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Every poster on the Knicks board should read this thread. I’m not giving a TLDR because I think all of you should take 1 minute out of your day to read this - it can help us moderate and will probably keep you guys posting on this site longer without being suspended or anything.
As moderators of the site, you guys know it can be hard to decide what is “action-worthy” and what isn’t. There is a very fine line and deciding whether or not to give someone a warning instead of a ban is an annoying decision to think over. In deciding, we look at the type of poster he/she is, their history on our board, how “bad” the rule they broke is, etc. Basically, sometimes it can suck being a mod because we know the board is a community, but we also know that communities can’t be let entirely loose (which is why we have the board rules). There are minor things like going off topic which we are incredibly lenient on because we like the board being active and we know that even if discussions are not entirely on the initial topic, chances are it’s related. However, attacking posters and moderators is something that we can’t really go lenient on - like I said, this is a community and we want to keep everyone happy here (or as many as possible).
I know I’m not alone in this, but as a mod team, we believe that the Knicks board is special. We have a huge number of posters, guys that have their niche, guys that are universally loved, people that are universally hated (but do so without being a dick), others that are incredibly optimistic, and others that are pessimistic, etc. Honestly, even though we know none of you guys in real life, it is cool having a place to go to where we can talk about anything from basketball, to sex dolls, to a poster coming back from the future.

THAT SAID, the entire RealGM site is not like this. There are different rules everywhere you go and you guys need to be wary of that - for example, on the GB and Current Affairs board, there is a more stringent set of rules to keep everything running smoothly. Go to the Off Topic board and all hell breaks loose (kudos to the mods who can moderate that part of the site, because it really can be a cluster *** IMO at times).
Before you guys go to other parts of the site, please be wary of the rules on the boards. We will always look after our own, but there is only so much we can do - we’ll speak out for unwarranted bans, unfair treatment, etc but we need your help in doing so.
What happened in the Brandon Jennings thread here was not okay, regardless of how you feel about the mod in question. What we are asking you guys to do is to PM anyone on the Knicks mod team about any issue you have anywhere on the site instead of making it public. From our POV, private messages are meant to stay private and will remain private amongst the Knicks moderators - if we feel we need to reach out to a higher up, we’ll let you know beforehand just so you guys have advance notice on it and can tell us not to, if you so choose.
Signed,
Knicks mod team