BB5 moderator - Page 2

Originally posted by: mayandrah

and if Congrats Sweta01 can be a sticky... then why cant a member post a fun topic... also not forgetting all the fun topics made by members... where they post a fiction kinda thing about contestants...
How do the mods differentiate between acceptable and unacceptable

Originally posted by: IwasaXXXstar

I find the moderators of this forum extremely stringent and suffocating.Only 2 days left, I ain't gonna kiss ass. As far as I'm concerned, ALL MEDIA related to BB5 should be allowed. Whether tweets, news interviews or whatever. If it has to do with BB5, its fair game.

If we are going to nitpick at things, then why do members talk about contestant's lives outside BB house? How is that allowed but not the tweets? Why do the "senior" members get away with discussing all things past, present and future of the contestants on the DDT? Why are jokes regarding contestants allowed by certain members but not the others?

Mods just don't want to pick up trash that the tweet related threads leave behind. Simple as that.

Don't you thing BB5 relevant tweets are a whole different matter from – I got added, I got deleted, I found an FB group. To me the former (and even blogs to a certain extent) are actual media provide relevant (negative and positive) discussion material. However, the latter are about individuals - just frivolous space fillers.

As I mentioned my personal take on all this before is not censorship but pragmatism. I don't believe in filtering one opinion set or another. My pet peeve is the plethora of frivolous, narrow, self based topics that easily could have fit under another existing discussion and does not merit discussion on its own accord.

In my personal opinion - Pooja Bedi's tweets merits a topic of discussion. Who Pooja Bedi added or blocked does not merit discussion but is a relevant comment to a topic on her tweets.

In my most ideal world Pooja Bedi's tweets are streamlined in one solitary topic "Pooja Bedi's Twitter Shenanigans". She is no Goddess of earth that Pooja Bedi's tweets about her lunch, Pooja Bedi's tweets at midnight, Pooja Bedi's tweets for Christmas all require special and separate attention. They all fall under the master topic.

As for the other concern - A comment in the DDT gets buried within a zillion other comments, not just moderators, even most members miss it. While a specific topic draws attention to itself, especially with certain titles. Some people have simply mastered the art of speaking their mind without drawing attention.

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

so you do mean to accept that Mods r biased!!!

From what I know of the moderators in this forum, I don't thinks so. But I have come across some who have their own agenda. It is not always the case of the moderators being biased, it is more the case of which fan group can throw the biggest hissy fit. The problem lies more in people who have too much vested interest in things, rather than the people who are there to take care of the vested interests.

Originally posted by: RafAholic

Since the end is near, why not let the forum run wild?!! Anyways, regardless of the winner on Sat, I bet you there will be fireworks and a lot of drama at the BB forum. Good luck to the mods in advance 😆

Originally posted by: IwasaXXXstar

I agree that it makes no sense to bring in personal matters here and that thread deserved to be locked. I am not arguing about that. My problem is with this recent rule of not allowing twitter related threads on here. Those are related to BB5. All the ex-contestants and their opinions on BB5 is related to BB5. So why have the mods recently decided to lock and block all topics related to twitter? Why now? Its pretty clear to me that they don't want to do any cleaning and would prefer everyone else just sing Sunday hymns to their rules. Well too bad...when they decided to take this "job" however thankless it may be, they signed up for all the cleaning. Can't slack off now. Instead of just editing, warning, they want to ignore the entire issue just to avoid the headache of handing out warnings and keeping peace.

I'll agree there. I'm anti-censorship in principle itself. So I'm usually irritated at everything that gets censored, not this in particular. In the case of the recent limits, I agree it's annoying and unfair. It is something that was allowed all season and is relevant. I myself enjoy twitter shenanigans and commentary on it.

I'll also agree that it 100% is to avoid dealing with issues. However, in defense of the moderators there usually is a threshold to how much can be handled appropriately. Even if a moderator decides to dedicate their online time to addressing the issues and even tries to login extra hours, there is a limit to how many issues can be handled in a fair and timely manner. Once something crosses the threshold a choice has to be made – keep playing a catch up game or nip the source.

I won't say moderators are blameless. They did fail to appropriately handle a situation. However, at least 50% of the blame (if not more) falls on the members who did not have the maturity to handle themselves, the trolls, the jackasses, the hyper sensitive, the cry babies and whiners who collectively make it impossible for moderators and other members to simply enjoy a forum.

If I had complete control of a forum, my rule would be "suck it". The only thing I actually deem addressable is sexual harassment, hate speech (racist/xenophobic), direct violent and disparaging threats, hacking/personal privacy violations.