I got ANOTHER 20 point infraction on the CivicWagon boards for not posting a location in my thread title for a WTB thread. IN THE FREAKN TITLE! Don't all sites only require that info in WTS posts and not even in the title, in the post itself! I can't believe how retarded their site is run! You'd think they'd catch a clue with 4 or 5 people online per day... Traffic over there is pitiful. I'm usually only there for pictures but damn... I want to buy that site and then change the log in screen to giant ball sack! HA! ... That'll teachm'
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All sites? Not in the least. Every site is different. Even sister sites like our's [Clubintegra.com] are usually different than one another. For instance, we don't require that you post where you are (even though it is common sense when selling or WTB), but we do require other things that a lot of sites don't. It's all dependent on the moderators, admin, and the rest of the staff. Some rules (like ones we have implemented here) are brought on by members asking for it tons of times.
One of the f***s on here gave me a 35 point infraction for "Excessively hostile behavior" for an argument with some idiot
That f**k was me. I would do it again in a heart beat. Nothing against you personally, just doing my job and there is absolutely NO way I would have been able to look the other way with the things you were saying to that kid. I guarantee you 100% that if it wasn't handed out by me it would have been one of the other guys. Just because the kid was a completed idiot doesn't make it right to bully and berate him. Being that flaming and fighting is one of our biggest NO rules, it is one that WILL be enforced if we feel that there is blatant probable cause. There was a load of probable cause for your incident. The kid received an infraction as well and was ultimately banned IIRC. You got off easy with just the one red card.
IMO, the mod staff as a whole is pretty lax on handing out infractions.
Very lax compared to other sites I have seen. I think we have a fair balance right now for the traffic we have. It has gotten a hell of a lot better. There were a couple moderators here (one for sure) that were for lack of a better word...tyrants. Back when I first started, you couldn't sneeze here without getting an infraction for being off topic. Honestly, off topic is part of a public forum and shouldn't really even be an infraction that is given. There are also some on the complete opposite side of the board like HT and VWVORTEX [as an example] because of the extreme blind eye of the staff. Both are riddled with flaming, fighting, and belittling. It's actually kind of a shame because they are both excellent sites in their own respective ways for technical knowledge that far surpasses what we have here and a TON of people don't post on there because of the flaming and belittling.
Idk, some are. Most I've never actually had issues with. I think it's just gay that I have two infractions already with barely 300 posts, one for a signature being too large and one for participating in an argument. It's no big deal, just a bit surprised.
He is just a kid and you are supposed to be an adult. An adult that should have clicked the back button and left it alone, but you chose to keep flaming. You 100% brought it on yourself. There are about a hundred of fully active members on this board and so far I have seen 4 or 5 that have posted in the last day that have NEVER received an infraction. Couple of them have a couple thousand or more posts in many years.
