Number of Moderator Positions

phinds

I love salmon but in Evo's case would spare her being devoured, which is what I normally do with salmon.

russ_watters

It is worth noting that we have far more lurkers than members and they can get a lot from PF without joining. That's not a common feature of religions, particularly Catholicism (not picking on Catholicism per se, that's just the main historical reference).

russ_watters

That's not right either: In most religions, people are not allowed to have opinions. In the middle ages Catholic church, they weren't even allowed access to source material for the religion to help themselves to the knowledge!

OmCheeto

All this talk about "excommunication" made me look it up in wiki:

1. Mentor sends poster a "Private Message", telling them of an offense.
2. Mentors meet in mentor-land to discuss offender.
3. Offender is banned!

hmmm.....

Actually, these are the exact steps taken where I work when someone breaks a rule, and continues to break them.

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Wraps humor badge around head to soften the blow of the impending lumpy salmon thwap, wielded by the almighty. Whom I will still praise, and give thanks, that I should be worthy of such an honor.

micromass

The mentors will now retreat to discuss this post privately...

Borg

Notices that there are no steps for poster to correct behavior...

micromass

We are now discussing two offenders...

Evo

To be honest, the member posted a banned topic, he was sent a zero point "warning" that the topic was banned. He did not get an infraction, nothing, not being infracted, he was not at risk of any mentor action, it was just a "heads up" and that's what caused his outburst. He never contacted the mentor with any questions, he basically appeared to have never read any of the forum rules, but that is our fault for having rules.

Drakkith

Beat them with the Ban Hammer until their fingers can no longer press the keys!!!

OmCheeto

It has begun....

Borg

What was this thread about again? Oh, never mind...

OmCheeto

And if you and berkeman would please stop mentioning helicopters, I will stop sharing my flashbacks.


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Bang bang Evo's Ban Hammer came down on their hands, doop, de, doo, doop.....
Sung of course to the tune of Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Drakkith

Ah, back before the universe condensed into Technicolor...it must have been depressing with everything always so monochrome.

OmCheeto

I was quite serious the other day when I praised Greg's Super Moderator Guide. I was going to start my own thread in FF&A to the effect that that guide should be read before you start complaining.

After some years, one can interpolate the rules and structure of the forum without ever having read them. (I'm a man. I never read the instruction manual....) I was amazed though that this whole forum is still sticking to an apparently well thought out plan.

Perhaps you could institute a multi-phased set of rules for newbies:

for those with severe ADD (or men in general)
1. Play nice or Die

for those with short attention spans
2. 10 basic rules of the forum........

1. Play nice or Die
2. No swearing
3. No spam
4. No trolling
5. No fighting(except in the P&WA forum)
6. No fighting(unless it is about magnets. even Feynman wouldn't explain them.)
7. No, um, what are the rules?
8. No banned topics(hyperlink to list)
9. No crackpottery(hyperlink to definition)
10. Play nice or Die

for the wannabelawyers
3. Full set of rules..........(TLDR)

for the curious
4. Reference the S.M.G. as a guide to who and what these demi-gods called mentors are, where they come from, why they are necessary.

for anyone 16 and older
5. Tell people a 16 year old started this forum, and ask what they did when they were 16, besides pick their nose.

6. etc. etc. etc.

AlephZero

She can have any part she wants, except Katisha...

OmCheeto

I'm never quite sure about where and when to reveal my level of ignorance of things. At 50+, I've heard of the Mikado at least 1000 times.

But, I've never known what it was, where it was from, nor from what time it came.

Thank you, AlephZero.

I appreciate everything I can get.

berkeman

You left out the Homework Help admonitions. That seems like about half of what we Mentors deal with daily...