Who are the mods?

[Jezston]

I posted something stupid earlier - a joke anti-phone use poster that had some rather extreme language on it! Meant to do it as a NSFW named link rather than a straight image post ... and when I went back there to change it the post had vanished.

Fair enough I thought, put a sheepish response apologising ... although can't post the link back as I've forgotten the URL. Doh.

Anyway, what I found disconcerting is receiving a rather terse PM several hours later telling me off from another member of the forum. Presumably this person was a moderator?

Got to say, I feel a bit uncomfortable and weirded out by whats happened. Don't know if this changed with the new forum layout, but there appears to be no indication as to who is a moderator and who isn't. I feel uncomfortable receiving a harsh PM in an authoratative tone from someone I thought was just another member of the forum. Were they even actually a moderator or should I perhaps be telling them to sling their hook?

I'm surprised by my reaction to this, but I have to say as well as feeling a bit freaked out by it I feel a bit pissed off.

Could people with moderator powers and responsibilities please be visibly shown as such?

 

[ianrauk]

Please explain how you feel this pm is terse or harsh Jezston?

Let's not see that poster or similar again on the site please Jezston
I have seen you have said sorry.....link will be fine.
Cheers
Ian

 

[martint235]

Some of the mods did used to have it below their avatar but I guess it was fairly pointless. You'd never know if you had seen all the avatars of all the mods and you'd never normally know which one had removed/edited your post anyway.

 

[ianrauk]

Jezston
Some mods are known, some are not. That's how it is. It's a personal choice of each of the mods.

 

[Bman]

Did someone post boobies?

 

[TheDoctor]

Not boobies - about 18 inches lower or thereabouts.
It deserved to be deleted IMHO, and I'd have warned the poster about it too.

 

[ufkacbln]

Actually I think it was quite courteous to do it as a PM rather than rant on the thread.

I have occasionally sent PMs where I think something is wrong or potentially misleading, rather than make someone look dumb on the thread

 

[Fran143]

Please explain how you feel this pm is terse or harsh Jezston?

Let's not see that poster or similar again on the site please Jezston
I have seen you have said sorry.....link will be fine.
Cheers
Ian

I think it's the santa hat thats done it! Very harsh looking to me. The words...well they are no different to any you'd find in a dictionary.

 

[martint235]

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I'm a mod, or am I? You'll never know!!

(I'm not really and all the mods on here are sound IME and IMO)
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There's no point trying to cosy up to the mods now Lee!!!

 

[Jezston]

Well I was in a pretty bad mood yesterday so wouldn't have gone off like I did if I hadn't.

For a run down of what occured, this thread was started:
http://www.cyclechat...le-use-posters/
For a laugh I made a poster that was just text saying "stop being a **** - get off the ******* phone". I then stuck it on the thread.
A short while later I realised I probably shouldn't have posted a massive image containing swears on the thread and went back to change it to a NSFW-labelled link, but saw it had already been deleted, hence my seemingly out of context sheepish response on the thread.

About three hours later I got the PM from Ian. I was a bit taken aback by that because I thought the 'incident' was over, and I didn't take kindly to being spoken to in what felt like a rather terse 'disapproving father/teacher' type way in an authorative fashion from some regular joe off the forum. I felt it was unnecessary and unconstructive.

I'm not that fussed about it now, but the tone still grates. Sentiment can be lost in text so perhaps the sentiment I read into it wasn't intentional from Ian. Especially as it seemd to come from someone who appears to have no authority to tell me off.

But the main point of me starting this thread is that I feel it is a bit wrong that Mods are not labelled as such. On every other forum I've used, people with moderator powers have a label on their username saying 'Moderator' or whatever, rather than just 'member', and a list of mods appears underneath each forum. I feel there is something a bit dodgy about having 'secret' mods. Unless their duties are purely administrative (e.g. moving threads to appropriate forums etc), rather than telling users off for doing something wrong that they had already realised was wrong and apologised for, then it should be clear.

 

[ThePainInSpain]

My only experience with the 'mods' is, when I actually complained about a personal insult from someone on this forum. The complaint was dealt with quickly and efficiently. Perhaps the perpetrator thinks differently, but hey, don't say what you did.

I agree that the mods should not be secret, but on the other hand they could be open to 'personal attacks' by aggrieved miscreants.

However on balance my humble view is that the mods should be public, otherwise it's all a bit 1984, (oops, that's already arrived in the UK).

 

[ianrauk]

Jezston, "terse 'disapproving father/teacher type way in an authorative fashion" The Oscars are over for another year so cut out the hysterics.

As I said previous. it's a mods decision whether they want it known that they are mods or not. It's as simple as that. Admin runs HIS forum HIS way. It was run this way before you joined and will continue to be so after you have gone elsewhere. If you have a problem with that then I suggest you drop him a PM.

If you did not know I am a mod then you have been living on planet Mars. There are lot's of threads that have either been edited, withdrawn or closed with my name on. You are an intelligent lad so I can't believe you did not know.

But that's by the by. You have been giving a very mild ticking off, (though I don't think so) so live with it.

 

[Jezston]

Jezston, "terse 'disapproving father/teacher type way in an authorative fashion" The Oscars are over for another year so cut out the hysterics.

As I said previous. it's a mods decision whether they want it known that they are mods or not. It's as simple as that. Admin runs HIS forum HIS way. It was run this way before you joined and will continue to be so after you have gone elsewhere. If you have a problem with that then I suggest you drop him a PM.

If you did not know I am a mod then you have been living on planet Mars. There are lot's of threads that have either been edited, withdrawn or closed with my name on. You are an intelligent lad so I can't believe you did not know.

But that's by the by. You have been giving a very mild ticking off, (though I don't think so) so live with it.

Ok I made my response this morning after having calmed down after my bad day yesterday, and thought I should explain the thought processes that lead to the reaction and thoughts I had about it. I thought it would help diffuse the situation and be something worth considering over the way the forum is run.

Your response is just bang out of order, Ian.

 

[martint235]

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All I'll say is - Jezston if you want terse/disapproving then don't turn up at a ride on a bike with a dirty chain when Ian is there...
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yeah your life isn't worth living. The abuse I pick up just cos I've got a working bike. And the complete lack of sympathy when something goes wrong.... And it's not just the chain, bits of dust on the tyres. He has in fact on one occasion run his finger around the headset on my bike to check for dirt!!

 

[ianrauk]

Ok I made my response this morning after having calmed down after my bad day yesterday, and thought I should explain the thought processes that lead to the reaction and thoughts I had about it. I thought it would help diffuse the situation and be something worth considering over the way the forum is run.

Your response is just bang out of order, Ian.

Fine that is your prerogative to think that.
As I said previous. If you want to send a complaint to Admin then please go ahead.