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Is this true? A moderator can decide that he's had enough of the conversation when people are still interested in talking about it and it does not break the rules and can tell everyone to stop talking if he is not interested in talking about it?

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Not when it doesn't break the rules (excessive swearing, spamming the chat, harassing of other users, inappropriate topic)

Quote from: xDeeKay on April 09, 2013, 05:20:38 AM
Not when it doesn't break the rules (excessive swearing, spamming the chat, harassing of other users, inappropriate topic)

Alright, thank you.

To re-clarify what happened in this situation, there was an arguement going on. Now most arguements are healthy. In general though, it is a mod's duty to make sure to break up all the big arguements. Seeing as someone was already attempting to end the arguement, another person boldly declared that they have the power to continue the arguement until they saw fit.

No one, including staff, is allowed the power to continue dragging on an arguement until they feel like finishing it. If people are beginning to want to end it, the person shouldn't keep dragging them into it. They should respectfully stop it. Now I said this thing you quoted because I felt that it was wrong of the person to pompously proclaim a statement such as this. Sure you have that power in the real world but here in opticraft, we must be mindful and respectful of others.

Now the conversation itself wasn't exactly the problem. But I didn't feel it was a conversation meant for global. Yes i participated in it for a little bit myself but then I realized it wasn't appropriate for global. Conversations like this can be had in mumble, private messaging, local chat. But i just didn't think it should be a chat in global.

In the end, I was trying to stop an arguement. I intended to stop the 2 main instigators of the conversation and that's exactly what i did.

You and I have worked this out in-game. There was no argument that was going to take place - just a healthy conversation one user did not want to participate in I then told them they could leave the chat if they didn't like it. That might have been where you think the argument was going to happen. You then said to stop the conversation in which case I did but I declared that I didn't think a mod could stop a conversation when they did not want to be a part of it. I did as you said but I also had wondered if a mod could do such a thing and that is when I wondered if a mod could stop a conversation due to not wanting to be a part of it. Maybe if you'd have said that before, I would have understood better. Either way, I listened to what you said and came here to ask.

Sorry for all the confusion and due to this post, I'll have better faith in your judgments. This is how I think it should be handled but with better clarification so a user doesn't think a mod is having a power trip.

You're a good mod, DJ. I know this now.

- Cheers,
  dropzone