Hi everybody!
We've been hit with a massive wave of spam (I think it was just to welcome our new moderators). In dealing with this, I realized I wanted to clarify for the membership here what we do/can do, and what the BOD does in terms of moderating this message board.
1. I had a hard and fast rule of "No Deletions". However, in response to the influx of spam, I am withdrawing that rule for now, as it is taking up too much time for everyone to deal with spam the way we deal with other things. Please trust that only spam is deleted, nothing else here is. I also have given all members of the BOD permission to deal with spam, as we feel it's an easy problem to spot, and the more doing it, the less work for all. In general, the BOD does NOT moderate these message boards.
2. If a post disappears, we may have moved it to the "Trash", which is where posts go if we aren't sure if they comply with the rules of the board or may be duplicates or whatever. We can then discuss them, and decide if it is an OK post, it can be moved back to the appropriate forum, if not, the OP will be notified.
3. We are instructed to not edit your posts unless it is to help you, ie, you post a pic incorrectly, and if someone knows how to fix it they can. WE WILL NOT CHANGE YOUR POSTS in any substantial manner, unless you personally have contacted us to do so.
4. We police each other. We work both autonomously and as a group to best serve your needs here and to enforce the rules of conduct. Do not fear stepping on toes by questioning us, everyone here from Driller to our spammers, are bound by the ROC and we do our best to treat everyone except the spammers equally.
I hope that clarifies some things which some of you might not be aware of, and I hope you will all appreciate the hard work that EVERYONE on the Mod and BOD team and especially MikeCP has done to try to keep the spamming out of here.
We've been hit with a massive wave of spam (I think it was just to welcome our new moderators). In dealing with this, I realized I wanted to clarify for the membership here what we do/can do, and what the BOD does in terms of moderating this message board.
1. I had a hard and fast rule of "No Deletions". However, in response to the influx of spam, I am withdrawing that rule for now, as it is taking up too much time for everyone to deal with spam the way we deal with other things. Please trust that only spam is deleted, nothing else here is. I also have given all members of the BOD permission to deal with spam, as we feel it's an easy problem to spot, and the more doing it, the less work for all. In general, the BOD does NOT moderate these message boards.
2. If a post disappears, we may have moved it to the "Trash", which is where posts go if we aren't sure if they comply with the rules of the board or may be duplicates or whatever. We can then discuss them, and decide if it is an OK post, it can be moved back to the appropriate forum, if not, the OP will be notified.
3. We are instructed to not edit your posts unless it is to help you, ie, you post a pic incorrectly, and if someone knows how to fix it they can. WE WILL NOT CHANGE YOUR POSTS in any substantial manner, unless you personally have contacted us to do so.
4. We police each other. We work both autonomously and as a group to best serve your needs here and to enforce the rules of conduct. Do not fear stepping on toes by questioning us, everyone here from Driller to our spammers, are bound by the ROC and we do our best to treat everyone except the spammers equally.
I hope that clarifies some things which some of you might not be aware of, and I hope you will all appreciate the hard work that EVERYONE on the Mod and BOD team and especially MikeCP has done to try to keep the spamming out of here.
. Big thanks to Mike too!
