Questionable content by a moderator

circadian

Hi all,

Not sure if this is the place for a complaint. I reported a post (which has a running conversation to go with it) but nothing seems to have been done with it.

In the Motors forum a Mod posted the following;

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118833398#Comment_118833398

Nothing particularly wrong with that, except for the fact that it was clearly lining up for a string of posts engaging in racists and stereotyping. The Mod also engaged in this, I might add.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118835106#Comment_118835106

Wonderful stuff there. Not only did a Moderator not use their best judgement to stop other posters engaging in this behaviour, they actively encouraged it and took part themselves.

Personally I find this offensive and would really expect more from boards.ie.

Anyway, like I said I reported it and nothing seems to have been done. If this is the wrong place for this post please move it to wherever it needs to go.

Cheers,

C.

Shield

Hi @circadian

As per the forum charter, can you let us know if you have contacted the moderator in question before you started this thread? The moderator - in this case @Toyotafanboi - always gets a chance to respond to such comments before a CMod is brought in for review.

-Shield.

circadian

Hi,

I hit the report button as is often suggested. If PMing directly is the the way forward here then I'll do so.

Cheers.

Shield

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118891640#Comment_118891640

You are free to return here if the issue cannot be resolved via PM. I will leave the thread open for the standard 14 days, by which time you will have hopefully agreed a resolution.

circadian

Hi Shield,

I PM'd the mod and while I didn't ask for an apology or anything the matter is, in my view, unresolved. The mod in question offered me to take it up with a CMod or Admin, so here we are. Hoping this is the correct place to further this discussion.

Shield

Mod: Please only comment on this thread if you are invited.

It looks like the only active CMod for this category at the moment is @unkel so he may now review your complaint and things can go from there.

Thanks.

unkel

Working on this in the last day or two. Please bear with me.

circadian

Any more on this?

unkel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118953929#Comment_118953929

I've been in discussion with the moderator, he has agreed to tidy it up. But he hasn't been online on boards for the guts of a week. It is the school holidays, I will give it a few more days.

circadian

Thanks, yeah I understand I'm juggling work and kids too! I just want to raise the point that our PM exchange was less than satisfactory and of similar language, I'm not sure if that's something you want to look into as well but I appreciate the effort in clearing up the posts in question.

unkel

PMs are, by definition, private. Only admins can look at PMs, and only when those PMs are reported. And only when these reported PMs contain abuse / threats will they take any action. It really should be a last resort to share PMs with third parties (without consent).

circadian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118955025#Comment_118955025

Grand so.

circadian

Actually, I don't want to be that guy but I feel like I should be that guy. I understand that TFB has contriubuted massively to the Motoring forum and that they probably aren't around at the minute but I really do feel that merely removing the posts is a bit of a cop out, especially when the messages via PM were just as unsavoury. I agree that PM's are just that, private but if there's a means of escalating this I'd like to follow that route. A standard user would receive more than an order to clean up the posts and moderators of the community should be, at the very least, held to the same standard as everyone else. Especially when site rules were arguably broken;

"post any abusive, harmful, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, indecent, profane, inappropriate, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable Material, except where the content is appropriate to the content of the forum and you have been granted specific permission to do so and subject to our guidelines on said content".

I'm not looking for anything in particular from all this other than for due process to be followed, and if the above resolution is the accepted norm on boards then so be it.

unkel

If you feel the PMs were abusive / threatening, by all means, report them. An admin will look into them. It's a separate issue. Hopefully I will get back to you on this issue - the thread in your OP.

unkel

That's cleaned up now. This thread can be closed.