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Been thinking about moderation issues in the wake of the Knodge Wars. Quite apart from anything else, moderators are pretty much a required part of any community that has a large number of members. Remove moderators, who's going to clear up the poop left by yer Prisonerxxxx's? It's unfair and unrealistic to expect one person to be able to spot all problems and sort them out quickly.
Pre-mods, anyone who didn't know how to get a link, italic text, images, etc. working threatened to derail a thread into a mass of UBB code explanations. Doesn't happen now, because everyone knows that a moderator will fix HTML blunders.
I just requested an alteration to one of my own posts and it was performed almost immediately. The only times that this isn't likely to happen are late at night or over the weekends. There's hardly anybody here then, so it's not a major issue.
The actual process of moderating a forum is remarkably easy. I've had worries recently about tsome aspects of moderation, but not because of the amount of work involved. |
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