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Originally Posted by Spec
Dear Mods, I don't think I've had the pleasure. Ya'll just seem to live behind the scenes and often just show up to move threads here and there when ya'll feel like it. All good... not trying to do your job nor will I ever be a mod for a forum ever again.
I've started this thread because something's been bothering me about how you guys move threads around. For the sake of being civil and perhaps to help some thoughts get more exposure... I am suggesting ya'll wait until a thread reaches like page 3 and beyond before ya yank it... or at least page two and perhaps, using a bit of discernment, can see that it will go no where else beyond where its been.
Just a thought. I'm sure there's a good reason for what you do - exposure by people who search for things, right... I agree that things should be categorized in some fashion. But how is something going to grow if it gets pigeon hole'd before it even gets a chance to take off?
Can ya'll break it down for me? Maybe I'm not seeing something... thanks for all you do (I know!), and for keeping the doors wide open. Its a great forum, I love it and the people in it... just had to get this off my chest. Have a great day.
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I'm always curious about the "open letter to admin/moderators" thread. Yours is constructive, but mostly they are thinly veiled complaints and a chance to publicly air dirty laundry. I'd say yours is one of the 3 to 5 percent that's not just somebody beefing about nonsense. So. Good job.
This group of forums is actually moderated in a fairly lax but effective manner, and this is coming from a guy that has had his account suspended here.
Compare to the historic pistol collecting website I go to. On those forums, if you knowingly start a thread on say, a commercially available Colt Model of 1911 made in 1920 in the forum for US military-issued-only Colt Models of 1911, a moderator will issue you a
warning. If you post
words in a thread that has "pics only" in it's title, you'll get a warning. Even if you say something like "really great example, thanks for posting", you get warned about breaking the rules. That's draconian in my view and it does limit my enjoyment of that site to a fair degree. I feel C5 strikes a good balance in how the moderators do their thing.
What everyone should remember about a site like C5 is that it's owned by somebody and that somebody asks his moderators to do certain things. Even if it's just that Tran is a neat freak, that's what he's asked them to do- keep it tidy. Personally I prefer it that way; on-topic threads can move off the first index page awfully fast otherwise.