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About growing pains, moderation, site bans, karma points etcetera

By robin

10 years ago


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    #41 10 years ago

    Great ideas Robin. There will always be a few that will be resistant to having their material edited or receiving a ban vote. If you disagree that is fine but arguing when asked to stop something by the staff and/or attacking moderators will not be tolerated. Robin has asked us to do what is needed to keep the tone positive here on Pinside and that is what we intend to do.

    We have a team that has contributed to this site for a long time and have made every effort to keep this a peaceful place for the community to discuss Pinball. We get just about no recognition for what we do so it makes it a little frustrating to see a few react negatively to our efforts but that is just the way it goes sometimes. I think it is important to remember we are all here because we love pinball. Pinsiders are a passionate group without a doubt the key is to try and respect our fellow posters and realize that we can disagree without taking things over the line.

    #155 10 years ago
    Quoted from robin:

    In a perfect world moderators would not be needed at all. I have always hoped the implementation of a good community (rep) system might enable the community to do most of the moderating duties by itself. The Tilt warning for flagging NSFW content is a great example and something the community is much better/quicker at then any mod could. I would very much like to take some difficult jobs out of the moderators hands and into the hands of the community, eliminating bias and differences in interpretation. The question is how to do this? Maybe I can tie it in with the rep system: if people have too many downvotes in a day they will be "banned" from posting for a certain time period? This will also make things more clear and less "random". Hmm, this needs more thought for sure.

    IMO and it is only that it is not a perfect world if it were I would own all the pins I wanted. The implementation of a rep/vote to ban system would likely intensify group mentality and silence those with an unpopular but not necessarily negative view point. There will always be some that want to abuse the system and a system like this would likely entice them to do so. Like creating multiple accounts to thumbs down a certain Pinsider they don't like to silence them. I would love to enjoy/join the discussions more and not have to worry about keeping the peace so if I turned out to be wrong I would love it.

    #222 10 years ago
    Quoted from CitznFish:

    You know what this forum needs? Some way to get back to the index page once you are at the bottom of a thread. I've looked and I do not see any link for this. I hate having to scroll all the way back to the top to click the "Forum" link, or hitting the back button 'x' amount of times depending on how many pages deep you are into a thread.
    Just my $.02

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