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	Nathraiben	2010-06-21 , 19:17
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Originally Posted by inidrog

In other words or shorter: A good community should have moderators using the rules sensible, and not use rules to express their feelings or support for friends or "homeboys". I hope i understand you correctly.

Mh, not really.

Of course the ideal community would have only moderators that use the rules (or, rather guidelines) in a sensible way - and right now that seems to be working quite well.

But with a community growing, there'll inevitably come a time when there will moderators who can't/won't do that and want/have to follow the rules to the last letter. And that's the time when insensible rules (that originally were just meant as a general guideline against serious offenders) will start hurting the community.

I hope that cleared it up. I know that's far from short, but I'm having a hard time expressing my thoughts - just blame it on the language barrier.

Originally Posted by Texrat

Moderator assignments have not been about "close buddies". In fact, we've had people volunteer and were seconded by others, as well as many who were nominated by community members.

If anything, the admin (Reggie) may well be pathologically opposed to a simple "hey buddy wanna be a mod?" approach, based on the history of that subject here (for a very long time we had ZERO moderators).

I think you got me wrong - I wasn't using "close buddy" as an insult, on the contrary: normally, a community works best when the administrator(s) personally know the moderators, because then they know how responsible they are - and if they ever happen to misbehave (all of us do from time to time

), they can just easily reproach them.

If that's not the system you were using so far and still only spawned great moderators this way, that's actually really honouring this community. Normally your best bet for finding a good moderator is to NOT use those who volunteer...

Just not sure this will keep working - again, with a community growing (no matter whether it's a forum, a club or a company), you're bound to attract less reasonable people.

But again, don't mind me (don't want to come off as pestering) - I've stated my concerns, you've made it clear that you don't believe those concerns will come true and I've replied that I don't really care. The good thing about NOT being a moderator is that you can just leave once things are getting out of hand.

Originally Posted by ysss

@Nathraiben:
Yes, I can see that we want the exact same outcome in this case (sensible moderation), just with two polar concerns (mods use common sense to extend their reach outside of the core rule vs mods use common sense to exercise only the necessary parts of the extensive rules)

We've totally agreed TWICE now in this thread. Next time the world will come to an end...

At any rate, we've put out our concerns out there and hopefully it gets some consideration..

True, and I'm shutting up now. I know I'm talking too much when I don't really care, but I just don't want people to misunderstand what I'm trying to say. Stupid language, maybe I should just refrain from posting in English communities.

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