So, what do I think needs to be done? Well, first of all, perhaps implement a karmalike system for judging average post quality, and promote it better to get people to use it. Second of all, moderation can be lightened on SEN. Back on SENv4, it was much nicer to have a discussion; I even remember getting into a flamewar with my brother on SEN, having Beer_Keg close it without giving me any warn, it was nice. Just because I wasn't warned doesn't mean I did it again. Anyway, the general idea of my lightened-moderation idea is that moderators can do more than hand out severity, and that they should start just removing the offensive parts without necessarily giving severity, using their own judgement to decide if they believe that the average post quality of the poster is low enough to give severity. Let me put it in a way that frames me as the protagonist: Because of seven arguably bad posts, I'm banned from SD. I'm sure that anyone can come to the conclusion that that generally slows down and hurts the discussion in SD; additionally, had the moderatorship had a simple policy of editing out (or in) what they wanted and not necessarily doing the whole severity dance, SEN would run smoother. I wouldn't PM the moderators contesting the moderation, there wouldn't be any staff forum discussions about how awesome I am, etc. Maybe five total minutes of moderation without severity would've gone a long way. And had my behavior gotten worse because of the lack of punishment, it could always have been instituted.
As another suggestion, I think there needs to be a rank to manage moderations. Moose eventually got annoyed that I was contesting my moderations and decided to ban me from SD; had there been a member specifically there to judge the fairness of the moderation, the esteemed administration wouldn't have to get its hands dirty (and there should either be two of these, or one who has no other job on SEN).
Anyway, that's pretty much it. I obviously used myself as the primary example, simply because I have no access to anyone elses logs and whatnot. Please discuss my ideas and do not discuss my reasons for supporting my ideas. God, I miss v4. Nostalgia hurts.
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