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Reminds me of a typical comment posted to Andrew Bolt's blog - I follow @boltcomments for a laugh. Apparently Australia has a lot of angry, angry, low IQ oldies with too much time on their hands.
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Andy, to be honest, your tone can come across as a bit gruff/blunt and I've found myself wondering who's pissed in your coffee on a number of occasions. That said, it's also not necessarily intentional and I've just put it down to your workload and tone being lost in the writing/reading.
This isn't one of those instances IMO - mods/admins can't afford to engage at length with every blokewho wants to "discuss" moderation decisions and your original mail wasn't rude or blunt at all. Being offended doesn't afford anyone any additional rights and at the end of the day he chose to try and argue rather than simply sort out the problem at hand.
I'm not sure I get this thread (since it was a bit of a foregone conclusion for it to turn into ragging on this random bloke) unless you're truly torn as to who was being the dick here, which would surprise me (pretty clear to me).Comment
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I have to agree with this.Originally posted by Dragunov21 View Post
Being one of the "new members" that was involved in an at length discussion recently with you relating to our seemingly unrealistic requests, I would have to say that as a new member your tone is misunderstood. You are clearly very busy and I am sure that some of the requests/opinions that we put forward may get on your nerves. I can only assume that due to the service you're providing to the community by providing this forum affords you a the ability to get to know your customers quite well which gives you the ability to speak candidly with them.
But its interesting getting to know the people in this forum. Overall I would say everyone is very helpfull and the service from the CS online store relating to product quality/turnaround time is amazing.
This guy on the other hand, has at least provided some humor for the day
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Perhaps Andy, you could...
1. Add a sig line to your profile along the lines of, "Workload necessitates my responses being brief and to the point. If you feel that is so, please don't be offended. If you feel I am being intentionally rude, please ask.
2. Appoint some Mods to take some of the load off you. As owner/Admin/Business person you do not have time to be personal with all the PM's and email - let some Mods do the PM's.
3. When you get abreactions like this one, immediately buck-pass it to a Mod to take care of - you don't need to keep responding.
4. Ask Mods to browse user lists or do the searches for indecency etc. I'm sure you weren't expecting the site to get this large and the whole idea of Mods is to take the load and spread it around. (the load, not the other thing
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You will be happier and less under-the-pump, and thus more likely to enjoy your interactions when you can pick and choose.Comment
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I didn't see anything wrong with the name CremaMyPants as Pants is a commonly used word used in place of shit/arse when something goes wrong. So I read it as 'you call that crema?'. An Aussie might say Crema, my arse! when poured a lifeless, crema-less coffee.
The response from Leo was over the top but I think whoever got offended by the name needs a little world education or is a little trigger happy. English/irish people (that I know and from my time living in both countries) use that word all the time. Either that or my mind doesn't spend much time in the gutter.Comment
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If it can be interpreted in two ways and one of them is inappropriate, you assume that people will take it the wrong way.
The username was inappropriate and in many places would have incurred an immediate ban. The user concerned had the option to pull his head in and instead chose to stick his neck out despite the option to behave reasonably. He deserved to lose his head.
+1 for the ban. I wouldn't have given him anywhere near as much rope.Comment
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As has been raised on several occasions over the years, this is a Family Forum with active members from both genders and ages ranging from pre-teens to near the ton. Why someone feels the need to advertise their lack of maturity and ignorance via the choice of such a dim-witted nickname really only goes to support why Andy questioned it in the first place.Originally posted by DrSmurto View Post
We don't really need this sort of "player" in our midst...
Mal.Comment
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Once in awhile we get pulled into these nonsensical, pointless conversations that goes nowhere and we could all do without them. Ignoring them is ideal. Some people just have too much time on their hands and think we all have that same amount of time to waste.Comment
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LOL Leo. Bet that stings.
Tosser - yep
Bully -yep
Account disabled - yep. Good.Comment
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Wow, I wonder what Leo would do if a stranger invited themselves into his house, walked in demanded dinner and the right to put their shoes on the couch? You were very mesured IMOH. Good for all of us him not being on these threads.Comment
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Clearly a tosser, and a sore loser to boot. Your first reply was right on the money and probably more polite than I would have written.
Although new to CS, I have not seen anything except "to the point honesty" from you Andy. One of the reasons I joined CS, not CG.
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this is a curly one actually
you see I was also banned from a site because I liked my username and the mod called nannybegood decided she was offended by my name ,so rather than change it I chose to be banned, cant say why it was just that I really thought my username was quite funny and worth keeping although I didn't want to argue with a nanny-especially a good one ,but I have great respect for this site and all the work that goes into it so I would have changed it here, in fact I have a pretty ordinary one now
cheers
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I mean brianleonComment
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Andy doesn't even look at the PM's he receives here. He never has. This was an email and as us mods are scattered around the world and across the country, this is not a practical thing to do. Of course, if the boss gets too pissed off, he could always just ignore his emails too.Originally posted by Journeyman View Post
It's a user list of 20 thousand. I don't have time for that, nor does any other moderator here that I know of. We do take Andy's load and it is spread around. What you guys don't see us doing...Originally posted by Journeyman View Post4. Ask Mods to browse user lists or do the searches for indecency etc. I'm sure you weren't expecting the site to get this large and the whole idea of Mods is to take the load and spread it around. (the load, not the other thing)
Thank you for your ideas.Comment
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Ah, guess I should have realised it wasn't a PM from the headers. My bad... (reminder not to PM Andy...)
Not so sure about vBulletin but forums normally have pretty decent search engines built in so searching for such things doesn't involve looking at 20,000 accounts and/or posts. I wasn't asking for impossible things but rather trying to address the apparent stress on Andy as inferred by the other comments.
I do have experience of what Mods do in the background, so I wasn't just taking potshots at you/them. I am sorry if it came across that way.Comment
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