With the greatest respect
- that's a great example of one of
(I think) the BIGGEST problems.
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"you have to be a mod to know what it's like".
Hearing
(reading) that sentence makes me want to take less ownership of my actions, and take less responsibility.
It's PERFECTLY true, that you don't know how comfy a mans shoes are until you've walked 10 miles in them, and we all know this, but it really gets my back up and creates a divide when I read it.
It's like a catch-all cop-out comment, because clearly we don't know what it's like, and most of us never will.
It doesn't change the fact that the position is voluntary.
It's the kind of sentence that I feel is subconciously written to gain sympathy, or to placate ones position due to hard work.
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of being the victim, the repressed one in the situation,
"it's really hard, if only you knew" then.
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if only we knew we'd take ownership of our comments and Mod'ing would be easier??
I've read it a number of times, and each time I read it, all I want to say is
"step down if you can't handle the work".
I don't think the office of
'moderator' requires respect, I think the person doing it requires respect.
So when I read
"mods have a hard time"
(paraphrasing) that generalisation sounds like a cop out.
I hope I'm understood, and I appreciate that I may be on for some slating but I can't think how else to put it.
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EDIT: plenty of people suffer things they HAVE to suffer, it's kinda hard to have sympathy with people who make a choice and then don't like it?
Although I do remember one incident where I politely asked a member to edit his comments about another.
