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]

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

Kopite.

 

[chicoazul]

I honestly don't care any more.

Any feedback on the modding T?

 

[summerisle]

So far we have "sucking the fun out" as the number one comment, as a development area.

It was truly a Golden Age.


https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/my-nobs-broke.955/

 

[tommye]

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.

 

[chicoazul]

It was truly a Golden Age.


https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/my-nobs-broke.955/

2009 is where it's at.

 

[Goat]

It was truly a Golden Age.


https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/my-nobs-broke.955/

2 posts and was locked, maybe it wasnt better in the olden days?

 

[chicoazul]

2 posts and was locked, maybe it wasnt better in the olden days?

I'd like to apologise to all the mods.

I've made a grave misjudgement here.

Carry on being nazis*.


*not you @Ashtonian

 

[Ashtonian]

Perhaps not.

But they keep tagging and replying.

 

[tommye]

Any feedback on the modding T?

Not arsed mate. I, like the forum, have had the fun drained out of me over the years. I'm just bumbling along now trying to survive.

 

[Ashtonian]

I'd like to apologise to all the mods.

I've made a grave misjudgement here.

Carry on being nazis*.


*not you @Ashtonian

Your learning

 

[summerisle]

2009 is where it's at.

Still got your half Celtic/Everton bobble hat ?

 

[chicoazul]

Your learning

You're not.

 

[chicoazul]

Still got your half Celtic/Everton bobble hat ?

Yes. I found it in my Granny's loft last summer. Or the year before.

 

[tommye]

Still got your half Celtic/Everton bobble hat ?

There is not enough wool in the world to make a hat for that bonce.

 

[orly]

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.

lol

I hope you're talking about my favourite person in that final paragraph.

If you think that's a response based in racism and not that the guy is an absolute arse candle with the most fantastically abysmal opinions on everything you've got it badly, badly wrong.

I know you're not looking for sympathy but using that absolute bellwipe as an example of someone being victimised isn't helping your cause