This isn't really for anyone else but the staff but I am posting this because it has been over 12 hours since I made a report against my warning and I've yet still to receive any reasoning as to why I received it, and even when I spoke to Jer about it, his response was "I'm an admin, I don't look at the reports" and did not help at all -even when I was told by the moderator themselves to speak to another member of staff.. (actually, he did say he might look at it tomorrow). So instead I am making this thread to actually get an answer because this way I actually know they will see it and can't ignore.
For those wondering, I received a warning for reporting this post (actually the original post has been deleted but I reported the post that says "This thread. *MLP pic*") and my reasoning for reporting it was "NO IMAGE REPLIES".
Not long after I reported the post (an hour or two), I received a warning, the reasoning being;
"Mini-Modding
Don't report a thread I'm heavily moderating."
And this is the stupidest thing I have ever read. When I received the warning, as the default layout for receiving warnings, it says at the bottom "If you feel you received this warning unfairly, you can click "Report" below this private message to flag it for review", which I did, and as I've said, it's been over 12 hours and I've yet to receive a response.
Yes, I understand the staff members do have lives (despite what others might think), but this was brought up in the IRC not long after I reported my warning (which I will speak more about later), and I was informed that my message was sticked in the reports board to await moderation by a different moderator who did not issue me the warning so it was fair to me. Now I don't have an issue with waiting, but I mean, anyone in their right mind would know this is a stupid reason to issue a warning, and it literally would take like 2 minutes to read over what I've written, realize it's stupid, and then remove the warning. I don't see why this has taken 12 hours (and counting) and I've still yet to receive no response (and right now, I don't even care about the warning, I just think the entire concept of reporting a post and being issued a warning for mini modding is stupid). For those wondering, this is what my report said (edited to remove curse words);
That pretty much sums up everything I have to say about this, but there are a few more things that I would like to point out.
1) Taken from the warning itself;
"Warnings serve as a reminder to you of the forum's rules, which you are expected to understand and follow"
I most certainly do understand, and of course follow the rules, which is why I reported the post in the first place, but then I received a warning for following the rules??? Let me get this straight, warnings are set as a reminder for members to follow the forum rules, which is exactly what I did, but I got a warning for following the forum rules???
2) Again taken from the warning itself;
"Don't report a thread I'm heavily moderating."
Last time I checked, I am not staff, so how am I supposed to know whats being moderated, and what is not, I have absolutely no means of checking which user has received warnings/infractions for which posts, and who haven't, I simply reported a post which clearly broke the rules.
3) This was mentioned in the IRC by the member of staff who I presume issued the warning (even though they said that it was someone else's idea to issue the warning in the first place), and they said this (each color represents a different user - obviously the user in red is the staff member who was talking about it);
Now there are a few more things that were said, but those were the only things that I got screenshots of, and I will recall the other things that were said from the best of my memory, but first I will talk about the things in the screenshots.
Firstly, the staff member is obviously annoyed that I reported the warning (or at least, that's the message I got), and mentioned it in the IRC. I am positive it has been mentioned numerous times that warnings/infractions/bans are meant to remain between the members of staff, and the user who received them. So everyone was laughing at me in the IRC for reporting a warning (which like I mentioned a while ago, it says it I feel I have received it unfairly, I am allowed to do so), I do not even care about the laughing though. And then they went on to mention that I reported "10 posts" from that thread, which is not true at all. The only post I reported was specially the post itself which I mentioned above, I very well may have reported another post, but there was no way I reported more than 2 posts in that thread, and any member of staff can go through my reports I have made and confirm that I did not make 10 reports from that thread (and yes, if I did make 10 reports in that thread then give out as many warnings as you want).
After that was mentioned in the IRC, a few other members also saw that me receiving a warning for reporting a post being classed as "mini modding" was stupid, and after a short discussion, it was said that in other terms, it could also be put as "report abuse", which it is not. Like I said, I only reported one post in the thread, and again in the screen shot on my report of the warning showing the Valid Report Uses, I reported a post which clearly broke a rule, so that is in no way abuse, since I only reported it once, and reported a post which most certainly broke a rule. I don't know about anyone else, but abuse of the report button to me would be reporting the same thing over and over and over, or reporting something which does not need to be reported, and like I said, I only reported it once, and by the footer on the report page, my reason for reporting said post is 100% valid.
