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Lack of accountability from forum moderators
- Thread starter facedmurkroots
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So rather then educate users and ensure the forum runs smoothly, and fairly, you simply show them the door out?
If so, I'd call that questionable moderation.
He was responding to the user in post #49 who was wondering how to delete accounts here. He provided a link on what and how that can be done.
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I reported a post about a week ago, but nothing was done about it, had to do with Canada, it was a thinly veiled political comment.
As I said before, be less strict, be more open to harmless political/social issues posts, or delete all posts like the one I mentioned above.
It's just too strict.
As I said before, be less strict, be more open to harmless political/social issues posts, or delete all posts like the one I mentioned above.
It's just too strict.
The moderators did not consider the post in question to be political in nature. We don't recommend reporting a post that you don't think should be moderated.
It's not just you, man. I've seen people post heinously racist/homophobic/sexist things in a thread, then I'll reply snarkily or sarcastically to them and get warned or suspended.
It's not just you.
Anyone claiming a forum screenshot is fake would have to prove it because the forum rules state if a member makes a claim or accusation that a fellow members post contains false/fake information, that member must prove their claim/accusation or have their post removed.
Be that as it may there is actually no point in faking a screenshot because MR will have access to the original and therefore be able to prove if a screenshot being used against them was manipulated.
Posts being negative or critical of Mr Cook will be removed. Hidden away in threads in this forum section are posts over the years from members complaining why their negative post of Mr Cook was removed.
The mod's will find an excuse to have such posts removed. They will claim it's either political and remove it because it's in a forum section that does not allow 'political' posts or claim it's off topic or the member is trolling BUT you do the same to any other public figure and the report will come back 'No moderation required because insults to public figures are allowed'.
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I don't think that claim can be supported. For example, go to the political news forum and do a simple search like this.
I only looked at the first two pages of results (out of 12) and found these posts....
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...d.2446658/page-12?post=33657457#post-33657457
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ne.2416141/page-4?post=32850384#post-32850384
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...on.2414706/page-7?post=32815519#post-32815519
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ed.2372106/page-3?post=31770872#post-31770872
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-c.2372912/page-2?post=31790446#post-31790446
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...nt.2370950/page-8?post=31746658#post-31746658
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ay.2315658/page-6?post=30401533#post-30401533
And that was just a very simplistic search to find people who wrote "Tim Crook", I'm sure there are plenty of other posts that are critical of him. However, if somebody makes a political post criticizing him outside of the political news forum, that's another matter. Political posts would be moderated in that case, regardless of who they support or criticize.
There also may be posts that are critical of Tim Cook that contain an insult to another forum member or other rule violation which would be removed on that basis, regardless of forum.
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I've not noticed MR removing any of my posts that are critical of Tim Cook
I would notice if they did, as I'm rather critical of him several times per week usually
I would notice if they did, as I'm rather critical of him several times per week usually
Or try to do the same of their marketing/PR department...
...or they can use "EU mafia" - I reported this but for the moderators EU mafia is OK. Do yiy believe they would accept for example if the same expression would refer to cupertino?
The EU Mafia example is interesting..
I wonder if using similar terminology for the Trump administration would be allowed?
I have my guesses on that, but no data to support a position either way.
As long as the post is in the Political News section, a post like you mentioned critical of the Trump admin would not be a problem.
Posts that are not within the rules will be removed. Even in the MR non-political section there are these (continuing on a theme)
Everything should be able to be said in this very thread, the sad thing is, you can't.
Two of my posts were deleted for no reason at all, don't come and delete something you don't
agree with.
What is this nonsense, really!
And this, days after I posted them.
Two of my posts were deleted for no reason at all, don't come and delete something you don't
agree with.
What is this nonsense, really!
And this, days after I posted them.
It is perfectly fine to post in this thread about general moderation policies, but if you want to to discuss specific moderation done to your account, you need to waive your right to privacy so a response can be posted by one of the admins.
Really frustrating that folks who are talking about other forum users directly, in a derogatory fashion, are not reprimanded for it.
If negative or critical, talk about issues (or public/political figures and actions), not other forum users directly in reply to them.
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If negative or critical, talk about issues (or public/political figures and actions), not other forum users directly in reply to them.
Updated above with new data
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I often see comments like this that seem to imply moderators see insulting comments, and don't do anything about it. This is not the case. There are so many posts each day, it is not practical for moderators see them all, so we rely in large part on member reports of problematic posts.
If you see a post that violates the rules, please report it so we can take a look.