What the hell happened?!

[JECE]

You may want to ask for her advice in your next Diplomacy game. She's probably much better at being diplomatic than you are too.

Regarding the clunkiness of getting to player profiles, there is a workaround until the developers implement a solution. Just copy the username you're interested in and use this search tool:
http://webdiplomacy.net/profile.php
You can find that page easily by navigating to the Help page that is listed at the top-right of every webDip page.

[CommanderByron]

If you’re interested croakanddagger check out our github which lists active and potential dev projects.
https://github.com/kestasjk/webDiplomac ... +is%3Aopen

(Even if for curiosity you can see stuff the team has planned and wanting to fix or improve.)

[ziran]

Croak, I’m not asking this to be viscous actually curious. Do you have the kind of knowledge or experience to any developmental work? If so would you be interested in helping to achieve some of our shared goals?

spoken like a true diplomacy player.

[Peregrine Falcon]

Side point, but the best way to find a main site user profile from the forum right now is going to 'Help/Donate'>'Find a user' and then search for their username.
It's definitely cumbersome, but as previously stated, it's something we hope to fix.

[JECE]

Peregrine Falcon: Copycat. I just said that. You're trying to steal the +1's nobody is giving me, aren't you?

[ghug]

+1 PF

Great advice!

[CroakandDagger]

Byron got there ahead of both of you anyway.

[brainbomb]

Hey CroakandBoring whats new? America sucks, but I'm doing great.

Why am I mad

[brainbomb]

Education should be defended by the US military

[JECE]

CroakandDagger: So he did. For more than a second there I thought you were making an obscure reference to Lord Byron, ha ha.

[CommanderByron]

^ i am actually related... fun fact.

[Octavious]

You and half of Europe if his reputation is to be believed

[bo_sox48]

Only half?

[Octavious]

You know, the enthusiasm for deleting posts these days is a little OTT, don't you think? Out of curiosity, why was it done?

[CommanderByron]

Due to the fact that the comments are deleted I can’t comment directly on their content; however I can assure you that the deleted comments were not deleted in haste.

This however is a perfect example of why this new forum is a positive change. Now when a thread is derailed or goes to far; the mod team has the ability to delete comments rather than locking the thread.

What this means for you and the rest of the community is good conversation and dialogue don’t get removed in response to a few negative or rule breaking comments.

I get that this may seem like some form of abuse but this is much more effective in the long term and will inevitably improve site interactions; not to mention the mod team is a diverse group who don’t all share the same sentiments so we do our best to police not only the forum but each other.

[bo_sox48]

You know, the enthusiasm for deleting posts these days is a little OTT, don't you think? Out of curiosity, why was it done?

Condescension came back with a brand new multi to try to rile up the crowd and appeal to all of you that he didn't do anything wrong. He alluded to specific communications he had with the moderators and cherrypicked from more than two dozen emails we had back and forth to make it appear as if he was banned on a whim and wasn't given multiple opportunities to straighten himself out. There was a conversation as to whether or not to leave his posts up and the moderators online at the time chose to delete them and the subsequent responses to them, which I think was the right thing to do. Communications with the moderator team should generally not be shared unless the moderator team gives it the okay, and choosing to once again circumvent a ban with the expressed purpose of calling for torches and pitchforks is obviously not okay either. Like CB said, it's much better to delete posts that have no purpose other than to make things spiral out of control than it is to lock a topic and let it fade into the depths of the forum and be forgotten. I'm happy to have a private conversation with anyone that thinks otherwise and I can explain things in more detail.

With the new forum comes many, many new moderation tools and we are still learning the new etiquette for moderating the forum. Fortunately, the new forum so far has seen few instances where moderation is even necessary. We'll have a conversation about deleting posts in the near future and make sure that it is a last resort and an action only taken in extreme circumstances. Those posts, though, definitely warranted being deleted.

[CroakandDagger]

I'm not sure i'd agree with that.

[Octavious]

Perhaps it would be nice if a record was left when deletions happen. Having these things expunged from existence with no evidence that they were even there is a tad unnerving, regardless of content.

I also think you should give serious consideration to allowing the membership to see some of these moderation email chains. Even with Haughtiness' editing you came across rather well in that link he posted.

Still, all fascinating stuff.

[jmo1121109]

Oct, for privacy reasons direct email screenshots with members will never be shared. Even if it’s that member sharing it. Having that liability to sort out is a headache nobody wants. If someone really wants to share that info then they should go with copying the message text without info covered by various countries right to be forgotten laws.

As for the record being left, phpbb does not support that. Though a manual record is something to consider.

[jmo1121109]

That said in various cases in the past I’d have loved to share the chains, the mods put a ton of effort into being fair and forum conversations don’t really show that like the email chains tend too. But, member privacy first, defense of mod actions second is really what had to be priority.