Right and there seems to be one person around here who takes personal offense to shots at the content of their posting and equates them with personal attacks on a postere’ character, professional ability, intelligence, etc.
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We used to have a thread for moderator actions. Maybe this was it. @Watevs seems to have been temp banned. Maybe some posts were deleted. Whatever happened should be reported to the community imo. This should be done for any ban of any length of anyone imo.
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That dude has issues.
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So he took it well?
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Are there exceptions? Maybe we don’t need to vote on it if the banned person requested said ban and a mod obliges their request?
I would basically say no. There aren’t enough bannings that this is a burden for mods and this should be transparent. It’s a community owned and operated site right? Right @moderators? Right @admin? I think the community should see bannings happen and why they happen.
The only exceptions I can think of that is agree with are obvious buycheapviagranow spam or if the user requested their banning be private.
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A timeout seems fine under the circumstances. Any further action probably needs a vote would be my take though.
At the very minimum the mod should make a post itt describing what happened and the action s/he took.
Otherwise we’re back in 22 land.
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I think mods should be empowered to give timeouts of up to a day without a community referendum. Holding a referendum open for longer than the proposed punishment seems absurd, and I can’t imagine most people really being arsed to vote in something like that.
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Yeah, otherwise there’s really no point in having mods.
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In a perfect world there wouldn’t be any mods - in the real world they should only exist here to mop up spam and enact the wishes of the community, though I’m not opposed to an exception for very short bans if accompanied by a post here describing what happened.
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And, I suppose the corollary to this is that, in instances where one up to 24 hr timeout is insufficient to get someone acting out back in line, then it’s likely that a community conversation is going to be more productive than the crude cudgel of escalating ban times, so longer and/or additional actions should be discussed.
How do you even shove a forum account up one’s ass?
Real lyfe lol
You write the account name and password on some teeth then shove those teeth up someone’s ass.
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Well played sir.
I didn’t propose a vote. Just logging the action. If it pisses someone off they can make a fuss. If it pisses no one off, no fuss. But people should have the opportunity to see it.
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As far as I’m concerned, our current mandate covers such timeouts already.
We’ve legitimately delegated our mods the responsibility and powers to moderate our site. That’s what community moderated means… that it is a delegation, and it’s from the community to the mods (as opposed to 2+2 where the mods serve at the pleasure of the owners). Community moderation doesn’t mean voting on everything all the time.
As far as I’m concerned, such timeouts are well within the ordinary powers a mod would necessarily need to be delegated to effectively moderate our site. So as far as I’m concerned, our mods already have the power to issue timeouts.