I have spent an awful lot of mental energy on the moderator question, thinking that it has been going downhill ever since Andy E left.
And I agree that probably 2/3s of those who got banned deserved it, but I am still confused about much.
I've come to a few conclusions and have other questions open in mind.
I am 90% sure that the reason taunton does not provide reasons for banning is on the advice of some legal consultant. Maybe jickenshit, but seems realistic to me. Or that they just don't have the time and inclination. Or both.
The biggest thing that bothers me is that even tho they seems to have been fair with me, this whole moderator thing has been VERY inconsistant from person to person, and incident to incident, and month to month.
I conclude several things from that. There are more than one moderator and they do not all have the same interpretation of the orders from on high. ( I add to that, the item Peg had earlier that it appears that somebody who is a regular at BT might also have much input, and possibly power to bann or control threads)
There is somebody above the mods in authority at Taunton who occasionally makes demands of them. I don't mind a benovolent dictator at all. The problem is that this person appears to be less than benovolent.
There is also so much complaining by members that the mods simply don't have time to read a whole context to make a just determination, so they are simplifying their work by the recent wholesale slaughter, leaving all the blood and guts on the floor.
This last is the one that BT members can do the most about amoung ourselves. First, to give less reason for anyone to complain about us. Second, to not make any complaints. But I suspect that those who have been guilty of that see themselves as some sort of holy warriors or are OCD and paranoid and taking too many thing personally. whoever they are, they are unlikely to stop until and unless the mods tell them to please shut up.
Maybe I'm wrong on much of this, but it is a puzzle that my poor mind keeps trying to solve. The problem is like most of the jigsaw puzzles in our house - too many pieces are missing.
Oh well.
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