I received the following message when trying to put a user on my ignore list:
"Sorry XXXX is a moderator/admin and you are not allowed to ignore him or her."
This person AFAIK is not a global moderator, but rather has his own commercial forum which he apparently moderates. I can see the reason why global moderators should not be ignored, but not someone who is on a moderator list because of having his own forum. Is this a temporary glitch, or the actual intent of how the forum should work?
"Sorry XXXX is a moderator/admin and you are not allowed to ignore him or her."
This person AFAIK is not a global moderator, but rather has his own commercial forum which he apparently moderates. I can see the reason why global moderators should not be ignored, but not someone who is on a moderator list because of having his own forum. Is this a temporary glitch, or the actual intent of how the forum should work?
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Why would you want to ignore anyone? I am more bothered by the people with commercial interest that do not have a "I donate" star next to their name.
Lets not forget, there are quite a number of difficult characters on this forum, with own personal ...psychological/ commercial interests that are well worth ignoring
However, most of them could run riot without the role of moderators and you would then see the true colours of humans with freedom of choice to 'hurt'.
In general reporting someone ( even if they are a moderator themselves) to a moderator with good reason might be better than ignoring.
However, most of them could run riot without the role of moderators and you would then see the true colours of humans with freedom of choice to 'hurt'.
In general reporting someone ( even if they are a moderator themselves) to a moderator with good reason might be better than ignoring.
Well, my question was a technical one and not intended to spark philosophical debate. I'd just like to be able to put "local moderators" on my ignore list, that's all.
This seems to have been a recent change, wherein someone who was previously on my ignore list popped back up again.
Edit: This doesn't seem to apply to all people having their own forum. I just tried to put another poster who also has their own forum ("barredboss" in this case, just as an experiment), and they went into my ignore list just fine. barredboss is just fine with me - I was just trying this out.
This seems to have been a recent change, wherein someone who was previously on my ignore list popped back up again.
Edit: This doesn't seem to apply to all people having their own forum. I just tried to put another poster who also has their own forum ("barredboss" in this case, just as an experiment), and they went into my ignore list just fine. barredboss is just fine with me - I was just trying this out.
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Hi Andy,
That isn't intended functionality, just a byproduct of giving some forum owners a very limited subset of moderation abilities over their own forums. They are all still just in the regular usergroup, so I'm surprised that this issue has appeared. I'll fix it.
Personally I heartily recommend the use of the ignore feature if it makes you happy, or helps to better the signal to noise ration on the forum. But lets keep this discussion to the specific and original topic.
Jason
That isn't intended functionality, just a byproduct of giving some forum owners a very limited subset of moderation abilities over their own forums. They are all still just in the regular usergroup, so I'm surprised that this issue has appeared. I'll fix it.
Personally I heartily recommend the use of the ignore feature if it makes you happy, or helps to better the signal to noise ration on the forum. But lets keep this discussion to the specific and original topic.
Jason
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Thanks Jason!
If you need a name, I'd be happy to supply that privately. I have PMs disabled, but email should be fine.
Half serious, just one of my various "hairs". I was kicked off a forum years ago for giving away software that was the equivalent of one that one of the mods was selling. There are some who are pretty blatant about mining forums for customers, they could at least give back some support.
To be specific I support the FSF and the principles of the GNU foundation. I think the same principles apply to hardware.
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No problem. Sorry for coming across in a flippant way.
My use of the ignore list has greatly increased in the last year or so, due to a large influx of people preaching wrong theories of how electronics work. I could say more, but I'll leave it at that.
My use of the ignore list has greatly increased in the last year or so, due to a large influx of people preaching wrong theories of how electronics work. I could say more, but I'll leave it at that.
Next, I am bothered by people with commercial interest that are trying to look like innocent DIYers.
It would be nice. Our hardware and software costs alone are going to be upwards of $10k this year. Scott, I do very much appreciate your contribution towards our costs this year. I hope we can improve the page load speeds considerably in the next few months, and get onto new hardware, well before we hit vBulletin's MySQL "big board" performance issues which start in earnest once a forum gets to about 2,500,000 posts. But that's a discussion for another thread.
FYI the "donation star" is purely for donations, it doesn't appear for those who have purchased advertising or those who have contributed financially in other ways, such as sponsoring a commercial sector forum. There is currently no way to see that. In the very near future we'll have other icons to represent the other ways people contribute to diyAudio (financial and otherwise).
Thank you for your assistance in keeping this thread on topic.
Jason, I figured that in retrospect. I also understand the difficulties on this matter, but I have lots of unfond memories. It would be easier if the DIY community modeled itself off of the FSF.
This is still a problem.
I guess that Andy_C and myself is trying to put the same person on the ignore list.
I’m getting the same message.
"Sorry XXXX is a moderator/admin and you are not allowed to ignore him or her."
And may I also ask why Andy_C is banned? 😕
Cheers
stinius
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OH no! Andy_C is one of the most valuable members of this whole forum. How can we ban someone with such real knowledge and let so many of the idiotic threads continue unabated? Moderators please reconsider this!!!!!
Steve.
It does look like Andy_C IS still with us....perhaps Andy is limited in some fashion..looks like he is "allowed" to write in here........maybe only in a 'response mode' & cannot initiate threads.
His public profile still contains info, perhaps derogatory as a (Paraphrasing here) 'Audio snake oil huckster'.
So all is not lost....Andy can read us all...perhaps he can be rehabilitated?
Moderator: Signal to noise interpreter. .............sweet.
To those that preach incorrect theories of electronics....well a few rounds with exploding capacitors will have those being taught, going elsewhere for advice.
______________________________________________________Rick...
His public profile still contains info, perhaps derogatory as a (Paraphrasing here) 'Audio snake oil huckster'.
So all is not lost....Andy can read us all...perhaps he can be rehabilitated?
Moderator: Signal to noise interpreter. .............sweet.
To those that preach incorrect theories of electronics....well a few rounds with exploding capacitors will have those being taught, going elsewhere for advice.
______________________________________________________Rick...
Echoed.
I learned a LOT from him, and not the kind of bunk that the other "experts" like to teach around here.
Seems the moderators focus here is NOT to keep members that actually know what they are talking about, but just maintain the peace - if you have an opinion, you better hold onto it. Everyone is expendable.
I think it's a shame.
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