I have no idea, either, not doing the whole WX thing this weekend. However, I think that, with the possible exception of egregious things (physical threats, really) moderators are one of the worst things that can happen to a board. Look at Salon - it all started with the moderators.
Jayne: Well... I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinkin'. Inara: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.
'Objects In Space'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Gandalfe - Feb 23, 2003 6:58:25 pm PST #4996 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Michele T. - Feb 23, 2003 7:11:17 pm PST #4997 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
What all started with the moderators? Mary Beth did a great job of a thankless position.
Gandalfe - Feb 23, 2003 7:17:19 pm PST #4998 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Yep, she did. Mary Beth was one of my favorite people there. But it was the start of them (Salon, that is) thinking of it as something to be policied rather than as a community.
Lyra Jane - Feb 23, 2003 7:24:33 pm PST #4999 of 10001
Up with the sun
Table Talk was moderated (lightly) from day one, I believe. And I never saw someone get in trouble there who wasn't asking for it -- but then, I wasn't in politics, either.
ISTM that ALL communities have moderation of some kind, either by consensus (like here) or as a formal position. The ones that don't fall apart pretty quickly.
Jessica - Feb 23, 2003 7:50:03 pm PST #5000 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
But it was the start of them (Salon, that is) thinking of it as something to be policied rather than as a community.
I don't follow you. Salon's problems were financial, not bureaucratic.
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 23, 2003 7:57:32 pm PST #5001 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Lyra, you may not have known that our Stompies pretty much were elected in a we-want-someone-for-each-timezone-so-new-Natters-can-always-be-created moment. They didn't volunteer as people who were in any way special or above the rest of us.
(Or something. I'm kind of mentally fuzzy right now. Right on, cold medicine!)
Laura - Feb 23, 2003 8:00:01 pm PST #5002 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Monday, decide how to make decisions. Check.
and numbah!
Anathema - Feb 23, 2003 8:15:59 pm PST #5003 of 10001
Jonathan Will Always Be My Hero
I'm so completely against that it make me mad just thinking about it.
I just get giddy anticipating the amount of discussion it would take to actually pick who would be the Budmen, or Budpersons, and then the further discussion it would take in order to decide their duties.
We all would have carpal tunnel before we finished.
jengod - Feb 23, 2003 9:56:26 pm PST #5004 of 10001
Let me guess...Cari is our newest registered user.
Something to put on the agenda, after we write the Buffistian Rules of Order, is to figure out how we feel about posts from unfamiliar posters and what our definition of unfamiliar might be.
§ ita § - Feb 23, 2003 10:01:38 pm PST #5005 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Posts from unfamiliar posters, or announcements from unfamiliar posters?
As far as I can tell, it's well within the boundaries of a Sunnydale Press announcement, and hell, putting it there means the poster was paying attention to what goes where. Cari could have been lurking since TT, for all we know.