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Posted by: GameJunkieJim
Posted by: Snowman
I am upset right now with VII Toast. I was banned seven days ago, and honestly do not know precisely why. For some reason he is not accepting PMs, which seems like a dumb thing for a moderator to do. Since I couldn't contact him I tried Shishka, but no luck there.
The other moderators generally don't know why a particular person has been banned unless the banning moderator chooses to tell us, but mostly it's not necessary. So Shishka probably had no idea what you were talking about.
And yes, sometimes a Mod may stop accepting PMs. You might too if you built up 100+ messages a day. And hardly any of them are nice. I can't answer all of my PMs either, and rumor has it that Shishka's past 2000 PMs.
Don't take a blocked PM Box or an unanswered PM as an insult. We're people. With the exception of Shishka we don't know anymore about special projects or release dates than any of you do.
With the exception of the Master Moderators and Achronos, we can't mess with your blacklist so don't ask us to shorten it or unban it. The moderators have a level of trust in each others judgement that a PM from a member isn't going to break, so it's not likely you'll ever get something overturned by "going over our heads". As Achronos will tell you, we were made moderators because we were deemed trustable. It's a small group of moderators, and if my personal experience is similar to the others, we spend full time hours here to help Achronos keep the forum running smoothly.
I know that as a moderator, there will always be resentment from some members. That can't be helped. But next time you want to say that we're overbearing, or doing a poor job, just remember that we do this out of loyalty to Bungie.net, and the welfare of the forum and the rule-abiding members comes first. With (minimum) 700,000 users, and a good 30% of that ignoring the rules count yourself lucky if you even get a PM with a terse message. We do make an assumption that since you are participating on a text-based forum, that you can read, and that you have the common sense to realize that the rules aren't there as placeholders.
If this post is rambling, forgive me, I've been juggling two children, an unruly forum, and kitchen duties since 5:30 AM. It's only 10:00 PM now, but I'm awfully tired. Bless my wife's heart for handling those kids every day.
I know exactly how you feel with the kids and the kitchen duties.I am thankful my son sleeps in though. I am going to enjoy my sleep while I can though cause I have a feeling I will not be so lucky to get another good baby that sleeps through the nite and hardly cries. I am only 3 months pregnant and this baby is already giving me hell.So all hail to you with the kids the forum and the kitchen.