Regardless of the any future results, most users would like to see posts worth reading without having to trawl through ones that do not. Therefore, if you post messages that:

1 Contribute nothing.
2 Are a personal attack on another poster.

You may well be banned for the foreseeable from RA&B.

If you are someone with 'history' with another poster on ra&b, please take a deep breath, respond to the issues rather than the poster and let the mods sort them out if they are out of line.

Mods may not be able to respond on a 24/7 basis so please bear with us.

Cheers

the mods

Yeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaar!

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Nobody has any excuse for not knowing how you will be moderated in your use of the RAB board.
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Please make sure fair is fair then. Without wanting to be critical of the moderation, it's simply obvious that some members are looked upon rather leniently as opposed to others.

Well disguised personal attacks should be seen as they are, and not anything less simply because they are worded less abruptly.

I'd second that.

We're not on here all of the time, unlike some. If we see something we'll deal with it - although any such action may not be visible to posters.

If you see something that you believe hasn't been seen/dealt with - tell one of the mods.

Understandable. We just ask for fairness though.

I wonder who you could possibly mean?

RHUUUUUBARB - The mods are like Refs, very one eyed!!

See you around

Good to hear from you mods, thought you guys were all on holiday or had become secret wire fans.

personal attacks pretty straight forward and those should be eliminated if you enforce 1. posts that contribute nothing, but can you please expand a bit on what you mean by that as theres quite a wide range of such posts, from a few mates using the blog as a quick and easy messaging service, to trite or flippant comments about players that on closer inspection are very misinformed. Where do you draw the line?

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That seems like both a well disguised personal attack and a public criticism of the moderation process. Respect!




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Good point. It always has to be a subjective matter - each post viewed/addressed on it's own specific merits . . . specifically for [isome [/iof the reasons you've outlined. See TigerTots below. I've viewed it that it will be taken in jest, as I'm sure it was meant - I'm sure one of us will be contact if that isn't the case. The danger is that other posters may take it as an invite to start a [ishark feeding frenzy[/i - hence the "subjective" approach.

Whilst it would be great to be able to have an a-z "example list", that would be unrealistic in terms of covering every eventuality . . . . . and a cow to write/agree upon - especially the ones under x,q and z

That seems like incitement to conduct disguised personal attacks and publically criticise the moderation process...?

It's that subjective thing again. Of itself I think they were both carefully thought out and prudently worded . . . . although I hope it's far clearer what you will get from me, and the other Mods no doubt. My batch file ("yes", I am THAT old) for removing posts and issuing PM's et. al. is assigned to my enter key

If we rely on Moderators to Moderate the board then who Moderates the Moderators?

Stinks of North Korea or Burma! Pol Pott thinks he can come on here with this like we're kids in a classroom - we can see the link to the AUP sir!

You can't control me! I'll contribute if I want to contribute!!!

I'd like to see the mods on here gradually pick off anyone who even vaguely offers dissent. Then, when just the mods remain we battle to the death.

It's MICK Pott not Pol Pott, an he's from North Kweensland, you rilliant person[example to us all[total plantpotuffoon*

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