None of my posts have been deleted or moved, I had a few warnings when I started but nothing for ages.
Most moderation action is triggered by user reports (of which I'm told I'm a very substantial part). I haven't been reporting your posts because I believed you just need some encouragement to start behaving. Now that you've stopped improving and are instead ramping your antisocial behaviour up, I'll take the kid gloves off.
It's a good thing you're not a mod on here, you'd be awful.
The reason I'm not a mod here is because I stepped down myself. I did a fairly good job. Perhaps I should offer my services again instead of just emptily demanding that someone should do it.
Just because my posts annoy you personally, that doesn't mean I'm not "behaving".
That is fundamentally correct, but your claim rests upon a false assumption. I personally don't care what you say about me, but your insistence on bending the rules to pretend you're a reasonable debater are simply disruptive to the forum. There are a small handful (5, I reckon) of RE'ers who are trying to disrupt this place while proposing their own "solutions" to the problem they create. It's an extremely transparent attempt at "forc[ing] a board to be something it isn't" - you can rest assured that I won't allow this to happen.
Well change your rules then, or shut up and get on with it.
Amazing, you've done it again. You're responding to my suggestion that the rules should be altered by saying "well change the rules then". It's impressive how often you manage to accidentally say "Do everything Pete is saying but also he's dumb" - it's almost as if you secretly liked me.
We've always had an robust and combative culture here. This isn't a place for snowflakes and feelings. The easily offended leave and you are left with people who will say what they want and to whomever they want, and they wont care about your whinging. It doesn't mean they are bad people, but they don't suffer fools gladly. If you contribute, are either fun to engage, interesting or helpful, you'll find people warm to you. If you play the victim card and complain about how you are treated, no one is going to care. Not the mods, not other users ... no one is going to invest energy into stroking your ego or nurture your desires. You'll get out what you put in.
Fundamentally, Thork is spot on here. It doesn't matter how laddish you are, innit bruv, if all you can do is whinge about how we're running our own community wrong, then perhaps you should go and run your own community instead. You'll be much happier that way, and your delicate sensibilities will be catered to... in an extremely laddish way, of course.
As for Thork's "we don't know what we want to be" point, I think it's partially correct. There are different members with different goals, and that does cause some issues, but it also lends itself to some strengths. Consider this:
Parsifal has a thing for making the site work very well, but he doesn't seem to care (anymore) about debating FET. Is that a bad thing? No - we get a site that works reliably and with minimal downtime. It means that nobody else (other than, very occasionally, me) needs to think about that side of things. Remember the Daniel days when "oh no the website is down" was like a fifth of all threads? I found my niche in off-forum activities. Again, yes, this does mean that I'm less active here, but it does also demonstrably aid our growth. Etc. etc.
Personally, I don't think the general direction we're taking is wrong, even if not explicitly defined. We're growing fast, and improving slowly. Of course, this means that there will be some dissatisfaction while we're adapting. Of course, this means that this adaptation process needs to be continually discussed and improved upon. What I'm
not convinced of is that we need a fundamental shake-up. I think that as long as we improve the enforcement of our rules and perhaps tighten them around a few weak spots, most of the issues will resolve themselves organically.