Feedback Infraction Hunting Over-Zealous Moderator

Who's the over-zealous mod on this forum that is out with a vengeance checking and double checking all details of all my posts whether they be new or very old?

In one day alone, I got 3 infractions.

If I had more posts, I'm sure I'd be banned instantly because of this hunter.

Why do some mods have so much spite that they love to give infraction points like candy?

Is it the feeling over power going to his head or is he a schoolkid with the feeling of responsibility.

Even this post here will piss him off and cost me an infraction point.

The joy of using this forum is lost with these snipers out and about.

There are no warnings or anything. Its an infraction point and then a search on all your previous posts, even if they are a year or two old.

I can't even post a genuine link in this forum anymore without being accused of something or another.

Any and every excuse has been made with almost every single one of my posts to give me an infraction point.

This makes it very difficult to even post something completely genuine when people are hunting all of your posts.

This is starting to suck.

JH

 

Infractions are warnings ... instead of just banning people.

 

Warnings several of them at once leads to a fairly quick ban.

I got 3 today coz he scanned all the posts Ive made in the past, and dug out older posts. Do you think that's a friendly warning or malice?

JH

 

You get 10 so a mild warning considering you get 7 more before anything other than a warning actually happens.

Also, might not be a mod after you but rather other members flagging your posts and the mods just responding as the reported posts come in.

 

You gotta deal with it, this is DP and there are too many scumbags over here.

 

Yepp and if a new user goes in and posts "PM Sent" 10 times then you don't warn him once, not even 5 times but 10 times, INSTANT BAN. Retarded. Refer to my previous statement.

 

Another infraction today with my very next post. Do you see how this over-zealous 'out for glory' mod is checking and scrutinizing every post I make?

I can't catch a break.

 

It might be a DP member who doesn't like you and is reporting every little mistake he see.
But that's just a wild guess.

What were you posting about that got you an infraction?

 

You appear to be manufacturing your own bad breaks.

For example this thread is created to whine about infractions. You've been here since 2005 so you know that's against guideline. Yet in a flash of brilliance you add "Even this post here will piss him off and cost me an infraction point."

Gee... who knew ignoring guidelines might lead to infractions? Thanks for the educational moment.

 

@JH,
Mods have 100's of threads to check everyday, they don't see the start date or post date, of course something that deserves an infraction gets it.
Move on, it'll expire with time, the more you whine, the better it gets on the bad side!

 

^^
Moderators may have even 1 million posts to check, this isn't an excuse. It was their.choice to be moderators. They have to double check anything before they make a decision.
BTW, they have to see when the thread was created.

 

This is what was posted by a mod herself on some thread (I can't find a link)
"We have 100's of reports daily, and often the dates aren't viewed so infractions are awarded even for posts that are ancient"
(Those aren't the exact wordings, but that's what the mod said over there)

 

It doesn't matter who said that, when you have the right to judge someone than do it correctly, if you don't have time to do (what you wanted to do), than it is your own problem. (by "you" I mean a mod)

 

I have to 2nd the OPs issue. Exact same happened to me as explain in my thread.

Very odd that since asking about infractions I suddenly get infractions for year old honest mistakes.
I thought infractions are suppose to keep "bad" users out that currently harm the forum, instead of messing around with loyal-honest users and going over year old mistakes.

Currently it feels like I'm being up for trial and every single post is being reviewed over every possible mistake I could have made and that only started after I created a thread in the Feedback & Suggestion area.
It just seems you have to lay low and not ask anything, once you expose yourself to the head of the forum, you're being investigated. Strange community managing behavior for a US based Forum. I'd understand if it would be a Chinese/North Korean forum. But hey, after all DP seems to be successful so it's not all bad here

 

That may be true but it shows the lengths mods go to sniff out all previous posts and then check each of them for infractions just because a person committed an infraction today.

I've had 2 year old posts checked and infracted on a day when I had a current day post infracted along with several other older posts.

So although the time issue is no issue for mods, what do you think of spite and the general feeling of the forum.

If you were posting on some other forum and some mod over there continues to sniff out your posts and give you an infraction, would you still feel the same affinity for the that forum as you did in the beginning?

We're not talking about rules here. We're talking about the social standing of this forum.

@k.meier - I feel for you. This is the exact thing that has happened to me and many others. I'm starting to see 3 year old posts also talking about over-zealous moderators. They used exactly the same words I used to describe the infraction hunting mods. How about that for ESP!

JH