Miami

First topic message reminder :

Draw is out. Projected quarter finals are
Djokovic v Berdych
Federer v Ferrer
Wawrinka v Nadal
Murray v Nishikori

Del Potro playing Pella in the first round...if he wins that then it is Federer.
Kyle Edmund playing Vesely....if he wins that then it is Djokovic.

Oh my, thats the worst miss Ive seen in a long time

temporary21 wrote:Oh my, thats the worst miss Ive seen in a long time

Thought you were busy, T2. Put this on your DVR and watch it later.

In a fascinating day's Tennis, Murray didn't disappoint as he managed to somehow win, despite looking worse than he was in IW

I was lf, sleeping. But I woke up and it's 3am now, not even close to tired. I really don't want to take sleeping tablets again but might have to

temporary21 wrote:I was lf, sleeping. But I woke up and it's 3am now,  not even close to tired. I really don't want to take sleeping tablets again but might have to

I've heard there's a good cure for insomnia out, have you tried watching some Raonic matches.

Sadly he's not on, and he's gotten more interesting now. Wheres Coric? I find his game to be hard to watch

temporary21 wrote:Sadly he's not on, and he's gotten more interesting now. Wheres Coric? I find his game to be hard to watch

Doesn't take much to please you then !!!

legendkillarV2 wrote:Amazing that activities off the court this last month have taken centre stage compared with what is happening on court.

Shame

Agreed. The start of Miami has had some shock results to talk about but it's still being overshadowed by other stuff. Fed's comment about not much happened whilst he has been away was funny though.

Haddie-nuff wrote:Was he moderating..?? I thought he made a point as a poster

It's hard to tell isn't it? Later comments seem to claim it was moderating but I wasn't sure myself, as my quoted pair shows.

Well as everyone wants to see the matter dead and buried I'll take the path of least resistance

Fine, though we rarely agree so much on a matter such as this fan / moderating matter.

I'm both... I'll go into mod mode when I feel it's needed. Now move on...

temporary21 wrote:I'm both... I'll go into mod mode when I feel it's needed.  Now move on...  

No, I don't think I will, because you didn't pre-emptively moderate, you inflamed a situation.

Capricious use of authority mixed with bias is a poor background for the robust, friendly debate posters here look for.

And I'm breaking no rules here.

Can we move along please gentlemen. Mods and Admins are posters here too and not here to be judged to whether you deem them acceptable in persona.

Let us move on before I have to care about Tennis

I hardly ever post anymore and this thread is a reminder of why I stopped.

A ridiculously over zealous moderator who only intervenes based on protecting one fan group, who most of the time, whilst claiming to 'nip' things in the bud, intervenes in a manner that inflames and aggravates the situation. Often completely misreading the situation in his/her desire to wield the stick.

It's reduced the level of debate to a narrow spectrum. It's pathetic. The constant issuing of threats like some kind of cyber dictator.

Temp, why don't you just chill and see how LF JHM do the job.

With moderating, like commentating, less is better.

sigh ffs!
Its been archived! Now the top admins can have a look
now back onto topic, this is the last time I will ask

Temp comments to much for a Mod, bit of a salt & pepper trying to be all over the place, think he's takes this role too seriously.

Also if I was a mod, and there are 5 posts a day, everyday of how I am modding badly, I would quit, seriously this role is not for him, no embarrassment to quit, and get back to normal Poster status and enjoy the forum.

There are another 15 posters here who could be mods, since LF and JHM are getting old, and need an apprentice to help with modding

Also type of "this is last time, strike number 1,2,3,9000 etc," do make me laugh.

Temp you should quit, I swear it would do you good on personal and Academic level

What's the point of archiving this thread AFTER you've deleted the pertinent responses.

Why don't you just stop your interventions.

Being a moderator doesn't mean you're obliged to fiddle with threads and people's posts.

For some reason you don't seem to realise how frustrating it is to find a post that you've taken the effort to write see removed or edited for no justifiable reason.

Emanc. Its not archived to hide anything, its still there for all the admins and mods to see.
It CAN be reinstated, but it means that half the Miami masters thread has nothing to do with the tennis.
This way, this thread can stay the tennis thread. It might surprise you to know it would be nice to talk tennis

It's incredible that my post doing no more than drawing attention to two other posts on the same thread gets deleted, while the same two posts (put there by the moderator) remain.

Anyone would think there are no rules except whatever suits the moderator.

Where is SB's response to you? or Bogbrush's where he highlighted the inconsistency in your arguments or Jahu's where he listed your modus operandi?

Because it was part of the affected conversation, ill get rid of the two in question as well if it helps

emancipator wrote:I hardly ever post anymore and this thread is a reminder of why I stopped.

A ridiculously over zealous moderator who only intervenes based on protecting one fan group, who most of the time, whilst claiming to 'nip' things in the bud, intervenes in a manner that inflames and aggravates the situation. Often completely misreading the situation in his/her desire to wield the stick.

It's reduced the level of debate to a narrow spectrum. It's pathetic. The constant issuing of threats like some kind of cyber dictator.

