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 Author: qwertyboy View Messages Posted By qwertyboy
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It sure looks like forum moderation (and in particular, cancelling posts) has
changed with the CEP moderators being de-fanged. Pretty sure the CEP mods would
have intervened by now in the "tariffs" thread for getting too political.
Also, the "gummy" posts stay up way longer - until California wakes up.

Do the current CEP moderators have _any_ "power" left, or has it morphed
into just a meaningless title on their avatar card?

Just curious.

Niek.
 Author: Saitobricks.ca View Messages Posted By Saitobricks.ca
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In General, qwertyboy writes:
  It sure looks like forum moderation (and in particular, cancelling posts) has
changed with the CEP moderators being de-fanged. Pretty sure the CEP mods would
have intervened by now in the "tariffs" thread for getting too political.
Also, the "gummy" posts stay up way longer - until California wakes up.

Do the current CEP moderators have _any_ "power" left, or has it morphed
into just a meaningless title on their avatar card?

Just curious.

Niek.

I was talking to a mod and they said they couldn’t to squat to stop gummies.
The good news is we can now spam the forum with pizza and get away with it for
over 60 hours!
 Author: ScubaSteve View Messages Posted By ScubaSteve
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In General, qwertyboy writes:
  It sure looks like forum moderation (and in particular, cancelling posts) has
changed with the CEP moderators being de-fanged. Pretty sure the CEP mods would
have intervened by now in the "tariffs" thread for getting too political.
Also, the "gummy" posts stay up way longer - until California wakes up.

Do the current CEP moderators have _any_ "power" left, or has it morphed
into just a meaningless title on their avatar card?

Just curious.

Niek.

I was thinking the same thing this morning when I had a post cancelled.
 Author: Nubs_Select View Messages Posted By Nubs_Select
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In General, qwertyboy writes:
  It sure looks like forum moderation (and in particular, cancelling posts) has
changed with the CEP moderators being de-fanged. Pretty sure the CEP mods would
have intervened by now in the "tariffs" thread for getting too political.
Also, the "gummy" posts stay up way longer - until California wakes up.

Do the current CEP moderators have _any_ "power" left, or has it morphed
into just a meaningless title on their avatar card?

Just curious.

Niek.

it seems to be taking longer indeed

(ps, if it was me you are referring to in regards to to politics, my apologies
I was trying to avoid it but I must not have done well enough)
 Author: ScubaSteve View Messages Posted By ScubaSteve
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In General, Nubs_Select writes:
  In General, qwertyboy writes:
  It sure looks like forum moderation (and in particular, cancelling posts) has
changed with the CEP moderators being de-fanged. Pretty sure the CEP mods would
have intervened by now in the "tariffs" thread for getting too political.
Also, the "gummy" posts stay up way longer - until California wakes up.

Do the current CEP moderators have _any_ "power" left, or has it morphed
into just a meaningless title on their avatar card?

Just curious.

Niek.

it seems to be taking longer indeed

(ps, if it was me you are referring to in regards to to politics, my apologies
I was trying to avoid it but I must not have done well enough)

Some people just don't understand humour or english nubs. Its fine.
 Author: Nubs_Select View Messages Posted By Nubs_Select
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In General, ScubaSteve writes:
  In General, Nubs_Select writes:
  In General, qwertyboy writes:
  It sure looks like forum moderation (and in particular, cancelling posts) has
changed with the CEP moderators being de-fanged. Pretty sure the CEP mods would
have intervened by now in the "tariffs" thread for getting too political.
Also, the "gummy" posts stay up way longer - until California wakes up.

Do the current CEP moderators have _any_ "power" left, or has it morphed
into just a meaningless title on their avatar card?

Just curious.

Niek.

it seems to be taking longer indeed

(ps, if it was me you are referring to in regards to to politics, my apologies
I was trying to avoid it but I must not have done well enough)

Some people just don't understand humour or english nubs. Its fine.

the english language is a fun one!
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 Author: Stellar View Messages Posted By Stellar
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In General, qwertyboy writes:
  It sure looks like forum moderation (and in particular, cancelling posts) has
changed with the CEP moderators being de-fanged. Pretty sure the CEP mods would
have intervened by now in the "tariffs" thread for getting too political.
Also, the "gummy" posts stay up way longer - until California wakes up.

Do the current CEP moderators have _any_ "power" left, or has it morphed
into just a meaningless title on their avatar card?

Just curious.

Niek.

We can still do some things, like moving post or threads, locking them, or temporal
banning with approval. Also maintain the sales topic posts with its rule. We
also come to the forum often to report the spam, as Admin can sort reports by
how many different people reported anything.

We have also had a meeting with the Admins (after the fact) to discuss this...
 Author: zorbanj View Messages Posted By zorbanj
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Curious what you mean by "Still do some things". What could you do before
that you can't do now?

Also seethis new user's post regarding quality:

https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1507771



In General, Stellar writes:
  
We can still do some things, like moving post or threads, locking them, or temporal
banning with approval. Also maintain the sales topic posts with its rule. We
also come to the forum often to report the spam, as Admin can sort reports by
how many different people reported anything.
 Author: Saitobricks.ca View Messages Posted By Saitobricks.ca
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In General, zorbanj writes:
  Curious what you mean by "Still do some things". What could you do before
that you can't do now?

