I have never been considered a spammer and this is probably the only message board which has ever had to hand out a rule infraction towards me. You people need to seriously rethink your policy for the betterment of this message board and loose that "if you don't like it, get out" attitude, because that never works for anywhere.