- RighteousTyrant
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Hi I'm RT and I like to argue!
Posted by: coolmike699
Posted by: drummer0702
Oh, it's this time of the month, huh?
Honestly, I think the two of those are a little different since one is talking about people actually doing it vs. what actually is being discussed in Recon's thread. However, I'll say there is obviously more leniency given to moderators in terms of the threads they make. No one is going to be stupid enough to try and derail that thread into something more inappropriate and the OP isn't going to go anywhere terrible with it either.
In my county a few years ago, some police officers got caught speeding by speed cameras. Some of those officers were going to emergencies, but a lot of them weren't.
The cops didn't get out of their tickets just because they're cops. They had to pay just like everyone else. Why shouldn't the mods have to follow the rules they enforce just like we do? Because we're talking about different sets of rules designed for different purposes. I'm guessing that the ones going to emergencies didn't get a ticket, or got it dismissed. Because speeding laws exist to keep people safe, and the cops going to emergencies were doing so to help keep people safe, so getting some leeway in the law helps the cop achieve the same purpose as the law.
Similarly, rules exist here on B.net to help keep discussions flowing smoothly. I agree with drummer that a moderator's thread enjoys less chance of derailment than someone else's, for obvious reasons that have nothing to do with unfair privilege. That being the case, there's no reason not to allow moderators to post controversial topics that bend the rules, because any related increase in the risk of a controversial thread being derailed is mitigated by the moderator's perceived presence.
That said,
Posted by: coolmike699
I'm not asking for perfection. I'm asking for fairness.
You have your group, you have these forums, you have PMs. I don't think I'm asking for too much when I say that people shouldn't be warned or banned for doing something another mod does. This, except that it's no secret that they're hardly consistent even with the regular members, when they absolutely should be.
I'm surprised that they haven't developed some kind of internal guidelines amongst themselves to use for questionable threads.
[Edited on 10.24.2011 6:31 PM PDT]