First OfficerTo ALL Members and Geusts -
This is about the arrogance and disdain that the POSKY FORUM Administration adopts toward a member submitting a complaint about one of its so called Moderators.
Yesterday afternoon I registered with the POSKY FORUM and subcequently posted a Thread of some of my paints in their Screenshots Forum. I inadvertantly posted six (6) pictures rather than the preferred five (5) pictures outlined in their Rules, or more accurately Guidlines.
A short time after posting I saw that my thread had been placed into the Forum but was "LOCKED". When I went into the Thread to check on my post I saw a message in RED LETTERS telling me that I had brtoken the rules and that my PICTURES had been DELETED. In addition to this, there was a message posted by one of POSKY's so called MODERATORS YuSoke which read as follows:
" GOODBYE! Try reading the rules n\ext time! "
I was astounded at this person's demanding and arrogant approach and found his methods of informing a person they had made a mistake disgusting. As such I sent him a PM, as I was unable to publically respond - evidently only POSKY people are allowed to make comment.
My PM was pointed and direct and I did outline what I thought about his "tone" in the message.
A short time after that I received a message back from him saying
"...that it was I who was at FAULT, that NO-ONE asked me to go to the POSKY FORUM and that if I didnt like things as they were to leave and dont come back..."
Once again I was amazed at this so called Moderators reaction. I decided to email the Administrators (Nicholas Wilkinson) , believing that they would also disapprove of one of their Moderators being abussive and objectionable to a new member, especially as they have a fairly clear Rule about that sort of thing. I detailed the events that had occured and the following is what i received back from WILKINSON:
(This is a direct copy of the email I received - it has not been edited or tampered with in anyway)
Tony,
I tried looking into the history of your account but I couldn't find anything that you have been suspended.
If you have been I'll reinstate your account, your warning level will stay though for about a week. It generally doesn't last long.
As far as Yosuke and his people skills; Project Open Sky has it's own way of moderating forums. Please keep in mind, this may be different from other boards.
POSKY Team members come from about 10 countries all over the world, from all corners and different methods of doing tasks. As a result it is very difficult to create a standard of maintaining order, therefor, we stand by each other's actions and we don't go around or behind someone's back. Yosuke is a moderator, however in his defense he was moderating. While his methods may be straight forward and direct, they are effective. Do not be offended by this, there really is no reason to. I am sure that you have been treated in an undesired way by several businesses in your home town.
POSKY team members have a primary responsibility and a secondary optional responsibility. Yosuke is an aircraft modeler and a texture designer first, a moderator second. This could be why FSHawaii's post went unnoticed. He also does not upload his pictures to our server, instead he just links them over from his server. In my opinion, that is following the rules, regardless of how many pictures he posted. Technically, he didn't upload them. The only reason we do this is becuase it does take toll on our server and bandwidth, and as we are a nonprofit team, we are paying our server fees by donation and out of our pockets.
I have no problem with you reposting your thread. You can post as many pictures as you want as long as you have them linked from another server, either your own, or a free one like imageshack.com.
I also did not see your thread so I do not know if your thread was actually closed or was just waiting for approval. We have a system in place to prevent spam and fighting that requires all posts by new members to be reviewed and approved by moderators and/or administrators. The public will not see it until it has been approved, however I do not know if you will see the topic as it is waiting for approval.
Lastly, you probably will not get an apology from Yosuke. He has his ways of doing things, and while I or someone else might have handled it differently, we support each other as a team.
The most mature thing you can do to avoid this from happening with Yosuke or anyone else, is to just shrug it off, or admit your errors and move on, either on our forums, or in your personal life. There are worse things out there that can happen and there is no reason to be hyped up about the way someone treated you.
This email is between us though, but I will be letting Yosuke know of it, although he will not have a copy of it. Like I just mentioned, if you choose to stay on our forums, it's just best to say sorry and either ask what can be done to not make the same mistake again or something else. We all have our own lives too, and I do not look over the boards 24/7. I look at the boards generally when switching tasks or while waiting for a background task to finish, which is generally not a very long time. Things can slip between our fingers, it happens, but again, it's nothing that's really worth the effort of loosing your temper.
Regards,
Nicholas Wilkinson
n.wilkinson@projectopensky.com
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Clearly, POSKY ADMINISTRATION finds abusive methods ACCEPTABLE from their moderators and WILL NOT do anything about any complaint that is lodged against one of them. This, in my opinion as a fair and decent man, is intolerable and very unacceptable. It is simply a case of DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO.
I made a small mistake, but did not deserve or expect the sort of bombastic, arrogant and conceited repsonse I got from that moderator. Nor did I expect the complaint to be written off so easily by the POSKY Administrators, let alone be given advice on my personal life. All this response did was to reinforce my opinion of the POSKY Administration as being arrogant, rude, self absorbed and very indifferent toward new members.
As such, I would urge everyone to abandoned the POSKY FORUM and, if considering registering with them, to re-think that move. I would also urge people who believe that what happened to me, and no doubtmany others, is unfair and unwarraented to demonstrate your feelings by emailing Nicholas Wilkinson and letting him know your thoughts.
I believe ALL people should be treated fairly and with respect, especially anew comer to anything, be it a Forum, Club anything at all. I was treated with contempt and indifference by the very people that are suppose to controlling such behaviour - what does that say about POSKY.
I am sorry this is so long, but I needed to use the facts of the situation.
Last edited by wombat457 on Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:31 pm, edited 2 times in total
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