On moderation and extent
Callan S.:
Ron, I think, given my previous concern of moderation cheating the social interaction, that I wasn't just told what I am then the thread is closed (atleast how I'm reading it it wasn't), I think that that didn't happen here shows a greater co-operation beyond the scope of the disagreement, which I appreciate (I hope that isn't read in some patronising way - I do appreciate it). And to be sure, I'm judging as much - you own the property but after that were peers. And as such both our judgements might be absolutely worthless. It's not impossible (and yeah, of course I feel mine will be the special one that wont be wrong in saying that - I'm an average person that way).
Tanked into the inactive file means they go without any indicator as to where to read them or that they ever existed to begin with, even if it's on another subject?
Ron Edwards:
I appreciate that post, Callan.
My current thinking is that when anyone is misbehaving, in my judgment as moderator, that they cannot play good-guy in some other thread while causing hassles in the troubled one. So let's say Bob is crapping up a thread or two and doing some kind of classic internet nonsense ("Well, sir, you can go ahead and ban me", et cetera), and I moderate it. While Bob is being all sorts of defiant about it, he's simultaneously posting in two other threads with all sorts of please-and-thank-you. It's effectively trying to play the class against the teacher, at least in Bob's mind. So my take at present is to say, if I'm sufficiently forced to moderate Bob's response to moderation, then all his posts go into the Inactive File until I start seeing acceptable behavior in all of them.
Fortunately you are not Bob, and the overwhelming majority of moderation moments aren't anything like that, being one-post over-and-done, but I figured it's time to make that moderation policy clear.
Best, Ron
Callan S.:
A gap from me since the last post, but: I think in terms of the small amount of net space I moderate, I do not really know if someone is misbehaving or not. For myself I cannot base moderation on the idea of 'if they are misbehaving, then...', because that would be treating it as a definately known quantity. I only base it on my guesstimate of whether they are misbehaving or not. This sometimes means I would actually end up being the badguy - having guessed they are missbehaving, when they are not, and yet having physically moderated their posting. Anyway, for myself I find any moderation policy based on really knowing if they are missbehaving is a policy impossible to adopt.
I think if you haven't already, Ron, it'd be worth reading through secret lies of roleplayers. It ended up fairly tame and conventional in the end, anyway. Though no doubt with bad grammer strewn all through it, granted!
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