Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 6:14 am
I can't help but wonder if a rule where people weren't allowed to make new threads until they'd posted a certain number of times would help new people figure these things out.
Because sometimes even national leaders just want to hang out
https://forum.nationstates.net/
Twilight Imperium wrote:I can't help but wonder if a rule where people weren't allowed to make new threads until they'd posted a certain number of times would help new people figure these things out.
Imperializt Russia wrote:Manisdog wrote:So, I am telling the moderators this, if you want to get rid of the flames and not have such questions asked than you can just stop preemptively two people from hostile countries from talking
Of course they could.
Doing so or even attempting to do so is incredibly difficult and peculiar and wholly not in the interests of the site creator.
Sediczja wrote:The thing is, not everybody is a rampant xenophobe completely incapable of rational debate.
What of the people from two "hostile" countries that couldn't care less about their differences because this is the internet? Do they just have to accept the fact that because of some people who can't play nice, they're restricted in who they can communicate with?
Manisdog wrote:Imperializt Russia wrote:Of course they could.
Doing so or even attempting to do so is incredibly difficult and peculiar and wholly not in the interests of the site creator.
Let us say this would an Israeli and Palestinian ever be able to debate with each other, Can a serbian and Crotian, Bosnian etc etc Debate with each other ? What happens when you condemn the British empire for trying to take over the world ? Can the Chinese and Taiwanese ever talk with each other ? Let me not bring up the Indians and Pakistani's here ? Would the Europeans ever accept the evils of colonialism ?
I rest my case, it is truly impossible for a debate to happen,when two parties refuse to budge and that is where the flaming starts, with me it was like this man thinks xyz are evil so his arguements suck and I retaliated but now I recognize the truth, I should have known better
Fortitudinem wrote:The only time they don't do their job is when they hit 8x more innocents than guilty nations when getting rid of a spammer. Happened at one of my friend's schools before. Otherwise, they're great, and most of them are pretty funny.
Manisdog wrote:So, I am telling the moderators this, if you want to get rid of the flames and not have such questions asked than you can just stop preemptively two people from hostile countries from talking
Gradea wrote:The discussion I am starting is 'Have the mods gone too far?'. I believe the mods do a good job on NationStates but they can be a bit trigger happy with the ban button.
Manisdog wrote:Imperializt Russia wrote:Of course they could.
Doing so or even attempting to do so is incredibly difficult and peculiar and wholly not in the interests of the site creator.
Let us say this would an Israeli and Palestinian ever be able to debate with each other, Can a serbian and Crotian, Bosnian etc etc Debate with each other ? What happens when you condemn the British empire for trying to take over the world ? Can the Chinese and Taiwanese ever talk with each other ? Let me not bring up the Indians and Pakistani's here ? Would the Europeans ever accept the evils of colonialism ?
I rest my case, it is truly impossible for a debate to happen,when two parties refuse to budge and that is where the flaming starts, with me it was like this man thinks xyz are evil so his arguements suck and I retaliated but now I recognize the truth
The Blaatschapen wrote:Fortitudinem wrote:The only time they don't do their job is when they hit 8x more innocents than guilty nations when getting rid of a spammer. Happened at one of my friend's schools before. Otherwise, they're great, and most of them are pretty funny.
This can unfortunately happen.
If you know the spammer in your school, report them to the school administration (or whomever is in charge of the IT systems in the school). It makes our lives easier. Or let the school administration contact us, so we can figure something out to stop the spam.
Fortitudinem wrote:The only time they don't do their job is when they hit 8x more innocents than guilty nations when getting rid of a spammer. Happened at one of my friend's schools before. Otherwise, they're great, and most of them are pretty funny.
Toronina wrote:I'm changing my opinion to they have not gone for enough. I have seen a post advocating death (albeit of unpopular people) be rules not actionable.
Fortitudinem wrote:School admins could care less, in fact, they would probably publicly diss the site because it isn't run by them.
United Dependencies wrote:Well, some on here will disagree, but I also think the mods should have a bias in favor of established posters. Frankly I think we should take steps to restrict the ability of new members to post and make threads, but I'm told that would be too difficult to implement, so... oh well
Tyrinth wrote:I don't believe there is a simple yes or no answer to this. I think some of the reports they both entertain and act on are nothing short of absurd, but generally I don't think things are too bad around here.
The problem may be with the userbase crying to the mods too often moreso than the the mods themselves being overly problematic.
That said, the potential for breaking one of the plethora of stupid rules around here keeps me out of many a discussion.