The moderators at SAS are such idiots. They obediently follow stupid rules that make no sense; sort of like the German officers during the Nazi era. Then they pretend to be sorry about it.
I didn't even post porno. It was just a documentary with nudity. Meanwhile trolls run rampant there.
Yeah they are, and they're incompetent. They also don't actually follow the rules obediently all the time. I don't really take issue with the mods (they're kind of mindless, but they were picked for that reason) but I know TDK arbitrarily ignores, deletes, gives warnings or infractions depending on his mood. He's not consistent. He also says inappropriate things about members in the mod forums. And he also makes himself uncontactable so you have no recourse. When I tried to contact him over an issue (and it was the mods who actually instructed me to do this) he responded by promptly removing all modes of contact, which forced me to contact The Helena account, who communicated on his behalf to me. The real reason he was avoiding me seemed to be that he just didn't have any adequate reasoning for a judgement call he'd made but didn't want to deal with me directly because... he's a coward? I don't know. Absolutely inept.
What was your username over there? I'm not really sure how TDK became an administrator. He was one of the original anonymous mods, right? So we don't even know who he is.
I suppose the mod selection process is similar to jury duty selection. They don't want opinionated people but at the same time they have to have a bit of god complex to want that thankless, unpaid job.
I'll PM you my username for privacy reasons. Yes, I believe he is the only original anonymous mod remaining because he said exactly that himself last year in the Board And Help Feedback forum at one point. I believe he still uses his original account on sas, and my impressions are that he is an exceptionally isolated and unhappy individual. Sas is probably one of the few ways he can go on a power trip with no repercussions. He's the main one calling the shots when it comes to moderation. There is no real recourse, or checks and balances; the rest of the admin staff are only responsible for the techy stuff, and have no interest in the moderation. And I get the impression that the rest of the admin staff protect him because he's doing it for free. The mods also seem to protect him, because they have some kind of perverse respect for him, and feel sorry for him, this is based on want I could glean from emails I exchanged with a couple of mods.
Also, I think at the time when the moderation / admin was changing hands and they came up with the anonymous staff idea, they were desperate for new staff, so basically anyone with a good track record and who had been a sas user for a long time (several years), could get picked if they volunteered.
Insomnia. I haven't been able to get any decent sleep since Monday and now I have trouble falling asleep
There you are!
Yeah, I was pretty bummed to see you banned, at least they reversed it. I did pretty much the exact same thing you did a few years back and didn't hear a peep about it. No warnings, no bans, no messages even. They just deleted my post. I suppose it's different depending on who is reviewing the situation though. I imagine in my case, the person who deleted it was willing to change the normal procedures for me being such a swell guy. You may have just got somebody who is 100% 'by the book', no matter who or what. For the most part, I don't know Adam from Eve on there, so normally don't have any cares/issues for what they do moderation wise.