If the community expects moderator posts to be 100% snark-free, I’ll happily resign.
I like the community, I want it to succeed, and, as has been repeatedly stated, there aren’t a lot of volunteers for the job. Our most recent one was just voted down bigly.
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I guess? What’s your point?
C’mon man, as a moderator, you want to keep getting digs in, now of all times? I’m not expecting “100% snark-free” but to take shots right now from the mod role is showing some bad judgement, imo.
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Potato volunteered and I guarantee he would win. I think there were two or three others as well.
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Wookie’s been extremely valuable in the COVID thread. I’m not sure why mods would be expected to not post?
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Not sure I would call that winning tbh.
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Was it your impression that any single mod was all that eager to try to deal with this stupid feud, all the while having every post and action criticized while dealing with it?
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I’m not sure what you are trying to do here Jman? Do you think Wookie is incapable of standing up for himself? Are you trying to tell SensiblePerson how to feel?
It is difficult enough to separate the mod from the poster without ex-mods piling on against posters.
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2 cents from a long time lurker here.
I’d say I feel both a twinge of sadness and anger at the direction the forum has gone post elections. The sadness part is obvious, the anger is that I have to admit (to myself) that the right wing rhetoric about the left (especially the liberal left) eventually “eating it’s own” is most probably true.
For me personally I’ve benefitted from this forum by being able to take in a left leaning perspective of the issues of the day from (and by) the lived experiences of people; as opposed to media personalities. For me personally the current toxicity doesn’t really matter and if I have to honest, there is a “reality tv”/trainwreck aspect to it that have to admit is perversely enjoyable!
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I would volunteer to be a mod but I think I would be really bad at acting on anything. Someone used the term abuse in the other thread. I don’t understand how you can feel abused by a stranger you don’t know typing something on the internet. I’m not saying this to dismiss how others feel as their experience is their experience. I just don’t get it personally.
But this is my first time being part of something like this. I don’t have history on 2p2 with anybody.
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I think it helps to distinguish it from the popular category of pornography.
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Do you have something in else in mind as an alternative? If we are to be community moderated the community needs to provide input on what is acceptable and what isn’t. I suppose it’s possible that some overly motivated flaggers could tilt the scale some, but I would hope that would be leveled when the issue was discussed by the community.
Another forum I lurk uses an anonymous moderator account for this reason. Doesn’t solve everything you mentioned but it at least helps create some separation between mod actions and poster.
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I gave about a day’s thought to something similar, just not with total anonymity. I figured each mod could write their signature at the bottom whenever they posted from the mod account as a mod.
But all I thought of all day was ways we would end up pranking each other within the first week.
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The main thing in my opinion is that behavior needs to be moderated not people. People get infractions and then get bans, but its the things they said that caused the moderation. This way if the rules are this or that, its transparent to everyone what can be said and done. If the rules can’t be cleanly explained or if they are applied on an adhoc basis, then things are sure to be done unevenly. Really the moderator shouldn’t change any rules without transparency, and two good moderators should more or less apply same rule to the same action equally.