Funny. I also spend a lot of time on the forums and I see that, too. I also see threads where regulars participate and flags don’t “get tossed like a greek salad”. I also see threads where regulars get flagged, sometimes rightly so, sometimes for stuff that makes no sense. I’ve even seen flags in threads where regulars haven’t even posted anything.
I’ve seen flags abused against the non-regulars, and I’ve seen them abused against the regulars. I’ve seen them used responsibly, too.
But I guess it’s more “fun” to “just point things out” selectively.
Oh, I see. You’re “just asking questions here”.
To be fair, I do try to flag things consistently, instead of at random. I don’t just pop into a thread and pick random posts to flag for random reasons. I imagine it’s possible that there’s more than one person like me on the forums.
Yep. After watching the forums for a similar number of years, some things are hard to miss. For example, it’s impossible to miss which people specialize in bad faith arguments
No, no, let’s not bring things like boundaries into this. See, the moderation shouldn’t be about boundaries, or about maintaining the quality of discourse, or anything that requires nuance. Just like the TOS shouldn’t be about sharing the server responsibly with others, or anything that requires distinguishing between the spirit and the letter of the rules.
No, things have to be simple and clear. It doesn’t matter if you click on a bunch of totally unrelated threads to paste the same unsubstantiated and off-topic complaint about alleged server admin abuse, or if you spontaneously go on an off-topic tangent in a thread that has already gone off-topic before you even started posting in it. Those are exactly the same, and if you treat one case differently from another, you’re a hypocrite.