Moderator Performance, V.2, Suggestions/Complaints/Compliments Options

[*Zatanna*]

Do you have suggestions, complaints, or compliments as to how the moderator staff is performing? Voice your opinions here.

Make this thread helpful for the mods.

Mods are members, also. So member bashing is not allowed, as always. Don't make it a personal vendetta, please. Keep the bashing at 0%, please.

Any moderator has the right to close and unpin this thread at the signs of bashing, pointlessness, and/or any other guideline breaker.

I do hope this works out. I want to stress that this is not the place for personal attacks. If you really have to, keep it in the PM system between you and the mod. This thread is here to help mods work better with members.

So...your thoughts?


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[*Zatanna*]

I feel asleep last night after the Nyquil kicked in.

Anyway. I understand that there needs to be more consistency in how people are warned, both verbally and raised warn levels.

This is something I brought up a while ago, actually. There is way too much ambiguity on the subject and so much has been left for interpretation, including what merits a warning and how much merits a warning (if that makes sense). For example, would spam (or being off topic) be considered as severe of an offense as attacking another member? I know attacking is too harsh of a way to put it, but I think you know what I mean. There isn't anything to follow, no clear guideline or rule to base actions on.

It really is unfair, both to members who receive punishment and to mods who have to figure out how and when to discipline.

The subject is touched upon here and was brought up in the By Laws forum. Of course, we all know that nothing has been formally written up as far as By Laws are concerned.

I think what needs to be done (and is being worked on, actually) is a clear set of guidelines that specifies when someone should be warned, how they should be warned (including the in-post warnings AND PM communications) and what type of offenses would merit these warnings.

In the meantime, I'll personally do my best to be more consistent in the way I warn, including warnings of a warning. Dumb sentence, I know. I mean things like, "Next time you'll get a verbal warning," types of warnings.