Disappearing Threads,unacceptable!

[hobbes]

But to be honest, i am all for a MOD-free forum. Not because i don't like them or think them malfunctioning. I think selfregulation makes the best places. If a forum dies due to lack of moderation, it is it's destiny.

I agree with that in principle, but I do see the MODs as having two very important roles and thus being necessary.

1) They need to control "SPAM". By "spam" I mean people and businesses that fill up the forums with false posts and links to their site. I witnessed a rather decent forum become disabled by this. You would have 50 posts per page and 48 were not just spam, but hidden spam. The title would sound ok, but once you clicked on the links you were re-directed.

2) Trolls- people who come to disrupt and upset. I salute the mods for ridding the forum of the octopussys, Hypoluxas and the like. Just a few rotten apples like these can cause the forum to lose its spirit and people drift away. I think the mods should be empowered to ban these people based on complaints from forum members. The discretion part is a mod deciding if the complaints are valid or a conspiracy.


Aside from these 2 roles, I thinks Mods should be totally hands off.


Aside: Have you seen Donnie Darko? Donnie to Father:"So they don't want us to tell anybody what we don't know?" Sound kinda familiar from my last post

I am not planning any research. I'm talking about future archeologists unearthing the forgotten derelict server which stores the data of the forum. They will attempt to reconstruct life in the year 2000, I want them to get the real "stuff".

[Yogi]

I agree with that in principle, but I do see the MODs as having two very important roles and thus being necessary.

1) They need to control "SPAM". By "spam" I mean people and businesses that fill up the forums with false posts and links to their site. I witnessed a rather decent forum become disabled by this. You would have 50 posts per page and 48 were not just spam, but hidden spam. The title would sound ok, but once you clicked on the links you were re-directed.

2) Trolls- people who come to disrupt and upset. I salute the mods for ridding the forum of the octopussys, Hypoluxas and the like. Just a few rotten apples like these can cause the forum to lose its spirit and people drift away. I think the mods should be empowered to ban these people based on complaints from forum members. The discretion part is a mod deciding if the complaints are valid or a conspiracy.


Aside from these 2 roles, I thinks Mods should be totally hands off.

Totally true. Very convincing.

Aside: Have you seen Donnie Darko? Donnie to Father:"So they don't want us to tell anybody what we don't know?" Sound kinda familiar from my last post 

Seen it. Point taken!!

I am not planning any research. I'm talking about future archeologists unearthing the forgotten derelict server which stores the data of the forum. They will attempt to reconstruct life in the year 2000, I want them to get the real "stuff".

Sometimes i tend to forget your sense of humor!!!
That's my failure, btw.


Yogi

[j2k4]

Having just kinda skimmed this, I have to say I think J'Pol and hobbes have been pretty congenial and reasonable throughout.

As for my two cents, lock it, edit it, whatever-

NOTHING SHOULD JUST "DISAPPEAR".

FULL STOP!



edit:


An unlawful exercise was just committed by a "mad mod"

Just so you know.

I really preferred the other, though.

[Yogi]

Having just kinda skimmed this, I have to say I think J'Pol and hobbes have been pretty congenial and reasonable throughout.

Did i anywhere state otherwise???

Yogi

[j2k4]

Originally posted by SensualGardening@6 December 2003 - 18:06

Having just kinda skimmed this, I have to say I think J'Pol and hobbes have been pretty congenial and reasonable throughout.

Did i anywhere state otherwise???

Yogi

For what it's worth, Yogi, I have no problem with your participation here, either.

'Course, I'm not a mod.

[lynx]

Although I realise that some members can get a little out of hand and something has to be done, if only in the short term (as with Jetje's moving and returning a thread), most members posting in this sort of thread are trying to have a serious debate about something.

So apart from the censorship issue, deleting reasonable posts is just as much bad manners as those posts which are causing problems in the first place. Solving one problem by creating another seems a little pointless to me.