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<blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 5521177" data-attributes="member: 99">If I'm understanding your meaning then we have precisely this tool in the form of Infractions.&nbsp; Most of you fine upstanding folk have no idea what I'm talking about but we have a simple button we can click that will give an &quot;Infraction&quot; for a certain number of points and it tells the person getting it that they got an infraction for a certain post along with a very brief private message including any further details we mods wish to include.The primary purpose of this is to allow us to track trends over time because the same people are not on our individual radars all the time.&nbsp; We need a method for us collectively to track whether somebody is a pain in the ass on a regular basis or if this is an isolated event.As for the contention that we can't be as good in terms of modeling the behavior we expect here on the boards if we exceed that standard when the occasional need arises to &quot;let somebody have it&quot;, I don't view this any differently than I do &quot;The Daddy Voice&quot;.&nbsp; Here in my house we do not typically yell at each other.&nbsp; We certainly don't allow our darling daughter to yell at us.&nbsp; But once in a great while I will raise my voice at her to drive home a point.&nbsp; It is effective at getting her attention precisely because it is outside of our usual pattern of behavior and is therefore jarring.If that sounds as though I'm saying that some board members sometimes act like unruly children...well, I think you take my point.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rel, post: 5521177, member: 99"] If I'm understanding your meaning then we have precisely this tool in the form of Infractions. Most of you fine upstanding folk have no idea what I'm talking about but we have a simple button we can click that will give an "Infraction" for a certain number of points and it tells the person getting it that they got an infraction for a certain post along with a very brief private message including any further details we mods wish to include. The primary purpose of this is to allow us to track trends over time because the same people are not on our individual radars all the time. We need a method for us collectively to track whether somebody is a pain in the ass on a regular basis or if this is an isolated event. As for the contention that we can't be as good in terms of modeling the behavior we expect here on the boards if we exceed that standard when the occasional need arises to "let somebody have it", I don't view this any differently than I do "The Daddy Voice". Here in my house we do not typically yell at each other. We certainly don't allow our darling daughter to yell at us. But once in a great while I will raise my voice at her to drive home a point. It is effective at getting her attention precisely because it is outside of our usual pattern of behavior and is therefore jarring. If that sounds as though I'm saying that some board members sometimes act like unruly children...well, I think you take my point. [/QUOTE]

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