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Originally Posted by Speakeasy
You most certainly are allowed to discuss any sort of moderator action through PMs.
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Um.. no. I was specifically told not to, and that it was useless to protest since the mod had the final say.
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There is no way for us to switch on and off from being a mod. There is no feature that I'm aware of for us to designate some posts as 'moderator posts' and other posts as 'non moderator' posts. I do browse the many 'hacks' and add-ons for vBulletin every now and then and haven't seen anything like this available. If you find something like this, please show it to us.
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Sure.
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As I said, this removes any sort of oversight to our moderating, something which I'm sure many members would complain about. If all the mods and admins used the same account to issue warnings, it would take much more effort to figure out who did what and when. If you were warned by 'Moderator1' and you disagreed with it, we would have to spend the time figuring out which moderator issued the warning and why. This could take awhile and severely slow down our ability to deal with member complaints. Wouldn't it just be easier to receive a warning from Malvolio and be able to direct your complaints right back to Malvolio directly?
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I don't know how much work you have as moderators on this board, so I won't argue with what seems to be a very strange statement.
But would you be willing to, at least, to make an effort to not mix moderating actions and regular posts? In the way that if a moderator issues a "reminder", it will be done in a formal way, for instance with a header saying something like: "---friendly, non- insulting reminder here follows from very nice moderator who does everything in his power to further discussion on the board ---", instead of through the usual language. Is that a fair request, do you think?
I ask about this, you see, since I have difficulties telling whether something is a moderating action, or a hint at a moderating action in the future, a hint to a rule violation, or just someone being their usual obnoxious self. So a clear header across what is the moderator's extremely important message to the forum - in red type, for instance - would help me know what I can, in fact, skip through.
Because, as you point out - I am not allowed to ignore moderators' posts - since I that way might miss one of these reminders.