Temp, why don't you just chill and see how LF JHM do the job.

With moderating, like commentating, less is better.

+ 1

I too post far, far less than I once did ; and the reason - for the most part - is because the quality of moderating exhibited by one particular Mod falls disappointingly short of what is reasonably expected by any rational and fair-minded forum member.

temporary21 wrote:Because it was part of the affected conversation, ill get rid of the two in question as well if it helps

NO, just leave things alone. You do too much 'getting rid off' as it is.

There we go. It should be all archived, including my stuff too. I have specifically asked the head admis to take a serious look at it.

temporary21 wrote:Because it was part of the affected conversation, ill get rid of the two in question as well if it helps

Why? Your posts broke no rules. Nothing did.

Because you felt it was inflaming the conversation, so fair enough, I got rid of it. That way there should be no inconsistency, I applied it to both my posts and those in the conversation, so we can put this back onto the tennis
ok?

When I logged on this morning there where 81 posts on this thread. Now there are 76, despite an ongoing conversation.

Which is ok... because they are 76 mostly related to Miami now. The affected stuff hasn't been hush hushed, its gone to where people can have a look.
so its ok guys, it can go back to the tennis

1 post of mine got deleted, and it was a truthful post about Temps behavior last few days.

He messes up here, and than goes and call top Admins to sort his mess, ruining their weekends too.

Murray through against Istomin last night. I really feel he needs a real good run in this tournament after flopping in Indian Wells. Next up for him a match against Dimitrov.

temporary21 wrote:Because you felt it was inflaming the conversation, so fair enough, I got rid of it. That way there should be no inconsistency, I applied it to both my posts and those in the conversation, so we can put this back onto the tennis
ok?

That's what you always do.

You pick a fight on the pretext that you're trying to prevent one and then when people complain you delete all related posts with the claim that this is somehow fair for everyone because it removes all incendiary posts, when the only problematic posts and behaviour were yours.
No one broke any rules - there was no need to intervene.

Topic - Miami
Subject - Tennis

I reckon we can stick to that from now on can't we, everyone? Shouldn't be too hard. If anyone wants a chat about other worldly matters, they can PM me.

Ok eman, fair
Ill try it that way,
I will, quite literally, do absolutely nothing but post as myself, EXCEPT if a reported post comes through. You can say or do or fight however much you like, I might get involved as myself, but I wont ask for calm or not to wind posters up whatsoever.

One condition, you agree to come back to the forum and contribute to it, from a TENNIS standpoint.

Is that a decent deal?

Thanks Temp,

I'm more than happy with that





emancipator

AWESOME
NOW can we get back to the tennis?

Can we just lay off temp for one day??

Unless you yourself have been a mod and seen the nonsense they have to endure because of hurt feelings. As posters we have a duty to conduct ourselves in a manner befitting.

Not a fan of gang mentality, so can we if we do want to have a discussion about the forum, do it in a more constructive fashion. Just seems one objection to modding causes all to come out in numbers. Please just can diplomacy prevail. 

Support our mods.

Thx lk, its alright, its the same about 5 people who really don't like the way I moderate. So ill try their way, and just hope people don't let things get out of hand.

p.s its nice to see you haven't gone, sorry if it was me who upset you a few days ago

No problem temp. I know we had our fair share of disagreements and we spoke a bit via pm to iron those differences out.

It wasn't you who that caused me to go away. Just the confusing nature of posters and their presentation of debates.

I haven't watched much of Miami so far. I hope to watch some today.

Short of Rafa retiring through seemingly heat stroke, and Roger still not well enough to come back, its still the Novak train, unless Murray ups the ante

I did see about Roger and Rafa pulling out.

Maybe their protecting their H2Hs against Novak!  

This is a great chance for Kyrgios to come through. Destroying Baghdatis was impressive and with Stan and Rafa gone he should make the QF without difficulty. If so, hope he can beat Raonic.

LK, trying to make a place for himself as a mod, with sweet talk?

Jahu wrote:LK, trying to make a place for himself as a mod, with sweet talk?

I was a mod!

Just the volume of comments directed at temp is astonishing. You'd think he killed Jesus!

legendkillarV2 wrote:

Jahu wrote:LK, trying to make a place for himself as a mod, with sweet talk?

I was a mod!

Just the volume of comments directed at temp is astonishing. You'd think he killed Jesus!

if only! Actually he deleted my post!!!

Archived, theres a big difference, its not actually gone. Btw Johnson in a third against Berdych.

Berdych looking better than he has in a long time. Glad he got rid of the tacky tops he had and now has a deal with Adidas.

legendkillarV2 wrote:

Jahu wrote:LK, trying to make a place for himself as a mod, with sweet talk?

I was a mod!

Just the volume of comments directed at temp is astonishing. You'd think he killed Jesus!

See, you're doing it again, taking us back into the murky history

Berdych beats Johnson in three sets 6-3 6-7 6-3.

Jamie Murray confirmed as the new number one doubles player after this tourney now!