Should certain admins receive their own warnings?

[j0n]

IE how they so lovingly participated in the bashing of jaredchevelle in the ems vs js performance thread? Yet when the bashing turns to someone else those that had even the most minor parts to play get their "do it again and you're banned! rawr!!!" warning...

[Predator86]

fight the power!

:fireguns: :ban:

[WildBillyT]

IMO, trying to schedule a fight involving a tire iron is a little different than talking trash about a money race...

[BonzoHansen]

Should certain admins receive their own warnings?

If you feel that is the case, report the post. I know you know how to use it; you've reported threads in the past. But for everyone else's edification, if anyone feels a post is out of line, click the little yield sign looking symbol at the bottom left. This will send an email to the mods for that forum and the admins so they can deal with the posts accordingly.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/SIBLY/Emos/Report_Sign.png

Lots of people have been warned about things in the past, even mods/admins. The ‘ban’ warnings usually don’t come until after there has been a series of warnings. In very rare cases, like yesterday’s events, a member was banned without warning due to the nature of his online actions. But like I said that is not the norm here.

To be honest, the mods & admins who donate their time to try to help the club better have jobs & lives and can’t monitor the board 24/7. So we encourage any member to report a post they feel is out of line. It would be good for the club in general. After all, we are all just here for the good of the club, right?

[j0n]

reporting mod or admin posts gets nowhere...i know ive done it before

[BonzoHansen]

I never got one from you. So if you did, it was a while ago.

[NJSPEEDER]

reporting mod or admin posts gets nowhere...i know ive done it before


reporting posts does not automatically mean that the action you want to see, or any action will have to be taken. it means that the information is now in front of the correct people to determine what action is or isn't appropriate in the situation reported.
not every situation calls for a dramatic action and we are not in the habit of making large public events of posts/threads that have to be edited, deleted, or closed. we also do not make public displays concerning our contact with members about reported posts or alterations that have to be made in threads.

[PBodyGT87]

Come on, there's gotta be at least one mod you trust.

Even Tim knows I disagree with him about things sometimes. Even he and I have had our heated discussions. There's really no abuse of power here within our status.

[j0n]

Come on, there's gotta be at least one mod you trust.

Even Tim knows I disagree with him about things sometimes. Even he and I have had our heated discussions. There's really no abuse of power here within our status.

i might venture to say i trust all the mods :wink:

[Mike]

ive gotten tim and scott to edit or delete their own posts, i even got tim to give himself a 2 week ban from the basement.

[NJSPEEDER]

Come on, there's gotta be at least one mod you trust.

Even Tim knows I disagree with him about things sometimes. Even he and I have had our heated discussions. There's really no abuse of power here within our status.

that is actually the part i don't understand. i can have heated debates/discussions with any number of people and it isn't really a big deal. if i argue, it is because i disagree, which is really a good thing. strong points and good ideas come from a variety of view points and that is part of what brings on many of the changes and improvements to the club.
the difference i have encoutnered when dealing with j0n is that an argument he cares to join in against me is based solely on his own benefit. nothing to do with the club or even teh people he claims are his friends, simple self interest.
this has been proven over and over as j0n has tried to talk his way out of being disciplined with in the forums, tried to talk his way into the basement forum when we founded that, and when neither of these discussions worked on me he tried to talk his way through the other admin and moderators.
i doubt that i am alone is saying that i do not take anything j0n says at face value and i instead wait to see where he is going. that includes how i have viewed many of the points he has attempted to make in this discussion and why i have waited a while to give a personal response.

the only point j0n seems to have made even a poor attempt at that i can see as a concern for the general membership is where the money goes. that is a very simple one, it sort of comes back to me. i fronted the money for the club, i buy the trophies, the prize fund for the nats comes out of my pocket, in about a month i will be paying the $450 that it costs to keep the forum hosted every year, and even the printing of our fund raiser t-shirts/hoodies/2007 calendars was all out of my pocket.
over the years the club has cost thousands of dollars beyond what we have collected and until recently we really didn't bother to keep track of how much or where the money was spent.
our view of spending the money has evolved since the club has grown to the point that we can host bigger, cooler events that get more members, friends, and families out to enjoy a day of safe, healthy, hot rod fun. we now use accounting software to track where the money comes and goes and will hopefully get to the point that the club is self-sufficiant enough to stand on it's own without having to rely on whatever cash or credit i pesonally have available when it is time to make decisions.
there is no money coming out of the club, it costs far more to do this than we are likely to raise any time in the very near future. if we expect the NJFBOA to keep moving forward, it is a direction that we definatly have to work towards.
we have made it through 3 years of great times and fun events. we would like to see that continue in the future. we have already outlasted and outgrown every other attempt to put a new jersey based f-body club together, i don't think that is any trivial feat and i think teh members and their faith in what we are trying to do is to credit for our success.

thanks to everyone that supports the NJFBOA, whether by participating on the forums, coming out to the meets and events, or those who have a little extra scratch around to help pay the bills, you are all a valuble part of what has been accomplished here.

-Thanks
-Tim