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Kirata -> RE: Re: An update on posting style (9/26/2013 1:40:46 PM)
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ORIGINAL: vincentMLquote:
ORIGINAL: Kirata
Perhaps people tend to be a bit more circumspect when they know that giving in to their dark side will provoke an unpleasant response without the option of calling a Forum Nanny.
Forum Nanny says it all....
Well in all fairness, I intended that expression to refer to an unpleasant and impatient style of moderation that treats people like children, not moderation per se. I haven't found anything to complain about with either Chi or Rho. The rules are the rules, and at least as far as my experience goes they've both been performing a thankless job graciously.
If we're going to have moderation, I think it's better to nip provocations in the bud, as it seems to me that Chi and Rho have tried to do, rather than wait for the train wreck and then punish everybody because you don't care who started it. After all, who let it become a train wreck in the first place? That kind of moderation is as culpable as the parties involved.
It's a natural human tendency to want to step on trolls when they come out from under their bridges, and if the moderators don't do it then sooner or later somebody else will. Telling us not to feed them is a cop-out, and so is telling us to use the "Hide" feature. I mean seriously, what the fuck? "We're not doing our job, and if you don't like it hide the evidence."
That all said, the mods can't read every post in every thread. If we're going to have moderation, we have to be part of it. If we see a train wreck shaping up, and don't report the provocateur, we're as much to blame for the inevitable result, and doubly so if we make ourselves part of it. So a conversation about moderation shouldn't be just about the mods.
K.
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