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Lets quit with the Rudeness
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This forum just needs A LOT more moderation and bans to people to set an example to others. It really is amazing how little this forum is moderated, its like a free for all. I'm a member of a few other forums and a moderator for one and none of the other boards contain as many insipid comments and insulting posts from members as MacRumors does. Its really a shame.
Isn't this the very reason why internet forums exist?
Everyone's basically a 6'' 220 pound MMA fighter when sitting behind their keyboard...
If someone has owned an Android device and shared their experiences of say, switching over to an iPhone (differences between OSes, pros and cons), that's perfectly acceptable, in fact, I like reading threads like that.
HOWEVER, if someone comes here to tell us why Android is so much better without even using an iPhone, that's just a stupid biased opinion that should be ignored.
Coming onto a website named "macrumors" is pretty self explanatory. It's all about Apple, rumors, and their devices and software. Comparing the two is OKAY, but again, no one needs to hear why a new android powered device that has "1 GBz of Rams, omg itsz so kewl, s0 much better than an iPhone *". (Just for the sake of it, hardware isn't everything if the OS is total crap).
The sad fact of forums is that there will be trolls, no matter what topic. I use many forums and they're everywhere. You just gotta ignore them
HOWEVER, if someone comes here to tell us why Android is so much better without even using an iPhone, that's just a stupid biased opinion that should be ignored.
Coming onto a website named "macrumors" is pretty self explanatory. It's all about Apple, rumors, and their devices and software. Comparing the two is OKAY, but again, no one needs to hear why a new android powered device that has "1 GBz of Rams, omg itsz so kewl, s0 much better than an iPhone *". (Just for the sake of it, hardware isn't everything if the OS is total crap).
The sad fact of forums is that there will be trolls, no matter what topic. I use many forums and they're everywhere. You just gotta ignore them
The report button is also a good one. If you find a thread that has no business being here, don't just ignore it, report it so the mods know to do something about it.
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I have been apart of many forums other than this one, very large popular forums, and MR is definitely the least moderated I've ever seen.
You are just flat out wrong
uiop. said:
I have been apart of many forums other than this one, very large popular forums, and MR is definitely the least moderated I've ever seen.
You are just flat out wrong
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Some of us are multiplatform and up for the discussion, refuting some of the BS spouted by others with less/no experience with the platform. Is that not welcomed here?
chrono1081 said:
Some of us are multiplatform and up for the discussion, refuting some of the BS spouted by others with less/no experience with the platform. Is that not welcomed here?
From the responses I'd have to say its not really welcome here.
iPhone users don't need to be "saved" with knowledge of other platforms. If an iPhone user wants to know how the iPhone stacks up against XYZ android device or wants to learn about Android they go over to Xda or Androidforums or AndroidCommunity or DroidLife or AndroidSpin or AndroidPolice or Phandroid or Android Central and ask...
I think that due to the fact that the iphone is one of many smartphones we should be open to the occasional comparison between the platforms. I learned in college that you have no knowledge of English without another language to compare it to. How do you know that iOS 4 has a poor notification system without seeing different systems. Occasional not the dozens of threads on the Samsung Galaxy S II. However the issue is not the threads but rather when people respond you don't have to join in those threads. If you see the op is just trolling then don't reply they want you to say something so they can argue with you. I am also a member of android central. We never have these issues (we have an iOS section for them.)
No. What we need is more post reports. If you see people breaking the rules, please report the post instead of replying to it. Every single post report is handled by a moderator and actions will be taken if necessary. No matter how many mods there are, we simply cannot read ~10 000 posts which are posted in MR everyday.
A question to all mods. How detailed do our reports have to be? Mine are usually 1 or 2 words unless I feel a longer explanation is really necessary, is this alright for the mods or is a longer explanation better?
That will be fine. Usually the problem is obvious and we can contact you if we need more information.
Yup, that is fine like OllyW stated above. No matter how short or long the explanation is, we still have to review the whole case (i.e. the post and relevant posts) and possibly user's prior troubles. My post reports were always very short before I became a mod
It's better to do many short ones than spend a long time on one report IMO.
I understand and didn't mean to sound like I was bashing MacRumors, it really is a great forum. But there really are too few mods for the size of it. Just my 2 cents.
Six new moderators were added yesterday. Currently there are zero pending post reports. Basically, that means we have nothing to do. The time it takes to browse through threads and look for rule violations is astronomical, thus we mainly rely on post reports.
Again, if you see a rule violation, even if you weren't 100% sure, please report it. That way the thread will get mods' attention and we will do clean-ups if we find that necessary
The people I can't stand are the arrogant entitled people who come out saying how stupid and horrible Apple is because they didn't include some obscure and idiotic feature that the poster wanted. Or they say how something is broken or stupid because they didn't read the release notes. I hate stupid users.
and i hate people that up on their high horses and are condescending to people, but everyone is different on the internet, we just have to ignore people we don't like.
How about a little troll icon next to the up and down arrows and if enough people click on it, a food icon with a circle and slash through it appears in the post.
sadly that would not work. I find the negative votes depend more on if you are anti Apple in any way it is automatic hate.
Personally on this one people complaining about Android post I count at least 4 post that are pure android bashing from the thread title right now at first glance on the first page of iPhone forums.
while I agree iOS vs Android comes down to personal preference, it is absolutely true that their are cases where software can be superior to other software. For example, 2 algorithms that churn out the same result could be entirely different, and one could be faster and lighter (less code)
The "issue" never happens for me during regular use, and I can only get it to drop about one bar with the "Death Grip".
Maybe I'm "holding it wrong".