David086 Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 I've been a member of X-Plane and .org for about 5/6 (ish) years and overall I enjoy it. But what is with the harshness and attitude of the moderators on the forums? I've always noticed it when I first joined so I stopped posting in their forums whenever I needed help and just looked elsewhere. But today took the biscuit. I posted two screenshots in their "What a/c did you fly today thread" and I mistakenly uploaded the wrong images to it and it resulted in a week long ban :confused::confused: There's zero mention of any sort of ban in the thread rules (from what I can see) and I really think a week is extremely harsh for something so easily done. Has anyone ever got a reason into why moderators are so hard on the users there? The website claims to be "friendly" but I've yet to see it from the mods (Yes, not all mods are like what I'm describing). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatRace Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 I'm a long time member, but I've never participated in their forums. Andy Goldstein, who is also one of the mods at this forum, has always been very friendly and helpful. Do not know about the other mods at X-Plane.org tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyGoldstein Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 Screenshot violations generally result in just a verbal warning. However, you have a warn record as long as your arm, mostly from a slow learning curve regarding the screenshot size limits but also a deliberate attempt to circumvent the forum's bad language filter. Accumulated points result in progressively stiffer penalties. All of these warnings (except today's) are from several years ago. These days most warn points are automatically aged out over a couple months, but that mechanism post-dates your earlier warnings. I can age out some of the old warn points, but please remember that the image size limits are there in deference to some users' bandwidth limitations, and friendliness cuts both ways. - Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David086 Posted September 4, 2016 Author Share Posted September 4, 2016 "Bad language filter" The warning was for using the word "hell" in the shoutbox, which to me isn't exactly foul language but that's just the strictness of the site I suppose. Appreciate your response though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyGoldstein Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Different people have different standards for language, and the .org's are also considerably more conservative than mine. But that's not an argument I'm going to get into. - Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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