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Got a bone to pick with your moderator? Leave it in our brand new “Mod Pod” page and get the pesky business off your shoulders. Nothing will get resolved but it may make for good discussion in the Comments section.
If we get enough of these posts, we can come up with “moderator profiles” like “The Absentminded Adjudicator”, “The Meddling Mediator” and so forth. Fun times, to be sure!
We received this one yesterday, submitted by one of our regular readers.
I have an offer for my local freecycle group:
OFFER: A clue for the group moderator.
Our “lovely” moderator, who can take days if not weeks to approve messages and does not like to be questioned/challenged about said delay in approval time. She sent out a general email to the group congratulating people on graduations; be on the look out for kids in the road, etc. And this lovely gem of (false) information:
“Please make sure we all watch out for our 4 legged babies also. Leave the window open and inch or 2 when leaving them in the vehicle.”
I responded to her and the group with this:
“An inch or two open window is not sufficient for an animal in a car on a hot summer day. The only safe place is to leave them at home when the temperatures are hot. Would you want to be left unattended in a hot car like that? Info on how hot cars can get- http://www.mydogiscool.com/x_car_study.php ”
Her response to me: Message not approved:
DO NOT POST THIS TYPE OF MESSAGE TO ME ON THIS BOARD PLEASE
I responded to her asking for clarification on what she meant exactly because clearly I am not getting her rationale. And again challenged her to see how she would feel after being locked in a hot car.
No response, no surprise. I don’t know if anyone else called her to task on the mis-info based on her moderating my comments so carefully… ie: not approving them. It’s anger inducing that she’s clearly got no good common sense about this and quite possibly is putting animals in danger when others believe what the mod is saying. I hope karma does its thing.
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Sounds like this clueless mod needs to be bombarded by people who send her there same info. What an irresponsible tool she is not to just suck it up, admit she was wrong, and post the correct information that will truly protect “our 4-legged babies”. I would hate to be her dog. =(
P.S. Slip her a link to this page (if you don’t mind being banned LOL)
Hahahaha gardenwice- I’m already closely monitored there & if I got myself kicked off the list how will I provide future gems for our entertainment? :-p
Thanks @freakcycle for posting this as the inaugural entry.
Yeah, Resident. Don’t get your ass kicked off as you are one of our top freakruits.
Gardenwife…you’re a troublemaker. Have I offered you a job here before? If not, I definitely should. Hee, hee.