So if we have complaints on your modding, PG, we send them to onlyelise?   

Actually, go to Iago and Co first, they don't scare me as bad.  If you reaaaaaaaally get pissed at me, then tell Elise.  And if she cheeses you off, report the hell out of her, just not to me.

_{she knows where I sleep.}

<smacks PG>

Yeah.

I deserved that. 

If you haven't gotten a PM or had a mod quote your post in Public Smackdown Reply, then you're probably ok, just a bystander who got some splash.  Although if your tone of voice was rising along with everyone else's in the thread that got Mod Swarmed, then it'll be a good idea to gentle it down some.  

If you have to ask yourself, "Do I need to relax this thing?", then the answer is probably "Yep."  

10 Cane Rum.  It's sipping rum, not shooting rum. 

Besides, I don't get Happy Fun Drunk any more.  I go from "ah, a mite tipsy" straight to "Oh Gawd, pls kill meh... pleeeese..."

Can't drink proper no more, it's a crying shame.  Time wounds all heels I guess.

Another factor to remember is that while 3 threads might have the same "heat value", if one of those threads has a post from someone with a history of playing with matches, that someone is going to get more attention.

One of the reasons for the public warnings is we're trying to make sure everyone understands the new standards of decorum.  Say Mickey PM's me because I'm being a big too vulgar, asks me to please not use my peers so familiar... I might ammend my behavior but others will keep doing it until they each get their own PM on the issue.  That's a lot of PM's.  But if Mickey comes over and roasts my ass, Prisc kicks dirt on it, Ashton makes me eat it, then everybody gets that calling someone a is a big old No Go.  Nobody likes getting their balls busted, much less in public, but we're trying to salvage a forum that was going south of cheese in a number of ways.  I can assure you there is no shortage of gentle PM advice and suggestion, but we don't always have time for it.  

Now, for us Baby Moderaptors, if you feel we make a comment or correction that's over the top or out of line, talk to Iago.  He wants to grade our driving, and needs to know if we need correction, or to be sent to play with Old Yeller.

There have been a few times where I've seen the full might of the moderators fall on someone and I couldn't figure out why.

perhaps it was because the offending post was deleted or edited before I ever read it.  But sometimes it feels a little random.  That being said, I haven't really changed what I would or would not say on the forum.  Though I have done a better job of resisting Fist of Death.

I'm not so much worried about the Line.. I think for the most part the line is pretty clear.
Although Don't Mess with Texas seems to be a new by word on the forum

Frequently there will be a pattern of behavior on different areas of the forum.  An out of line crack on the thread dedicated to ham worship, an out of line remark on a spoiler section dedicated to how the Accords regulate Harry's sock drawer, etc, and a week before that an out of line comment on yet another thread.  The issues can occur all over the place where no individual member of mod might spot the matter, but we pull things together and compare notes.  We don't just look at a single poster's behavior in one section or on one topic, but their overall activity.  Eventually someone gets the "we've asked nice, the boy just don't get it" award.  It might seem like a random banhammer for one comment, but it's often something the person's been working towards for a while. 

Also, sometimes it can be just a case someone reverting to old behaviour they've been "corrected" on in the past.  A single infraction can win a vacation if it's bad enough, or occurs after the Enough of This Bullshit Lamp has been lit because of similar infractions of the same sort.

The Epic of Gilgamesh comes to mind.

This thread really, really doesn't want to go into suicide bombers and the like.  The original idea has a great deal of merit, but stay away from modern social/political issues like that. 

I assure you.

I most emphatically assure you.