Moderation Questions

Anyone who wants more moderation should post on UP. Luciom or Playbig wouldn't last a day there and they perma'd Victor. Funny that Trolly still posts here when he wants everyone like that banned and has a place full of only reasonable people.

crickets from luciom, as usual.

I am not advocating for more moderation. I understood you to be advocating for far less moderation.

How does that math work?

Now that twitter pays you if your impressions are high enough I doubt that business model would work for you anymore.

I suppose at 200% everyone has 3 personalities on average

Well, generally yeah, but the thing that came up is whether or not to ban playbig. I guess you don't want him banned since you think moderation is perfect here and he's not banned.

There are a lot of temp bans here (bad) and post deletions (worse), but there aren't really many permas. Has anyone in pol gotten perma'd? I haven't noticed any. Was mets perma'd?

multiple personality disorders

Also tongue in cheek

At UP that post would send you straight to jail. They have the best posters, because of jail.

I would actually prefer my "alternative" solution, which entails less moderation, but let's face it, the "can we make a whitelist of posters we can call names" suggestion was never going to fly. The two options were offered more as a juxtaposition to illustrate the point that if (hypothetical) posters are going to get free rein to run around being scumbags then we should get free rein to call them such in the interests of equity.

Whoa there, pal. Where did I say "ban"? I said "contain". He was already contained before, he slipped out of quarantine while nobody was looking.

I don't think moderation here is perfect. It wasn't perfect when I was a mod (nor did I mod identically to CN). I do feel strongly that (i) some moderation is necessary beyond removing spambots; and (ii) people should go easy on complaining endlessly about volunteer mods unless the mod is truly off the rails.

Mets can make a gimmick account and come back to post any time he pleases, as others here have done.

No worries. I have little interest in actually pursuing the business plan.

Microbet also strongly believes that modding is a very thanked job, so much thanking. So I know he can be wrong about stuff…

I’m apparently on the wrong timeline because every day someone tells me I suck, and if I’m extra lucky I wake up to nasty PMs too 😀

Which speaks to the stupidity of bans, but whatever, I guess it's more to talk about.

I didn't say it wasn't criticized. It's both.

Not that you're talking about me here, but I don't mean anything personally about you. I'm talking about the whole policy/culture of modding.

And I'm a crazy radical nut job who no one agrees with, so you really really shouldn't take my wild anarchist ravings personally.

No worries ♥

He doesn't seem to have an interest in doing this at this time

I remember it a little bit differently.

One group took their ball and went home, but it wasn't the right wingers.

Wookie sucked. Crossnerd sucks for different reasons. Bring back ElliotR.

You remember it wrong. People didn't leave until it was clear Mat was closing the forum and he closed it because of a couple rw'ers complaints.

I organized a bunch of people in forming the new forum and I have a very clear idea of what happened.