wow are you serious

[Catzsy]

@Martin; can you read more of my post please? You seem to focus more on why I gave those examples and not the part where members are moderating. At the end of the day they may be in the wrong section and there may not be a rule against it but it still requires a moderators message to inform users that it has been been moved, merged or deleted because of such reason. These reasons are outlined by members who have said 'this thread is posted here' or 'this thread is posted in the wrong section' etc. They still mean the same thing although they're not technically rules. The members are still moderating regardless of a rule in place, the moderating to moderators rule is a rule though thus the members are breaking it.

I think I repeated myself a bit there but hopefully you got what I was saying. Not being rude just saying I didn't intend for the sold focus of my reply to be based on the examples I used.

It was decided a long time ago that telling members they had 'posted in the wrong section' or 'already posted here' was not serious enough to warrant a moderator edit under that rule. You have to look at the post and decide whether that member is just trying to be helpful or in fact is doing the job of a moderator. It is not an exact science but you can usually tell.

[Samantha]

It was decided a long time ago that telling members they had 'posted in the wrong section' or 'already posted here' was not serious enough to warrant a moderator edit under that rule. You have to look at the post and decide whether that member is just trying to be helpful or in fact is doing the job of a moderator. It is not an exact science but you can usually tell.

Ohhhh right, well I suppose that is a little harsh to mod such things but then again, The Don did basically the same yet he got warned (not about posting in wrong section but reiterated to the poster that his post was actually off topic after the poster said it wasn't) and in that sense I don't think that should have warrented a warning. However, I think this got resolved but I would be wrong. Thanks for the reply

[Catzsy]

Ohhhh right, well I suppose that is a little harsh to mod such things but then again, The Don did basically the same yet he got warned (not about posting in wrong section but reiterated to the poster that his post was actually off topic after the poster said it wasn't) and in that sense I don't think that should have warrented a warning. However, I think this got resolved but I would be wrong. Thanks for the reply

Well that is telling somebody they had 'broken the rules' and probably would have been better reported. I don't consider a pm reminder to be a warning tbh. It's just advice to a member so they can avoid it again.

[The Don]

Well that is telling somebody they had 'broken the rules' and probably would have been better reported. I don't consider a pm reminder to be a warning tbh. It's just advice to a member so they can avoid it again.

No that isn't telling somebody they broke the rules, nowhere in my post were the rules mentioned i was simply correcting the poster as they stated in their own post "this post isn't off topic", nowhere did I tell him he had broke a rule or did something which warranted moderator action. Anyway, I don't understand why this threads still going when this has been resolved and it was found that I was correct.

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(See what I did there?)