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Someone put a dime in the meter over there
D.Duck wrote:
wrote in message ... On Jul 3, 9:19 pm, HK wrote: Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:11:24 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:34:08 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On Jul 3, 8:17 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:54:31 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On Jul 3, 7:25 pm, "Jim" wrote: It's melting away. Check it out. Nothing personal, and I admit I don't like this Gould sockpuppet, but I knew he couldn't do it. Moderation, is for moderates. I knew it was going to happen and I even told Chuck so. It's not that Chuck isn't capable of moderating, but his dream was to have a lightly moderated forum in which everybody got along with the occasional spat that would dissolve quickly. It's a very "New Age" approach to forum moderating and doesn't work worth a damn because of three members in particular just couldn't drop what went on here and dragged it over there. Secondarily, it was too easy to just drop down to the last fifty posts which compacted the latest activity and became the defacto forum without reference to the various thread categories. I could have told Chuck that would happen too - been there, done that. Thirdly (thirdly?), he shouldn't have even gone with an off topic thread category - told him that too. Chuck wanted it to go his way and it didn't. He's also stubborn because this was evident two months ago shortly after he got it up and running, but he kept hoping. Instead of banning people or barring them for a day, three days, week, month, he deleted the posts and that never works. He had the resources if he only asked for some advice before he set it up and gotten some advice from former moderators who have been through the wars. Chuck needs to be the last court of appeal for the actions of a moderator or maybe two moderators who become the bad guys. That way he can isolate himself from his group and act as a "El Supremo Grande" when complaints come flying. He doesn't even have to be personally involved - he can read through the posts and give instructions to the moderators if there is something that he doens't like. I tried to tell him months ago that one forum, and hefty groundings for anyone who was a jerk would work. Also suggested opening up for negative as well as positive karma. This allows folks to know right off the bat if a responder is respected in the group. In other groups I frequent, if you are a positive poster, with knowledge, you had a lot of green leaves, if you were useless, you ended up with a huge red bar...Also offered to help him moderate.. Like you said, he needs a couple of helpers to do the sifting, and he needs to be the Court of Appeals. In other forums, the most effective technique I've seen is when a thread goes nasty or too hot headed, the moderator just locks that thread for 3 days. By the time it gets unlocked, everyone is on to something else, and it rarely gets any fresh fuel after that. It's nice because it doesn't point any fingers, or make any one person wear a pointy hat that can lead to festering resentment. I've seen that done - unfortunately, it bleds over to other threads. Chuck needs to get a moderator for him - the hands off approach isn't going to work and he probably will end up talking to himself. But he's got to do it his way - good luck to him. All that has to happen is for the turd blossoms from here behave. But I don't think they can control themselves. Hope the chuckster kicks them off and soon.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You are WAFA =============================== Earlier today you asked me to ignore him. You would pay attention to the resident child abuser? |
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