Also seethis new user's post regarding quality:

https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1507771

They went trough all that whining and now they arn't even a member

  


In General, Stellar writes:
  
We can still do some things, like moving post or threads, locking them, or temporal
banning with approval. Also maintain the sales topic posts with its rule. We
also come to the forum often to report the spam, as Admin can sort reports by
how many different people reported anything.
 Author: zorbanj View Messages Posted By zorbanj
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In General, Saitobricks.ca writes:
  In General, zorbanj writes:
  Curious what you mean by "Still do some things". What could you do before
that you can't do now?

Also seethis new user's post regarding quality:

https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1507771

They went trough all that whining and now they arn't even a member


Whining? Your asinine posts are part of the problem.
 Author: Saitobricks.ca View Messages Posted By Saitobricks.ca
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In General, zorbanj writes:
  In General, Saitobricks.ca writes:
  In General, zorbanj writes:
  Curious what you mean by "Still do some things". What could you do before
that you can't do now?

Also seethis new user's post regarding quality:

https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1507771

They went trough all that whining and now they arn't even a member


Whining?

Do you not know what whining means?
I use it like the word complaining
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In General, Stellar writes:
  In General, qwertyboy writes:
  It sure looks like forum moderation (and in particular, cancelling posts) has
changed with the CEP moderators being de-fanged. Pretty sure the CEP mods would
have intervened by now in the "tariffs" thread for getting too political.
Also, the "gummy" posts stay up way longer - until California wakes up.

Do the current CEP moderators have _any_ "power" left, or has it morphed
into just a meaningless title on their avatar card?

Just curious.

Niek.

We can still do some things, like moving post or threads, locking them, or temporal
banning with approval. Also maintain the sales topic posts with its rule. We
also come to the forum often to report the spam, as Admin can sort reports by
how many different people reported anything.

We have also had a meeting with the Admins (after the fact) to discuss this...

Did you tell them that we need you guys?
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In General, Stellar writes:
  In General, qwertyboy writes:
  It sure looks like forum moderation (and in particular, cancelling posts) has
changed with the CEP moderators being de-fanged. Pretty sure the CEP mods would
have intervened by now in the "tariffs" thread for getting too political.
Also, the "gummy" posts stay up way longer - until California wakes up.

Do the current CEP moderators have _any_ "power" left, or has it morphed
into just a meaningless title on their avatar card?

Just curious.

Niek.

We can still do some things, like moving post or threads, locking them, or temporal
banning with approval. Also maintain the sales topic posts with its rule. We
also come to the forum often to report the spam, as Admin can sort reports by
how many different people reported anything.

We have also had a meeting with the Admins (after the fact) to discuss this...

Would it be possible to get a "posts to review" topic that you could
move the spam posts to, while the "official" reviews are in progress?
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It looks like they've completely overhauled everything to do with reporting
and moderation, and not for the better. Everything takes longer, and if you dare
to report anything you'll be spammed with emails.

The worst of this in my opinion, is the reclassification of reporting problems
with listings, as "content" as if someone mistakenly listing a used set
as "new" is equivalent to nasty comments in the forum. Failing to differentiate
"Keeping the community safe" from "Keeping the catalogue/price chart
clean" was a lazy way to do things, and has turned a previously smooth system
into a complicated, slow and nonsensical affair.
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In General, calebfishn writes:
  It looks like they've completely overhauled everything to do with reporting
and moderation, and not for the better. Everything takes longer, and if you dare
to report anything you'll be spammed with emails.

I wonder if that's causing people to report things less; "I'm sure
someone else will report it, because I'm not dealing with the spam."
But then everyone does that and things stay up longer than they should.

I reported some posts the old way once and got an email within minutes telling
me to use the new method. Meanwhile the post stayed up for another hour.
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In General, Ziegelmeister writes:
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I reported some posts the old way once and got an email within minutes telling
me to use the new method.

That was one of us.

  Meanwhile the post stayed up for another hour.

That is not us.
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In General, SylvainLS writes:
  In General, Ziegelmeister writes:
  […]
I reported some posts the old way once and got an email within minutes telling
me to use the new method.

That was one of us.

  Meanwhile the post stayed up for another hour.

That is not us.

I feel a promotion to Bricklink Discussion Senior Moderator is in order for all
of you.
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In General, Ziegelmeister writes:
  In General, calebfishn writes:
  It looks like they've completely overhauled everything to do with reporting
and moderation, and not for the better. Everything takes longer, and if you dare
to report anything you'll be spammed with emails.

I wonder if that's causing people to report things less; "I'm sure
someone else will report it, because I'm not dealing with the spam."
But then everyone does that and things stay up longer than they should.

I reported some posts the old way once and got an email within minutes telling
me to use the new method. Meanwhile the post stayed up for another hour.

I've quit reporting things for that very reason.
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In General, qwertyboy writes:
  It sure looks like forum moderation (and in particular, cancelling posts) has
changed with the CEP moderators being de-fanged. Pretty sure the CEP mods would
have intervened by now in the "tariffs" thread for getting too political.
Also, the "gummy" posts stay up way longer - until California wakes up.

Do the current CEP moderators have _any_ "power" left, or has it morphed
into just a meaningless title on their avatar card?

Just curious.

Just curiosity? Nothing to do with your EU expat influenced mindset