Is It Time For Moderators?

[feelingears]

I don't think about this a lot because, I presume, I'm a heavy user of the ignore feature. That said, I still heartily vote "yes" for moderation or perhaps a means to vote people off a thread?

 

While I generally filter out the users who post antagonistic and irrelevant content (to me) and accept that I miss some things because the content "provider" is a troll 90+% of the time, CA does not have to be a democracy and freedom of speech isn't an inalienable right. While this probably sounds and feels dictatorial, I'm more aligned with Chris than it might seem; and I'd prefer selective heavy-handedness with certain individuals and threads than an attempt to be "fair" that will be attacked on the grounds of principle rather than on the fact that certain individuals primarily "contribute" negativity and animosity rather than productive ideas.

 

Again, since there's clearly no majority here (50/50 as of this writing), maybe instead of moderation we give a group of moderators the ability to give warnings, and if enough approved moderators ding someone, they're removed from the thread on the third ding. No discussion, no appeal, no dice. Maybe that will encourage people to be civil? Maybe we should at least try this a while and see how it goes...

 

And to those who are respectful (almost to a "feeding the trolls" fault), my respect. Our founder, especially. You people truly have the patience of a saint. 

 

[feelingears]

So again, how about moderators that divvy out strikes per thread? 

 

Isolated effect that may promote “civil” behavior. 

[feelingears]

5 hours ago, PeterSt said:

Thank you for posting this.

 

For those who don't know: Taz777 is the OP of the Coax cable thread which has been mentioned regularly as the example in this "Moderator" thread and also the reason why this thread emerged (Chris will know for sure, but that's my perception of it).

 

This is why we need moderators. Threads are cluttered with the same arguments ad nauseam (oops, no liberal arts latin!), I mean, the same un-winnable arguments over and over, blah blah blah. Because I want to spend time with my son and listen to music, I don't want to wade through all. that. blah. blah. blah. blah.

 

Having recently gone through a refinement of my coax cable as well, that coax thread is one I was very interested in reading. Related to the NUC and Massive... threads, I think (perhaps wrongly) that by avoiding USB I avoid the spaghetti mess of hardware and (more!) cables.

 

But, as soon as the cable-haters rolled in, I opted to go my own way–such a pain in the rear to wade through the dross. My loss, and yours too Peter as we corresponded about one of your coax cables (actually two since we were talking about the Lush^2 as well).

 

@Taz I'm glad you got your system tuned! I may have to go back and see if you documented your comparisons as that is what I enjoy about talking with other audiophiles.

 

And again, how about moderators who dispense strikes to offending posts? A group of moderators provide oversight. A kind of supreme court (ha ha). Then maybe people will pay attention and think about the reactions to their posts. Low impact on the content, maybe big impact on behavior!