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Zac wrote:

Here's an important thing to remember: it's just an internet forum where we talk about cartoons.

Ya know I honestly am surprised it took 8 pages before someone said that.

Folks, it's just a simple anime forum, not a massive taxpayer-funded judicial machine. You remember anime, right, that silly Japanese creation that helps take your mind off ®eal life and gives you something to laugh about? Try not to take it so seriously.

I can understand your feelings, Im sure you have to deal with so many jerks in your position. It can wear on you. Still I think this is a bad aditude to take. Only showing someone respect if they give you the same? Especially as a member of the sites staff I think you should at least try to be respectful or at least civil to everyone. Be the bigger person. It looks bad to see staff members stooping to the level of some of the idiots you find on the internet.

Of course I do. But some of the melodrama in here is a little ridiculous when you consider what it is we're actually discussing.

There seems to be a mild obsession with decorum here; everyone expects the moderators to stand there while people fling rocks at them and scream at them, and rather than forcing them to live under the mercy of people who seem to be going way out of their way to piss all over the mods, I encourage them to fight back. Why be respectful toward someone who clearly has a massive amount of contempt for you and obviously wouldn't bother extending you the same courtesy?

I'm honestly surprised you missed it on page 3...

if someone in real life came up and started slinging vicious insults at you, would you say "sir please kindly stop insulting me" or would you say "hey buddy, go to hell!".

I'd say the latter. I'd say the latter in a professional situation, too.

In a professional situation, you should avoiding saying the latter as much as possible. You could and should lose your job over that, depending on exactly how much provocation you require before you fire back with "hey buddy, go to hell".

Of course, no one said Anime News Network has to be run professionally, either. But the attitudes of some of (not all) the mods, which are slowly being revealed in this thread, leads me to believe that this site and forum may not be run to a professional standard. So what does this mean, and what is this worth? Probably nothing, but you never know.

I would have to say that I agree with this. Believe me when I say that keeping banned/tempbanned users more clearly informed of their situation is the subject of a current discussion among the staff. This is one point where we both can and should do better.

Good grief, you all are still arguing this stuff Shocked?

In psycho 101's case, I received a PM from him and was able to re-interpret his situation as a simple misunderstanding. I then sent a PM to tempest to explain my new findings and I'm guessing it was enough to unban psycho.

So when dealing with petulant, crude, angry 9-year olds on the forums, they don't get the same Zac that walks into a business meeting. Catch my drift on that one?

True. And so you don't care about this forum, because it does not impact your job that much. Is that what you are saying? That's what it sounds like to me.

Untrue. I know very little about how this site is run, how the mods think, etc. That is the reason I am speaking in this thread, to try to learn more. And as this discussion continues, what I am slowly learning about some of the mods is extremely disturbing.

Um, why was this thread locked? I understand there's already a sub-vs.-dub thread, but I think the question of whether the bar has been set higher for dubs in recent years is a completely different discussion.

cowboy bebop like mentioned FLCL was good too FMA was decent some of the char's i just didn't feel it tho (perfer the subs version)

As I said in the Sub. Vs. Dub thread, End of Evangelion has the single greatest dub you will ever find. It's a concrete, irrefutable fact. End of story.

Spike Spencer's performance alone puts it head and shoulders above the Japanese version, which is saying a lot for me, since I otherwise prefer subtitled.

I have a suggestion for threads that get locked early in their life. Can they simply be deleted and then have whatever message would have gone in the locking notice simply be PM'd to the user (assuming they deserve a notice)? I think sometimes all the short-lived locked threads clutter up the forum and I would prefer that they simply be deleted as they once were previously.