Third party forum area questions

[keyes]

Last edited by kassetra : 3 Hours Ago at 03:57 AM. Reason: Edited to remove content that broke rule #3, no personal attacks or name calling.

ubuntuforums.org it's a personal attack ??

[kassetra]

ubuntuforums.org it's a personal attack ??
In the original post, you elected to call people names and make a personal attack, which is unacceptable.

[macgyver2]

In the original post, you elected to call people names and make a personal attack, which is unacceptable.
However, this is a 3rd-party forum section.

From this post (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=696007&postcount=83):
Thats his forum. Leased space. His rules there. If Arnie steps over the line the rest of the forum he gets a warning PM like everyone other person. But in his Automatix forum he is king.

And there is a long history of it being acceptable to society for kings to break the rules.
Is this not (king) keyes' forum?




@ keyes:

Looks (visually...I haven't read through the code yet) very nice. I like that you moved to python, too. :)

[kassetra]

However, this is a 3rd-party forum section.
Is this not (king) keyes' forum?

This is a third-party forum which is under the forum guidelines and the CoC; while not regularly moderated, it is still bound under those terms.

Also, we have recently cleaned all third-party areas to fall back under compliance with all of our guidelines, which is why everyone has received a simple instructional edit/warning as we make sure that these areas are not outside of even the backyard's permission scope.

[earobinson]

So third party sections will soon fall under the same rules as the forums?

[kassetra]

So third party sections will soon fall under the same rules as the forums?

They already do - always have been.

[earobinson]

I understood that the rules where more relaxed based of the thread that macgyver2 linked.

maybe the question Im asking is are we moving to more regular moderatation?

[kassetra]

I understood that the rules where more relaxed based of the thread that macgyver2 linked.

maybe the question Im asking is are we moving to more regular moderatation?
The rules were not laxed but we did have issues and so we have cleaned up that area.

The moderation will remain as it is; we are not changing anything in that regard, we simply cleaned it up. That is all.

[earobinson]

Ok I think I understand now. Thanks for being so understand and taking the time to explain it :)

[macgyver2]

maybe the question Im asking is are we moving to more regular moderatation?
IMO the staff needs to move to a) some form of consistent moderation, and b) using the forum announcements section to announce things (like changes in the way the guidelines will be applied) the users need to know. This isn't the first time we've witnessed this sort of contradiction amongst the moderating staff, where one mod will say something and another will come along and say something completely different. How are the users supposed to know what's going on when the staff doesn't even seem to know and as a result we get mixed messages? In this case, there never was anything saying that the 3rd-party forum section was run (guidelines and all) by the 3rd-part project owner, but then a mod came out and said exactly that...so then it looked like we had a precedent to go by. Now we're told by another staff member that things are actually the way that most users originally thought they were. It's quite unprofessional. One would think that the mods should know how and where the guidelines are applied, and even if there is any doubt in a certain situation the staff has their private section where they can discuss it and come to an internally consistent ruling.

As an aside from the main point of this post, thanks to kassetra and whoever else cleaned up the place for putting the posts in the jail and not /dev/null.