A suggested rule to improve moderation

[Ropey]

You energy shows that you have skin in the anchor baby game.

 

[Unkotare]

You energy shows that you have skin in the anchor baby game.

What energy, and there is no such thing as an "anchor baby."

 

[The Duke]

I am aware that moderators are members who are free to engage, just like any member, in a thread of interest.

The problem comes in when a moderator puts on her “member” hat to oppose or debate the OP (or any poster, really), and retains moderator capabilities to delete posts or move the entire thread to Badlands when it was originally started in a Zone 1 forum.

I suggest the following: any time a moderator is a participant on a thread - ESPECIALLY when debating the OP’s premise - she cannot simultaneously moderate that thread. The bias is obvious and she cannot objectively do to her “job.”

Too compwicated! KIS

 

[Unkotare]

I was told a memo went out to all mods they were not to moderate a thread they are a part of,,

it seems none of them got the memo,,

 

[Lisa558]

Too compwicated! KIS

How is it complicated? If a mod is debating in a thread, she cannot moderate that same thread.

If you see no problem with that, let’s have Trump be the moderator in the Trump v Biden debate - with the ability to cut off Biden’s mic at will.

 

[The Duke]

How is it complicated? If a mod is debating in a thread, she cannot moderate that same thread.

If you see no problem with that, let’s have Trump be the moderator in the Trump v Biden debate - with the ability to cut off Biden’s mic at will.

It'sth complithcated.

 

[Lisa558]

It'sth complithcated.

Well, we Jews are pretty smart, but I can see where it might be complicated for others! Hahahahah

 

[The Duke]

Well, we Jews are pretty smart, but I can see where it might be complicated for others! Hahahahah

Well you just gotta dumb it down for us others then. TIA.

 

[MinTrut]

I am aware that moderators are members who are free to engage, just like any member, in a thread of interest.

The problem comes in when a moderator puts on her “member” hat to oppose or debate the OP (or any poster, really), and retains moderator capabilities to delete posts or move the entire thread to Badlands when it was originally started in a Zone 1 forum.

I suggest the following: any time a moderator is a participant on a thread - ESPECIALLY when debating the OP’s premise - she cannot simultaneously moderate that thread. The bias is obvious and she cannot objectively do to her “job.”

Strongly agree.

 

[MinTrut]

Yes, I know. I complained to her why she moved it, and she gave me a ridiculous explanation.

But that aside, the suggestion is more broad. When a mod is acting as a moderator debating a controversial topic with a poster, and the poster makes an excellent point, well-cited, that the mod cannot refute, should she have the power to simply delete that post?

It is the same type of “silencing” that leftists do IRL - censor content that makes a good case against their position. Shouldn’t we strive to be better than that?

Liberals, not leftists, but excellent points otw.

 

[MinTrut]

How is it complicated? If a mod is debating in a thread, she cannot moderate that same thread.

If you see no problem with that, let’s have Trump be the moderator in the Trump v Biden debate - with the ability to cut off Biden’s mic at will.

^ Win.

 

[Lisa558]

Liberals, not leftists, but excellent points otw.

Thanks.

Why don’t you start a thread on the difference? I HAD been calling the crazies “liberals,” but then a poster corrected me and said they were leftists, not liberals. You are saying the opposite.

I think it could make for an interesting debate.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Thanks.

Why don’t you start a thread on the difference? I HAD been calling the crazies “liberals,” but then a poster corrected me and said they were leftists, not liberals. You are saying the opposite.

I think it could make for an interesting debate.

A liberal follows liberal ideology as espoused by the likes of John Stuart Mill or John Rawls.

Min has it TOTALLY backwards.

 

[Lisa558]

A liberal follows liberal ideology as espoused by the likes of John Stuart Mill or John Rawls.

Min has it TOTALLY backwards.

So what’s liberal ideology as opposed to leftist ideology? And how many true liberals are among the current crop of Democrats in Congress?

 

[Dogmaphobe]

So what’s liberal ideology as opposed to leftist ideology? And how many true liberals are among the current crop of Democrats in Congress?

Liberalism is not an authoritarian ideology and is predicated on everybody being treated with the same protections. It stands with the weak against the strong and the powerless against the powerful.

RFK. JR. is about the only liberal left in the party.

 

[Lisa558]

Liberalism is not an authoritarian ideology and is predicated on everybody being treated with the same protections. It stands with the weak against the strong and the powerless against the powerful.

RFK. JR. is about the only liberal left in the party.

So true. The Dems in Congress are all extreme leftists.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

So true. The Dems in Congress are all extreme leftists.

The mere fact that they shut down small businesses to feather the nests of the technocrats proves they are not liberals.Add to that forcing people to inject unproven substances into they bodies, collide with social media to censor speech as well as making decisions based entirely upon happenstance of birth, and you have a group that is anything BUT liberal

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

I am aware that moderators are members who are free to engage, just like any member, in a thread of interest.

The problem comes in when a moderator puts on her “member” hat to oppose or debate the OP (or any poster, really), and retains moderator capabilities to delete posts or move the entire thread to Badlands when it was originally started in a Zone 1 forum.

I suggest the following: any time a moderator is a participant on a thread - ESPECIALLY when debating the OP’s premise - she cannot simultaneously moderate that thread. The bias is obvious and she cannot objectively do to her “job.”

sumptin i forgot.........if i start a thread in badlands it usually gets way more looksies.........if i respond to threads in badlands, same thing......as long as you don't threaten to kill, dox, or porn....another tool in the shed around the system

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

AND ANOTHER THING..........it is not the moderators as much, it is the function of some people to report any little infraction they can find....they found it is their mission in life to be a professional report button poosher and annoy the heck oudda us

 

[Lisa558]

AND ANOTHER THING..........it is not the moderators as much, it is the function of some people to report any little infraction they can find....they found it is their mission in life to be a professional report button poosher and annoy the heck oudda us

Yes, that’s what happens a lot. When a conservative makes such valid points that they can’t refute the, the leftists run to a leftist moderator.