AE is not run well by both members and mo

I think this is the first post, since all these lengthy discussions across many posts and forums began, to hit the crux of the argument, and also explains how the mods got it so wrong.

A few days after Maju made the statement "Death to Israel", Beylerbeyi made the same statement quite blatantly. Did anyone even bat an eyelid? Was it even mentioned on the mod�s forum? No! Why?

The answer is Beylerbeyi made his context clear in his thread, Maju didn't. However anyone who knew Maju and had spoken with him over several hundred posts would have grasped Maju's context too and know it was not offensive either, dark humour in fact. The mods that criticised him didn't have this knowledge or understanding of how covert his humour was.

So as the post says, the mods "cannot afford to play psychological detective all the time and second guess someone's motive" and the misinterpretation of his post was left in tact.

So where does the fault lay. Maju for unlike Beylerbayi not telegraphing his intent, the mods for not realising his intent, the system for being designed to deal with blatant flamers and trolls, but not being designed to deal with anything more ambiguous and complex.

Well Maju should have been more clued in and realised the flaws of the moderation system, after all he was a moderator himself for a time.

The mods themselves deal with a lot of sh*t, 99% of the time they are dealing with some real wankers, with no other intent than acting like prats and being destructive towards the forum. They are also not perfect, and human too, so after dealing incessant nonsense can be effected and show emotion, bias and bad judgement when dealing with a complex issue.

But really it's the system I blame. As Flyingzone says "There are some cases in which the violation is more questionable and requires more discussion. But this particular case, which had been discussed among moderators"

I should add on the moderators forum. Josef K and Franz Kafka's The Trial come to mind. For those a who don't know, a man who is accused of a crime, is not allowed to know the charges, is presumed guilty until proven innocent, is not allowed to address the court and the discussions go on behind his back. Perhaps the current system should be known as AE's �The Trial�.

Outside AE trials are public, the defendant can address and debate with his judges, he can meet his accusers, he can defend himself. Not on AE. These basic civil rights have been adopted by most countries on earth, for a reason some may say.

Now this isn't necessarily a criticism of all, if a person comes to a forum and post f**k, f**k, f**k, they maybe don�t deserved to be treated civilly. But some cases the accused does wish to meet his accusers, know what he's accused of and defend himself. 3 recent cases come to mind, Maju, Land of Aryan and Iran4life.

Now I'm not saying any of them are right, any should or would have won, but when mods objections to their plight is dismissed by mods on a secret forum on the basis of, of course they're guilty, their objections should be derided. Something has gone wrong.