(Forum) Feature Request - "Best & Worst"

[Khormin]

New feature: Two parts.

"Best thread of year"/"-month" - The most-active thread on the forums. For those times you just want to see where the party is. Likewise, adds a sense of friendly competition for people, and helps a quick review of what topics tend to get activity (which in turn helps mod authors assess the community).

"Worst of year" - Mod/admin personal favorites for bans. Whilst it'd do nothing to slow the spambots, some of the posts in the ban forum can be interesting, and illustrating that poor behaviour leads to actual consequences has been shown to lower rates of that behaviour.

[Meihyr]

Not really sure about the second one. If someone is booted from the site it's better to just move on rather than airing out the ban in more than one spot just for the sake of seeing if it was a personal favourite to a moderator. I can agree it may discourage people from acting out of line but still I'm not really sure. http://orig15.deviantart.net/2819/f/2017/003/b/5/shrug_by_meihyr-dau29ew.gif

[Lisnpuppy]

Bans and formal warnings are already posted on the forums. Long ago a more...personal way of posting bans was permitted. Through hard-learned lessons it was shown that handling things in this way only served to undermine what bans and warnings were supposed to do and made it seem at times that these actions were personal vendettas.

 

As a result, it is a policy of this site that moderation is not discussed in public. Moderation does not exist to further humiliate people. It is a corrective measure and at last resort, a punitive tool. To use it in the way you describe is unprofessional and counter-productive.