Ask A Mod Thread ~ FAQ in OP

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How do I get that I <3 Sad unique award? :O

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It isn't a Unique. I think its for those in the Halloween event that found Sad's secret message. I don't know exactly. Maybe not.

 

http://onehallyu.com/index.php?/topic/56-custom-award-thread-pm-requests-to-shay/

 

 

 

Thanks Dave!

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What does Banhbao sponsored mean?

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Will I be able to ever know who was the person who bought me the Loved stamp? 

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Can you please give the third post of the SNSD thread to Rose Lily because she will help me with the discography. Thank you

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Can you ask her to make a random post in the thread? Thanks ^_^

okay, I'll ask her to quote you or post here when she has done it. Thanks ♥

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Why is the staff lounge in the 18+ subforum? 

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I know you guys have been all about freedom of speech and anti-censorship but I noticed that the recent threads have been bothering some people already and I think it's not creating a healthy environment for OH people right now.

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is getting negged decrease your won?

let's say i make a topic, and many people replies, do that also can increase my won?

i'm surprised why my won suddenly jump out in a night. and i only have 300 posts but my wons already 700k? is that normal?

any explanation?

or someone donor it to me for a pity or what.

 

oh and how to change member title?

i go to market and find nothing.

I have never heard of reputation affecting your won nor replies. It's your post that gives you won, as far as I know.

But I'm sure that if someone donates you won you'd get a message from your inbox

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This was answered before. You actually do get wons froms +'sAnd lose them from -'s but idk by how much...

You do? Then that's cute.

I also asked a mod before and I think you get bigger wons if you post in threads that have less people or posts or w/e.

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Hi mods 

 

Is it okay to start a confession thread, like a freedom wall. But the thing is users remain anonymous

People will have to submit through something like google forms and then it will be posted 

They can share experiences or rants or confessions about the forum or something like that. :3 

 

I hope it's okay. 

It's sort of a thing where I am and people do actually enjoy this type of thing

I just thought it would be fun to bring it over here, if we don't already have one

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Hey there, we had a confession thread before but I think its long since been archived, so you can make another one.

 

As for the anonymous confession side of things, I would be against this as I can see this being abused to insult other users behind an anonymous wall. Kind of like a pseudo-rant about users thread. So I would be against this. 

 

I think it would defeat the purpose if it wouldn't be anonymous, people who would like to confess "truly" would be scared to post. I'd like to see which stories would be shared if it was anonymous.

 

Don't worry, I'll try to filter things and make it clear that it is not a rant thread or a HATE thread for that matter. If it gets ugly, we'll change up the rules. I'd just like to see how it goes.

 

Thanks!

Edited November 16, 2014 by Abi

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How long should be the interval for your new post not to get merged with your old post?

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I hope you had given me a chance to edit things out if you didn't want anything.

It's heartbreaking that you had to close my thread without even messaging me. I have been in the community for so long and I think I have never stirred up shit for no reason.

I made up rules, I am new to this and I am open to change. I can accept criticisms and I can definitely accept if you guys pin point me to specific posts that aren't acceptable in the community. I don't think anyone is fighting or being hurt inside of the thread. It's sad because there are really heartfelt posts over there and people are interacting.

 

 

I know I said that people aren't supposed to rant but what happened to freedom of expression? We are entitled to that as long as we are expressing thoughts with caution. I filtered out a lot of things. I give out warnings for sensitive topics. What more do I need to do? Nobody is fighting in that thread. I filter out trolls, I leave out the fun stuff if they aren't harmful. What did I do wrong? I clearly said that if anyone feels offended about a certain rant or post I will definitely EDIT it. I am giving out my all here.

 

This is outrageous because there are heartfelt posts there and people are contributing and interacting and we don't interact for shit in there. We give advice, we share things.

 

I don't think it's fair to only say the things that are only acceptable to hear for some people. We need freedom of expression. Some people are afraid to share how they feel and this is a good way to say those things. We don't talk about crap there, we talk about some deep personal stuff too. This is not a troll thread which is why I am taking it seriously. If you've seen the confessions, you would've known. I read them all and I can relate to them. I leave out some troll things because it's a part of it.

 

 

The main thing is I don't think anybody is fighting in that thread. We were all mature enough with our responses. 18+ content is a part of life. You can't avoid it forever. This is an open world.

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I can link you to the whole excel file if you want and we can single out every single thing you don't want to be posted.

 

My arguments for this.

1. I don't think anyone has expressed that they have been hurt or violated.

2. I am willing to edit if they feel so.

3. I edit out posts that are CLEARLY not good for the community. I give out warning about the content and put them in spoilers and if I feel like it would offend SOME people.

