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]

#TeamAshtonian

Oh wow.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

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.

Mod quotas and targets. I love this idea...

"Mick, I want 7 bans this week lad..."

 

[Goat]

#TeamAshtonian

Listen ere Stubbsy, just cos you won a cup dont think we have forgotten about double glove and that time you used to be a hairdresser with your corsa.

 

[chicoazul]

Mod quotas and targets. I love this idea...

"Mick, I want 7 bans this week lad..."

Sevenbans. Is that the name of his first born?

Or Seve for short.

 

[chicoazul]

Listen ere Stubbsy, just cos you won a cup dont think we have forgotten about double glove and that time you used to be a hairdresser with your corsa.

He's dropped a Stubbsy bomb. Wow. Real old skool gaming on here.

 

[Ashtonian]

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.

Why would it have been dealt with earlier? I haven't disclosed most of my personal information which would include my faith or essentially ancestors so again there is no way of knowing just like that.

It is then assuming either way if I am or aren't but more specifically it is assuming what humour directed mainly at one person is tight because you assume they won't be offended. Now it's all well and good making jokes but essentially @chicoazul constantly makes holocaust jokes at me. Is that then fair game to constantly mention it or reference it over and over? Am I playing the victim then for taking offence to that, I mean if I started making jokes about other horrors I'm sure I wouldn't be back to post them again.

 

[Elong]

Sevenbans. Is that the name of his first born?

Or Seve for short.

Sounds foreign that. Not gonna go down well in the UK now.

 

[chicoazul]

Why would it have been dealt with earlier? I haven't disclosed most of my personal information which would include my faith or essentially ancestors so again there is no way of knowing just like that.

It is then assuming either way if I am or aren't but more specifically it is assuming what humour directed mainly at one person is tight because you assume they won't be offended. Now it's all well and good making jokes but essentially @chicoazul constantly makes holocaust jokes at me. Is that then fair game to constantly mention it or reference it over and over? Am I playing the victim then for taking offence to that, I mean if I started making jokes about other horrors I'm sure I wouldn't be back to post them again.

What do you think the final solution is then?

 

[Elong]

Why would it have been dealt with earlier? I haven't disclosed most of my personal information which would include my faith or essentially ancestors so again there is no way of knowing just like that.

It is then assuming either way if I am or aren't but more specifically it is assuming what humour directed mainly at one person is tight because you assume they won't be offended. Now it's all well and good making jokes but essentially @chicoazul constantly makes holocaust jokes at me. Is that then fair game to constantly mention it or reference it over and over? Am I playing the victim then for taking offence to that, I mean if I started making jokes about other horrors I'm sure I wouldn't be back to post them again.

Chico has a fat head. Goat is just fat. Damo lives in a bedsit and fantasizes over his neighbour. Bungle is a creeper. Bruce is drugged up to his eyeballs. It's all part of the GOT humour and community. Some of these are quite nasty if you take them seriously. Try not to.

 

[Elong]

What do you think the final solution is then?

Not funny that melon head.

 

[Ashtonian]

Chico has a fat head. Goat is just fat. Damo lives in a bedsit and fantasizes over his neighbour. Bungle is a creeper. Bruce is drugged up to his eyeballs. It's all part of the GOT humour and community. Some of these are quite nasty if you take them seriously. Try not to.

Aye but again that is just joking about. I get slated over vaping and I can laugh along with that and join in for arguments sake.

Joking about the holocaust is completely different to calling someone fat . Surely you can see the difference with that?

 

[chicoazul]

Not funny that melon head.

No I don't find disassociating Hitler away from mass genocide tasteful either as someone part Jewish, but I'm not playing victim here.

 

[Elong]

Aye but again that is just joking about. I get slated over vaping and I can laugh along with that and join in for arguments sake.

Joking about the holocaust is completely different to calling someone fat . Surely you can see the difference with that?

I give up.

 

[Goat]

Aye but again that is just joking about. I get slated over vaping and I can laugh along with that and join in for arguments sake.

Joking about the holocaust is completely different to calling someone fat . Surely you can see the difference with that?

I cry myself to sleep every night.

Fat jokes are no laughing matter.

 

[tommye]

I honestly don't care any more.