Moderation

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by Osprey

Totally over the top. You can stop the threads and delete posts nearmiss, be as anal as you like about it, the forum is now next to useless and not worth a visit.

you should consider editing your initial post and turning down the offensive language/tone, surely there is more civilized way to communicate. no need to start flaming to get your point across.

with the phases this forum has gone through in the last years, the moderation from nearmiss here has usually been pretty good, and if anything it was considerably better then most other forums. having one thread closed a bit to early one day doesnt negate all his previous hard work (or his balanced management approach)

i'd agree the recent update thread was closed a bit early, most of the recently edited off topic posts in it were still related to the same discussion. but most of the same complainants here recently asked for stricter on topic moderation, so its largely a problem of your own creation. given how well balanced nearmiss's approach has been in the past, it is likely the pendulum will now swing back a bit closer to the middle, and threads will get trimmed of unrelated posts, but still let the discussion flow on more naturally.

even if many of the update threads continues on past the "useful feedback for oleg" point, with the more mature and restrained discussion tone in the last months by most regulars here ( other then the occasional new teen floating in with a case of trailerpark'itis), there is still lots of useful factual information that gets posted in them.