dizzle
June 4th 2004, 01:45 PM
TheologyWeb members:
Soon we are going to be implementing a warning points system to aid us in moderation, and to aid you in knowing where and when you were moderated. We found in the past, and more especially as we grow, that it was difficult to keep track of who was moderated, when, where, and for what, and one moderator may not necessarily know what was going on or said in another area. Our system of all reported posts being viewable by all leadership alleviated that, but no one had time to review, or could be expected to remember, every single report and action. Also sometimes a moderation may happen several pages back in a thread, and if the notice was placed in the offending post itself, the member may not know they were moderated and may inadvertently repeat the offense. This new system will help alleviate all of the above, but of course not being perfect, but certainly an improvement.
For you the member, this is how it will work. It will be encumbent upon you (the decorum will be modified accordingly) to check the status of your account to see if you have been issued any warnings. It may be possible in the future to make it so that a PM or email is automatically sent when this happens, but for right now you can view your warnings in your User Control panel under Warnings or just by going here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/warn.php?do=ViewMyWarnings)
Whenever a moderator has to intervene because of you for any reason, a warning/notice will be issued. These warnings will have assigned a point scale. Most warnings/notice (in line with our generally lenient moderation) will have zero points attached, especially for things that are more administrative in nature such as double posting, posting threads in the wrong area, or minor violations (ie those that right now are edited without an official moderator notice).
On the next level, the most common warnings will be attached with the value of one point (or if it is more blatant two points). The types of offenses that will fall in this categories are the ones that generally earn a public moderator’s notice. If the post is really out there in violation in the totality the circumstance, it could earn three points. We anticipate such being rare.
However, if a violation is a repeat, the points will increase. For instance a repeat violation of a one point offense, will result in a two point warning, if it happens again, it will be three points, and again it will be four points.
Now why are these points important? If a member earns 10 points within a six month period, said member will automatically be placed into moderation with the potential for suspension upon admin review. After six months, the record of warnings/notices will remain in place, but the points will drop off of consideration to count towards the total of 10. When a member is placed in moderation, a personal plan of rehabilitation will be discussed with the member for getting things back on track.
There are some things which would be automatic banishment such as posting clear pornography. Other things will be five point offenses such as dropping the F-Bomb or having a post littered with profanity, even if asterisked.
There are also several offenses which are automatic three point offenses such as arguing with a moderator notice in the thread or playing games with our participant privacy/anomymity rule (only because we find that the most inane childishly stupid thing to do).
We are planning on implementing this starting next weekend.
Soon we are going to be implementing a warning points system to aid us in moderation, and to aid you in knowing where and when you were moderated. We found in the past, and more especially as we grow, that it was difficult to keep track of who was moderated, when, where, and for what, and one moderator may not necessarily know what was going on or said in another area. Our system of all reported posts being viewable by all leadership alleviated that, but no one had time to review, or could be expected to remember, every single report and action. Also sometimes a moderation may happen several pages back in a thread, and if the notice was placed in the offending post itself, the member may not know they were moderated and may inadvertently repeat the offense. This new system will help alleviate all of the above, but of course not being perfect, but certainly an improvement.
For you the member, this is how it will work. It will be encumbent upon you (the decorum will be modified accordingly) to check the status of your account to see if you have been issued any warnings. It may be possible in the future to make it so that a PM or email is automatically sent when this happens, but for right now you can view your warnings in your User Control panel under Warnings or just by going here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/warn.php?do=ViewMyWarnings)
Whenever a moderator has to intervene because of you for any reason, a warning/notice will be issued. These warnings will have assigned a point scale. Most warnings/notice (in line with our generally lenient moderation) will have zero points attached, especially for things that are more administrative in nature such as double posting, posting threads in the wrong area, or minor violations (ie those that right now are edited without an official moderator notice).
On the next level, the most common warnings will be attached with the value of one point (or if it is more blatant two points). The types of offenses that will fall in this categories are the ones that generally earn a public moderator’s notice. If the post is really out there in violation in the totality the circumstance, it could earn three points. We anticipate such being rare.
However, if a violation is a repeat, the points will increase. For instance a repeat violation of a one point offense, will result in a two point warning, if it happens again, it will be three points, and again it will be four points.
Now why are these points important? If a member earns 10 points within a six month period, said member will automatically be placed into moderation with the potential for suspension upon admin review. After six months, the record of warnings/notices will remain in place, but the points will drop off of consideration to count towards the total of 10. When a member is placed in moderation, a personal plan of rehabilitation will be discussed with the member for getting things back on track.
There are some things which would be automatic banishment such as posting clear pornography. Other things will be five point offenses such as dropping the F-Bomb or having a post littered with profanity, even if asterisked.
There are also several offenses which are automatic three point offenses such as arguing with a moderator notice in the thread or playing games with our participant privacy/anomymity rule (only because we find that the most inane childishly stupid thing to do).
We are planning on implementing this starting next weekend.