Based on a total Wild West NO moderator, flame wars encouraged policy.
FLH, hrh…and all your favs!
Should be fun …and instructional.
I have a diary up!
Can’t we all get along?
August 24, 2007 archive
Aug 24 2007
peeders new site is up!
Based on a total Wild West NO moderator, flame wars encouraged policy.
FLH, hrh…and all your favs!
Should be fun …and instructional.
I have a diary up!
http://politicalfles…
Aug 24 2007
Moderation ….a proposal
I have gone around and around on this and then finally it struck me why I could not write the FAQ on Moderation.
Under the roughly Anarcho-syndicalist community consensus system I have envisioned, it is not mine to write!
I see this place as somewhere where we all have a voice in what happens, where we all decide where we are going. Decide TOGETHER….as much as is humanly possible….a government by consensus. It might work, it might be chaos, but I think it is worth a try.
So the decision on how to moderate the site is not mine. It is all of ours. I have to set the structure….but the details are up to all of us! So consider this the beginning of the Moderation Wiki, which just like the rest of the blog is an ongoing experiment is community and consensus.
Here is my proposal for the structure.
I am the final arbiter, the court of last appeal, the breaker of ties. The top of the Pyramid. The buck stops…after a no doubt long and arduous and much debated journey….here. The community is ‘The Decider’ not me.
If the community is divided I will step in and make a decision…and take full responsibility for it.
So….that is one part of the structure. But we can discuss that too! It is MY (How Conveeenient!) opinion and observation that there needs to be someone who utters the final word when all other conversation has broken down. So proceeding from there….
Here is what I can see working.
A dreaded Hierarchical System.
The other end of the structure is ALL USERS.
‘Above’ that is Trusted Users.
‘Above’ that I propose a case by case Committee of Trusted Users, selecting ….if possible….folks who seem to be neutral on the current controversy and thus the most objective.
If consensus can still not be reached and the situation calls for resolution, I step in as Zen Dictator ( I like nifty titles, sue me) and render a verdict.
And that is how I PROPOSE we deal with stuff like trolls, banning or any other issues that divide or inflame the community. Polls and vigorous debate in essays and Open Threads, finally leading to enough of a consensus to be clear.
OK……it feels lame…but that is the best I can come up with besides stuff like…
Be Excellent To Each Other. Don’t Start No Shit, And There Won’t Be No Shit. Live And Let Live. There Is no Crying In CalvinBall.
The floor is now open for discussion!
Aug 24 2007
Comments about Comments
Use this thread to report issues with comments.
The AJAX system is still having problems.
Where we stand with the AJAX Update
It looks like some of the bugs have been fixed but some SoapBlox sites have turned off AJAX until there is a fully functional version. So it is a cause for concern. We may have to do that too if it isn’t working properly before we launch.
I would like to get an idea of what problems, if any, people are seeing.
Aug 24 2007
Huh?
So what is this place, and why are there dragons and tigers and horses on the banner?
And I’m looking at the folks here and I find this is a motley crew of sarcastic overly enthusiastic over the hill kossacks (and armando) and I see this slogan about “blogging the future” like maybe someone has a time machine or something?
And we have to use html and there’s all this talk about schedules and times and mission statements and rating systems that are all ponies and pies and hidden secret stuff.