[wp-forums] 'Common Sense' Mod Rules when reviewing forum post that says 'me too'

[Jan Dembowski]

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> I appreciate that mods are volunteering, but I've seen many a forum where
> people go a little 'power mad' and start moderating things that really
> don't need to be moderated.
>

As I'm a moderator on that forum I'll just say that I disagree and no one's
been "power mad". You can disagree with the forum welcome if you like but
it's important that we all adhere to it.


> I generally agree with some of the rules around how the forum is laid out
> and the guidelines that are in place;


It's nice that we can agree and yes that welcome is geared towards a
general case.


> Looking through the mail archives just for this month (which I only found
> after posting first) I see that this isn't the first time that this
> particular subject has come up, which was about this specific moderator as
> well.
>
> The mail that was sent before was related to
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-images-not-working-1?replies=24where a group of members were all collaborating on the same issue but the
> moderator stepped in at the end to tell people to seperate out the
> discussion.  Really not helpful at all.
>

I recall that one too and you may want to complete the story with this link.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-images-not-working-v2-chappie-and-legitcoder?replies=15#post-5094559

tl;dr The disagreement was sorted out and as I replied slack is afforded
sometimes. It's all good (mostly). ;)

You say that I should follow the forum welcome and I'll be fine, but I bet
> you, that if I find an issue that is reported which is exactly the same as
> my issue and then proceed to copy and paste the contents of the original
> post into a new post for me (no point in rewriting something that is there)
> that I will get 'moderated' by someone for duplicating. Or maybe not by a
> mod, but the plugin author will simply ignore me as its an identical post.
>

Back to my original point: if you are contributing to the OPs problem then
I'll do the happy dance. If not then yes please create your own new topic
but provide your own specifics. Don't just copy someone else's text, take
the time and describe what you've done, what didn't work and where you got
stuck.

If you have a problem then you ought to be able to provide verbiage about
what you are experiencing. Give the plugin author a chance. Often they do
reply with "Hey see if this link solves it for you."

Actually me doing the happy dance might be discouraging... You can skip
that part...

Thanks,

Jan Dembowski