About Moderation

[anon59375068]

right the rule is

(HD) Judge Dredd - I Am The Law Speech

[cassette]

@otatop

That’s not the rule.

Last time I brought this up, CW agreed that it was.

[MaxCut]

@anon38180840

I think I made it pretty clear that there was no maximum suspension length.

I believe permabans were voted down as a moderation tool. meb tried to angle around that with 10-year bans and now you are trying to angle around it.

[otatop]

@anon59375068

right the rule is

It’s pretty straightforward really

RFC: Mods should not resolve flags against their own posts.
Mods should recuse themselves from taking action on a flagged post when they authored the post.

[cassette]

I don’t see that as relevant. CW is the head mod and he agreed with me last time that mods should defer to other mods when the flag involves them.

[otatop]

@MaxCut

I believe permabans were voted down as a moderation tool

Well we all know I’m bad at reading polls but I think you’re wrong here

Community vote: Permanent bans

CLICK HERE TO VOTE Proposed rule (single rule with two pieces): All permanently banned or silenced users shall have their original user name reinstated upon request. Or they may choose to come back under a new user name with no penalty. They will not be required to link their old and new identities. Except for obvious spam accounts, no user shall be permanently banned until the forum passes rules governing permanent bans. For more discussion on this rule, see here and here. poll Poll …

Maybe there’s a more recent poll than July though.

[Trolly]

Letting trolls shit on the carpet over and over is even more insane, yet here we are.

[anon59375068]

Well the forum threw a fit when I banned cuse for like 14 hours for abusing the post report function so this is all pretty comical to me. Cuse invoked that rule at the time, which was at least as broad an interpretation as cassette’s. But this is all just Judge Dredd shit now so who cares.

[MaxCut]

I figure there must have been some rule, given meb going with the 10-year thing instead of perms.

[MaxCut]

@Trolly

Letting trolls shit on the carpet over and over is even more insane, yet here we are.

I hereby nominate Trolly for mod.

[DrModern]

This thread is utterly incomprehensible, you guys. What the hell happened? What is this debate even about?

(I’m positive I typed “this debate” the first time.)

[anon38180840]

@cassette

CW you’re not supposed to act on flags that involve you. Last time you said that the issue was an immediate threat to your wellbeing so you had to. I don’t see that this time.

Jbro was not moderated for a personal attack on me, he was moderated for referencing old drama. Doesn’t matter who it involved. I haven’t acted on any of the current personal attacks directed at me ITT.

[MrWookie]

Max demands a pound of flesh in response for any mod action on a forum he doesn’t participate on except to complain about moderation.

[ripdog]

@anon38180840

Doesn’t matter who it involved

Wrong

[j8i3h289dn3x7]

Seconded.

[anon59375068]

hahaha right it was just a happy coincidence that he was referencing a particularly embarrassing episode of yours.

[MaxCut]

@MrWookie

Max demands a pound of flesh in response for any mod action on a forum he doesn’t participate on except to complain about moderation.

Sour grapes because you can’t ban me? A position just opened up.

[Yuv]

@Surf

All I gotta say is I feel for the mods both past and present. It’s ludicrous for us to have some expectation of volunteer mods implementing some sort of homegrown rule of law perfectly equitably. Just do whatever you feel is best and don’t feel a need to justify it. The stakes here are so incredibly low, just make your decisions and move on.

[Effen]

This is an incredibly bad look for the site. The only people who care about rules in this context are those looking to angle them or skirt the edge or whine about them.

Just. Ban. Them. Keep banning them if you have to. This is such a profound waste of everyone’s time, trolls included. Go volunteer somewhere to atone for this shit. The world could use it.

This isnt hard. Stop making this hard.

[cassette]

Do you always grunch this hard? The moderation approach you’re describing is exactly what’s happening. But the results are … different than what you predicted.