justtakethat
Bluelighter
Alright this staff member by the name of T Calderone has been inactive lately. If he or she is assigned to moderate Basic Drug Discussion they are doing a very poor job at it as I have not seen her post anything for numerous days and just being inactive in general.
Anyways I suggested someone using meth and who was seeing hallucinations and stuff might be getting an mental illness since those are a well known side effect of meth use. I misread where he was only using it recently so that can rule out the possibility of a mental illness but I also suggested he try some non toxic alternatives instead of meth.
So a moderator makes me aware that the OP had only done meth for a short time and in that case suggesting he could have a mental illness might come off as degrading. I apologized and realized the misunderstanding. So fast forward a few days and I get a little notification saying I'm banned for trolling? I had no clue why I was even banned or for what post other than "trolling". I tried appealing it to the email it said to appeal too only to get no replies. This is really a shame as it also shows lack of communication with this particular moderator. She makes no attempt to message me or message other mods seeing if maybe we already discussed the mental illness thing or whatever and instead just straight up bans a member. I've been here for about 2 or 3 years now and I've only seen T Calderone administrating poorly in the sense that she just randomly comes on after being inactive and just bans me without even attempting to communicate.
On top of that she won't even reply to her ban appeals? If she's banning someone she can at least reply to my appeal instead of making me wait 24 hours since she saw me several days old post that was already discussed with " keeping" and just straight up bans. I could see a green lighter or something but I have almost 700 posts and am by no means a new member. I would really like to see action taken against this abuse in power or just plain poor administration and lack of effort administrate the BDD section because this is getting out of hand. You would at least thing the moderators would communicate with the other BDD mods before just throwing infractions like nothing. Especially on some old post.
I have met some outstanding administrators who are more than capable of performing their job so it's not like it's the whole staff team or BDD moderation team by any means. I just don't understand this moderators will to abuse power on a harm reduction forum.
Anyways I suggested someone using meth and who was seeing hallucinations and stuff might be getting an mental illness since those are a well known side effect of meth use. I misread where he was only using it recently so that can rule out the possibility of a mental illness but I also suggested he try some non toxic alternatives instead of meth.
So a moderator makes me aware that the OP had only done meth for a short time and in that case suggesting he could have a mental illness might come off as degrading. I apologized and realized the misunderstanding. So fast forward a few days and I get a little notification saying I'm banned for trolling? I had no clue why I was even banned or for what post other than "trolling". I tried appealing it to the email it said to appeal too only to get no replies. This is really a shame as it also shows lack of communication with this particular moderator. She makes no attempt to message me or message other mods seeing if maybe we already discussed the mental illness thing or whatever and instead just straight up bans a member. I've been here for about 2 or 3 years now and I've only seen T Calderone administrating poorly in the sense that she just randomly comes on after being inactive and just bans me without even attempting to communicate.
On top of that she won't even reply to her ban appeals? If she's banning someone she can at least reply to my appeal instead of making me wait 24 hours since she saw me several days old post that was already discussed with " keeping" and just straight up bans. I could see a green lighter or something but I have almost 700 posts and am by no means a new member. I would really like to see action taken against this abuse in power or just plain poor administration and lack of effort administrate the BDD section because this is getting out of hand. You would at least thing the moderators would communicate with the other BDD mods before just throwing infractions like nothing. Especially on some old post.
I have met some outstanding administrators who are more than capable of performing their job so it's not like it's the whole staff team or BDD moderation team by any means. I just don't understand this moderators will to abuse power on a harm reduction forum.