5. I have only had 1 post that contains malicious content about another person and I singled it out. MEANING people are serious about this and really share their true feelings. There are barely trolls in the thread.

6. I know about the initial warning when I asked permission but couldn't you have given me another one? Was I not deserving of that?

7. I am clearly open to changes but none of the mods/admins have even tried to contact me about anything. I am not the type of person who would irk away on that. I will follow what I have to follow. I am a person and I made a mistake. Couldn't anyone have told me that? One time was enough for me and you had to close my thread without any conversation at all? Am I not a part of this community for be to ignored like I don't deserve anything like "Really sorry about it but we could not allow your thread due to some of the content that it have"

8. It could have been like this is the last warning and you could have point out specific things but NO, it just had to be closed down. I don't think it even had an issue with other people.

 

Like I said guys I am open to changes, the thread is young and new. It can grow. People were giving me praises for it and saying they can relate to the posts.

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I know you guys personally and we all know each other. Not a single mod or admin could PM me about it? That's the heartbreaking part. You can scan the thread and see if anyone was fighting cause I don't think there was. I don't think things got out of hand. We were all mature about it. Does anyone think I was only in it for the juicy part? No. If you can see there are more HEARTFELT posts than nonsense ones. There are 30 more posts waiting to be posted.

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I am only going to quote one of your posts because I didn't even get the chance to respond before you kept sending more. 

 

We told you from the beginning not to include rants about users. This has nothing to do with a staff member being mentioned, because I've seen other users being mentioned as well, even if not by name. That was your warning, so please don't act as if we didn't already tell you about this before hand. Any moderator is well within their right to close down that thread the first time that was broken.

 

We don't allow threads to be created where someone rants about a user. An exception isn't made just because it's being posted in that thread. You have to look at something and consider "is this something that is normally allowed to be posted?"

 

I think it's obvious by now that we have a no tolerance rule with this stuff. 

 

I'll discuss with the rest of the staff for further actions and decisions before something is done. In the mean time, the thread will remain locked and you will just have to be patient as we have time to talk about it.

 

I'm not being impatient with a reply. I just had to speak out a lot of things and I was just typing and sending as my thoughts go.

 

I know. I didn't say anything about that. All I'm saying is I'm new to this thing, I can learn, I would have if I was sent a specific warning. I am like still searching in the dark here for things I should do and wouldn't do. A little guidance from the mods would have been helpful. But to be blatantly locked like that, it's hard to accept. I do filter out rants, but I don't know how much do I have to filter. You would have at least talked to me about it. That was all I was asking. But I didn't get even a single heads up. That's the part where I feel bad.

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I am only going to quote one of your posts because I didn't even get the chance to respond before you kept sending more. 

 

We told you from the beginning not to include rants about users. This has nothing to do with a staff member being mentioned, because I've seen other users being mentioned as well, even if not by name. That was your warning, so please don't act as if we didn't already tell you about this before hand. Any moderator is well within their right to close down that thread the first time that was broken.

 

I had to re-read this to realize something.

I know that rules are rules and I know I may have made a mistake but is it something not worth talking about? That's the only part I ask. We are not robots here that if we make a mistake we just have to omit it. We are humans, we can communicate and learn from one another and give each other a chance. I hope you find it in your heart to understand what I mean. I had good intentions but I am just a person, I made a mistake and I need to learn but I cannot do it on my own. i even defined that in my thread.

 

While you're going to talk about it, I have specific questions.

Are posts that talk about feelings about other users, negatively but not expressed in a hurtful way not allowed? As in total ban on negative expression on feelings on other people.

What level will be classified as "ranting"?

These are serious questions that I hope you consider.

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Of course, I'm not hurt, I find people's opinions of me interesting. That doesn't change the fact that it's against the rules though, regardless of how I feel about it. The thing I find weird is that seemingly only several peoples names were provided in the rants, whilst others were... omitted. It was an intriguing thread, though confession rants about user's shouldn't have been posted.

 

I did not omit names. I leave them be. The editing that all I ever did was to censor the curses and put sensitive topics under spoilers. I only did not post ONE confession about ranting, one only one that included a rant because someone called someone else a bitch and I think that draws the line. I think you might already know about that one. Another one that I did not post for example was because there was an anonym that included a sexual body part name.

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Of course, I'm not hurt, I find people's opinions of me interesting. That doesn't change the fact that it's against the rules though, regardless of how I feel about it. The thing I find weird is that seemingly only several peoples names were provided in the rants, whilst others were... omitted. It was an intriguing thread, though confession rants about user's shouldn't have been posted.

 

 

Well that is one problem fixed? Remove names.

 

Let's just end the topic here if it would be alright and wait for the mods' decision. Before things get out of hand.

