I have a suggestion for a moderation technique that I have experienced and find really helpful and informative. Wouldn’t it be nice if our moderators contacted a reporter to let the person know if a perceived offense was actionable? This serves two purposes: it helps the reporter to understand what is something worth reporting, and after a time, it lessens the amount of work on the part of the moderating team. Another good technique to go along with it, is the moderator reporting back to the offended party on the outcome of the report. This action can help and offended party feel better about the offensive encounter, creating a feeling of inclusiveness and the security in knowing that problem posters are being policed which only ensures in the mind of the reporter that that the problem is being taken seriously and that their help is appreciated. I can tell you all, that from direct experience, this system works really well.
The forum rules specify that concerning bad behavior reports should be made, but beyond that, nobody knows if the efforts are worth it. It may take some time to catch on, but veteran posters will very quickly benefit and learn what is worth the time and what is not, which can only help in social navigation, but lessen the “docket” that a given moderator has to deal with during their period on the board.
Thoughts?
This is a suggestion that has been brought up multiple times before and discussed repeatedly amongst various mod teams. I'm out of town on Easter lunch, so I'll give a more in depth and thorough response regarding this when I get home.
The TLR version of what it will be is that the benefit is viewed as something of limited value that a limited amount of members will actually care about, and the negatives in terms of mod work load, user privacy, and baiting/flaming/trolling that's likely to occur is substantially greater. And as such, in terms of how it'd desired for THIS forum to run, this idea is pretty much unanimously voted down everytime mods consider it.
As I said, I'll give a more in depth response later; but thats the general gist.
This is a suggestion that has been brought up multiple times before and discussed repeatedly amongst various mod teams. I'm out of town on Easter lunch, so I'll give a more in depth and thorough response regarding this when I get home.
The TLR version of what it will be is that the benefit is viewed as something of limited value that a limited amount of members will actually care about, and the negatives in terms of mod work load, user privacy, and baiting/flaming/trolling that's likely to occur is substantially greater. And as such, in terms of how it'd desired for THIS forum to run, this idea is pretty much unanimously voted down everytime mods consider it.
As I said, I'll give a more in depth response later; but thats the general gist.
Way, way too much work to contact every reporter and give them your verdict on a post they reported cause it's more than likely to end up in a PM back and forth on why the reporter disagrees with the mods decision. The only thing I'd ever report back to the button pusher is if they were getting carried away and to knock it off.
This is a suggestion that has been brought up multiple times before and discussed repeatedly amongst various mod teams. I'm out of town on Easter lunch, so I'll give a more in depth and thorough response regarding this when I get home.
The TLR version of what it will be is that the benefit is viewed as something of limited value that a limited amount of members will actually care about, and the negatives in terms of mod work load, user privacy, and baiting/flaming/trolling that's likely to occur is substantially greater. And as such, in terms of how it'd desired for THIS forum to run, this idea is pretty much unanimously voted down everytime mods consider it.
As I said, I'll give a more in depth response later; but thats the general gist.
DP has more traffic than most political forums that exist. Having never been a moderator here, it's clear that you have no idea how many reports we deal with on a daily basis. I'm absolutely certain that it's more than you think it is. Others who have never been staff here have already pointed out how much work that would entail. Your "suggestion" has been brought up before. The moderation team has discussed this before. The negatives to doing this far outweigh the one or two positives that may, but most likely would not, come out of this.You can't disagree with a mod decision unless you're the one that got gigged. As for too much work, there are not that many people on this board from day to day and even less making reports, so I can't really buy that overload stuff. Right now there are about 70 people online here.
You can't disagree with a mod decision unless you're the one that got gigged. As for too much work, there are not that many people on this board from day to day and even less making reports, so I can't really buy that overload stuff. Right now there are about 70 people online here.
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