You can PM that mod as well. Even without a Flag or a message to moderators or whatever. Just PM and say: “Hi, I’ve seen some mod actions done by you over the last few months and I want to talk about it”. This happened before and I can’t imagine we have mods that have a problem with that. Actually I think it’s the opposite.
Well, that’s not the case. If someone shows up making all these claims about how we as moderators suck we don’t ban someone. It happened in a topic over the last days and we took quite some heat. And that’s ok. There was some very strong debate here in META over the last few months as well but we never banned someone for just having an opinion and stick by it.
Yes, we started this in a kind of way. There are 2 points to that, 1) When someone is mad about something and goes over the line a bit, why would we share that with the whole forum? We had a ban for 24H for a person that got really mad and gave us a really hard time by stepping over the line. One day later everything was fine and I really don’t feel the need to post anything about that here in META. We all get mad sometimes and a cool-off is just fine. No need to put someone’s name out here. 2) That’s my second point as well, when people get listed as being banned, and we tell why, it’s open for the whole forum to see. We have to think about that. My opinion is, that when the ban is over we start again from 0. That means that member has no tag to it’s name saying: “This one was banned for this reason”. Stuff to think about.
I would like to say that the number of bans is extremely low and when we do there have been hours of time in it trying to fix it a different way. From just one mod that tries it through PM to a warning on forehand that things are getting close to a ban. If I remember well, we’ve had 4 bans in total now. Except from spam-accounts. We had a lot of these.