Our 'Rules' + Moderator Defaults

[GrandOldTeam]

Blues,

We're busier than ever;



This has prompted us, over in our plush mod central - to discuss our moderating stance for the season ahead.

The crux of the discussion is - can we moderate GrandOldTeam a little more leniently? Have we as a moderating setup become a bit miserable? (don't answer that...).

Anyway - it would be good to have some feedback on the below.

• What should the moderating warning system be?

As in, how should the moderators of your Everton forum, moderate.

We last revised our community guidelines in 2008 - I think they're still applicable, but I think we could improve on how we ask and prompt the community to follow the guidelines.

Currently, if a moderator sees a post that goes against our guidelines - they hit 'warn' and have a predetermined setup like so;



These allocate warning points - as below;

Warning System
30 Points = Suspended for 2 Days.
60 points = Suspended For 7 Days.
80 points = Suspended For 14 Days.
100 points = Permanently Banned.

Inappropriate Language: 10 points
General Behaviour Warning: 20 points
Off Topic: 20 points
Minor Spamming: 20 points
Posting Abusive/Offensive Material: 60 points
Spammed Advertisements: 100 points
10 and 20 point infractions expire after 30 days, the rest after 45 days.

The lower value warnings can be issued as a warning (0 points) at the discretion of the staff member.

You will be automatically notified via private message if you receive a warning - meaning the points wont mount up without you realising.

So...
Can our system be better?

Is it easily understood?

Is it fair?

How do we keep GrandOldTeam 'sound' and civil, but don't go to far and lose the fun.

Above all - If you could setup the moderating structure for GOT, what would it be?

I know it's difficult blues, but serious suggestions/feedback please...

 

[Elong]

Thing is mate that is too far in the big picture just filling threads with fascist remarks at a single poster. There is having a laugh and then there is just plain wrong.

By all means I take my stick elsewhere, vaping, pies , hell I even get the micky taken about my other half and that is all perfectly fine in my eyes. This isn't a personal thing and I talk about myself as reference only.

But a Chinese nationality fan signs up and talks about the club in the right thread and gets racial stereotype abuse every time he does? Hardly having a laugh at that point.

That's an extreme and is dealt with by the mods very well. You're not German or a nazi though, that's the point. Comparing yourself to someone being racially abused is a bit low Ash.

 

[chicoazul]

Thing is mate that is too far in the big picture just filling threads with fascist remarks at a single poster. There is having a laugh and then there is just plain wrong.

By all means I take my stick elsewhere, vaping, pies , hell I even get the micky taken about my other half and that is all perfectly fine in my eyes. This isn't a personal thing and I talk about myself as reference only.

But a Chinese nationality fan signs up and talks about the club in the right thread and gets racial stereotype abuse every time he does? Hardly having a laugh at that point.

This isn't about you. As much as you'd like it to be you facist narcisstic gimp.

It's the mod feedback thread. Start your own feedback thread and stay on topic.

 

[Brownie]

I haven't read this but I think the moderating on here is heavy handed at times. The mods seem to get a little bit concerned about whether they're doing their job properly and tend to be slightly over-eager in shutting people down. I've wondered for a while now whether they have quotas to fill as regards warnings/bans and I'm of a mind now to think that that is the case.

 

[Goat]

I haven't read this but I think the moderating on here is heavy handed at times. The mods seem to get a little bit concerned about whether they're doing their job properly and tend to be slightly over-eager in shutting people down. I've wondered for a while now whether they have quotas to fill as regards warnings/bans and I'm of a mind now to think that that is the case.

Oh Christ.

 

[Ashtonian]

That's an extreme and is dealt with by the mods very well. You're not German or a nazi though, that's the point. Comparing yourself to someone being racially abused is a bit low Ash.

OK but what if I was Jewish? Would it be offensive then? Or had ancestors from eastern Europe affected by it?

In this personal example I have never disclosed any of that info on here so blindly I could be taking offense on a personal level. Whether I am or not is not the point because anyone posting it can't be sure.

Plus I am sure the mods deal with that well, but it repeatedly happens. There was a poster on here targeted for their posts and they got themselves banned by reacting, yet another much worse than them for the same reason is actually embraced. Again as an example.

 

[chicoazul]

I haven't read this but I think the moderating on here is heavy handed at times. The mods seem to get a little bit concerned about whether they're doing their job properly and tend to be slightly over-eager in shutting people down. I've wondered for a while now whether they have quotas to fill as regards warnings/bans and I'm of a mind now to think that that is the case.

Holy wows.

 

[Elong]

OK but what if I was Jewish? Would it be offensive then? Or had ancestors from eastern Europe affected by it?

In this personal example I have never disclosed any of that info on here so blindly I could be taking offense on a personal level. Whether I am or not is not the point because anyone posting it can't be sure.

But you're not and if you were it would be known. You're playing the victim card as I suggested earlier in the thread. You are this minority poster, beautifully illustrated.

 

[Ashtonian]

This isn't about you. As much as you'd like it to be you facist narcisstic gimp.

It's the mod feedback thread. Start your own feedback thread and stay on topic.

Read my posts and not my username. I'm not solely talking about me.

 

[Ashtonian]

But you're not and if you were it would be known. You're playing the victim card as I suggested earlier in the thread. You are this minority poster, beautifully illustrated.

How would it be known then if I was?

 

[Goat]

Cant stand people that take offence on behalf of other people.

 

[Elong]

How would it be known then if I was?

It would have been dealt with far earlier and this wouldn't be carrying on as the mods are generally ace at sorting real bullsh1t.

Your "playing the victim" routine is synonymous with what's dragging the place down, and sometimes the mods fall for it.

 

[Goat]

22 pages and around 4 posts of actual helpfulness.

Never change GOT you mutant infested palace.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

#TeamAshtonian

 

[Elong]

22 pages and around 4 posts of actual helpfulness.

Never change GOT you mutant infested palace.

Ban the "victims"

Ban 3 times banned posters

Bring back rep

Allow Ale House threads to be more of a free for all.

 

[malfosse]

What? We have mods?

That's me, just in case somebody doesn't understand the relevance of the image.