posted by kaiwai on Thu 16th Oct 2008 00:52
Conversations That does it. I've sent off an email to Thom, and I've officially quit this site. Idiots from top to bottom abusing the moderation system, lack of English comprehension when replying by some members, and worse, a lack of 'balls' to engage in a debate and instead 'fly by night' moderate'. I've had people in the past go, "well, you shouldn't worry too much" - well, I'm not worrying, but I am not going to hang around in a forum filled with idiots who can't hold a decent conversation for more than 5 minutes without resorting to name calling, company bashing and avoiding the issue.

Good bye, and good luck. Osnews.com used to be the haven from the stupidity on Kryo5hin and Slashdot, now it is has decended into nothing more than a pathetic concoction of digg crossed with boingboing. I've had a look at my 'good posts vs. Bad post' and I can tell you that there is a concerted effort over the last 2 weeks by people to moderate my posts down - no matter what I put in them.
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RE[2]: You may have a point
by David on Sat 18th Oct 2008 17:33 UTC
David
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I think it's highly likely that you were being "victimized" by people who were abusing our moderation system by using up their points to mod down anything you said, just to get your goat. Unfortunately for all of us, you gave them everything they wanted. They wanted to get under your skin and make you have a public blowup, and you wrapped it up with a bow and gave it to them.

Let me just say that, for the record, the better course of action would have been to remain calm and try to contact OSNews staff to see if we could be enlisted in an effort to root out these moderation abusers. It might have taken some persistence. Not because we don't care (we do, and we've considered you a valuable member of the community) but because we all have other jobs and we're busy.

Now, Thom and Adam might be more piqued about this than I am, because I haven't been paying attention until today. But I think it's safe to say that we can all empathize with your emotional state and can understand the temptation to have an outburst and lash out at innocent bystanders. Once you've cooled off, I'd invite you to contact us and see if we can't come up with a constructive solution to this whole mess.

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