Author: Mark Young
Date: 13:39:49 09/18/01
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On September 18, 2001 at 16:28:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. Thank you Bob for your answer, the above is very reasonable, I hope the new group of moderators follows your example. I just fear having one guy setting policies over the wishes of the other 2 moderators. > > > > >> >>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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