Sometimes people get tunnel vision - members and mods.
You got a traffic ticket by a new mod. You should have blown it off as long as you have been around.
But ya didn't and now we get to discuss it. Discussion and transparency has a chance to be seen right here, right now on Eccie.
Forget right and wrong, please. Think about perceptions. Who's shoes are you in when you read and make a judgement about the situation.
Welcome Wagon used to be a very hostile place as PPE pointed out. Directive comes down to make damn sure it becomes and stays a nice place. Mods clean it up.
Many months later, a poser posts in welcome wagon where the community has some very advanced sills at spotting fakes. She is spotted.
Bob, one of the pioneer members of Internet hooker boards, admires the skills of his peers and kicks a little dirt on her. No real foul for a fake is it?
However, some gals are told to use fakes and not use their real pics. Or it could be the retired porn star, but I think we all pretty much doubt that.
Enter the new mod who is either just reading or has gotten Report to Moderator emails about that thread.
What is he thinking, perceiving? I got to keep the Welcome wagon a friendly place? I need to let the members know I am totally sold on this SHMB stuff and I will be an enforcer?
Does the probability that she is a fake matter? To whom?
He made a judgment call. You do not have to put a judgment of right or wrong on it.
But do take note of it.
Points are just a traffic ticket. The only people they really affect are the people who total misfits anyway.
Let's face it, if you are shunned by hookers and johns, how much lower is there to go and what kind of weirdo are you?