*attention*
There is a very good chance the Comic Book Versus Forum will be getting closed. It seems there are posters who consider themselves above the rules and immune from any discipline from mods. Well, that's been proved false.
There is also the abuse of the report function. We see reports for posts which there's a disagreement, a smilie is posted, empty accusations of socking or a poster simply has a grudge. People need to have thicker skin around here. If we warned every person who referred to a post as silly or idiotic then everyone but Guy222 would have several warnings. Think before you report. It's not necessary to report the same person 5 times for the same thing.
People also seem to disregard the ignore feature. If you can't agree or get along with a poster then use the ignore. It cuts down on frivolous reports and unnecessary warnings. It's not our fault you don't use the ignore and continue to have the same arguments with the same people. There are DC fans and there are Marvel fans. If you can't get along or agree to disagree then use the ignore function.
It seems that some people can't grasp that when a mod posts in a thread that a certain activity needs to stop then it's to stop. But they will carry on in other threads or continue the next day thinking the cycle starts anew. It doesn't. We post in threads so there are less warnings and bans. But there are posters who can't stop, who use our posts as a way of pointing fingers or as an opportunity to have a go at us. Sorry, it doesn't work that way. But we also aren't infallible in our judgments. If we make a mistake then send a PM or point it out in the thread.
The threads aren't a place to air grievances about a ban or warning. There are PMs and a lot of you have my MSN info. The reason we don't want a big group discussion is that every time it's been tried more people ended up warned or banned because they take it as an opportunity to bash the moderators. Moderators will be more than happy to explain decisions via a PM.
Moderators don't warn or ban without reason or on a whim. The only auto-bans are the usual socks. We have access to reports and notes in a posters profile. We also have a Moderator Forum where we post notes about what's happening in our forums and it's open for other moderators to review. So your opinions on warnings and bans are based on a very narrow view of what has really happened.
We are not here to referee versus threads, choose sides on who started what or ban anyone who some suspects as a sock. If there's a problem with someone breaking the rules then let us deal with it. A lot of the problems occur when people take matters into their own hands.
I hope everybody takes note and reads this post. There is a small percentage of posters who are going to ruin this forum for all. If you like the Comic Book Versus Forum then take steps now to ensure it stays open. Otherwise it will be closed as this forum isn't popular with many other mods. As of right now, my only defense to keep it open is that we get 800 - 900 posts per day.