In general, Wicked seems to be pretty power hungry, but specifically she is shutting down threads for violating rules that do not exist. I am accusing her of abusing her power as a Moderator.
I have read the Forum Guidelines, and have always done my best to obey them, even requesting the removal of threads that accidentally end up in the wrong place.
The two guidelines that seem most relevant to my accusation of abuse however, are these...
These guidelines are just that – guidelines. The CC staff try to take a fairly hands off approach to moderation but will step in if you get abusive, trollish or really bloody annoying. These are simple requests, please heed them and play nice.
and this...
...please be sure to note any guideline stickies in that forum and always refer to the “Posting Basics” noted above.
In the first reference, it states that Mods will be 'fairly hands off', and step in if I get 'abusive, trollish or bloody annoying' My thread was not accused violating any of these when it was locked.
The second reference is very important, and I always try to abide by guideline stickies. In the case of the thread in question,
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34142
it was in Flame Wars, and there is no sticky there.
As such, I feel the locking was not the result of any violations, but more the result of a Mod abusing their power.
After all, Flame Wars is designed as a place for people to play around, goof off, and have fun. It is not a serious location, like the Foundry, and lots of topics have been opened there similar to mine. (NOTE: Wicked has systematically been locking most, but not all of these.)
If we are having fun, and (in my case) meeting other CC'ers to chat with, game with, and have fun flaming, in a forum designed to be open and off beat, how is a violation?
Face it, it's not.
Finally, I would like to point out to the Powers that Be, that the behavior of this Mod is upsetting quite a few members of the CC community.For evidence of that, simply search for the threads complaining about similar behavior to that listed above.
I have been a part of a few on-line communities in the past, and have even been a Mod in more then a few, but it has never, in my experience, been the responsibility of the Mods to reduce the level of enjoyment of productive, law-abiding members of the community.
I don't believe that it is supposed to be here, either.
Am I wrong?
