Since this has come up recently, I thought I should probably make this clear and accessible.

If for any reason you have a problem with a moderator action, a single moderator, any group of moderators, or the moderating style of the board at large, here is the hierarchy in order of preferable resolution.


#1. PM the moderator(s) with which you would like to have a talk with, and hopefully resolve the conflict thusly. It is far more preferable for us to quietly resolve problems on a 1:1 basis, talking like civil human beings, than to have to lay down the law in a public and embarrassing fashion.
If you cannot resolve things this way, go to:

#2. PM (or email) Weasel, our community manager. He oversees all moderators and the overall moderation style of the forum. If you cannot resolve things with any moderator or group of moderators, he is the Final Word. Weasel's email is andy@datarealms.com.
If you still cannot resolve things with Weasel, then you may have no other choice than:

#3. Bow to the dictates of the moderation team, or leave. We are sorry if you have no other recourse than this, but things are as they are. If you simply cannot accept how we run things here then you may just have to leave to allay the conflict. It may behoove you to create a new community elsewhere, under your direction. Whatever may come, we wish you the best of luck.


If anyone has any further questions, feel free to ask them here.

If (there really isn't any reason for this) you feel that a dispute should be resolved in a public manner, then keep your posts to the Forum Feedback section, please. Jamming up active mod threads with misunderstandings or derailing otherwise healthy topics is not the proper way to make yourself heard.

I DON'T THINK MODERATORS SHOULD BE DISPUTED. THIS IS A HORRIBLE RULE. GET RID OF IT. DATA SHOULD FIRE ALL OF YOU WITH NO PENSION.

I think this is a cool rule and all the new stickies and announcements are pretty sweet. The problem I have is how will they circulate? I for one generally ignore rule posts, confident in my ability to not act like an idiot (bad idea).I have only recently decided to skim through all these stickies. I think that maybe a mass pm should be sent with every rule change?

This isn't really a rule topic, just trying to get across that we want to work with the userbase rather than as despotic rulers who want to make you suffer.


Perhaps. Generally, we hope that users pay attention to the top bar with all the stickies, announcements, and the like. Also, it would be preferable to only change the rules once or twice in a great while. Recently things have been changing more rapidly, but hopefully soon things will calm down.

It's quite easy to remember what of the stickies are new and what not. Atleast I noticed this topic immediately after it spawned.

Hate to say it but my interests in the forum really only involve releases and member drama. I`ve read the stickies about 3 years ago and aren't on my "read now" list. I will, however, pay attention to a massive 1 NEW MESSAGE and read it thinking it's something special just for me.

Tryin to speak for most of the members.

Do we have the ability to mass PM? I thought it was x amount of members only. Maybe we should get Weasel to tweak our powers >:D

Personally, I just hit the "View new posts" button each time I log on. It'd be nice if the rules were bumped whenever there was a change made.

Well you can just go through the userlist and PM everyone with over 50 posts. Seleia/Demetrius did that back in the day to mass PM.

wow i wonder how this got started, cough me cough, well i believe all the mods hate me already...

Pfft.
People were making fools of themselves since at least November, I'd say. You didn't kick this off. You were just made a thread with a silly concept, something Grif tends to take immediate dislike to.

I do the same thing, so sticky bumps (that only makes sense in a forum) would be a good way to alert everyone that views new posts.

Don't be full of yourself. The mods hate everyone equally.

People have been making fools of themselves for years, HK.

Naturally, but there was a lull before that. When I first joined, barely anything happened for at least the first 4 months, besides B23 and the April Hacker. No one really had any heavily voiced problems with the system.