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Thread (Discussion): make victims co-moderators for most forums

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Message 139095 (In Reply to Message 139068)
steve

Posted by Navigatr1 on Aug 24, 2004 03:53 PM | Also by Navigatr1

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steve wrote:

That's not a requirement in my mind, but I'd require a level of trust. A user who has posted here a lot over a long period of time and is willing to moderate according to standards that I find acceptable is someone I'd consider.

I agree. A moderator should be someone you can trust to enforce the rules of the forum, and who will be even-handed when moderating. It shouldn't matter whether it is a victim who is a moderator or someone who supports sex offenders. The important thing is that they enforce the rules for all posters even though they might disagree with what was posted. Not everyone is suited to be a moderator. I know some victims on here who would reject all posts by sex offenders, or those who support sex offenders.

Being a moderater isn't always an easy job either. I know from experience. Some posters will try to test your limits, and you have to try not to take it personal.

I might consider being a moderator for this forum if you are looking for volunteers, but I am not sure yet. I would have to change my signature though. lol.

--Navigatr1
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Message 139068

Posted by steve on Aug 24, 2004 02:33 AM | Also by steve

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<blockquote><span class="mb-quote">I'm not sure how the process works as far as choosing moderators, isn't it for those people who post regularly ?</span></blockquote>

That's not a requirement in my mind, but I'd require a level of trust.  A user who has posted here a lot over a long period of time and is willing to moderate according to standards that I find acceptable is someone I'd consider.  I have two people who help out from time to time with moderation who do not post to the forums.

A year ago I was planning a fairly elaborate user-based moderation system where many users would be able to control moderation, but I have not implemented it due to a lack of time to program the functionality and observations of its effectiveness in other forums I visit with similar mechanisms.

I am considering a way that users would be able to moderate as a group, but it's just an idea I've been kicking around for a few months.  In a nutshell, users who have met a certain threshold for time here and total posts would be able to view a queue of pending messages and either 1. do nothing, 2. assign a message a vote of confidence (worthy to post) or 3. recommend it for admin review.  If a certain total # or % give a message a vote of confidence it would be approved.  If a certain # recommend it for admin review it would be removed from the queue and flagged for admin review.  All other posts would stay in the queue until either of those scenarious occurs or an admin approves or rejects the post.  Admins would have authority to overturn any decision, but if the system worked well, that wouldn't be necessary often.

The big issue is how to prevent abuse.  I don't have a firm idea about the mechanics, but I would basically look at how often a user's vote differed from user votes that resulted in #2 or #3 or were different than how I'd vote.  I probably didn't communicate that well, but basically if a user makes blatantly poor moderation decisions, the user would be warned and could ultimately lose moderation privileges, at least temporarily.  Thoughts?

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139026, brennus, Aug 23, 2004 02:08 AM
      139036, steve, Aug 23, 2004 04:11 AM
            139039, brennus, Aug 23, 2004 04:56 AM
                  139069, steve, Aug 24, 2004 02:39 AM
                        139093, brennus, Aug 24, 2004 02:09 PM
      139049, Rachel, Aug 23, 2004 10:15 AM
            139068, steve, Aug 24, 2004 02:33 AM
                  139081, Rachel, Aug 24, 2004 03:12 AM [Steve]
                        139085, steve, Aug 24, 2004 04:13 AM
                              139090, Rachel, Aug 24, 2004 10:57 AM
                  139095, Navigatr1, Aug 24, 2004 03:53 PM [steve]
                        139125, 1dadof5, Aug 25, 2004 08:47 PM
                              139150, dp1, Aug 26, 2004 01:08 PM [Hater Support Group?]
                              139158, orolan, Aug 26, 2004 02:46 PM
                              139172, Rachel, Aug 26, 2004 11:07 PM [Yeah right]
                                    139203, 1dadof5, Aug 27, 2004 09:22 PM [rachel]
                                          139207, dp1, Aug 28, 2004 02:08 AM
                                                140339, Silverthorne, Oct 09, 2004 05:42 PM [DP1]
                                    139204, orolan, Aug 27, 2004 11:32 PM
                                          139208, dp1, Aug 28, 2004 02:18 AM
                                                139218, dp1, Aug 28, 2004 12:27 PM
      139179, poetsdreamscape, Aug 27, 2004 02:59 AM [no posting]
      139205, orolan, Aug 27, 2004 11:37 PM
            140340, Silverthorne, Oct 09, 2004 05:43 PM
                  140341, dp1, Oct 09, 2004 11:13 PM

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