This is just my personal opinion and not site policy or whatever:
I think what we are trying to achieve here is a mixture of useful information and news with a strong emphasis on the community while keeping things a bit light. This lets certain personalities shine with a bit of banter here and there, without becoming too po-faced about things.
However, repetitive rule-breaking or being a nuisance, will result in action being taken sooner or later... hundreds of people post here every day without attracting any attention from the mods whatsoever, but a small minority draw unwelcome attention to themselves by their behaviour, and that behaviour is either picked up by the mods or reported by other members of this community... and when we judge that lines have been crossed, we take action that is fitted to the scale of the transgression, and that is rarely done in public.
As stated in the forum rules, the News threads are the most tightly moderated and other forums less so.
I don't venture into a lot of other forums, but when I do, I'm always interested in how things seem to be run... some are just too tight, really draconian... some don't seem to be moderated at all. It's always a struggle to strike the right balance that keeps people coming back and wanting to participate here.
I think what we are trying to achieve here is a mixture of useful information and news with a strong emphasis on the community while keeping things a bit light. This lets certain personalities shine with a bit of banter here and there, without becoming too po-faced about things.
However, repetitive rule-breaking or being a nuisance, will result in action being taken sooner or later... hundreds of people post here every day without attracting any attention from the mods whatsoever, but a small minority draw unwelcome attention to themselves by their behaviour, and that behaviour is either picked up by the mods or reported by other members of this community... and when we judge that lines have been crossed, we take action that is fitted to the scale of the transgression, and that is rarely done in public.
As stated in the forum rules, the News threads are the most tightly moderated and other forums less so.
I don't venture into a lot of other forums, but when I do, I'm always interested in how things seem to be run... some are just too tight, really draconian... some don't seem to be moderated at all. It's always a struggle to strike the right balance that keeps people coming back and wanting to participate here.
