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Over-moderation and derailing topics

 
  

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ONLY NICE THINGS
14:42 / 30.06.04
I was just about to ask that as well... Anyone mind if we boot it back into the HS? I'd be curious to know the reasoning behind this, but if people don't want to put it in here, they should feel free to PM me...
 
 
Tryphena Absent
15:47 / 30.06.04
I have a fleeting suspicion that it might have been me attempting to change a spelling mistake (utilitarianist) and clicking on the wrong part of the request. That suggests to me that some of the HS moderators really need to pay attention to our reasons for moving topics and grant's just confirmed it so okay, moderators not so lax (except for me).
 
 
grant
15:50 / 30.06.04
I think it was done by accident, actually -- AdL, I thought it was you, but I'm not really sure. Anyway, I OKed the request to move without thinking much about it, then went and checked the thread. The "reason for moderation" made it seem like someone was actually just trying to modify the summary. It was something like "There's no such thing as Utilitism," which I'd read as meaning, "this is an ill-thought or goofy post that doesn't belong here," but upon reading the actual thread realized probably meant exactly what it said and was attempting to change a word in the topic summary.

So. Yeah. Wrong button got pushed. I do it myself all the time in the Lab, as MC and the other Lab mods can attest.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
15:51 / 30.06.04
Probably a mistake--someone may have been proposing an edit to the abstract (say) and didn't unclick the default radio button, which proposes a thread move to the Convo. Incidentally, is there any way to stop that happening? It't worryingly easy to do.
 
 
grant
15:59 / 30.06.04
We should have some sort of simultaneous posting road show, we should.

I'd look great in a sequined leotard.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
17:06 / 30.06.04
Ha! It was me! Stupid, stupid girl!
 
  

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