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Subject: Re: CCC Nominations: A question on the subject of vigilantism.

Author: Richard Pijl

Date: 04:29:34 02/05/05

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On February 05, 2005 at 06:55:37, Dan Andersson wrote:

> What are your personal opinions about how to handle if one poster decides that
>moderation is insufficient and begins a campaign to discredit another user? And
>as a followup question: Does it matter if the vigilante is correct or not?
> Subject comes to mind both for recent activities and my own experiences as a
>former moderator.
>
>MvH Dan Andersson

In the first place it is up to the user being discredited to complain to the
moderators. Two reasons:
- In many cases users are perfectly capable (or at least want) to handle this
themselves. I don't want to deny them this opportunity.
- With 100-200 messages each day I am not willing to read everything. Sometimes
the bad messages are also a few pages down as they could be responses in old
threads

However the recent events convinced me that a bit more enforcing by moderators
could be required when these vigilantes are not easily stopped. Meaning, warning
them more actively than we have done so far. This could lead to a (temporary)
ban of these people (after appropriate warnings of course) when they do not
comply.

Richard.



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