What gets me is that all of us in OT try our best to get along, and are doing a great job at it. There have been times in the past that OT was full of fighting between members. I find it sad that, at a time when everything is going so peacefully (craps hearts and rainbows here), that there is/are a mod/mods who are stirring the pot causing the trouble.

I will, again, state that although this issue came about because of a user's ratings, the issue has become the response to innocent comments about that rating, not the rating itself.

jray225 said:The moderation team is in discussion about this issue, and the others that have come up in the last couple days.

FatWallet has many moderators, and with the weekend here it will take a few days to discuss, and resolve these issues. Then we will communicate our resolve.

thank you for your response Jray. This issue is really hurting the OT community. Many of us hang around there for the great discussion and the laughs, and many of us also spend time in other forums helping people with information, and posting deals. I honestly am feeling like the rules are being ignored by some at FW, and I think the community would appreciate clear guidelines and open communication about this situation.

jray225 said:The moderation team is in discussion about this issue, and the others that have come up in the last couple days.

FatWallet has many moderators, and with the weekend here it will take a few days to discuss, and resolve these issues. Then we will communicate our resolve.

WE understand that it is your policy to not discuss other users being banned. However, the circumstances which led up to this event involved a lengthy discussion about issues concerning a number of users, and WE do wish to be involved in that discussion and clarification. WE are exasperated, as Steve likes to put it.

my suggestion is to eliminate ratings in OT, it does not serve a purpose!

It will eliminate these unjust scenarios altogether. Those that rate or don't, unless they contribute with discussions, which is the ACTUAL core purpose in a FORUM, no discussion members are paid no mind.

FrugalFreak said:my suggestion is to eliminate ratings in OT, it does not serve a purpose!

it will eliminate these scenarios altogether. it will eliminate the scenario that started this, but it won't change the poor choices made by the mod(s) in question. I want accountability by whoever it was who created this mess.

FrugalFreak said:my suggestion is to eliminate ratings in OT, it does not serve a purpose!

I agree with this. It causes more drama. Also, it seems like some trolls like pyeed ,or whatever his name is, post stuff just to see how much red they can get. They get off on it.

qcumber98 said:fifth1 said:FrugalFreak said:my suggestion is to eliminate ratings in OT, it does not serve a purpose!


I agree with this. It causes more drama. Also, it seems like some trolls like pyeed ,or whatever his name is, post stuff just to see how much red they can get. They get off on it.

Before voting in OT, there were posts like "10/10!", "9.5!", "seven of nine!", etc. IMO, ratings provide a nice way to declutter threads. However, OT had plenty of drama before ratings and the other forums have always had trolls getting off on red too. Therefore, I am not sure that eliminating ratings in OT is the solution to the problem.

Q-Would you support a restricted voting scenario, where a user is granted a handful of votes per day? How about unrestricted voting for all members, but restricted voting for members with x number history of complaints, etc./No voting for obvious abusers,etc.

qcumber98 said:
How would you determine the "magic number"? I don't vote that much but a handful of votes per day seems like punishing everyone based on the actions of a few. Although I'm not sure a "three strikes" rule is the right thing to do either because some people will complain about anything. I don't know how much fine grain control FW has over the rating system but it seems like they should have been able to remove an abuser's voting privilege years ago.

I agree with the punishment comments. Eliminating or rationing voting doesn't address the problem that has occurred. And we still have the issue of "out of control" mod or mods. It's not all of them, and I feel for those who do their best to do their jobs. I know that it's not always easy to moderate such a large community. But blatent disrespect towards the rules that they should be following in order to cater to one cry baby needs to be addressed.

With that said, I don't see anything that was deleted last night, at least any of my comments over the last 24 hours, so it appears we're on the right track.

MVP9596 said:OK, everyone take a deeeeep breathe with me. Innnnnnnnnnnnnn and outtttttttttttttttt.

This entire "bring partial back" campaign doesn't do anything but cause more problems for the mod staff in trying to understand what exactly is going on.

This isn't being ignored, but lets let the cooler heads prevail. Everyone enjoy their weekend, and we'll see the outcome once the office opens back up tomorrow and we can talk about the weekend.
If it makes you feel better, I don't even use OT, so I have no idea who you're talking about. I thought this post was in reference to O***n again, and I found it hard to believe someone was getting his back.