Current Affairs Moderation

**thischarmingman** · 19/11/2009, 8:06 PM

Originally Posted by dahamsta

As a moderator of 10 years experience

Out of interest, how old is this forum? When's it's birthday?

**Billsthoughts** · 19/11/2009, 9:59 PM

Originally Posted by dahamsta

As a moderator of 10 years experience, with a 5000 member forum, I respectfully disagree. You can have too much moderation, and too little moderation. The correct amount of moderation is exactly in the middle, with slides to either side when necessary. As in politics, and nearly every other walk of life.

Im always wary of people who qoute their "experience" to add weight to their argument. I think people can read your posts and make up their own minds good bad or indifferent. In my opinion if you want to moderate properly you need to be dispasionate and not take things personally. I think you fail to do this and especially so in the Current Affairs forum where you seem to have a genuine interest in it. The forum is going to be representitive of the people expressing their views on it,people are going to have views that are on opposite ends of the spectrum. You would have more of a positive influence on it by contributing to it than moderating it.

**dahamsta** · 19/11/2009, 11:36 PM

Originally Posted by thischarmingman

Out of interest, how old is this forum? When's it's birthday?

1st of June 2001. That's actually the second post, Dodge deleted the first one a year or two ago for reasons best known only to himself.

I'm always wary of people that contradict themselves in the space of a single paragraph, so I'll take a pass on replying to that last post.

**dahamsta** · 20/11/2009, 5:34 PM

Wahey, thread #1 is back! Restored from a backup from 2004.

James gets the credit for the first non-dahamsta post though.

adam

**BohsPartisan** · 20/11/2009, 5:39 PM

Originally Posted by dahamsta

As a moderator of 10 years experience, with a 5000 member forum, I respectfully disagree. You can have too much moderation, and too little moderation. The correct amount of moderation is exactly in the middle, with slides to either side when necessary. As in politics, and nearly every other walk of life.

The question is, when is it necessary. I'm a moderator on thebohs.com and we have a very relaxed policy which usually works for us.

**dahamsta** · 20/11/2009, 6:24 PM

I'm pretty sure there's very, very little extreme moderation on Foot.ie. It's an occasional thing that usually gets blown out of all proportion. We get accused of being nazis on a regular basis, but almost exclusively by complete muppets whose opinions - imho - don't matter. The quality of conversation is way better on Foot.ie than most other sites. Again, imho.

Anyway, all of this is moot, my (general) moderation style and the style I've encouraged isn't going to change in a hurry. Again, I think Foot.ie is proof of it's success.

This thread is supposed to be about moderation in this forum, so if people want to feed back on that, by all means work away.

adam