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    Moderators are NOT weenies....BUT (wee little title fix there!)

    Moderators are weenies. You guys close threads way too easily when they really get good and heated up. I know you'll eventually close this one, too. I just figured I'd vent a little first. I'm sure your job isn't always easy, but you guys do spoil some of the fun.

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    Re: Moderators are weenies....

    Wow,,,this was a very short vent
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    Re: Moderators are weenies....

    Quote Originally Posted by Ta-An View Post
    Wow,,,this was a very short vent
    Well, I can be a man of few words at times.

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    Re: Moderators are weenies....

    Quote Originally Posted by Warrior4God View Post
    Moderators are weenies. You guys close threads way too easily when they really get good and heated up. I know you'll eventually close this one, too. I just figured I'd vent a little first. I'm sure your job isn't always easy, but you guys do spoil some of the fun.
    You think so? Personally I think it's the other way around. Threads open way too long.
    It is only the cynic who claims “to speak the truth” at all times and in all places to all men in the same way, but who, in fact, displays nothing but a lifeless image of the truth… He dons the halo of the fanatical devotee of truth who can make no allowance for human weaknesses; but, in fact, he is destroying the living truth between men. He wounds shame, desecrates mystery, breaks confidence, betrays the community in which he lives, and laughs arrogantly at the devastation he has wrought and at the human weakness which “cannot bear the truth”. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in Ethics.


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    Re: Moderators are weenies....

    Quote Originally Posted by teddyv View Post
    You think so? Personally I think it's the other way around. Threads open way too long.
    Hmm. Interesting point of view. However, I've seen numerous posts, some not lasting very long, that were really interesting but somebody got kinda upset at another poster and didn't exactly hide it and the mods saw this and said "Poof!" I know the mods aren't evil or anything, just uptight.

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    Re: Moderators are weenies....

    Quote Originally Posted by Warrior4God View Post
    Hmm. Interesting point of view. However, I've seen numerous posts, some not lasting very long, that were really interesting but somebody got kinda upset at another poster and didn't exactly hide it and the mods saw this and said "Poof!" I know the mods aren't evil or anything, just uptight.
    If they were any different, would this board survive... like a Free-for-aLL
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    Re: Moderators are weenies....

    Quote Originally Posted by Ta-An View Post
    If they were any different, would this board survive... like a Free-for-aLL
    Not sure. I don't have a magic crystal ball nor the ability to foresee the future.

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    I see what you're saying. Perhaps it'd better to just forbid the ones who are fighting to dialog in that thread, than to close the whole thing down.
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    Re: Moderators are weenies....

    Quote Originally Posted by Ta-An View Post
    If they were any different, would this board survive... like a Free-for-aLL
    Maar die res van ons moet versigtig wees as te wat ons sê, soos ek, Ek is werklik versigtig wees
    If Satan can keep us busy swinging our swords at one another, there is no hope of a united attack on the kingdom of darkness. KJV, NIV, ESV or ABCDEFG; there is no time to bicker over such things. We'll devour each other if allowed to continue. We should grab the marching orders written in the way we best understand and get to work.

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    Re: Moderators are weenies....

    I'm not touching this one...

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    Re: Moderators are weenies....

    Quote Originally Posted by gringo300 View Post
    I'm not touching this one...

    Technically, you just did.

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    Re: Moderators are weenies....

    Quote Originally Posted by Warrior4God View Post
    Hmm. Interesting point of view. However, I've seen numerous posts, some not lasting very long, that were really interesting but somebody got kinda upset at another poster and didn't exactly hide it and the mods saw this and said "Poof!" I know the mods aren't evil or anything, just uptight.
    Sometimes... it is too fast but then that depends on the moderator and ultimately that's their call. There are times when we reopen a thread after things have had some time to cool down or the thread has been cleaned up etc. Depends on a number of things really. Keep in mind that we do try and stay consistent but even then every mod is who they are. To one... it's just a little bit of a pee'ing contest and they'll work it out once they run dry. To another mod... it's a blood bath. Myself... most are just pee'ing contest and save a person or two in the thread... it's sort of fun to watch. But then I am sort of twisted like that in my wiring.

    We really do try to remain consistent but that's got to be loosely defined taking into account personalities of the mod's. If it is just a bad call then we can fix it easy enough. If it is simply a judgment call... then we'll likely let that rest on the mod's decision. Often times... the mod themselves reopen the thread after a day or so of chilling out. Some though, just need to stay closed. Once a thread has gone 400 or so post and it gets shut down... usually best to let that puppy stay shut down.


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    Re: Moderators are weenies....

    Quote Originally Posted by -SEEKING- View Post

    Technically, you just did.
    He did
    Now he'll have to walk like
    TMS
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    Re: Moderators are weenies....

    Quote Originally Posted by Ta-An View Post
    He did
    Now he'll have to walk like
    TMS
    Tis true............
    If Satan can keep us busy swinging our swords at one another, there is no hope of a united attack on the kingdom of darkness. KJV, NIV, ESV or ABCDEFG; there is no time to bicker over such things. We'll devour each other if allowed to continue. We should grab the marching orders written in the way we best understand and get to work.

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    Re: Moderators are weenies....

    That's the first time I've been called that! I've accepted the title of "Board Meanie" and just about learned to live with it....

    Usually folks end up getting madder at ME than someone else in the thread.

    Bless my heart.........
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    "Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name!" (Every time we speak of the Lord, or even THINK of him--its written down in a book of remembrance!)

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