Gangs
Board Gangs not only exist, but are encouraged by CourtTV's board moderator. Ablow might say the MOD's childhood doomed them to this profession. Hidden behind a faceless name, feeding off a position of cyber power, the moderator becomes an extension of the problem playing the role as ' gang guru'. Banning is decided by the number of complaints received with knee jerk reactions to these known gang complaints which they methodically selected the victim for their targeted slaughters. In reality, it is a demonstration of laziness and lack of professional skills for a simple job of moderating a message board. With the self imposed harried chaos; little verification takes place before 'banning by numbers' takes place. This is often the # 1 reason given by the moderator her/his self if some poor soul unknowing questions the great guru. This is nothing but the lazy man's way of managing the board with knee jerk reactions to a plotted slaughter. You would need to be blind or incompetent to not see this game being played out regularly with great success. Often the same 'style' of post can be witnessed left standing as the "target" of the kill is eliminated one by one.
On crime boards, there are mainly two gangs: The Guilty and the Not Guilty. These groups are identified with gang letters of the "G's" and "NG's". There is a third group which might equal "bystanders" referred to as "fence sitters". Fence sitters consist of a group that has yet to make up their minds which side they fall on as far as guilt or innocence for an accused. The G's (Guilty believers) generally hold the largest membership and by such, strong arm the boards control by manipulating the moderator's 'by numbers' approach administration. The NG's (not guilty) believers by human nature are the minority. NG’s by sheer numbers alone, reinforced by the poor moderation, lends to the NG's constant need to reinvent themselves by registering under a new "nic". On rare occasions when a G is so blatantly guilty of repeated infractions of bashing, they will finally get the long deserved ax! However, this is such a rare occasion that when reincarnated with another nic, they are befuddled as to what happened. Threads will quickly turn off topic and many can be seen spewing shock and disbelief over the demise. This further supports the evidence of the moderator's bias by numbers.
As with all gangs, each has a gang symbol. In this cyber-board the G's icon is the beer mugs slamming together. Quite appropriate for their "slamming together" as the largest group to create havoc and elimination of posters they deem a threat or that refuses to loyally support their side (whether right or wrong). The NG's symbol icon is the laughing motion icon known as the "Hardy har har”. For this minority group it is used as an irritation to the G's who will spend pages complaining about this 'in your face' gesture. Hours go by while the gang wars are allowed to be played out. One member is dissed (issued disrespect) to the rival gang and all hell breaks out! Pages and pages wasted in this board riot, preventing any case discussions to occur. Somehow the moderator is nonexistent. Possibly they are too involved with the many but useless chat and game threads to be of any help in maintaining a crime thread. I will speak more to this issue in an article titled " Poor me!"
On crime boards, there are mainly two gangs: The Guilty and the Not Guilty. These groups are identified with gang letters of the "G's" and "NG's". There is a third group which might equal "bystanders" referred to as "fence sitters". Fence sitters consist of a group that has yet to make up their minds which side they fall on as far as guilt or innocence for an accused. The G's (Guilty believers) generally hold the largest membership and by such, strong arm the boards control by manipulating the moderator's 'by numbers' approach administration. The NG's (not guilty) believers by human nature are the minority. NG’s by sheer numbers alone, reinforced by the poor moderation, lends to the NG's constant need to reinvent themselves by registering under a new "nic". On rare occasions when a G is so blatantly guilty of repeated infractions of bashing, they will finally get the long deserved ax! However, this is such a rare occasion that when reincarnated with another nic, they are befuddled as to what happened. Threads will quickly turn off topic and many can be seen spewing shock and disbelief over the demise. This further supports the evidence of the moderator's bias by numbers.
As with all gangs, each has a gang symbol. In this cyber-board the G's icon is the beer mugs slamming together. Quite appropriate for their "slamming together" as the largest group to create havoc and elimination of posters they deem a threat or that refuses to loyally support their side (whether right or wrong). The NG's symbol icon is the laughing motion icon known as the "Hardy har har”. For this minority group it is used as an irritation to the G's who will spend pages complaining about this 'in your face' gesture. Hours go by while the gang wars are allowed to be played out. One member is dissed (issued disrespect) to the rival gang and all hell breaks out! Pages and pages wasted in this board riot, preventing any case discussions to occur. Somehow the moderator is nonexistent. Possibly they are too involved with the many but useless chat and game threads to be of any help in maintaining a crime thread. I will speak more to this issue in an article titled " Poor me!"
Opinion of Critique on 8/12/2005
5 Comments:
CTV is out of control. The Politics forum is not a place for the meek to venture in to.
If one expresses a differing opinion from the radicals, you are called every name in the book. The personal attacks are rampant and nothing is done. Yet when one defends him/herself - poof they're gone because the name callers whine to Coldwater and she whips out the delete button.
There are several on that board who should have been banned long, long ago, yet they remain. Could it be because the leader of the pack is a member of the legal community and the powers that be are afraid of ramifications? I don't know the answer. but there is definitely something wrong there.
I have been a member for a long. long time and I've seen CTV morph into a message board I don't recognize anymore.
I have never been banned, but the fact remains, there is definitely no parity at CTV and it needs a major house cleaning and overhaul.
Many good posters have either left or been banned, some for no good reason other than one or more of Coldwater's pets have complained.
I suspect that some of those hard core posters are either family members of the moderator, or favored friends, as they can pretty much type anything without worrying about any consequences.
As for the rest of us, I resent having to watch every word I post, copy every thread I post on, just in case Coldwater is in a "mood" (which is often.)
It doesn't take long to spot the bullies on any thread, ironically the Moderator pretends that they don't exist. Even sending her the information is useless. Naming names, quoting quotes, proving links doesn't do any good.
I hope TPTB do something soon before the site completely dies.
Post isn't read attentively by the moderator(s). Therefore users who offend others in a hidden, subtle way always get off with it.
Abuse can be quantified. Name-calling, etc. I personally do not see why anyone should judge posts based on someone taking offense. Some of the posters take offense if you disagree at all! They are completely over-involved and take stuff entirely too much to heart. What I cannot understand is the policy of moderating the boards in such a personal fashion. It's absurd.
I agree, many good posters have been either banned or just given up on the childishness of CTV message boards. Too many posters have Tenure on that message board. I want to start a coalition to demand a huge overhaul to that board...I'd really like to see a boycott of CTV to force changes... but I doubt it would happen.
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