Author: Will Singleton
Date: 16:02:50 05/06/99
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On May 06, 1999 at 18:11:46, Dave Gomboc wrote: <snip> >What should change for the system to work better? > >I will start with some possibilities: > 1. Before a post removal can take place, there must be agreement by two >moderators, or one moderator plus someone from ICD. This may be a good balance >between "timely post removal" and "unnecessary post removal". > 2. Possibly some mechanism to view deleted posts? But this kind of defeats >the purpose of deleting them, so I don't know how good that would be. > 3. Remove posts, not people (except at their own request). It would be >necessary to have some sort of "moderator-must-approve-this-post" mechanism to >avoid abuse of the kind seen in the past, though. > >Dave Dave, Good suggestions. We had these discussions at the beginning of our term, and arranged things the best we could. Point-by-point: 1. We considered this, but felt it would take too much time to be effective, since we are all on different schedules. Remember, we are all not here 24/7. It was further decided that if any one moderator got "out of hand," the others would take him to task. There is also a provision for a moderator to be "canned," by vote of the other two. So, essentially, the way we set it up means that decisions are tacticly approved by all. Better ways to do it? Sure, but that's what we came up with. 2. Defeats the purpose, as you said. 3. We do remove posts, not people (unless requested). There have only be one or two crazies who got the ax. So I'm not sure I understand this one. These and other decisions were given a lot of thought, and it seems to have worked out rather well. There will always be people, for whatever reason, who will continue to complain, threaten, whatever, and for those there is little one can do. You might want to save these discussions, in the event you run and are elected next time. They tend to repeat. Will
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