Hi
kretos
The post was deleted as it really offered nothing to the debate. You're right there is a line of levity that we let users walk and on the surface it seems quite an innocuous comment. It was the first post in the thread however and all comments like this do is derail and antagonise other people. In terms of originality, these are two (of three) reports from that thread. One yours, one another user. Notice the post content:
Both these posts have been deleted. We're all for fun, memes and a bit of good natured ribbing but some of the low effort throwaway comments are tiring. Because a lot of users have seen them. Moderation is about fairness and in this case, the chance for people with Xboxes to have a discussion about the quality of their IP's without shitposts, trumped your need to get a quick joke in (and a couple of other posters).
As illustrated above the joke is old and was worn out a long time ago. Similarly, if someone had gone into the 'Least favourite PS5 exclusive' thread and dropped 'Sony don't make games, just walking simulators' as the first post - it would have been moderated the same way. Now if the burn was legit or a brand new reaction gif (that GAF is famous for), we might have been inclined to leave it just for originality and effort. I'm sure you can see that's not the case here.
We let as much as we can go, in this instance we could have just issued a reply ban, but the decision was to delete the post and just send you a notification as to why it was deleted and hopefully you'd see why it was done. It seems you can't which is unfortunate. When we take actions they're not always to be seen as personal slights. The decision taken are usually based upon the least intrusive action to keep/course correct the thread. We can admit some things that crosss the line do invoke hearty laughs our end but there is a community as well to cater for. And making that experience miserable for others by persisting with worn out cliches sometimes has to take a back seat to perceptions. Having a thick skin is fine when people want to air certain opinions or thoughts. But there is also an element of developing a bit of thickness when acknowledging that certain posts don't actually bring a lot to a thread, and contextually don't land. Peace out.
I was never a fan of mods coming in, making a post then locking it, so I'm going to let this run for now. There's not really more I can add to the above, but you should have the right of response at least. If it derails further after that then it may get locked by myself or another mod subsequent to that
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kretos
The post was deleted as it really offered nothing to the debate. You're right there is a line of levity that we let users walk and on the surface it seems quite an innocuous comment. It was the first post in the thread however and all comments like this do is derail and antagonise other people. In terms of originality, these are two (of three) reports from that thread. One yours, one another user. Notice the post content:
Both these posts have been deleted. We're all for fun, memes and a bit of good natured ribbing but some of the low effort throwaway comments are tiring. Because a lot of users have seen them. Moderation is about fairness and in this case, the chance for people with Xboxes to have a discussion about the quality of their IP's without shitposts, trumped your need to get a quick joke in (and a couple of other posters).
As illustrated above the joke is old and was worn out a long time ago. Similarly, if someone had gone into the 'Least favourite PS5 exclusive' thread and dropped 'Sony don't make games, just walking simulators' as the first post - it would have been moderated the same way. Now if the burn was legit or a brand new reaction gif (that GAF is famous for), we might have been inclined to leave it just for originality and effort. I'm sure you can see that's not the case here.
We let as much as we can go, in this instance we could have just issued a reply ban, but the decision was to delete the post and just send you a notification as to why it was deleted and hopefully you'd see why it was done. It seems you can't which is unfortunate. When we take actions they're not always to be seen as personal slights. The decision taken are usually based upon the least intrusive action to keep/course correct the thread. We can admit some things that crosss the line do invoke hearty laughs our end but there is a community as well to cater for. And making that experience miserable for others by persisting with worn out cliches sometimes has to take a back seat to perceptions. Having a thick skin is fine when people want to air certain opinions or thoughts. But there is also an element of developing a bit of thickness when acknowledging that certain posts don't actually bring a lot to a thread, and contextually don't land. Peace out.
I was never a fan of mods coming in, making a post then locking it, so I'm going to let this run for now. There's not really more I can add to the above, but you should have the right of response at least. If it derails further after that then it may get locked by myself or another mod subsequent to that
- Sent from my Microsoft Surface Laptop 3, Windows 10.1909, Edge Browser
It's not a pleasant one.
