While I'm not
thrilled with Naryar's early use of his mod powers, I have to say this is a little premature to be questioning his abilities. I mean, he's been a global mod for five days. And it's not as if this place has absolutely gone to
in that time either. We've had a harmless prank that lasted one day, a closure of a thread at the request of it's author and a couple of far too harsh warnings. All in all, no big deal.
I do think that we need to get some things straight, however. Naryar, what you view as spam is viewed by the rest of the forum members as harmless discourse. Thus, your warnings earlier to Smashysmashy and NateF are absolutely laughable and entirely unwarranted. The standards you seem to have are neither shared nor desired by the rest of the community, and are generally viewed as far too harsh, extreme and unreasonable, as evidenced by the existence of this thread.
Remember: you're a moderator, not a one-man legal system. Your job is to ensure that things on the forum operate smoothly in a way that satisfies the community. Your job isn't to dictate the law and punish as you see fit. You're a policeman, not a tyrant. This means that you enforce the standards that the community decides are the best and the most productive, not to operate on your own agenda and mold Gametechmods into your ideal image as you seem wont to do.
So, what does this mean? This means that while we still don't want excessive spam cluttering the showcases, one or two offtopic posts should not count as "spam." "Spam" should be defined as posts that do not add any content to the thread topic, are deliberately off-topic,
AND are not addressing and previous posts in the thread. So even if a member makes an off-topic comment, it isn't necessarily spam if it is in conversation with another member. Of course, excessive off-topic posts are also an undesirable outcome, but raising a members warning level is a step that is too extreme. Instead, if and only if an off-topic conversation
persists (say, lasts more than 5-7 posts), a written warning of "back on topic, guys" should suffice. After which, any posts still off-topic (within the same thread and a reasonable time frame) may be punished by, lets say, a 5% warn level for each consequent post.
While the above is just a thought, I strongly suggest you use it or a similar system to keep the discontent with your moderation from growing to unmanagable amounts.
