First of all, I do not censure anything. The board does, it has a swearword filter on.
Second of all, yes, you did insult me. You interfered in my moderation without a good reason. I'm not an unreasonable man; for example I did not close the thread, I did not delete your bitching, intead I gave you a chance to explain yourself - even made you do it, when you tried to chicken out.
I do not mind if someone has something worthwhile to say about my moderation, but I do mind mindless "Whaaaa, Jari spilled my milk"-whining.
My job here is not to make everyone feel happy. My job here is not to pat every idiot on the head, just because they managed to click a button which made their post magically appear on the Internets.
My job here is to make sure this forum stays clean and nice, and part of that is to make sure that certain minimum level of English is maintained as well. If you had actually paid attention, you'd know that this has been the board policy for the last seven years, not to mention the personal wish of the owner.
To achieve this goal, I employ also negative reinforcement. That means mocking idiots, ridiculing them, making them look like asses.
And I get results. I do not give rat's ass if hordes of idiots think that I'm the meanest person ever, or if HardOCP forums think that we are "bunch of English faggots" - that one actually made me laugh. I'm not here to win a popularity contest, nor do I want to be friends with people whose greatest achievement was to be pushed out of their mother's vagina.
Also, I'm not a kindergarten teacher to these people, and this is not classroom for behaving on Internets. If they fail to read
rules, and they fail to lurk to see what is appropriate, then it's their very own fault. Period.
just tell them what's wrong and they will understand.
You have never moderated a forum, have you?
Like I said, we have the rules perfectly visible. They are perfectly free to lurk around to see what is acceptable. Ignoring those is two strikes already, acting like an idiot is the third one. After that, I deal with them.