What does everyone think of supporter powers?
 

To add some background supporters pay $10 a month and they get the ability to issue infractions or warnings and if the person gets enough of infractions he gets temp ban for a day or 2.

Some of the people in DC are upset that shtsprayer got temp banned because of some comments he made and believe that supporter powers are too strong.

On the flip side DaFace made a good point yesterday that if it wasn't for the few of us supporters Malboro Chief would have posted a ton of porn yesterday but we were able to ban him almost immediately.

So what does everyone think? Good idea, bad idea?

Good idea for everyone except BKaeding. That guys a dick.












(J/K Buck)

In all seriousness.....It proved to have a function yesterday with all the crap that happened.

I agree

So it's only for monthly donaters.

I think so though I could be wrong

It wasn't so much the banning as the attitude of; I can do it, I did it, I have my reasons, I don't care what you think.

A monthly charge? I don't know about that. I would make it so that you had to donate a certain amount....if you want to set a limit on it. But requiring people to pay $10 a month just to have the ability to flag people....may make it so that they use their powers more often than not.

I am a dick, but I pay money for my powers...

In all honesty, I don't think there is anything wrong with them.

If you support the website, then you obviously enjoy your time here. I don't think anyone who just wanted to abuse the powers would waste money just so they could **** w/ people.

I have donated twice and do not have powers. I'm not whining but I have an urge to hand out infractions. :evil:

P.S., I don't think you have to pay $10 a month.

I think I donated $20 a few months ago and $5 last month.

The minimum is $10 a month

You can go to User CP and Paid Subscriptions and it says 1 month $10

screw 'em

Good.

I just clicked the Donate button at the top.

I did $20 in Nov, $5 in Dec.

I'm going to donate another $10 right now. Hopefully the donations help offset the cost of running the board.

some people should not have power
of any ****ing kind

Enjoy your money Kyle.

But does it matter that everyone has the chance to gain equal power?

Some will always be more equal than others.

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I wonder after you reach a certain amount of money if you can get even more powers?

Like Invisibility
Super Human Strength and
the ability to shriek really loud

{my best blueballs impression}

don't care.
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I think I would like to have my supporter have powers. It could make my penis do magic tricks or something.

I worry a bit about it, but so far it hasn't been abused, plus this asylum has always been run by the insane here. When it comes to the porn jackass, I absolutely love that there is a dedicated group with the power to kill the guy off before one of us admins actually catches it.

So just to clarify you don't think what happened to shtsprayer was wrong and no one abused their power?

I don't really read DC but when I saw the name of that thread, something about the Magic N-word, he probably deserved it.

Has 'n-word' developed multiple meanings?

Well there is the N-word, then there is the n-word I am talking about.

The spanish word for black = negro.

I thought I saw that there, but I could be mistaken. Like I said, I don't frequent that god-forsaken subforum known as the DC.

I think it's hilarious that some people are offended by what Shtsprayer said, but no one seems to mind that one user here has had an avatar with a monkey offering Obama a banana for months.

I have avatars and sigs turned off so I don't see them anyway. So who is that user?

Yeah, who the hell is that?

It is ****in reeruned we give a Chargers fan that kinda power on a Chiefs board.

Just sayin

And just how much money have you donated to keep this board running?

I don't recall, it's someone who doesn't post very often.

i don't have them, but it is fine by me

and shtsprayer should have been permanently banned a long time ago for the racist crap he spews...

ok thanks

Mine are off as well.

I too would very much like an answer to this question.

I found it, it's dtebbe. Here's his avatar:

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/custo...atar689_10.gif

and it's titled "A banana for every monkey".

LMAO That is kind of funny in a disturbing way I guess :)

That's horseshit and you know it.

Nobody came off that way. Patteu framed it up that way.

Many of us have donated over the years, but not under those terms.

Personally, I think its a decent concept to allow others to as a group, moderate indecent behavior, however I don't like the idea of a (not all of you) douchebag buying that kind of power. A couple of you are pretty cocky about it.


Personally, I'd rather see the infraction stick handed to mod selected long tenured members.

Iowanian,

I don't donate just so I can have the powers, I donated to donate and later found out that we had the ability to give out warnings for bad posts.

As far as being cocky about it, its human nature to flex your muscles sometimes, everyone does...even you.

So it's funny when dtebbe does it, but unacceptable when Shtsprayer does it?

I don't have a problem with the assistance provided when mods are gone. I have a problem with buying it.

Yeah thats pretty racist no matter which way you look at it, I'm surprised they haven't been asked to change it.

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exactly why it is horseshit...there are only a handful of people on this board who don't live by double standards..

I haven't read anything that he has posted that I would find racist or probably more accurately it hasn't caught my attention.

I will go do a search though just to find out.

:LOL:

So a racist avatar and tagline is OK as long as he doesn't post something racist?

I thought they were called "hall monitor" powers.

Relying on actual moderators to ban people posting porn has never been a big issue in the past.

I think it's great that people are donating to ChiefsPlanet. I don't mind those people getting some fringe benefits in return. I think it's a bad idea to have a policy that any yahoo can buy a slice of moderator power, though. There are several people around here who shouldn't be anywhere near the ban button. If we need more people with the ability to flag posts as offensive because our moderators are stretched too thin, then they ought to be selected with an eye toward their temperament and judgment.

