06-23-2014, 04:45 PM
I don't think the current rules are all that much to ask people to follow if you desire to have a forum that is not an all out total free for all. The trouble is finding impartial moderators and timely rule enforcement consistency, without it a lot of times moderation causes more problems then it solves.
Unless you have a couple moderators who are committed to daily reviewing, even having some back up mods identified to fill in for vacations, etc it really is not realistic to think the forum will not be a free for all to some degree. If party X & party Y get into a heated name calling argument, etc....what good does it do to warn, delete posts, etc days or even weeks later, the damage is done at that point and the message to posters is that rules are not enforced. It would be like scolding a child a week after they took a cookie from the cookie jar.
Forum moderation is never perfect and there will always be people who push the envelope, or people who think it's too much, ,too lax, etc. at the end of the day you need people who can be objective and consistent.
I would certainly hate to see "scrap the whole thing" because I don't partake in any other social media!
Unless you have a couple moderators who are committed to daily reviewing, even having some back up mods identified to fill in for vacations, etc it really is not realistic to think the forum will not be a free for all to some degree. If party X & party Y get into a heated name calling argument, etc....what good does it do to warn, delete posts, etc days or even weeks later, the damage is done at that point and the message to posters is that rules are not enforced. It would be like scolding a child a week after they took a cookie from the cookie jar.
Forum moderation is never perfect and there will always be people who push the envelope, or people who think it's too much, ,too lax, etc. at the end of the day you need people who can be objective and consistent.
I would certainly hate to see "scrap the whole thing" because I don't partake in any other social media!