Anyway, I really do not care, like I said, I am only posting this to make sure I get a response from staff as to why I received this warning, because I legit see no proper reason as to why this should have been issued (and I am very open minded), and it's been a decent amount of time and I still haven't received anything yet - and like mentioned before, it's apparently sticked in the reports board, so it must have been seen by another member of staff by now, and literally takes 2 seconds to read, and I've not received a response back. So yeah.
For those wondering, I received a warning for reporting this post (actually the original post has been deleted but I reported the post that says "This thread. *MLP pic*") and my reasoning for reporting it was "NO IMAGE REPLIES".
Not long after I reported the post (an hour or two), I received a warning, the reasoning being;
"Mini-Modding
Don't report a thread I'm heavily moderating."
And this is the stupidest thing I have ever read. When I received the warning, as the default layout for receiving warnings, it says at the bottom "If you feel you received this warning unfairly, you can click "Report" below this private message to flag it for review", which I did, and as I've said, it's been over 12 hours and I've yet to receive a response.
Yes, I understand the staff members do have lives (despite what others might think), but this was brought up in the IRC not long after I reported my warning (which I will speak more about later), and I was informed that my message was sticked in the reports board to await moderation by a different moderator who did not issue me the warning so it was fair to me. Now I don't have an issue with waiting, but I mean, anyone in their right mind would know this is a stupid reason to issue a warning, and it literally would take like 2 minutes to read over what I've written, realize it's stupid, and then remove the warning. I don't see why this has taken 12 hours (and counting) and I've still yet to receive no response (and right now, I don't even care about the warning, I just think the entire concept of reporting a post and being issued a warning for mini modding is stupid). For those wondering, this is what my report said (edited to remove curse words);
That pretty much sums up everything I have to say about this, but there are a few more things that I would like to point out.
1) Taken from the warning itself;
"Warnings serve as a reminder to you of the forum's rules, which you are expected to understand and follow"
I most certainly do understand, and of course follow the rules, which is why I reported the post in the first place, but then I received a warning for following the rules??? Let me get this straight, warnings are set as a reminder for members to follow the forum rules, which is exactly what I did, but I got a warning for following the forum rules???
2) Again taken from the warning itself;
"Don't report a thread I'm heavily moderating."
Last time I checked, I am not staff, so how am I supposed to know whats being moderated, and what is not, I have absolutely no means of checking which user has received warnings/infractions for which posts, and who haven't, I simply reported a post which clearly broke the rules.
3) This was mentioned in the IRC by the member of staff who I presume issued the warning (even though they said that it was someone else's idea to issue the warning in the first place), and they said this (each color represents a different user - obviously the user in red is the staff member who was talking about it);
Now there are a few more things that were said, but those were the only things that I got screenshots of, and I will recall the other things that were said from the best of my memory, but first I will talk about the things in the screenshots.
Firstly, the staff member is obviously annoyed that I reported the warning (or at least, that's the message I got), and mentioned it in the IRC. I am positive it has been mentioned numerous times that warnings/infractions/bans are meant to remain between the members of staff, and the user who received them. So everyone was laughing at me in the IRC for reporting a warning (which like I mentioned a while ago, it says it I feel I have received it unfairly, I am allowed to do so), I do not even care about the laughing though. And then they went on to mention that I reported "10 posts" from that thread, which is not true at all. The only post I reported was specially the post itself which I mentioned above, I very well may have reported another post, but there was no way I reported more than 2 posts in that thread, and any member of staff can go through my reports I have made and confirm that I did not make 10 reports from that thread (and yes, if I did make 10 reports in that thread then give out as many warnings as you want).
After that was mentioned in the IRC, a few other members also saw that me receiving a warning for reporting a post being classed as "mini modding" was stupid, and after a short discussion, it was said that in other terms, it could also be put as "report abuse", which it is not. Like I said, I only reported one post in the thread, and again in the screen shot on my report of the warning showing the Valid Report Uses, I reported a post which clearly broke a rule, so that is in no way abuse, since I only reported it once, and reported a post which most certainly broke a rule. I don't know about anyone else, but abuse of the report button to me would be reporting the same thing over and over and over, or reporting something which does not need to be reported, and like I said, I only reported it once, and by the footer on the report page, my reason for reporting said post is 100% valid.
Anyway, I really do not care, like I said, I am only posting this to make sure I get a response from staff as to why I received this warning, because I legit see no proper reason as to why this should have been issued (and I am very open minded), and it's been a decent amount of time and I still haven't received anything yet - and like mentioned before, it's apparently sticked in the reports board, so it must have been seen by another member of staff by now, and literally takes 2 seconds to read, and I've not received a response back. So yeah.
