I am a moderator on another forum (the largest community for it's niche). I've been doing it for over a year and I'm sure the mods here would agree that the job can be stressful as well as very thankless. But that is besides the point.
We've had a new member pop up, Not a single post has really contributed - their sales posts are asking way too much money (think - asking $500,000 - $1,000,000 for a Plymouth Neon), rants, complaints, or attacking other members. The management are getting tired of him.
There was a discussion and he posted a link - not only was the link irrelevant it was against the terms of service (it was a parked page and asking people to go to parked pages and click on links is against the parking company's TOS since the traffic isn't natural). So I edited the post - left the drivel but took out the link. As usual, you saw a tag at the bottom of the post that I edited it. No big deal.
I got a PM from this member today asking "What gives me the right to edit their posts".
The PM isn't flagged as read (I saw it in an email) but I am so tempted to write back:
The site owners trust me and my decisions to help keep the community under control as well as making sure that all posts contribute to discussions while not breaking any forum rules or related TOS.
Sorry, but I don't need some newbie @$$hole coming in and acting like all hot $h!t with his ignorance and overpricing.
Luckily we suspect that this new member is an old member who was a serious instigator and was banned for many reasons but the IP addresses don't even match the same country (but they could be masked / rerouted).
We've had a new member pop up, Not a single post has really contributed - their sales posts are asking way too much money (think - asking $500,000 - $1,000,000 for a Plymouth Neon), rants, complaints, or attacking other members. The management are getting tired of him.
There was a discussion and he posted a link - not only was the link irrelevant it was against the terms of service (it was a parked page and asking people to go to parked pages and click on links is against the parking company's TOS since the traffic isn't natural). So I edited the post - left the drivel but took out the link. As usual, you saw a tag at the bottom of the post that I edited it. No big deal.
I got a PM from this member today asking "What gives me the right to edit their posts".
The PM isn't flagged as read (I saw it in an email) but I am so tempted to write back:
The site owners trust me and my decisions to help keep the community under control as well as making sure that all posts contribute to discussions while not breaking any forum rules or related TOS.
Sorry, but I don't need some newbie @$$hole coming in and acting like all hot $h!t with his ignorance and overpricing.
Luckily we suspect that this new member is an old member who was a serious instigator and was banned for many reasons but the IP addresses don't even match the same country (but they could be masked / rerouted).
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