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Well firstly, due to the harshness of the "Nazi" word in use to connotate the nature of the staff on this forum, I generally give auto-strike's. If used a second time, I generally give auto-ban's.
I agree entirely (and have posted this rule months ago). If you can seriously claim that even the harshest forum moderation is anything even remotely close to the evil of mass genocide, you have some serious psychological problems.
Secondly, I see a major need to enforce an easier means of moderation for our moderators. A few basic template replies to common thread occurances as well as a few basic template PM's where only a person's name need be changed seems to be in order.
So instead of our moderators having to type out a reply each time for the tedious "Proper use of the search function" style of responses, they simply copy/paste from a "blank template" and edit the name as well as a few example keywords. Since it's a template it will be easy to word in a constructive manner that is not so short of temper and verbage.
This would be helpful, especially if one sentence mod actions are not seen as friendly enough. Most of the time I don't post "search before posting, thread locked" because I want to crush the foolish newbie, but because there's not much more to say. And I don't feel like typing out a long custom answer that probably won't get read anyway.
Standard thread replies aren't the best place for the warnings. They're easy to miss, and especially in the case of things like double posting, just get in the way of the real purpose of the thread. A simple "locked for x reason" should be enough, just to make it clear why the mod action was done.
That said, standard PM warnings are an excellent idea. It would make it a lot easier to inform members of the correct rules... as well as keeping the whole thing private between the member and the moderator only.
Fourthly, I notice that generally it is not the moderator who responds harshly, but rather Forum Vigilante members that do most of the harsh responses, and then a moderator comes along and gives a simple statement and/or lock. So cracking down on forum vigilante activity would benefit the moderator by eliminating some of the authority resistance of some members as well as properly instruct those members that actually care about the forums and are attempting to assist in moderation... however are doing so in such a manner as to cause massive headaches for the moderating staff.
Exactly. We've warned against this before, and its still just as wrong. We have a report function for a reason (and only a tiny fraction of the posts I see that need mod action have been reported), so please use it. If I see a thread full of "don't do that" replies, I'm even more motivated to simply lock it and be done with it.
I don't see where the Morrowind Source Forums have any relation whatsoever to a Nazi structure and I don't see where the staff of the MWSrc Forums have a Nazi-esque attitude. Authority is given to individuals who are seen by the Admin as being able to represent the forums and the forum members as well as being able to properly administrate the forum rules. This means that if someone who is not familiar with the Forum Rules crosses over the boundry of a rule, the authority will be properly administered. So to avoid any conflicts, a smart person should become familiar with the Forum Rules and be sure not to cross over them.
As I said... no matter how you look at it, no matter how harsh you call our replies, the simple fact is that the posts are against forum rules. A little reading and respect for them would not only save us quite a bit of work, but remove all the problems with "nazi-like moderators".
Morrowind Source Forums have a very very SMALL ban list. Presently only 4 people out of over 30,000 people are banned. There are less than 40 people out of 30,000 members that have "Strikes" on their record. This means that only 0.0013 % (percent) of our members have broken the Forum Rules enough to deserve a Strike. Out of the 3,109 average new member registrations per month, we deliver less than 100 "warnings" each month. Out of the 756.7 average new thread topics each month, we lock less than 70 of them a month (average). Out of the average 7,094 new posts each month we respond using our authority to instruct the poster in less than 300 posts per month average.
Thanks for the statistics. I knew it was pretty low, but I didn't think the numbers were that low...
And it gets even worse for the case for nazi moderators. Let's look at the posters who have actually made a reasonable contribution to the forum and eliminate the one posters/lurkers who don't post enough to get any attention. There's about 400 people with over 20 posts on this forum. That's a 1% ban rate, and every one of the banned posters clearly deserved it. Only 10% have been given even a single strike, which does nothing more than provide a clear warning.
Yes, that's right... even by the most pessimistic numbers, only 10% of our members have ever received anything more than an informal warning/suggestion. Hardly abuse of power and rule by the nazi iron fist...
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