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Oh my.

William769  (1000+ posts)      Tue Nov-22-11 12:46 AM
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It may not be my place to say this but there was major spamming in the GLBT forum last night.

I posted this in General discussion http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... and yes I did send one alert on a post I did not want to spend all night alerting on all the posts.

I am speaking for myself when I say this but I find what happened to be a disruption in that forum & it should have been handled better.

Thank you for your time in this matter.

EDIT: Look at the last message in my in box.

Second Edit: This is what the GLBT form looked like last night. I don't claim to be a expert but in my opinion this is spamming.

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EarlG ADMIN  (1000+ posts)        Tue Nov-22-11 12:17 PM
Response to Original message
 
1. I would agree that is spam. But I told the moderators to allow it.

This was a difficult situation. The moderators were trying to do their jobs and had locked a few of Sub Atomic's threads but I told them to stop for a couple of reasons. First, because by locking his threads they merely infuriated him further, causing him to post more spam. Second, because I believe we received more alerts from GLBT forum members complaining about the locks than we did about the spam posts themselves.

Unfortunately we're at a point now where it's very difficult for the moderators to act in the GLBT forum because whenever they do they get accused of acting in bad faith. That makes dealing with situations like this -- where a GLBT forum regular goes off on a posting jag -- practically impossible to deal with. If this had been some stranger, some random person who had just decided to flood the GLBT forum with crap, then the moderators would have taken action without question. But because it was a respected member of the GLBT community doing it, we had no good options.

Please understand that I didn't tell the mods to step back so Sub Atomic could merrily spam your forum, I told them to step back because I felt that under the circumstances doing nothing was the least worst option for everyone involved. Unfortunately that means your forum got spammed.

If you find what Sub Atomic did to be problematic, my only suggestion at this point is to take it up with him privately and let him know that his behavior was not appreciated. I don't really think it would be appreciated if the admins or mods were the ones to deliver that message.

William769  (1000+ posts)      Tue Nov-22-11 12:28 PM
Response to Reply #1
 
2. I understand your plight & can appreciate the action taken.

As a Gay Christian (I know thats rare here), it was a double edge sword for me. I really like Sub Atomic but last night my last nerve was pinched.

[Vagabond]

They wouldn't even go far enough to give him a three day ban?  Wimps.

[Mr Mannn]

So what do we learn here? Some people are more equal than others.

Bad behavior, spamming, throwing fits, fighting...all the things that would get a person banned elsewhere...these are TOLERATED on DU if the offender is a member of a protected group. (in this case one of the flying, flaming faggot drama queen destined for hell, protected group).

Other people cannot throw hussy fits and spam on DU. But the riotous rampant raging queers from hell can do whatever they want...because they are more equal than you, Wee William769.

I'm proud to me a member of a Board where there are NO protected groups.

[TVDOC]

^ Just for the record, we do have a "protected group" here......both past and present military members, as it should be. Any member that has served this great country in uniform gets additional consideration.

doc