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Originally Posted by OFxZeppers
In regards to the naming of names subject.
I think yall know I absolutely HATE cheating...
If your using a "name" thats in the game, calling that person a cheater, and that name is in the list of pirate names more than once, then you are accusing everyone with that name of being a cheater, just because ONE of them made bad decisions.
Is that fair?
How many stories do we hear these days about important people having issues at airports because thier names match some expatriot's or terrorists?
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I know that I don't look back to my earlier posts to see what the moderators here have edited or removed - the two times I have noticed were accidental (resulting in quite a bit of outrage both times.)
The POF policy of
not naming character names is wrong and unacceptable. That moderators can (and apparently do) simply quash messages without notification is also unacceptable. Until I read about ten messages on this thread, I had no idea that some of my posts "violated" that absurd policy - I can't imagine what the moderators have done to those posts. Do you replace names with "[Name removed by policy 23 section 4]" or something? Or delete the post?
I too, understand very well what a tedious and thankless task being a moderator is. But the POF policies are out of whack. There is no reason for them to make the astronomic leap from "pirate name" - particularly ones that can't be given or family names in the English language - to personal name.
Likewise, it is inexplicable why the moderators are able to directly edit the messages. Doing so should not be done flippantly (at least not as carelessly as it seems to be used) and needs to require notification. The negative feedback I received was about "tone," not about violating an obscure and counter-intuitive policy. But that wasn't politely in a private message - that itself was spammed on the thread itself, IIRC. Blacklisting, indeed.
Is the Holiday Inn Express thing a movie reference? It's been a couple years since I've spent a night in one - they had "free" wireless back then.
Rackrat, you aren't using Firefox? *gasp*