Re: New Location


"Kevin M." <youwish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Peter D Bakija wrote:
I mean, again, maybe I'm just cranky and old. But I do frequent a few
web BBS systems for various games, and across the board, I object to:

-Moderators. I hate moderated game discussion. I hate moderated
anything discussion. But as I mostly discuss games on the internet,
that is what I have most experience with.

Interesting that you so vehemently oppose game discussion posts related
to players wanting to get their cards to other players, and have spent your
valuable time making sure that everyone knows it, to the point that your
letting users know about it outweighs the opposing posts about 10-1.

Perhaps you aren't as hateful of moderated game discussion as you think.

Or perhaps he just believes that the correct way to handle posts clearly
outside the bounds of the agreed-upon topic for the forum is to inform
the transgressors, as opposed to simply muzzling them (and maybe informing
them as well, depending on the behavior of the particular moderator). The
former has a few distinct advantages over the latter:

1) You can be sure the transgressor has been informed of his error. In a
moderated system, you can't be.

2) Besides informing the transgressor, other prospective transgressors also
have a chance to see the objection in advance. The issue gets some short-
term visibility which can be beneficial (although such posts also qualify
as more short-term noise WRT the discussion topic, it has to be granted).

3) Net.cops who are out of line with the true meaning of the discussion
topic agreement (formalized in Usenet as the newsgroup charter) are
corrected by other net.cops. This is useful whether the mistake was
accidental or deliberate. Moderators, on the other hand, have no check.
In fact, it may not be possible to even see when they're (mis)using their
power, depending on how the mechanism of moderation works.

4) Although personality conflicts are more likely to arise, they're less
likely to be too severe (at least in a good, congenial newsgroup).

Fred


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