Can someone please explain

and the corporate offices monitor SE mod alerts! So looks like they would know WHY these mod alerts get sent They have threatened to shut us down!

So we don't want to get Lee's feathers ruffled, so to say?
How about in other forums, where I can't stand some freeloaders posting advertisements on the boards, against forum policies. Are we to avoid reporting those too?
In other words, I thought by reporting spammers, I was being a 'trooper', now I get the feeling I am a 'backstabber'.

Or some other very offensive post reports, that are the problem as I understand it.

The problem is that what is allowed in SE is way past what is allowed in the help forums, although I've seen some pretty bad bickering in talkback forum and a couple of other ones.

The bickering here, particularly the constant insults regarding political views by members of all persuasion, are getting a bit tiresome to the upper PTB. So there has been some urging to use the communal SE moderator mail for compliants.

Really out and out bad posts regarding language, spamming, racism, etc should be reported by the modalert buttion IMO because they need to be dealt with as quickly as possible and probably by people that can do more than just pull a post.

Of course, it's the old problem, somethings everyone agrees is just out and out wrong, about most things, some believe it's deadly insult and rankest foul, while others think it fairly applies to situation at hand.

But for the really out and out stuff, not just in SE, I'd personally say hit the modalert. While I normally defer judgement calls to the moderator(s) who routinely monitor a forum and answer there, some things I'll pull anywhere anytime, and copy and forward to Lee and others myself.


Roger

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I just bumped Lee's post in which he said:

''Dear SE folks,

I've been asked to post this message below on behalf of the SE Mods and I hope you really take at heart as what is being asked from each and every one of you. So please read it carefully, print it out if you have to, but let it be known that if things do continue to go down this degrading path--we all will be at the risk of losing SE completely. If you care about this community that you so passionately are a part of, read the message below and contribute to the cause to make SE a friendly and constructive environment that everyone can enjoy. If you can't contribute anything healthy to it, you are simply not welcomed here any longer. From this day on the choice is yours--because there will come a time in the near future when the business decision of keeping SE around will be revisited and I hope when that moment does arrive, the decision will be a positive one.

Thank you for your time, understanding, and cooperation.

Respectfully,
-Lee Koo
CNET Community''

(The emphasis is mine.)

The bulk of the mod alert were coming from SE. They go to all of the mods in the community, to Lee, and to the editors in the office of CNet.

The community is primarily geared for help. SE was started years ago under a different name because there were times members in the Help forums wanted to talk to each other. It was decided to give them a place to relax and talk.

SE members here have been asked ad nauseum to not respond to posts or people that rile them. Doing so gives their permission to the ''offender'' to continue.
It is hard to walk away, we know that. So, we try to give everybody their say, and thus not be censors, which we are often considered to be. It should be expected that people will disagree, but it can be done without attacking the messenger. Some here do a good job of disagreeing without that.

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