jglass38 said:
Maybe so, maybe not. You still haven't proven to me that you know anything more about what you are suggesting then anyone else who has made suggestions here. I have no qualms at all taking advice from people whom I consider as professionals and more experienced and knowledgeable in fields I am lacking in. But as best I can tell, you just don't qualify, unless you are withholding information that has not been provided to me.
Well, let's see... you yourself said that the BOI is the main attraction of this site, so let me ask you why that is. Any guesses? Well let me suggest one or two. Because it is rather effective. Because it works in a lot of cases. And why does it work? Well because it makes public those issues that people doing things in this business would rather not have exposed to the public scrutiny. It can be embarrassing to have your peers in any industry take note of your failings and indiscretions. It is that incentive which is proving to be a motivating force to coerce people and businesses to do GOOD business, rather then BAD business. Sometimes it is after the fact, and MANY times it is before the fact after seeing the results of other people and businesses being exposed on the BOI for their wrong doing.
So let's stretch this ideology a bit to cover what I am trying to do here on this site with the creation of rules and the enforcement of them. Based on the number of gripe-o-grams I get whenever most people get warning points, I would have to claim that most people do NOT like getting them. They don't like them showing up on a public record that people can review. Are you getting this line of thought yet? It is this hoped for incentive to coerce members here to behave in a minimally respectful and professional manner that I have the rules here, enforce those rules, and display the results of NOT following those rules in a public manner. Yes, I have toned it back quite a bit, but still, there is a public record of a member's past indiscretions which is hoped will be a reminder to them to not proceed any further in those mannerisms. It is something other members can view to (1) be a slight embarrassment to the person having those warning points and (2) be an indication of such embarrassment being in store for THEM if they act in the same like manner on this site. So this PUBLIC display of the warning points hopefully serves a purpose which YOUR suggestion does not seem to take into account.
So with that being said, unless and until you can convince me that YOU know better about how to do this better then I do, then quite frankly, YOUR opinion carries no more weight then mine does. And since this is my site to try to manage in the best manner I can, and the results of which are my sole responsibility to bear, unless you have sufficient proof to provide to me about your experience in a site of this type with demonstrable results, then I suggest that you just accept that fact that I am NOT required to accept your suggestions, as you appear to be implying.
And as for the "antagonizing mods" swipe, (and in an effort to avoid getting a warning point for profanity myself) bull droppings. I am well aware of what my site mods are doing and I follow along quite closely in many of the threads they may participate in. To the best of my recollection, the ONLY time I have seen antagonism has been in the cases where people who already have a chip on their shoulder about one or more of the mods, usually because of one of more instances on some other site, has provoked them to bait or be antagonistic towards that moderator HERE. I have had several instances where people have claimed such a thing, and I have looked at the evidence in close detail to come to this conclusion. I am certain ALL of that evidence is still on this site for anyone to review and come to their own conclusions, and you are certainly welcome to do so. And I am further certain that if what you are claiming were true, I would hear a flood of complaints coming from a lot more people then just the minuscule handful that OBVIOUSLY already have a bone to pick with one or more of the site mods, and would love nothing better then to be able to chortle at having them kicked out of their position here. Sorry, bub, but the proof just isn't there, regardless of your own personal opinion on the matter. And I am just not dumb enough to not be able to see through what people are trying to do.
