It's not that you are harsh, it's that there is no way of knowing when you are going to come down like a ton of bricks on someone, and when things will slide. Being inconsistent is just about the worst thing a moderator or an admin on a message board can be, as it does drive posters away when they can't predict the result of their own actions.
I don't aknowlidge inconsistent to be part of my flaws. If some one has gotten such idea, then its really a missunderstoodment. Therefore I think this migth also come down to the language issue. I have never actually "went berserk" or emotional against anyone or in any occasion here in Shipbucket. Trust me, you would have noticed it if I would really would loose my temper. I tend to stick with the actuall content of my sayings or in my agenda, and I've noticed (elsewhere in internet) that to native englishspeakers this migth rather rude or unpleasent, definetly unpolite at least. In Finnish culture, we don't speak without meaning or hide our thougths inside unneserical small-talk or faked friendliness. Expecially when dealing with issues where someone needs to use imperative, the clearer the message is, the better its thougth have dealed.
Some occasions have needed more of that use of imperative and some little bit less.
I also dislike the use of smilies, so sometimes my message seems to have been taken with wrong angle. Also. what comes to my spelling, the errors I make are perhaps the only inconsisted part in my posting. It only seems to be close to the speed I wrote. When Im exited or emotional, I spell and type lot slower than usuall, as I tend to think and ponder each word Im to use, and thus I migth sometimes forget the idea in my sentences and make them rather odd or uncomprehesible. Normal mood I just type what comes to my mind without giving it that much thougth.
Ok, so he got grandfathered in, that's fine, and the way things are. The issue I have now is Lazer_One does some great icebreakers and has, on occasion, used complex non-standard shading to represent complex and dramatic hull curves, and as done so very well. Is there any particular reason (other than a grandfather clause) why Psilander gets to have his non-standard stuff uploaded while Lazer_One doesn't?
issue with lazer is that He first tried to impled his own rather variable way of shading and shaddowing, not so dissimilar to Psilanders work. I've gone multiple E-mails and PMs with him over the issue and progressively he has started to mellow down his style to more close to the standard.
And yeas, Ive used exactly same sort of language and harsheness towards him as towards anyone else.
Great thing about Lazer_One is that aside taking that as personal insult against himself, He has understood my meaning, yet remained stobourn enough to actually listen it straigth away, but only after few or three times have finaly returned to the ranks.
Therefore I nor Colloseum have not wanted to be too strick upon him, as compared to some one(s) with bit larger Ego, he has showed will to co-operate with his undeniable artistical skills and with our standards.
I don't expect perfect spelling or grammar from our ESL posters, I would like them to try to get stuff right.
No one makes spelling error's in purpose. I have little sympathy to those native english speakers who keep up the idea that the "ESL" people sort of "insult" their language when they are making huge effort in trying to communicate with the natives in their own language.