Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:28:44 09/18/01
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On September 18, 2001 at 16:17:19, Mark Young wrote: >On September 18, 2001 at 15:06:44, Steven Schwartz wrote: > >>The autobiographies and philosophies of moderation from >>nominees who have sent them are now available at: >>http://www.icdchess.com/ccc/resource/moderators/index.html >>Miguel A. Ballicora >>Peter Berger >>Uri Blass >>Roy Eassa >>John Merlino >>Gian-Carlo Pascutto >>Ed Schröder >>Slater Wold >>Fernando Villegas >> >>Elections shall begin this Friday, September 21 and end >>next Friday, September 28. >> >>We will announce the rules for voting prior to elections. >> >>You may wish to use the next couple of days to ask moderators >>questions here on the board. Once the elections begin, the >>board can return to "normal". >>Steve (ICD/Your Move Chess & Games) >> >> >>Miguel A. Ballicora >> Peter Berger >> Uri Blass >> Roy Eassa >> John Merlino >> Gian-Carlo Pascutto >> Ed Schröder >> Slater Wold >> Fernando Villegas > >Mr. Schwartz could you explain what procedures the moderators must follow when >deciding on what post(s) are to be deleted? > >Does a majority of moderators have to agree on what post(s) should be deleted? I can speak for the current group. We agreed on two policies when we started about 6 months ago: 1. To kick a user out, requires two of the three moderators to concur. We can't actually ban a user, we have to send a request to Steve/Tim to do this. When they see two agree, they act. There are exceptions. If someone goes nuts and they see it, and one of us says "kick him out" they will do so, with the proviso that if the other two moderators disagree then this will be un-done. This lets us handle the "friday night fights" easier and quicker. People know that Tim/Steve are harder to reach on weekends, and generally the troublemakers come out of the woodwork during that 48 hour window of opportunity when they can run amok without getting busted. 2. We delete posts, message by message, when we feel it reasonable. If it is questionable, we have email discussions. If it is an obvious case, we delete them and _then_ email each other. As messages can also be undeleted by Steve/ Tim if the majority of the moderators agree. So far, this has never happened, while I was a moderator. We don't delete very much. > >If not, why do we elect 3 moderators, since the moderator with the strictest >posting policy sets and overrides the posting policy for the other 2 moderators >and the whole of ICC regardless of the other 2 moderators more moderate posting >policies written before the election? > I don't see any evidence of this happening. We try to work as a _team_ and we try to avoid moderating threads we are involved in, to avoid any sort of conflict of interest. >Is there no check and balance, or is it every moderator for them selves? It is a _team_.
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