Report about a moderator misbehaviour

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Hi folk,

I am sorry to write a post like that, but after more than twenty years of participating in forums, communities,… I have never seen a moderator acting so unprofessional.

The moderator in question, after a post of mine (an answer under his question that has been approved being my first one, so there was no spam at all!), decided for no reason that I was a bot (it was his last message under the thread that I received in my email) and, I suppose, using the “spam” button, removed my subscription.

I was not a long-time member, anyway, I lost some interesting conversations I bookmarked.

Having seen dozens of forum/communities/… die for bad moderatorship, I hope you can remove any special permission to him because of acting too impulsively.

In the future, I would recommend not choosing moderators among people who:

  • can’t understand what a bot is and what’s not
  • don’t know what a forum is made for
  • don’t know how to interact with other people
  • feel entitled to exercise their authority without thinking twice
  • not able to moderate themselves

The joy of participating in a forum should be at least feeling welcome.

Kind regards,

Fabio.

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Hi,

Sorry for the mistake! This forum receives a large amount of bot spam, we try our best to figure out who’s real but mistakes can happen.

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Hey Fabio, I also want to apologize for what happened. I don’t know the circumstances. Hopefully we’ll talk about it in the mod group chat.

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Thank you guys, it means a lot to me.

I didn’t mention the moderator in question to avoid any “public shame” or things like that, but I think you can rebuild the whole episode from the log or by reading the last topics just to have a confirmation of what I wrote.

Anyway, I am happy to see that you care, just being heard in a moment of disappointment is wholesome :slight_smile: .

Thanks again!

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