In recent times, as the season for our team has come to an end, I've noticed some comments and sniping between fellow 1EyedEel members .
As this is a public forum, there will always be times when, despite us all being Parramatta fans, we will, from time to time disagree with one another .
And you know what? That's a good thing! Robust, vigorous, conversation about a team we all love and are passionate about is a good thing. It really is.
What isn't a good thing is when people start taking swipes at one another. Sledging, name calling, personal attacks and insults. That's just not on, and I'm pretty sure we all know it.
That's where the role of the site moderator comes in.
It's not an easy role and not one that, to be frank, I would want. I wouldn't.
WHY?
You have to be impartial as best as you can from the information (in most cases blogs) that you can see and try to act as best as you can to the Codes of Conduct. Sometimes you'll even have to impose a ban or some form of sanction against someone you consider a good mate.
I know I would find that part VERY blooming hard.
But the moderators have to do that.
I know that not everyone on this website has agreed 100% all the time with what has happened, sometimes you may have had to spend time in the "sin bin", other times, someone you consider a friend has been placed in the bin.
But let's consider the alternative.
A website where any comments, no matter how offensive, how inflammatory, no matter the level of defamation. Nothing is filtered and a person can call you any name under the sun, publish a comment calling into question anything about you as a person .... ANYTHING.
People have left this site because of comments written about them. People calling them names, trolling them and writing abusive comments. For a while I left the site and I know others that did and didn't come back.
We may not always like or agree with what our moderators have to say or do, but any website, especially one like ours where we have some wonderfully passionate members, need to have them.
Cheers,
DK
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This is the first year I invested more time in to knowing what was going on with my club. coming on this site reading, learning and trying to contribute in one way or another. the more I invested the more I stressed over results, The more frustrated I got with people's points of view. In the end it's just a game and this is a forum which is a great platform to communicate on.
Communicate is probably the key word here. It's not hard to bite your tongue rather than thrashing out some abusive words on a keyboard.
Treat people the way you would like to be treated.
Or be prepaid for backlash or a ban. Pretty easy to loose face on a site like this.
Anyway, hope all is well with everyone.
cheers ANThaEELS
cheers Poppa
LOL
The thing with this site is that the mods are visible. On other sites, the moderators are not.
We all have opinions and we are all passionate fans.
I happen to like some of the people who have been handing out the hammerings as of late. They've been good people towards me, so I hold no ill feelings towards them at all , seriously! I wasn't hammering them in this blog, that wasn't the intention of my blog.
I was hoping that the blog could draw a big "line in the sand" in which both sides could happily sit on either side and say "yeah, we'll agree to disagree about the opinions ... but let's draw an olive branch next to that line in the sand" .
I tried to be a facilitator of some peace ..... I tried!
As for your question about an "rating system like the judiciary" ....
hehehe .....
well, I'm sure there are plenty of blogs that lost of people find boring, I'm pretty sure that there are lots that find this whole thread nothing more than a great big yawn fest !!!
Cheers!
DK the alternative is I actually hit pause on the site when my work goes into overload, which is generally in the off-season.
I simply cannot risk running this site without the help of moderators both from a reputational and legal standpoint.
We're fortunate to have some guys with very thick skins at the moment helping me at the moment, but if I get dragged into having to deal with petty bullshit this off-season, I'm just going to hand out off-season bans and people that I don't feel I can trust to not go overboard with the abuse, or that can't help but wade into racism, homophobia, etc. can just wait until March when my work eases up because right now I can't have my family/business time interrupted having to deal with people deliberately pushing the code of conduct.
I've already got a ridiculous full plate at the moment, and I'm trying to use any spare time I have working on the next iteration of this site, so I'm asking all members to please respect that, the site's rules and the mods so that we can have an off-season that while it is free to go off on its little tangents, doesn't stray over the line of acceptability.
100% with you there Phil
Hahahaha.
Nice one...
Well I just deleted one of your comments Fong and I'm going to resist making the obvious joke here putting those two comments together, but I'm thinking on that evidence best behaviour might be a stretch!
mate, nothing grinds my gears more these days than the over PC we are told to be these days.
The hardest part about this being in text is that we lose the tone of voice.
I think that is where a lot of the problems tend to escalate from.
If I called someone a "nerd" , but if in person I said it in a joking , friendly tone of voice, smiled and shook my head as I said it, most would say I was using the word "nerd" in an endearing way ..... take away the ability to hear my tone of voice and the word "nerd" could be thought of as completely offensive (feel free to substitute any other word than "nerd" .... you know what I mean)
Without the tone of voice, the comments on blogs can turn really sour and escalate into a full blown slagging match ... which often happens (sigh)
moderating is a thankless job, whether on this website or any other
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