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I get tired of all the “backseat moderating” accusations honestly. If you have something to say to give someone advice, why should it only be limited to moderators to say it? I understand certain things, like determining specific rule violations and giving warnings to people, should be reserved for them, but friendly common-sense reminders should be open to anyone.
My apologies if you took that the wrong way, I didn’t mean that against you Big Green. I meant it as a general statement, meaning so that people who give certain advice about what is “OK” or not wouldn’t get labeled as or penalized for being a “backseat moderator.”
Alright, so I do agree that regular users should not feel discouraged from giving advice to each other, but when it’s advice that is about something to do with the management of the forum, posting, or relating to one of the rules, then it should be saved for a moderator.
After all, nobody likes to be told by someone what to do when that person doesn’t have any more authority then they do, which is the whole reason behind having specific moderators to control content. Since I know a lot of users on this website are still in school (myself included), how would you feel if one of your classmates lectured you over doing something like not turning in homework?
Let’s take this for example:
Since this statement directly relates to one of the board rules (P10. Please do not post excessively, this floods the forum and causes headaches for some users), the judgment of whether or not this user was posting excessively should have been left up to a moderator as what the moderation team defines as excessive posting might be different than one user’s definition.
If you do feel as though a user is violating a rule, the best thing for you to do is use the report button, which is the exclamation mark which is located at the bottom right of each post. That way, we will have the opportunity to review the post and properly act on it if necessary.