Cervantes said:

If you are being ignored, why have all your questons been answered already in this, and the other thread?

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Besides, I think a couple Admins are out of town this week, so the Administrative response may be less than usual... but that is because they AREN'T HERE... not because they hate you.

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To be fair, the tone of the other thread was pretty sour... this thread has kept a better tone... although you have yet to show an abuse of power (like you claim) by the Mods and the Admin.

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I, as a Mod, have as many rights in this forum as you do... NO MORE. No Mod removed the feature. No Mod could lock the thread in question. The Admins lock the threads in THIS forum. The Admins removed the thread ratings.

Mods weren't consulted either.

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WI said in the locked thread:

I suppose it's because the Admin's/mods are too lazy or inconsiderate to do anything about it.

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... THAT is part of the reason why the thread was locked.

Your issues were addressed, yet you made and CONTINUED to make rude AND false statements about the Admins/Mods/Staff... as a WHOLE. And you made those comments in THIS forum.

This is not a good way to have a constructive discussion with our Admins, WI.

Besides, comments like THAT show how little you ACTUALLY understand how the Shroomery Staff works.

We have gone OUT OF OUR WAY to answer your concerns, and STILL you were RUDE. You lumped ALL THE MODS AND ADMINS into a group, and blamed us all. IN BOTH THREADS!

Let me tell you WI, that isn't smart... especially in the Administrator's Forum. The reason should be self-explanitory.

I guarantee you, we Mods and Admins take A LOT OF FLACK FOR DOING OUR JOBS. If you wish to stand on a soapbox and TAINT ALL OF OUR NAMES for FALSE REASONS, at the VERY LEAST, your thread should be locked.

No wonder you are afraid of being banned!

There are enough Shroomerites who disrespect authority. Thread ratings is not worth an uprising... but you FLAMED THE STAFF... in TWO THREADS, then you complained about ONE FLAME THREAD BEING LOCKED.

If the Admins weren't SOOO FUCKING NICE, and PATIENT, and dare I say HELPFUL... you would have been banned for some of the FLAMES you have made. You CAME INTO THE WA&F Forum, and FLAMED THE ENTIRE STAFF... MORE THAN ONCE!

Is that smart?

Is that helpful?

Then, when a thread was locked, due in great part to your flaming, you started THIS thread and FLAMED THE WHOLE STAFF AGAIN!

That is NOT smart.

You are lucky you weren't warned and/or banned, but like I said, our Admins are NICE and PATIENT... and they want to give you a chance to say your piece... but DUDE, you could choose your words better... MUCH BETTER.

And WHY did you FLAME the STAFF? You just learned Mods had NOTHING to do with either of your complaints, but we were lumped into your flames, BEFORE YOU EVEN KNEW WHAT THE FUCK YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT. Heh.

Are you upset because thread ratings were removed a week ago, and you NEVER NOTICED until someone else made a thread about it?

Give me a break WI...

Let this one go.

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Then why, instead of removing the feature from the website, didn't the Administration make a sticky or something encouraging people to properly use the rating system and not abuse it? Was there even an announcement from the Administration about removing the rating system? If there was, I missed it.

And yes, it is the Administration's website, so for the most part these type of decisions are up to them...but this is supposed to be a "community" not a dictatorship.


I take that personally, this group of admins is one of the most active I've ever seen in any website. We are constantly updating and adding features to this website which take great effort and committment.

We can't take a poll for every little decision, the vote on it was done by the masses, we gave it 1 year and it was consistantly not used so an announcement wouldn't have done much of anything.

In fact it took almost 5 days before the first post was made noticing it was gone, that speaks volumes on a busy site like this.

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I guess all decisions are final at the Shroomery. I suppose it's because the Admin's/mods are too lazy or inconsiderate to do anything about it.


Thats just a ridiculous statement, first of all if we were lazy why have the admins added at least 40-50 modified features to this board software? All the added features on this were worked on by very dedicated guys who work very hard to add cool features that were not part of the software, which is honestly bare bones without their add ons.

Its unfortunate that some people choose to be insulting and rude when we have done so much for this community and given them soooooo many cool features that no other community would bother with.

All that and we do it inspite of comments like this which certainly no one enjoys.

We have constantly strived to improve this board and much of our ideas come from the community via suggestions.

However not every small decision will have a community say, in fact in order to keep things running smoothly we have to make decisions we feel are in the best interest of the website.

I again remind you that of our 'active' user base of roughly 2000 users in the last month posting, ONLY 2% or less rated a thread, and of that 2% just over half were 1 shroom ratings done by only a few users

Because of this we can safely say that:

#1. This is a very unpopular feature
#2. Because of the low use rate, its incredibly easy for 1 or 2 users to mess up ratings.
#3. Less than 2% of our membership used this feature, I say again for effect, and this is after having it around for well over 1 year.

Not every decision we make is going to be 100% liked by everyone, but you have to accept it because there is very few who care about this feature and even fewer who used it.

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Not every decision we make is going to be 100% liked by everyone, but you have to accept it because there is very few who care about this feature and even fewer who used it.

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