And if you have any other ideas for moderation, please do tell us.
Just stop overmoderating. Keeping a handle on illegal content and deliberatly disruptive behaviour is one thing. Censoring posts you don't like is annoying. Deleting posts that criticise you is despicable. It needs to be remembered that TDC is a website that services a community, it isn't a self-contained community itself. If it were things would be completely different.
If I call peblo a worthless --, is the server going to crash? no it isn't. And just because you try to prevent me doing so doesn't mean I don't still think he is, and it isn't going to change the way I feel. All it leads to is snarky - like Tim sniping and bitching at every opportunity. Is that better?
Look, I know I'm being an idealist here. This is a private site and there's nothing wrong with it having rules. But I have no idea what those rules are supposed to be, since there seem to be magic, invisible, or secret ones more and more lately.
What I'd like to know is, where exactly is the damn problem you're reacting to? Ignoring phizzy's eccentricities, have we really been having problems with racism or crapflooding or child pornography or some other world-ending shit? Things have gone smoothly here for years. Drama is a constant in any community, but it really sucks when it's moderator-generated.
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It's late and I might have gone overboard. I actually meant to talk to you about this on MSN before posting in this threa, but you weren't on. By all means go on adding site features, you're awesome that way, but can we either back off on the moderation stuff or come up with a concrete set of rules (which the ADMINS OBEY TOO, meaning no more "because I feel like it" bans or censorship)?
Actually, if I catch you on later I've got an incomplete site design document some of us were working on as a potential replacement for TDC, which probably has a number of features that would be worth consideration.
You've posted as I type:
The main idea of the system was for warning people - I may very well make it so you can't go over 0 points and keep it simply as a warning system.
PLEASE YES. Then the label can become "warnings" or "warning points", and this idea will be vastly improved.
I see your point - but the fact is, you and Phizzy are not the only people who visit this site. You may not find the comments offensive, others do - we have to deal with it and that's what we're trying to do. We can't make everyone happy, but do what we think is right.
We try not to censor people here - you know that, you can't say otherwise. People here use bad language every day, and call each other names, but we currently only have 3 people banned on this site. So to say we're over-moderating isn't true at all, in my opinion.
People who constantly call other's names - such as cunts, paedos or insult others about their weight and things - deserved to be censored. Not just on this website, but on any website.
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