Kudos to the Moderators!

And Pielorinho in particular, for a deft piece of modding he recently did.

Is there an appropriate way of expressing approval for a moderator? I.e. could you use the report a post function to say thanks? I know that if you disagree with a moderator's ruling you should handle it by email, but I don't know if that also applies when you think he did a fine job.

Anyways, I'm glad Pielorinho and the all the other mods are watching over the boards.

[edit]One of the downsides of praising a moderator is that it might come across as gloating or vindictive. So I guess it would be inappropriate to post in the modded thread, or to give too many specifics. But it would be a shame if this meant there were no way at all of giving positive feedback.[/edit]

Thanks, man! If you like my style, you should see my new sticky in the rules thread . I'm not exactly sure which thread you're talking about, since I've been feeling a bit bulldoggish lately, but I'm glad I've got fans!

Daniel

Kudos.

I would like to throw in my agreement. I've seen you do some good moderating in the past few weeks, Daniel- thanks for your hard work.

sorry i missed it. but i'll just throw in an "Atta Boy" too.

He does do a grand job!

The mods are all feeling pretty much under siege at the moment. They're having to step in more and more often, and every time they do so the recipient of the moderating jumps up and starts claiming it's for any and all reasons but the basic truth - that they were rude. We're dealing with accusations of bias, attempts to prevent people espousing opinions which differ to the mods, persecution - you name it!

The actual truth is that people get moderated because they're rude. We've handed out a couple of bans in the last day or so (one temporary, one permanent), and the Rules forum is more like a warzone these days.

So, all the moderators do a great job with a lot of patience, dealing with abusive emails and accusations. I certainly couldn't run this place without them!

I was the director of an undergraduate men's residence for 3 years. I know how tough discipline can be. People want things to be black and white, when they are not. They think that if you fail to punish any infraction, you can't ever punish an infraction again. If you let anything slide, you have to let everything slide.

Which doesn't work, of course.

My residents didn't seem to understand that when things are going well, an occasional bit of misbehavior can be tolerated. But when things were not going well, then that same piece of misbehavior would be punished.

My impression is that the forums display the same kind of phenomenon. If everything is flowing along peachy keen, then an occasional bit of rudeness can be chalked up to a bad day or a misunderstanding/poor choice of words. But when they become too prevalent, you have to step in with a big stick. And the big stick for me was expulsion (permaban) or suspension (temporary ban).

At least you don't have Campus Security or the Office of Student Discipline breathing down your neck. At least, I hope you don't.

Great, now please, someone is gonna say, that there is a web site for you!!

Pielorinho said:

Thanks, man! If you like my style, you should see my new sticky in the rules thread . I'm not exactly sure which thread you're talking about, since I've been feeling a bit bulldoggish lately, but I'm glad I've got fans!

Daniel

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