If Mako had been moderating this thread, how many people would have been sandboxed?

  • 28 votes.
  • Started by bobn2 on May 2, 2023.
0-2
6 votes, 22% of total.
  • 6 votes, 22% of total.
2-4
0 votes, 0% of total.
  • 0 votes, 0% of total.
5-9
3 votes, 11% of total.
  • 3 votes, 11% of total.
10-19
1 vote, 4% of total.
  • 1 vote, 4% of total.
20 or more.
18 votes, 65% of total.
  • 18 votes, 65% of total.
  • May 3, 2023, 4:54 p.m.

    Sure, some people like an argument. Some people just get into them. Some people like observing them. Ands some peopel like starting arguments by complainin g about other people arguing. Takes all sorts.

  • May 3, 2023, 4:56 p.m.

    Maybe people just ignore threads they don't want to look at, instead of looking at them then posting that they don't want to look at them like, as the saying goes, a stuck record.
    Anyhow, I've fixe your problem about having to look at Mako's name.

  • edit

    Thread title has been changed from Does DPReview's "Mako2011" have any powers on this site?.

  • Members 535 posts
    May 3, 2023, 7:14 p.m.

    I suppose everybody knows his own Mako, in this thread

    ( you, like the others )

    😎😁😎😁😎😁😎 👓

  • May 3, 2023, 8:38 p.m.

    Anyhow, since this thread will now drift into obscurity, I'll give the correct answer, direct from the horse's (or maybe shark's) mouth -
    The correct answer is zero, since the thread would have been deleted at the first post.

  • Members 746 posts
    May 3, 2023, 9:04 p.m.

    It appears that you have a very short memory. You even replied to mine. The cynic in me would suggest that that's deliberate, in an attempt to create more controversy.

    "So how do you think about the "N-word"?

    Interesting that you should bring that up, in the context of this thread. Let's take a real quick look, a thread started that quickly descended into the calling for the lynching of someone, by a faceless mob, feeling they've been wronged. Substantially. Enough so that they should lose any and all their rights. He he he he.

    interesting that you deflect. This sub-subject arose after someone made a plea for what I'd call common courtesy and got a reply containing the snowflake word. Now I got the impression that you had no problem with that."

  • Members 2332 posts
    May 3, 2023, 10:27 p.m.

    the sooner we have threaded view the better and just by pass all the crap.

  • Members 128 posts
    May 3, 2023, 10:39 p.m.
  • Members 746 posts
    May 4, 2023, 12:27 a.m.

    I could not care what your friends Mako would do, nor would I lose any sleep if you yourself thought it fit to ban me, delete my posts, or take other drastic measures. It's your ship, you're steering the course, you do as you see fit. I'd probably see it as a positive, enabling me to be a bit more productive, and wasting less time with my nose up close to a computer screen.

    Edited for sh!t spelling courtesy of spell check. May the person who invented that roast in p!ss

  • Members 599 posts
    May 4, 2023, 1:46 p.m.

    Speaking of drifting into obscurity, lets hope these waters remain free of the horse-shark thou speaketh...

  • Members 81 posts
    May 7, 2023, 7:07 a.m.

    Apologies in advance...
    ...all's been quiet on the Western Front for 3 days and I had to jump in.
    I initially only read the thread because it does seem to speak to those who have funny walks or who are lumberjacks.
    Anyway, I only read about 300 or so responses and jumped here to the end.
    What prompted me to keep reading was the initial poll and since subject of same put me in a sandbox during the so called "final hours" (which confused the heck out of me because if the jig was up, what was the point)?
    I spent a number of weeks over in another wanna-be replacement after thinking that I liked it due to its appearance but this actually seems to be quite a bit better than the one-man band version.
    “Be excellent to each other.”
    or put another way:
    “All we are is dust in the wind, dude.”

  • May 7, 2023, 7:57 a.m.

    Useful feedback. My own thought is that the success of this kind of site depends on the people here - which is one reason I'm not keen to pressure everyone into one conformative mould in the way that Mako, on behalf of the DPReview admins, used to.

  • Members 4254 posts
    May 7, 2023, 8:16 a.m.

    Never judge a book by its cover :-)

    I was over there at the start as well as here.

    It wasn't long before I locked horns with the admin guy there.

    Long story short, I pushed him to close my account there as it became very clear it wasn't the type of forum I wanted to be at.

    Here is much better and is looking good to continue getting better over time.

  • Members 25 posts
    May 8, 2023, 10:40 a.m.

    Why?
    I haven't seen any problems here.
    DPR went many years without them.

    I don't see people complaining about the pre-mod days.....I see people complaining about the mods.
    🤷

  • May 8, 2023, 10:49 a.m.

    There are widely divergent standards of what people see as problems. Some people want to see this place like a Sunday school, others like watching pub brawls.

  • Members 25 posts
    May 8, 2023, 10:54 a.m.

    Well....good point. Lol

  • May 8, 2023, 11:35 a.m.

    The problem with “pub brawls” is that, if one wishes to avoid being dragged into the unpleasantness, one has no means of expressing oneself in the conversation. Thus they are not a good thing here. I see this as a justification for having judicious moderation, which must tread the middle ground.

    David

  • Members 4254 posts
    May 8, 2023, 11:46 a.m.

    I agree in general but the tricky bit will be where to set "the middle ground".

    To be honest, I have been pleasantly surprised at how well these forums have been going so far with no official moderation. I haven't seen any unpleasantness apart from when DonaldB and I lock horns and get carried away a bit. But then I don't visit very many forums here.

    Hopefully most of the "riff-raff" and trolls are still over at dpreview in denial of the inevitable or have gone over to the other site.

    I suspect that dprevived will largely self-moderate as has been happening so far with the aid of facilitators to calm things down when a thread's temperature rises too much.

  • Members 599 posts
    May 8, 2023, 4:44 p.m.

    And some folks want this- UGH!
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFgEyJ5D-8