Casual Observation - Thoughts welcome

[wreck]

I've been lurking on Real GM for a few years now but just became a poster last year.

I have not ventured to many of the sub forums but I normally view most of the threads in the general basketball discussion forum as well as some of the team sub forums. Moderation seems to be objective in MOST of the sub forums I've seen, however in the general forum that is not the case.

In the general basketball discussion forum, it seems as if there is a lot of biased moderation. Certain moderators seem to favor posters that are fans of the moderators' team and are quick to discipline posters that are NOT fans of the moderators' teams. The bias is so blatantly obvious that I've seen it called out sometimes.

As a poster, I think that a moderator should be clearly objective and it makes it difficult to have a "relaxed" forum when posters know that they cannot make comments when a moderator gets emotional and threatens to take action, simply because the moderator cannot keep his or her emotions in check.

I've seen this problem happen at other message boards, it's not exclusive to Real GM, but those boards would implement policies that disallowed moderator interaction with the general boards. Let the moderator be an "eye in the sky" so to speak, so that moderators don't try to bait posters into heated conversations and then ban the person for crossing the line.

Just an observation I've made over the last month or so and wanted to know the opinion of others.

[Rendezvous]

I've been lurking on Real GM for a few years now but just became a poster last year.

I have not ventured to many of the sub forums but I normally view most of the threads in the general basketball discussion forum as well as some of the team sub forums. Moderation seems to be objective in MOST of the sub forums I've seen, however in the general forum that is not the case.

In the general basketball discussion forum, it seems as if there is a lot of biased moderation. Certain moderators seem to favor posters that are fans of the moderators' team and are quick to discipline posters that are NOT fans of the moderators' teams. The bias is so blatantly obvious that I've seen it called out sometimes.

As a poster, I think that a moderator should be clearly objective and it makes it difficult to have a "relaxed" forum when posters know that they cannot make comments when a moderator gets emotional and threatens to take action, simply because the moderator cannot keep his or her emotions in check.

I've seen this problem happen at other message boards, it's not exclusive to Real GM, but those boards would implement policies that disallowed moderator interaction with the general boards. Let the moderator be an "eye in the sky" so to speak, so that moderators don't try to bait posters into heated conversations and then ban the person for crossing the line.

Just an observation I've made over the last month or so and wanted to know the opinion of others.

why does everyone say that?

[wreck]

why does everyone say that?

I can't speak for others but with the last two forums I joined, I lurked until I saw a comment or comments so outlandish it made me register just to respond in the thread.

[kyphi]

why does everyone say that?

I can't speak for others but with the last two forums I joined, I lurked until I saw a comment or comments so outlandish it made me register just to respond in the thread.

I call shenanigans

[Dry_Fish]

It's the paid email account that makes people lurk

[Stanford]

why does everyone say that?

I can't speak for others but with the last two forums I joined, I lurked until I saw a comment or comments so outlandish it made me register just to respond in the thread.

I call shenanigans

I did the exact same thing