Poll to express opinions concerning Bob Jansen

[exdiogene]

@MattR :

First, i would respond that you have to choose which audience you want to keep on your MyBB support forums, is it the kids or the mature members?

What is the main purpose of a technical support forum?

If you finally make a choice, you will never be divided in the way you should interact and moderate.

Mostly because ludic and serious cannot go too well together in the same place as well as 13 year old and 35 years old...

I can understand your chalenge, but the problem was running for so long that i understand that you would try to save the goat and the cabage. Unfortunately you will have to sacrifice part of your audience and i hope that you will not keep the kids, because the future of MyBB would be quite impaired of this choice as well as all developpers around it making it more interesting to mature users.

Homogeneous things are easier to manage than too many disparate things, experience come with time, when fair rules are provided it is more easy to apply them. But when each staff member interpret the rule differently or if a staff member abuse of his autority things can explode and leave unforgettable damages.

Just for example : The scamming thread posted by Jesse S. having the sole purpose to protect other users against a scammer selling free product against the license description of the script author was deleted. Deleted without even telling the thread author that it was deleted and why. Do you consider this good moderation or good management?

I am quite sure the thread in question was deleted solely because Bob Jansen was implicated in it, trying to protect the scammer in question and accusing the victim of beeing "stupid"! The motive behind the deletion are quite evident, the method used is quite inacceptable. Covering fellow staff members tracks by deleting a thread created to PROTECT users is outrageous.

Like i wrote before, it is not easy to moderate with good conscience and have 100% of the users happy with it, but there is quite a margin between this and what is actually happening on MyBB recently!

Sincerely,

Exdiogene

P.S. May i politely remember you that i eagerly wait your answers to my two PMs!