Non-Staff Members Moderating Other Members
The only people on this site who should be "moderating" topics are members of staff.
This means that if you are not a Forum Support, Moderator or Admin member of aarinfantasy staff, you should not be taking it upon yourself to confront or reprimand other members of the site.
Repeated examples of this type of behavior has come to our attention lately and it needs to stop immediately.
There isn't necessarily anything wrong with giving a friendly reminder about the rules to someone who may have forgotten--but some people don't seem to be able to do something like this in an inoffensive manner and this is where problems arise.
Rudeness and condescension towards other members, regardless of intent or purpose is simply unacceptable.
Subjecting others to this type of attitude only leads to arguments and bickering in threads. This has happened on multiple occasions lately and should be apparent to everyone by now.
From now on, the staff's response to continued instances of this behavior will be Warning, Infractions and ultimately, banning--just the same as with anyone else who tries to instigate or fuel arguments in this community.
The correct action to take is Report the issue that you believe is questionable or breaks the site rules by one of the following methods:
1. Use the post/message REPORT function.
2. VM (Profile Visitor Message) a member of staff for that section.
3. PM (Private Message) a member of staff for that section.
The staff investigates and handles all reported issues on a case by case basis.
This is what we are here for.
Are there any questions about what I've posted here?
Please ask them now. I or another member of staff will be happy to clarify.
~ Thank you.
From aarinfantasy: I also wanna clear some doubts here...
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aarinfantasy Hello everyone, just wanna clear things up a bit too... you can point out errors and rules on the forum. The announcement was made mainly because there were some cases ppl telling others like "I will report you and get you intro trouble", "I will report you and get you banned", "the staff will ban you!"(judging things themselves before staff made decision) and there's even "I am mod"(when that person isn't even a staff)...aren't those rude too to other people especially new ppl?
I do understand maybe you mean to help the other person when you said "the staff will ban you!" but do you know that the other person can also think that you are the one who are deciding things here eventhough you are not a staff? So, just say "the staff may give you a warning/ban on that, so please dun repeat it again". This is what a lot of ppl do not know that we received a lot of such complaints... but did we say anything to the people who we know is trying to help out? No. But ONLY for CERTAIN matter when both were rude against each other.
So, please let it be for staff to decide if you already report it.
If you want to help to point out forum rules and errors made, just tell the person NICELY. It was a lot of times, the other party was "told off" by other ppl and not everyone worded things properly.
And please like Ruby said... Forum Staff can also advice others on rules etc, but they do not issue Warning/Ban. They can only Moderate (moderate can also mean move, merge,close thread etc). It was clearly stated. Moderate doesn't mean only issue Warning/Ban or do anything to a user's account.
But to what extend it's okay and not okay? Let us decide.
Please also note on Miko's post:
There isn't necessarily anything wrong with giving a friendly reminder about the rules to someone who may have forgotten--but some people don't seem to be able to do something like this in an inoffensive manner and this is where problems arise.
I hope that clear things up more...
Again, we have to make the announcement because SOME ppl had went overboard and made others uncomfortable. It's just a lot of ppl didn't see or know about what's going on but we really do get a lot of this kinda attacking PM a lot lately. Do also think what we have to deal with to...
I encourage ppl helping each other, yes.
But if you don't know if something you said may offend anyone, just report to us.
I seriously have to agree on this announcement when someone who is not a staff said "I am mod" just last week >.>;;;