Author: Jason Kent
Date: 05:27:23 02/05/05
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On February 05, 2005 at 07:29:34, Richard Pijl wrote: >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. I agree with Richard on this. Flaming and/or bad language directed towards another member shouldn't be allowed. Deletions and warnings, followed by a temporary ban seems appropriate. Hopefully people will listen to the warnings when they know the consequences. :) Jason
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