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Originally Posted by Patricia
In fairness I don't think all the nastiness of late is down to any one person. I think multiple people have behaved badly, including some escorts.
I agree Westie would make a great mod, but I though nobody here wanted community mods?
Pat x
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I agree it’s more then one right now but I went to pains to explain that your failure in another matter would cause issues down the line, those chickens have come home to roost and are crowing loud and clear their intentions. I am thankful you have drawn a line in the sand and diplomatically marked peoples cards, whether you will use your ultimate sanction is of course up to you, but I think you should consider insisting that the main protagonists (plural) are made to apologize publicly to each other within 24 hours or be banned for good, what’s been said cannot be unsaid but if you stamped your authority on this here and now and force an apology, that in the long run will stop a lot of hassle for you and upset for others. It’s a simple solution to a simple problem, if you cannot hold your tongue and are incapable of apologizing and amending your behavior then you are taken out of circulation on the boards just as you would be ostracized or removed from society if similarly found wanting.
I know that the moderator idea was raised a while back and a consensus was arrived at that it was unworkable, but as you mentioned, you and other Mods cannot read verbatim every post but perhaps a Community Mod/s could be appointed to bring things that they felt needed to be addressed by you or even a sticky was set up that anyone could post something they felt broke forum rules that would be easily found by you and decide if it warrant attention or not rather then be sent pm’s left right and center or waiting until all hell breaks loose first. I agree that if things were all to nicey nicey this place would be the poorer but we all know the lines that are not crossed, those that do should be made apologize or be banned for the greater good. Of course they could sign back on under the same name and add a 1 at the end but that at least would be some loss of street cred and prove of punishment to their peers every time they posted.
West made a singularly good point about acceptance in the wider community, you would see toddlers settle their differences faster and better then what’s gone on. With the protagonists who are in the breech at present, this will go on and on for as long as this place is on line, you might as well stand on a few matches’s now rather then put out a forest fire down the line.