[Thelma]

Oh my here I go again.

There should be no mods on the forums. People do not need to have their words come out as being spoken by any moderators rules as to their value.

The moderators on BT as it existed were a complete disaster. They show this in all of the postings they used to enter with their many pseudonyms and some still do it.

One person somewhere on this site mentioned that mod 4 in his guise as firehorse was a great help in the epilepsy forum and this is true. But then they all were of help in the forums of their choice or of their particular condition.

It is when they went to the various forums where they were not aware of the members or of how they interacted that they broke down completely.

If they didn't like the message as they read it they took it out.

If they wqere sent there by someone they just took it out for no reason at all save someone disagreed with the content and invariably were not capable of finding the words to handle the situation and so as the godfather would say ratted them out by calling in the opposition.

If their needs were met they then thanked the mod who had done it as if they had an inside with them and a warning then albeit it unsaid was I have influence don't bother with me.

Some just liked the vicarious pleaure it gave them to have in their mind only a bit of power. So they ratted out anyone over anything.

If a member came back on after being banned for one thing they immediately informed on them. not for what they were now doing but because they were not heeding their false sense of control.

It truly was a sick environment for some.

If there has to be moderation and I don't think it can work it has to be done by the members themselves.

People have interactted forever and it is only this new area where we have to learn how to get along better and we will.

One person could and can be in control with perhaps two others to watch for spammers and advertisers and phorno etc and that does not imply they should be members. Exactly the opposite.

No one can be one two or three or even four people and keep their wits about them then interact with thousands of people. To me it is impossible.

Look at how many can't even get along with those in their own home forums

There are a lot of changes that have to be made and while all who have been banned are by far not as innocent as they claim neither are they as guilty as the mods made out.

David has shown he can not be reliled on to make decisions fair and decent and by the mods he has chosen he is incapable of making the right choices for Braintalk and if John doesn't see this by now then the show will be over.

I hope not