Board Moderation Issues

The Feedback board is notorious for moderation issues.

The moderators are both strict and inconsistent.

Part of the inconsistency is due to the fact that the moderators do not review the board. They react to reports of posts by board readers.

The other part is that there really is no set of rules which explain what can and can't be posted. There is a written set of rules of course, but they are interpreted so wildly that it becomes unpredictable to most people. Even long timers get caught unawares on occasion.

The postings just go poof. The poster receives an email notifying which rule was violated. The poof is known as a "pink slap", for historic reasons. At one time, a group of ebay employees actually posted on the board from time to time. When they posted, their postings had a pink header. They also were the moderators, who removed postings.

Attempts at humor fare especially badly.

A recent posting offered, humorously, to sell me on ebay. It got pulled as "hate speech" or "interpersonal dispute".

While the board allows discussing moderation, it does not allow discussion of removed postings or threads.

The intent of this is sensible. The moderators don't want the same thing repeated. Taken literally though, it ends up a bit silly. When postings go away, the thread can be come confusing to read. Attempts by posters to explain the confusion are violations.

So barring ongoing interpersonal disputes, which are unwelcome everywhere, feel free to post comments here regarding board moderation issues.

Do please avoid hostile remarks about other posters to the fb board. I won't make them about you either.