When I first noticed this thread a few minutes ago my first reaction was to state what do you mean people shouldn't be allowed to tarnish your "karma".
What is Karma? It is basically stating "Hey, I like your post" or "That sucked"
Has nothing to do with your reputation. It's just acknowledging the individual post.
So do you know which posts you received the bad karma for?
Let's address it to set your mind at ease.
I read that whole thread. I posted on it several times.
When I first came to that thread I believe I was responding to a reported post.
The same one Brandi just pointed out
Ok, in that thread you're calling Harald antagonistic, and saying that the mods will give you an infraction for speaking your mind and just in general being a pain in the butt, and you wonder why random people gave you negative karma? Really?! And then you're going to say that it's totally unwarranted?! You even decided to tell off the admin/owner of the site and tell him that his own words should be an infraction on his own site. Real smart... Yet you want to gripe about what negative karma you got from said thread?!
I read the reported post first then went and read the thread.
But regardless, why should my karma be tarnished by someone that clearly doesn't understand what is being said in a discussion? They're asking questions & making assumptions. I think if they have questions, it should be asked through PM rather than giving bad karma, asking questions after the fact & not being able to answer.
It's obvious they don't know what is going on....it's a shame you give people the power to give bad karma to other users just because they feel like it or lack the capability to following & read a thread thoroughly.
I didn't need to read the thread to know what was going on to decide that I thought these quotes sucked.
Just sayin....I've known James for over 4yrs, he's a close friend & I've met Artie at the Hamburg show in the spring...both are good guys. Personally I think if you haven't done business with OR met someone in person for yourself, you shouldn't be allowed to comment on a BOI thread. These threads are permanent & can tarnish a reputation because people are nosey & feel like commenting because they're bored at work. (General statement).
It's unfortunate that the BOI which can be a great tool, is going to crap because random people get involved. If you have nothing factual to contribute, leave it alone...no one cares about opinions....we're only interested in the facts.
This will probably get me an infraction of some kind because a moderator doesn't like what I have to say, but the moderators are too strict on here as well ...my parents weren't even as strict & my mother is a Sunday school teacher!!! As you can see from my stats I have decent karma for someone that's not on here too often. Just think its time to put this thread to rest....this is really ridiculous. People don't need the stress of online nit-picking.
Anyways, sorry if I made any typos lol
Have a nice weekend EVERYONE! =)
Then I read the following two posts
This one,
With that said, I have better things to do than hang out on a forum all night involving myself in others' affairs. Hope you guys find cures for your boredom...mine is a night out with Apple Martinis.
Enjoy!
and this one with you targeting Harald.
This doesn't really seem like moderating, but more or less pot stirring. As a moderator, don't you enforce the rules, not make public suggestions? Being suggestive would make others question your authority/ position.
Emphasising "THAT" & saying it "doesn't surprise" you. Almost sounds personal. If it is, the professional thing to do would to be to recuse yourself from this thread.
Hope I don't get infractions out of spite for this....I was not disrespectful & nor did I swear. =S
That's when I decide to give you that little red square. Not for anything about the topic but for attacking In general, those that participate on the BOI and BS you were saying about us giving infractions to people because we simply disagree with them.
I stated to you on that thread that the
"majority of the body of your post was mainly to be antagonistic to the site, and to target the postings of a moderator. Neither have any place in this thread. "
That's what I dinged your karma for.
You were told several times that the discussion of how the site is run doesn't belong in that BOI thread. It belonged here in this forum but you didn't let up.
You went on to state that you were in hot water with infractions and weren't going to respond to my post to you.
The fact was and still is you never received any infractions in that thread. You received a warning for something unrelated to the BOI in the classifieds two years before that thread.
So yes, I didn't read the thread at the time I gave you one of those red dots. The Subject in the thread title was
Anyone done business with Laura (
[email protected])
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=214280&highlight=james&page=8
So I didn't know yet at that point James was involved. That doesn't matter because you didn't receive it for your position on the subject in the thread, your opinion of the situation, who your friends with, Nope you received it for bashing this site and the moderators instead of addressing the topic of the thread.
When I actually gave my opinion as member towards the end of that thread we actually agreed on some of the on topic points in that thread.
But what is the fuse? I strongly disliked those posts. I may like a different one of yours and hit you with some positives.
Why are you so uptight about people disagreeing with you and letting you know?
Same thing with the infraction system. Some people really get bent out of shape when they receive a infraction. What is it and what does it do to you?
It's a warning to stop a action. To correct a behavior. It doesn't do anything to you. No big flag for people to see you have done something wrong. The trouble comes when you ignore those warnings then real action is taken and you are banned.
Heck, I was given one before I was a Moderator. That sure doomed me.
