I believe in freedoms, including that of speech (don't quote me TL's 10 commandments please: I'm not talking about natural rights), so I am in favor of light moderation, as it were. Therefore I think that TL is slightly over-moderated, but for the most part the mods are reasonable men.

Off-topic, I always daydreamed that if I ever ran a forum (not going to happen) I would implement two versions of the site: moderated and unmoderated. The two versions would be exactly the same except for moderated posts/posts by banned users, which would appear only in the unmoderated versions. I suppose I would have to put some thought into how to deal with replies to posts by banned users, and so forth (the forums I was reading at that time were mostly threaded, which makes that bit of it easier).

Which version you saw as the default could be a setting in the user-profile or something. It might be an interesting social experiment to see what people did with that sort of option.

DownMaxX

Canada1311 Posts

May 13 2009 23:04 GMT

Moderately moderated. Just enough to get rid of all the idiots, assholes, spammers, trolls and shitty threads to make this place as great as it is.

StalkerSC

Canada378 Posts

May 13 2009 23:07 GMT

On May 14 2009 08:04 DownMaxX wrote:
Moderately moderated. Just enough to get rid of all the idiots, assholes, spammers, trolls and shitty threads to make this place as great as it is.

Took the words out of my mouth..

Solidus_315

213 Posts

May 13 2009 23:13 GMT

#10

On May 14 2009 08:04 DownMaxX wrote:
Moderately moderated. Just enough to get rid of all the idiots, assholes, spammers, trolls and shitty threads to make this place as great as it is.

There always will be idiots and assholes but moderation shuts them up.

DrTJEckleburg

United States1080 Posts

May 13 2009 23:21 GMT

#11

Right in the middle! Douches, spammers, and idiots are all weeded out without hurting anyone.

Mastermind

Canada7096 Posts

May 13 2009 23:23 GMT

#12

I think the moderation is where it should be. There are occasions where i think the moderation isnt enough, but the vast majority of the time it is great.

Chill

Calgary25990 Posts

May 13 2009 23:29 GMT

#13

Ironically voted slightly over.

konadora

Singapore66357 Posts

May 13 2009 23:30 GMT

#14

Slightly under-moderated, but it gives leeway for more epic lulz without crossing the line (because if they do, they are b&d)

Anyway, frankly speaking, I love teamliquid's moderation the best so far (besides sudden random closing of threads for which some are quite legit)

Tom Phoenix

1114 Posts

May 13 2009 23:33 GMT

#15

Slightly under-moderated, in my opinion. Sadly, as is typical for large communities, flame wars are not unheard of on TeamLiquid.

JeeJee

Canada5652 Posts

May 13 2009 23:33 GMT

#16

i voted moderately moderated because it sounded funny, but on reflection, that's what i would've voted anyway. there's basically zero posts 24 hours after they were posted that make me go "what the fuck was this guy thinking", they all end up in the closed section (which makes for some funny readings). on the other hand, there isn't really an iron fist on a lot of issues either that u might see on other forums like random photoshopping or post-an-image threads.

so yeah
gj guys

LeperKahn

Romania1846 Posts

May 13 2009 23:38 GMT

#17

I think you'd be hard pressed to find a person who thinks that these forums need more or less moderation.

Team Liquid has a great balance.

Frits

11782 Posts

May 13 2009 23:49 GMT

#18

i am very happy with the amount of moderation that goes on at teamliquid

and the quality of it, obviously

United States6173 Posts

May 13 2009 23:55 GMT

#19

Moderately moderated. They weed out the bad trolls, flamers, idiots who don't contribute or who purposefully derail with no comic merit, etc, but some decisions are questionable imo. I can live with it.

thunk

United States6233 Posts

May 14 2009 00:15 GMT

#20

There are sometimes where Mods are super overbearing and other times it's like wtf, it's been 4 hours and a Mod hasn't gotten around to closing this goddamn thread.