I keep seeing posts after posts after post stating the same thing: "Read the FAQs and/or stickies."
Here in lies the problems as I see it:
Now before anyone tells me that the current rules are in fact, clear and concise, I do remember a mod making a public statement that the staff were currently working on the problem with the said FAQs, in an attempt to make them more understandable and user friendly. However, due to the shortage of staff, it wasn't a priority. I'm proposing that it has now become a priority.
Fenway has stated publicly that it is easier and more timely for a mod to just assign an infraction, than a moderator to otherwise correct a user. While Fenway and the moderators might think that an infraction isn't personal, I can honestly state that there have been some instances that a staff member has torqued someone on this board----just as some users have done the same to the owner or the mods. Some of the posts on this board do show a level of frustration by both a select number of users and staff members at one time or another.
Technicalities aside, and just because some things may just be "understood" by a "majority", still doesn't smack of being fair. There are any number of users on this board that have differing cultural and educational backgrounds, that should necessitate this problem being corrected now.
As the current staff is apparently too overworked, I propose that the ownership and moderation of the board seek out individuals that have a gift for objective writing, and ask that they take responsibility of a given subject, dissecting same, and return a workable set of rules to post on the board.
Here in lies the problems as I see it:
- There is a full weeks worth of rules reading, that often repeats itself, or is written in a less than clear manner.
- The location of needed information is scattered about, to make finding any needed information difficult to locate in a timely manner.
- Some information within the FAQs is dated, or just outright wrong.
Now before anyone tells me that the current rules are in fact, clear and concise, I do remember a mod making a public statement that the staff were currently working on the problem with the said FAQs, in an attempt to make them more understandable and user friendly. However, due to the shortage of staff, it wasn't a priority. I'm proposing that it has now become a priority.
Fenway has stated publicly that it is easier and more timely for a mod to just assign an infraction, than a moderator to otherwise correct a user. While Fenway and the moderators might think that an infraction isn't personal, I can honestly state that there have been some instances that a staff member has torqued someone on this board----just as some users have done the same to the owner or the mods. Some of the posts on this board do show a level of frustration by both a select number of users and staff members at one time or another.
Technicalities aside, and just because some things may just be "understood" by a "majority", still doesn't smack of being fair. There are any number of users on this board that have differing cultural and educational backgrounds, that should necessitate this problem being corrected now.
As the current staff is apparently too overworked, I propose that the ownership and moderation of the board seek out individuals that have a gift for objective writing, and ask that they take responsibility of a given subject, dissecting same, and return a workable set of rules to post on the board.
The biggest holdup thus far has been to what extent to "revise and extend" the rules, as we want to do that as well as putting them all together in a single, easily referenced location or format. 
