Moderation policy

[Wol]

In other forums that I frequent, when a mod edits a post, it is signed by the particular mod who made the edit. I notice that this isn't the case on THN.

Is there any particular reason why there are some anonymous moderations going on?

 

[Ashya]

So the mod in question can harass and stalk you, and singly you out for punishment in his (or her) ongoing vendetta against you.

Duh...

(I blame my medication)

 

[Traxata]

Most people do sign an edit, Haven, D and Ronin, and DocBot too. You may find it was just one of the new moderators who did some of the recent edits and (being 'new' forgot to sign it?)

 

[Wol]

You may find it was just one of the new moderators who did some of the recent edits and (being 'new' forgot to sign it?)

Possible. But i dont know if it was a new mod or not..... what with the not signing thing heh.

 

[Ki!ler-Mk1]

I still says "edited by" on THN.

 

[Ronin Storm]

There shouldn't be any anonymous moderation going on but [mod] tags don't have a way of (easily) identifying who they came from.

As Trax says, it's likely just a slip, as easily done by new as old. I think I occasionally forget to sign my [mod]'s, though if I was the last change then, as Mk1 says, you can see me as the "Edited by".

For reference, Admins can always look at post history to figure out who did what and when, regardless of what was last.

I'll give the team a nudge just to remind 'em to sign their changes.

 

[Wol]

I still says "edited by" on THN.

The ones I'm looking at dont have an "edited by" line on them.

 

[Wol]

There shouldn't be any anonymous moderation going on but [mod] tags don't have a way of (easily) identifying who they came from.

As Trax says, it's likely just a slip, as easily done by new as old. I think I occasionally forget to sign my [mod]'s, though if I was the last change then, as Mk1 says, you can see me as the "Edited by".

For reference, Admins can always look at post history to figure out who did what and when, regardless of what was last.

I'll give the team a nudge just to remind 'em to sign their changes.

Cool.

 

[Traxata]

depends how fast they were edited Wol, within X seconds the edited tag doesn't appear, though sometimes it only appears to admins anyway. I've had that in the Eve forums.

 

[Ronin Storm]

The ones I'm looking at dont have an "edited by" line on them.

Mind giving me a post reference?

There's a very short window after post creation (~2 minutes, IIRC) where "edited by" isn't added to a post so that you can post something and do a quick spelling error edit without being called on it. That's intended for a user to use on themselves and I believe(d) that's all it does, but it's possible that this extends to any edit.

 

[Traxata]

http://games.thehavennet.org.uk/showpost.php?p=106990&postcount=103

That one.

 

[Ronin Storm]

Ah, in that case, that's a Moderator posting a [mod] tag in their own post. Even I usually don't sign those. It's a sort of thread injection rather than a specific post intervention. And Mods don't tend to moderate Mods (or, if we needed to, it'd be done in the Mod Conference Room and they'd sort it themselves).

 

[PsiSoldier]

I was under the impression Taffy posted that himself

EDIT: you sneaky ninja

 

[Wol]

Ah fair enough. I'm usually used to seeing the mod *editing* the off topic post, rather than adding another post saying "youre going off topic".

Everythings so multicoloured these days that I lose track of the different colours of usernames. Didnt notice that it was a mod posting.

 

[Traxata]

If they're yellow/orange or red/tomato. Then they're a mod, all other colours (for general THN) mean nothing

 

[Wol]

If they're yellow/orange or red/tomato. Then they're a mod, all other colours (for general THN) mean nothing

I tend to just look at the content of the posts and the avatar to group posts together by being from a single author. At most i skim read names rather than conciously going "who wrote that". When I see mod tags, I tend to look in the mod tag for who moderated the post, rather than seeing if the user is a mod themselves.

stupid brain.

 

[Ronin Storm]

Well, I've raised the request as it's worth the reminder but looks like there wasn't anything in particular to see this way round. Certainly we use [mod] tags both as injections (e.g. "back on topic, please") and interventions (e.g. "removed link to warez --RS"), where the latter is the only one we habitually should sign.

 

[SwampFae]

In other forums that I frequent, when a mod edits a post, it is signed by the particular mod who made the edit. I notice that this isn't the case on THN.

Is there any particular reason why there are some anonymous moderations going on?

Have learned from some mistakes in the past regarding this and edited last MOD tag done to add signature and will continue to do so when the tag is needed.
Many thanks for pointing this out

 

[Wol]

Just to revive an old thread, following on from a post in the Soap Box thread of today:

[mod]HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS. Ronin has asked that this thread remain mature and constructive twice now. I'm taking it from here, and I am WAY more surly than he is.[/mod]

Just wondering do we have individual moderators for individual topics / forums on here? I was under the impression that it was a moderation team, so all the mods contributed to all the topics, but the post above seems to disagree with this.

Can anyone clarify what the policy is?

 

[BiG D]

It's a team effort, but obviously we need to act as individuals whenever something needs to be done. Essentially, we're individuals who act on behalf of the team.