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A possible suggestion along the "trollguard" line: specific trollguards who AREN'T moderators.
Moderation is more than just trollguarding - it's managerial; handling formatting, textual problems, multiposting, tidying the forum. Trollguarding is a part of moderation, sure. But I find that in moderating one forum, I tend to concentrate on it far more for trolling, stuff that needs editing, topics that need changing, than I do in the other fora which I just read, contribute to, but don't moderate. Those of you who moderate several fora might think differently, but I'm more aware of specifics going on in Film/TV/Theatre than I am in, say, Music (which I read regularly) or Magick (which I hardly read).
Roving moderation is one way around - having new mods not attached anywhere. Or setting up a kind of mod that's empowered simply to do trollwatch stuff. That creates hierarchy, though, which Tom may not be very interested in. I just feel that bumping up moderation levels of the specific fora isn't necessary, whilst bumping up the general moderation of Barbelith as a whole is a better idea. Just me thinking aloud again.
Also: yes, I think a crackdown on behaviour is worthwhile. Just because I've seen some posts that have been a bit Trolly but from people who have turned out, afaict, to not be trolls at all. Sometimes you're not aware how what you write turns out, after all, and it'd make the general quality of posting better. |
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