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kazansky
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Germany931 Posts
February 01 2011 12:12 GMT
#1
Hi Mods,

I first and foremost want to put emphasis on how much I appreciate your work, you are doing an awesome job and this site is so great because of your work and dedication.

But I wanted to ask about something that occured to me following the last few months on TL.net, and this is by no means complaining but more curiosity:

Have you somehow decreased in strictness on moderation?
I have the feeling that some threads survive (in their spots) significantly longer or even completely when they would have been moved/closed way earlier in the past.

Examples (intentionally picked as been around for hours or days, but kind of representative):
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Replay pack of some random player - Nice to post but shouldnt that be in the Replay Thread?

Discussing rage in games - hasnt that been discussed over and over?

Some essay writing - shouldn't this be a blog?

Asking about where its nice to work - shouldn't this aswell be a blog?

Not even speaking of the mess some people made out of the SC2 Strategy forums.


Because I adore the way the forums were moderated, I personally would like even stricter moderation at the moment.


Is this intentional, are you understaffed, am I just overly sensitive?
"Mathematicians don't understand mathematics, they get used to it." - Prof. Kredler || "That was more one-sided that a mobius strip." - Tasteless
zatic
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Zurich15328 Posts
February 01 2011 13:05 GMT
#2
Can you give thread examples that haven't been created within the last couple of hours?

Often enough moderation is not necessary when a thread just vanishes to history because nobody posts in it. I don't think you'll find many examples of bad threads staying open unmoderated for a longer period.

So no, those arent' signs of looser moderation. I would rather say TL has become continuously stricter in moderation. It's just that there is also more bad stuff popping up these days.
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kazansky
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Germany931 Posts
February 01 2011 13:18 GMT
#3
Fair enough. You are right about the bad threads all vanishing after time, that is of course naturally, so although there are examples, you have to dig for them on the 5th/6th/.. page.
But by pure quantity, they tend to flush out good threads aswell, what is sad.
If there was only a method to close the rabbit hole all those threads pop out from, but you of course can't control what users tend to find threadworthy.
Nevertheless thanks for quick response.
"Mathematicians don't understand mathematics, they get used to it." - Prof. Kredler || "That was more one-sided that a mobius strip." - Tasteless
DivinO
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States4796 Posts
February 02 2011 02:58 GMT
#4
I dunno, I think the mods have gotten better and stricter. Especially since before.
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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
February 02 2011 03:13 GMT
#5
The mods have been a lot more strict and much more in numbers.
If you check the ban list, it grows about a page every day. That's about 12 to 15 new temp or perm. banned users.

Additionally, the closed threads section gets about 20 new topics closed every day (really rough numbers).

If you see shit that doesn't fly, just report it via IRC or if you have the account seniority to do it.

Leniency is by perspective and sampled anecdotal, it's difficult to convince people of such things.
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