Hey, mods...lighten up a little

[jra]

Do we have new rules today? I've seen more locked threads and deleted posts today than ever.

If you're getting hundreds of reports of abuse, I'd understand...but it seems that today the mods have itchy fingers.

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MODERATOR RESPONSE:

I've seen more locked threads and deleted posts today than ever.

Since you have been around a long time, and because I have not done so in a while, I thought I would give an overview of all the locked and deleted threads today. If there are any you disagree with, I am sure you will let us know. Thanks, AM

First was a vanity that was essentially an ad for another website:

An Important Message from the Australian Prime Minister

Posted on 02/06/2003 4:06 PM PST by chrisjohn316

An Important Message from the Australian Prime Minister at A Memorial by An Australian

http://www.chrisjohn316.com

He also had a few prior bans under his belt.

The next one pulled was "Rally for the Troops at the U. N. in NYC at 12 noon on 2/15/03 Thread II". It was pulled at the request of the person who posted it. "The reason for my request is that some people are concerned that the e-mail auto responder and number that I set up might be used to gather personal information. That is not the case, but seeing as I am getting concerned freepmails regarding this matter I prefer the thread be pulled. In addition, I made the mistake of taking my own initiative in helping the organization of the rally and that seems to have caused friction in [our] chapter"

The next was http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/837678/posts as you can see was a duplicate post, with the pull message linking it back to the original.

Next was a post called "American In Bosnia". We got a complaint from a well established freeper that it was a bogus post, and while we were looking at that the person who posted it submitted "My post is not true please delete I hope this is the right way to get it taken away."

Then came "An Important Message from the Australian Prime Minister". Guess what, same as before.

Then we had http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/837882/posts which was another duplicate, linked via the pull message to the original, as you can see.

Then there was this one which also was a duplicate. It was not linked to the earlier post because there were no replies to it and the earlier post was the very previous one on the latest posts page.

Then there was "Man ticketed for having 'noisy' flag" which was pulled because it had personal information of a private individual in it.

Another duplicate linked to the original was http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/837974/posts here.

Another duplicate linked to the original was here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/838004/posts

Another duplicate linked to the original was here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/838045/posts

Now we get a sorta meaty one. "Georgia seems to be in the pits." Posted by a newbie as his first action.

The risky games of Shevardnadse cost the people of Georgia too much. Now it becomes more and more dangerous to live in Georgia. Shevardnadse is to blame for the present situation in Georgia (and not only here). He did his best to shelter Chechen bandits from Russian ‘federals’. Chechens of course didn’t waste time and just settled down in Pankisi. They used the area to store weapons and ammunition, to train terrorists and even (!) to produce poison gases. Only when Bush smelled the rat in Pankisi did our president came to senses. He only made a try to more or less bring order in Pankisi. Threats from Basaev and Udugov were fast to follow. Well, the words of Udugov from one of his interviews have just flashed through my mind. He recommended his people in Georgia to be correct and rather tough at the same time with Georgians for them (that is for us) to feel (!) the ‘power and threat’ of the Chechen fighters. Got it? Even then they felt themselves masters on our soil!!! They had the nerve to do it! And Shevardnadse swallowed it! Can WE swallow it as well?

That one has been banned before.

Another locked and linked duplicate here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/838081/posts

Next was a post called "I got kicked out of DU!". Jim doesn't want posts about DU up, especially by newbies.

An ad for a book was next: "'Bible Code II' Predicts Year of End Time"

Next was "Department of Homeland Defense Web site---pitiful!"-- the person who posted it asked for it to be pulled since the website in question updated their information right after he posted it. All of four replies were lost.

A newbie posted "University Conference Focuses On 'Gay Language' " Turns out the newbie was a returning banned poster and when his account was nuked the post was pulled.

Another duplicate linked to the original: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/838308/posts

A vanity titled "Should We Bomb The Vatican First???" was next. It had been pulled the day before as well.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/838340/posts was another duplicate.

Then we have the Zots. All of these were posted by our daily trolls. You can click my profile for the history of the zots. But here are the links to all the zots- you can click 'history' on each one and see what the original post was, but in each case the poster was nuked because they were returning banned posters (who do this every single day):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/838137/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/837975/posts

That's it. So which ones should we have lightened up on, out of curiousity?

I missed one in my scan of the report.

I pulled this one: "Rumor has IDF and CNN merging"

Hopefully why is self-obvious.

[FreedomPoster]

This is pretty hilarious to watch, but then I've got a pretty weird sense of humor. Then again, that doesn't seem to be too unusual here.

BTW, I typed my To: line in as:
Admin Moderator; Admin Moderator; Admin Moderator

but the software parses it down to just "Admin Moderator".

[Willie Green]

Art Bell is a legend. He's part of the moderator training and initiation cermony.

That's cool. I bet the "Remote Viewing" comes in handy at times.

[Willie Green]

Ahem, I'm the cool mod. You've been talking to Tim.

My apologies. Must've been my bifocals again.

[tje]

Wow! I didn't know how much work you had to do. It's much appreciated! So has there been an upswing in the volume of 'issues'?

[maui_hawaii]

I say you are doing a good job.

No duplicates should be a standing rule (and is if I am not mistaken)...

It is however nice to see how different news/partisan organizations cover the exact same thing...

FR is a spin detector.

[Admin Moderator]

You should have typed Darryl, Darryl and Larry. We would have seen that.

[Admin Moderator]

Yes it does. Especially during those wee hours when FR is slow. That's when the series training takes place.

[Admin Moderator]

Just wanted to clear it up. Thanks for understanding.

[mikenola]

I could swear that when I first signed up there was a waiting period before I could post.

If you want to eliminate the trolls and distruptors reeinstate this waiting period, it works like a charm

I've posted this several times before, no response , no comments or anything. Maybe someday, the powers that be will come down yea or nea.

[Admin Moderator]

There was, and it didn't really work. We ended up with a bunch of accounts that did nothing for 5 days and then posted the trolling posts, and fewer newbies signing up in the meanwhile.

In other words, it seemed to discourage real posters while not discouraging the trolls.

Thanks, AM

[NYTexan]

How many are you in your collective?

[visualops]

pssst...


you left out the most dastardly part of the whole Plan:


         Freepathons.


rats... should've kept my mouth shut....

[Admin Moderator]

Not really. They would post their screeds in a thread, or wait 5 days to post a thread. Only then, they'd have 5 days to troll the site. What's really interesting is how many freepers do not let us know of questionable newbies. We can't possibly read every thread and every post, and we rely on everyone to give us a heads up.

[Admin Moderator]

Hey, you, bucko, didn't I tell you to scram?

[Admin Moderator]

We can't tell you that, it's classified. But, since your a New York Texan, I'll let you in on a secret, but....Don't tell the others, there are 7 active mods, and 3 who've had to cut back due to personal issues.

[mikenola]

Much thanks for the responses! It seems the disruptors are more determined than I supposed. Kudos for your hard work.

/m/

[NYTexan]

Thank you all for raising my security clearance level!

It is good to be in the Know!

[katnip]

So you've never had a WC slider?
You're not a Yankee?

Drat..

[FreedomPoster]

>>we rely on everyone to give us a heads up.

Yes, I commented on that earlier today. Obvious troll thread posted, FReeper alerted you guys in 9 minutes, troll Zot!ed at post + 10 minutes (i.e. you guys took 1 minute!).

We FReepers need to do a better job at noticing and pinging you mods.

[Windsong]

Good god, just give it a REST already.