Moderator Notes
Well, so far I've survived May. Although, it really was only a week as a moderator.
As there is now an active moderation plan (tho still being worked on), a few blogs have been dealt with. For the most part, the idea is to keep the blogs, all of them, unless they break Unity rules which I understand is still in progress.
Here are one of my observations so far:
There Are Blogs That I Kind of Think Should Stay
While I understand that questions are suppose to be in the forum, what do we do with the ones from before. From my own perspective, some of them are really useful. Even though they are suppose to be at the forums (at the time of their writing, they were not moderated for one reason or another). Maybe we can have some kind of blog amnesty that if it's older than so many days and it has some utility it should stay.
I have also seen some good blog posts where the question was presented so well that it just hurt to moderate it as it clearly defined the problem space and in my opinion took great effort to seek the answer. As much as possible, I normally contact the original blog poster and give them 24 hours to save/move it to the forum.
I don't want to break rules but I also don't want to be inflexible to the needs of members. This I believe should be open to discussion.
So regarding past questions that should have been moved to the forum but wasn't, what do you guys think? I wait for your good reply :D
*As a note, understand that ultimately, it would be BoonEx who decides.
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You have to make a statement, so I thinks this is the best way. Old Blogs post who have a interessest content for all can for me stay where they are now.
my 2eurocents...
"knight in slimey armour"
However, the 'Answers' section is a carbon copy of the blog section, and that would be a good place to send all the support Q&A. If you look at the latest support question here in the blogs section, you will see that the author has also posted the exact see more
I can hide stuff. That's it...lol...
I am the "hider of bad and nasty blogs".
Good point about the Answer Blogs. I think I will head over there more.
Good stuff everyone. You guys are great :D
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let me give you a little boonex insight.
sorry i had no idea what i was saying for a second, let me give you a little boonex lack of vision. where a brilliant team of devs think a script can moderate people without the need of staff. just because they are lazy gits and dont wanna work here.
Orca. a self moderating forum designed by boonex.
Answers, a self moderating Q&A built by Boonex.
Unity Blogs, a self moderating no idea what the fook it is as the rules of posting here see more
I agree that it would be far better to move a post then to delete or remove it entirely. At least when the motive of the poster is good.
I think houstonlively mentioned doing something like this. I'm not sure if I just described it properly though.
This is an issue that really needs a definitive answer. There is no reason see more
If the reason for the moderation is because a user has posted a help request which belongs in the forum and it has been decided to give 24hrs notice to the user to move the post to the forum or deletion will occur is sufficient.
If it has been missed for a while and problem resolved, it would be unnessercery to over moderate, unless it falls under another moderation rule..ie abusive comments.
I do have a suggestion see more
To take this idea a step farther, if some one is known to make posts and comments which are constantly negative and divisive that member could have a read only status that requires all their posts and replies to be approved before being made public.
Moderators are unable to move blog posts to the forum under the users name, and a pre warning is a better idea as the user can copy/paste the same question asked...especially if its a detailed question.
Having to email the user every time a moderator takes action is time consuming and unnessecery.. one polite breech of rules warning is suffcient.
I'm not a fan of just deleting anything someone has written. Unless it's something illegal then I think it should stay. Good or bad, right or wrong. Censorship even in the vain of trying to keep the place looking a certain way is just see more
i would tend to believe that dealing with personalities and personable entities should not be part of this sites blog or forum. please use the PM system for that action.
Regards,
DosDawg
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I think the problem with the forums is that they are growing so fast that questions disappear before they are answered. One solution I already proposed would be to add more forums - I suggested NEWBIE, DATING, SOCIAL, BUSINESS AND ADULT. Someone else - Youdidntdidyou I think, had a different breakdown based on technical issues, see more
Installation/Upgrade problems.
I think that relegating these questions to a separate area would eliminate a *LOT* of clutter since this is where a lot of people often have the most problems....
...It would also allow the area to be searched for solutions without other posts interfering.
(Just my 2 cents worth)
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