[wp-forums] Putting member on moderation

[Half-Elf on Tech]

Otto, with that in mind, care to pick up his email to plugins about all 
this?

Otto wrote:
>
> Okay, new general rule:
>
> In the future, if somebody is grumpy about moderation or moderators and is
> calling it out on the forums, please don't take it on yourself.
>
> I'm not saying this was handled incorrectly, but it easily could have gone
> badly. Still could, actually.
>
> So, in the future, email me. I don't mind. I can handle grumpy people. I
> can sometimes disagree with the moderators. I can also happily tell
> somebody they're banned forever and not to be such a jerk in the future
> (although I rarely have to go that far).
>
> Point being, when you're in a position of immediate power and also 
> directly
> involved, it's easy for that conversation to go horribly wrong. A third
> party with the power to hit either side with the big stick (me) and who
> kinda doesn't care (also me) can be objective. And I've gotten shockingly
> good at mellowing out and dealing with this sort of thing over the years.
> ;-)
>
> You don't have to be the jerk. I can be the jerk for you, nicely. Or to
> you, if you're wrong. Either way, pass it up the chain. :-)
>
>
> On Sep 14, 2014 4:56 PM, "andrew nevins"<andrew.nevins.misc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Mmmmm let's hope it doesn't continue
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Jan Dembowski<jan at dembowski.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Nope, you did right. That wasn't a review, that was... sour grapes. ;)
>>
>> The
>>>
>>> other post in the support forum? Self-promotion is not really cool 
>>> either
>>> and that was correctly deleted too.
>>>
>>> I'm not saying the author has poor intentions but that original post 
>>> lead
>>> to the solution that he was promoting and his own hosting company.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jan Dembowski
>>>
>>> andrew nevins<mailto:andrew.nevins.misc at gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>> Sunday, September 14, 2014 5:42 PM
>>>> Okay :)
>>>> By the way I deleted the user's review of the plugin (on the original
>>>> account) when I blocked it.
>>>> Could you take a look at it and see whether it should*/*n't be deleted,
>>>
>>
>> as
>>>
>>>>
>>>> a second pair of eyes?
>>>>
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