To those who have given their opinions and support, thank you.

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Many were heavily implied.

 

 

Many were heavily implied, I liked that thread, though reading back through some of them, it was quite evident they were ranting about user's, regardless of whether a name was provided or not. Which one would I know about? I only made two confessions, which had been posted... yet I got called a 'fake hoe' and that's fine?

 

SLAYINGSEOHYUN IS SOO CUTE WITH HIS TROLLING AND CONDESCENDING ACT BUT FK U WHEN UR A RANDOM HOE N CRITICIZE MY BAE THO...T ARA IS HORRIBLE LIKE LOOK AT THEM PERFORMING LIKE THEYRE INTO SOME DEPRESSION MODE AND CHINESE FANS HAVING FETISH OVER HALF ASS LIVE VOCAL IS SOO HUMILIATING ..I LOVE KAMI LOVE ME TOO KEMY

 

this is the only post I can find of your name.

I think they're referring to T-ara though. If this has offended you I'm sorry but there are worse things I had to censor in order to protect you. I told you, you could message me if you feel offended. I thought this was only a post about calling you cute and also a love for Kami. I did not comprehend well.

 

(last post for the matter)

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We have discussed it carefully among ourselves and the conclusion we've come to is that no, the thread will not be reopened.

 

I understand that your intentions were not bad or to wish harm on others, but it was very clear in multiple posts on that thread that it was getting out of control on what was allowed through. Rants about users on the forum that were clear who they were talking about, even without a name mentioned, and even rants that you included the name in and allowed to be posted. You feel you deserved a second warning about what was allowed, but we have always been very clear around this forum that posts like that are never allowed, and this is no exception. If you were simply posting anonymous rants, I could maybe understand the confusion in trying to decide what it is okay, but there was more than one that stated the name and made it obvious who they were talking about. There is no getting around how against the rules that is. You should have known better.

 

We all agree that the warning you received prior to making the thread should have been enough to let you know not to let it turn into something that includes rants about users. This is not the time to debate about 'freedom of expression' or what you think is okay for people to say, because this is an issue we've battled with for a very long time on here and we drew the line and found that in the end, it's better to not allow it to happen at all. The whole forum was made aware of that not only through an announcement, but several verbal warnings around the forum as well as it being listed in the official OneHallyu forum rules for people to see.

 

There is more than one person who felt uncomfortable about this thread, some who were paranoid about them being targeted and others who did not like the idea of it happening to begin with. Things like this can negatively affect, and did affect, multiple people in different ways and we're not confident that something like that wouldn't continue to happen.

 

So in short, we gave the thread a chance by letting you know right away what not to include. Unfortunately in the end it did not work out. In the past when things like this have happened we have not given second chances to people since it is a clear rule. All it takes is one strike and it's over.

 

The thread will be removed, and we ask you do not create something like this again in the future.

 

Thank you.

 

I understand why you guys did what you had to do but I just don't get the method.

There was no fair trial, it wasn't fair to my side. Since the thread was opened, I wasn't asked nor allowed to defend myself about it except for the fact that I am voluntarily posting here.

 

I really wish you'd PM me about it all even though the decision seemed final in the beginning and close the thread myself and say goodbye to the people who followed through. I feel very much, I don't know humiliated? Is that the word? For not getting a single word from you guys except publicly closing the thread.

 

I don't think I was given a chance since I did not recieve a warning nor a PM nor a post in my thread.  The warning that you guys keep talking about in the beginning seemed like an sort of advice to me but I did not quickly realize that it was really a big deal since I don't know, nobody said anything to me after the thread was opened, ever? I was also open to complaints but I don't understand why no one directed it to me. Wasn't I deserving to know that you guys could give me a heads up of what is going to happen.

 

I would like to give a scenario. There were times when I do things wrong but this certain mod/admin/staff pms me and lets me know about it and talk me through it. I learn, I cope and I make it right. Then, things were settled without having to discuss it publicly.

 

I repeat, I would have accepted it but this all came like a hurricane. You maybe discussed it as a staff but I, the one who was mainly involved, wasn't a part of that discussion - just to be informed. That is my only fret.

 

I will never talk about the thread again nor open any sort of similar thread here. That is an understanding.

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Hello can I please ask for the SNSD OP to be given to MoshiMoshi temporarily?

I am too busy these days I don't even have time to visit onehallyu anymore except at least once a month. I figured she can give a better update to the thread. I work and go to school and on top of that I've got a home to take care of so.. I'll be on a hiatus for a few months or a year at most.

 

Thank you~ ~

Edited May 30, 2015 by Hemlock
done

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can i pm a mod

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I got permission from Seunghee's Eyebrows to be the OP of Jaekyung's thread

 

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