Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 22:39:50 06/04/99
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On June 04, 1999 at 21:57:48, Micheal Cummings wrote: >1. If someone posts a question regarding a moderators action, which involved >just asking a simple non offensive question. Will the new moderators follow the >path of previous moderators and delete these posts. I addressed some of this in my written statement thing: http://www.icdchess.com/ccc/resource/moderators/moreland.html If someone has a problem with a moderator action, and they think that the group needs to hear about it, the group should hear about it. Are moderators fair targets for personal attacks? No, but I would let people get away with more against me than against other people. I wouldn't want to give the impression that I was killing posts because people disagreed with me. A moderators immune to rules against making personal attacks? No. Should you be afraid to disagree with a moderator, for fear that they won't treat you fairly in the future? No, of course not. >2. And I ask the new moderators, what is there opinion on who moderates the >moderators. For example a moderator goes on a thread an post deletion spree for >an reason which is only apparent to him. The court of last resort is Steve. If the moderators mess up badly enough, Steve will do something. He doesn't want CCC to be an embarassment to him, since he identifies himself and his business with it. But moderators do have a lot of control over the atmosphere of this place, and they have a large influence over Steve's level of happiness, and hence its chances of continued existence, so vote carefully. I don't think that we need a formal moderator oversight process, and if someone suggests making a committee to do this, I'm going to puke. >Hypothetical >3. If there are certain members who have had trouble with moderators having >personal problems against them. Now for whatever reason, if a member has a post >removed which is quite harmless in his eyes, or maybe he did a harmless joke >which everyone saw as harmless but a moderator took it upon himself to remove >this offending post. Would the other two moderators if asked to look into the >situation do so. And if finding that a moderator has been using his situation >for revenge or similar purposes. how would they handle the situation. This addresses a moderation issue that isn't well laid out. I can tell you all day long about how I'd do this or that, but after the election there will be an email discussion between the three moderators and possibly Steve, the topic of which will be the process the moderators will use to make decisions. The answer to your question is very much tied to the result of that discussion, which hasn't taken place yet, of course. I think that the users should deal with the moderators as a group, and not address their concerns to particular moderators, in an effort to try to play on or create inter-moderator politics. If I get email from a member, that pertains to a moderation issue, it will be forwarded to the other two moderators. I don't know for sure that I did this every time last year, but that's how I feel now. If the question here is would I let someone get (in my view) crapped on by another moderator who has a thing against them, I should hope not, but I refer you back to what I said a couple paragraphs ago. Will you be happy with every position I take? I doubt it. Will I treat you as fairly as I can? Of course. bruce
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