CynthiaWVirginia
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ORIGINAL: kdsub
I must admit I am surprised at the amount of anger on this site. I kind of started it complaining about the combination of gun threads. I was frustrated but not angry. The powers that be told me to go to off topic and start a thread about moderation. I didn’t do it but many others did and here we are.
I am not angry…I am never really angry here, with the moderators anyway. To me they are kind of obstacles to get around when needed. I assign neither friendship or an adversary to them. Just a fact of life to be aware of if I want to have fun here.
I worry …not about moderators but about people I like, respect, and or at least like to duel with here on the site that seem to be taking this site, and the people on it, too seriously.
Time for a reboot and cool down.
Butch
I feel the same way. Sometimes I have backed off from reading these forums for a while...not because of the mods but because of how almost all of the threads were turning out the same.
Now to go off onto my own tangent. 
Snarking and an almost house party among friends (almost no posts on topic), I couldn't tell which thread/subject I was in at the moment because it was "same sh*t, different channel". Boring. I cannot believe I actually got off the internet and chose to spend more time knitting and reading books rather than participate in a dozen threads that were all the same. Friendship showing through posts that have some meat in it is NOT boring, and a little bit of snark over subject matter and not about who someone is...is also something I enjoy reading. As CM waxes and wanes as different posters come and go, I wander back in to spend more time here or else I just choose to get busy and wait it out.
Btw, it's hard for me to believe that other people cannot tell when they are insulting the person themselves and not what someone has said. I'm very aware of when I choose to snark. Giving up troll bashing was like quitting smoking, and then walking into a room full of smokers and being offered a cigarette; as with smoking, I have decided to control myself and not pick up an old bad habit. Yes, I want Collarchat to be fun for me to come to. At the same time I also realized this entails some work on MY PART...to stop violating TOS and creating work, and stop contributing to the ugly that I see.
As for my sadism...nowadays I try to save it for the bedroom and for my own property (bo).
About the consistency of modding. I used to mod for two years at a site I enjoyed. Each of us had our own area of the boards to watch over, this meant reading EVERYTHING posted. It took 8-12 hours per day of my time, seven days per week...so that left 12-16 hours per day when my area was not watched.
IMHO, CM would need three shifts of people, at bare minimum, if each of them could be here 8 hours per day like clockwork; I'm estimating that something like 30 people who were willing to sacrifice that much time just to handle the boards (not counting those needed for Support and for Video Chat, etc.) in the same way our other board was handled "consistently". (I was having chemo during that time and had very little energy, so sitting on my arse in my bedroom all day long was not too much of a hardship. I was often surfing other sites at the same time when posting was slow.)
I used to report troublemakers to the owner of the last site and they were perma banned. This site has way more people and puts up with a lot of shiite, which causes a lot of work for mods. The "creating a ticket" idea is probably the best way to go...however, the only way I feel there can be consistency is when each thread is monitored and not through waiting for people to choose to report someone's post. In other words, I doubt this site will never be "consistent".
I've enjoyed seeing posters who rarely post coming back now that most of the hostile posts have died down. (I rarely venture into P&R, so bear with me, lol.) Too bad I suck so badly at tending threads I start, as I feel it's polite to respond to every person who responds and right now my life is just too hectic to have the time or energy for that, or I would be making attempts to start more threads. I like to see this site having more discussions about BDSM 101 stuff, as I doubt advanced topics will come up often...and I wanna hear some BDSM here dammit! 
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