One of the big attractions of ChiefsPlanet over other Chiefs message boards or other message boards in general (especially corporate sponsored boards) is the fact that it is lightly moderated. This place is like the wild west of message boards and I think that's a good thing. The lighter the moderation the better, IMO.

I didn't say it was ok I just thought it was kind of funny in a disturbing way. Like I said I don't have avatars or sigs turned on so I couldn't see them

I get the vibe from DaFace that if anyone abuses these powers, they can have them taken away quite easily.

I've also gotten the vibe from him that they are helping out the mods in a good way. I don't think anyone has abused them yet.

I was framed! I was framed! LMAO

Power should lie solely in the hands of the Administrator. Mods should police, report the offenses, and let Admin. have the final say.

Giving members discretionary powers for the price of a pizza is just plain stupid.

I searched his posts from the last 6 months in DC and he has only had 13 posts over there. Nothing objectionable that I could find.

Maybe we should just ask him? Dtebbe are you a racist?

I think that is a very very fair take pat and one that is hard to argue against.

The hall monitors will let you know whether something is funny or not. Of course it will probably depend on whether they think of you as a buddy or, alternatively, they have a grudge against you.

Just an fyi, no one (besides mods) has the power to ban... the worst a "supporter" can do is give an infraction... it takes FIVE of those to earn a temp (2 day) ban.

So

If 5 lead to a nearly automatic ban than that's still a problem AFAIC. What SHTSPRAYER was banned for yesterday was a joke compared to other things that are posted on this board with some regularity. He repeated race-related terminology that has been used in and reported by the mainstream media to refer to Obama. For example, the LATimes editorial board didn't consider "Magic Negro" to be unacceptable terminology, and in fact it was used by a mixed race op-ed writer. While he used it to criticize other posters in a fairly vulgar way, that vulgarity was relatively tame by ChiefsPlanet standards.

I cant believe this is such a big stink.

If someone gets so many infractions, they probably deserved it. If not, a mod can reverse it.

Actually, it was three.

LOL, weren't you the one complaining I gave infractions too frequently?

Oh, btw, I was responsible for one of those infractions. The first one. So....get off the drama queen kick. I felt it was inappropriate race attacking language. Nothing to do with politics or even personal opinion. However, I've enjoyed having you try to connect them with that.

exactly

FWIW, I don't think this should be allowed. It is in line with the crap Shithead was doing, it is offensive, and the fact that it's allowed here makes us look exactly like the rednecks others try to portray us as. But since it's his avatar and not in something he posted, there's not much I can do about it.

I agree for the most part, although I do think there have a been a few instances where someone was too quick with the trigger. I'll only use mine in extreme situations, for anything else I use the "report post" button and let the real mods deal with it.

And I'll never, ever under any circumstances infract someone in DC, I know damn well what I'm in for when I click that link.

I changed it to 5 :)

Yeah the first Warning (not infraction) I gave was to DCS. If you recall his sig used to be way too big. I probably shouldn't have given that one.

I gave another one to FMB for being a n00b, but he got me back (both warnings not infractions).

All of the other ones I've given have been for bannable (sp?) offenses only. I think I've only given 2 or 3 infractions (red cards).

Carpet bomb the whole goddamn DC forum, and this is no longer an issue.

People there know it is loosely moderated, if at all, and are constantly pushing further and further to see what they can get away with.

Eliminate DC, and 90% plus of your problems disappear along with it.

Agree to disagree. I can tolerate strong opinions on both sides, I can tolerate and quite frequently engage in juvenile attacks and bashing, I can tolerate just about anything. What I can't tolerate is the continued use of race solely to insult, demean, or bash on someone. To me it aint right.

Well, that will certainly help patteeu's swelling go down. :thumb:

The mods shouldn't be moved to take an action that they wouldn't have taken based on their own judgment by a mere 3 (or 5) whiny snitches from a hall monitor, IMO.

Everytime I enter the DC forum (Probably less than 10 times since I joined CP) I feel like my head is going to 'splode.

Yep, and then they come to the main board.
What would be your solution to that?

Not to be too confrontational, but I will be anyways.

What makes you think that a Supporter doesn't understand what the difference is between a bannable and a non-bannable offense?

The rules are pretty clear cut. If you get dinged by a supporter, you probably would get dinged by a mod too. Its just that there aren't that many mods, so they are less likely to catch you.

I agree.

The only way I'd use it would be in the case of someone like Marlboro Chief.

As much as I absolutely despise Shtstrayer and his antics, I wouldn't ban him.

DC brings out the worst in people sometimes.

Me included.

None, I also don't ask of special support powers or anything like that.

The one you gave to FMB was obviously a joke, I'm not against anyone using their powers for amusement purposes. I was this >< close to handing some out in that thread as well just to see if it would end up spiraling out of control.

Exactly. For anybody who wasn't here in the fall of 2004, when in the midst of football season when the Chiefs were still good, you'd find perhaps three football-related threads and all the rest the politicos pissing and moaning about everything under the sun.

DC is a good thing. Well, DC itself isn't, but the fact that it exists is.

Obama looks like a monkey, not exactly pointing towards to the racial slang part of it.

Obama literally looks like a monkey i see nothing wrong with this.

:spock::eek: