Originally posted by Bulldog
If a mod belittles an entire forum of users for their elitist attitudes. Whether it was done in jest or not is irrelevant. It certainly was not taken in jest by users who complained to the moderator about it, and he/she did not apologize in the thread or delete it.
He/She later had problems with another user who was sending her profane e-mail through the EoFF boards server. He/She was right to request that he be banned. He was banned. Unfortunately, his IP range is so wide that such countermeasures do not work very well. He returned to the boards and angrily complained about what happened. The mod became upset in the thread and referred to the user alternately as a "f***ing troll", an "f***ing pervert".
I suppose common sense is part of being a mod, but if it really hurt the mod on a personal level?
Ok, let's see how I see this. You're giving an example. Ok, I see it like this. Let's say that the forum you are talking about is FFVII. The users in that forum are having some fun that they are fake-flaming each other about something from the game, mocking each other, all in fun. The moderator, however, comes in and sees this flaming, not knowing that the users are doing it all in fun, takes the fake-flaming seriously and warns the members involved in the thread. Ok. I guess that's it... I dunno.

As for what moderators do and how they behave and act. Basically, we work on our own on lenient assignments, like editting double posts, closing threads, etc. But when it comes to actually warning a member, we work together as a team, along with the administrators. Once a member has been warned, we pay close attention to that specific member if they don't take the warning as serious as they should take it, and we spot them doing something after being warned, we'd ban them.

Anyways, do mods get angry? Sure, we do. It's normal that people get angry, but do we let it affect how we work as mods, I certainly hope we don't.

Anyways, as mods, we take what we do seriously. Some of us more serious than others, but all in all, we're all doing a good job.