BLOG PIECE: Nexus moderation system overhaul, etiquette and ethos

[AndrewBlane]

You can get banned?

[Thandal]

You can get banned?

The Terms of Service haven't changed; many violations will bring the Banhammer down on an account. And the insta-ban offenses remain the same. :whistling:

 

As Dark0ne indicated, one of the reasons for the new Moderator Tools was to provide the flexibility of sanctions short of a ban while implementing some real consequences for them. Previously, the only thing available was a "Strike", which many recipients never saw and which didn't result in any required changes in behaviour (e.g. reading the ToS, inability to post for a period of time, blocking of image uploads.)

[RaffTheSweetling]

Wow. AndrewBlane's comment got the attention of moderators, but my comment and questions, which I took the time and trouble of writing out (now lost several pages back) received no reply and no acknowledgment whatsoever. What a shame.

[Xaltar]

Thanks for the info, it is really refreshing to see such concern for the members of the community. Many sites either blow smoke up your ... and pander to your every whim in order to get more uploads/exposure/hits and let the community run rampant or take such a hard-line approach that they come off as elitist snobs. I am a firm believer in strict but fair. I will admit I don't often read the rules when I sign up to a forum/site but on the same token I have my own set of internet etiquette rules that have never failed to keep me within the rules of the sites I frequent. My point is this, even if you don't read the rules, even if you don't think that not doing so is silly, most rules are common courtesy and basic common sense. I have read the rules here and they fall well within my own posting ethos.

 

I personally feel that the right to hide/delete comments should remain squarely in the hands of the moderation staff. If someone is derogatory in one of my mod comments pages I reply politely and then ignore them from that point on. Any further derogatory remarks only serve to make them look more foolish. Lets face it, if you see 10 glowing comments and one flaming accusation there is a pretty good chance you will figure out who is out of line. If you can't take the odd criticism then like Dark0ne said, don't allow comments. If the offender does not relent or is spamming your comments, then and only then should they be reported IMO.

 

Great stuff Dark0ne, I heartily approve of your approach here. It keeps the community pleasant and productive.

[Thandal]

Wow. AndrewBlane's comment got the attention of moderators, but my comment and questions, which I took the time and trouble of writing out (now lost several pages back) received no reply and no acknowledgment whatsoever. What a shame.

Yours did. Three days ago. And also by me. Reply to RaffTheSweetling.

 

So before you accuse others of inattention, you might want to make sure it isn't your own... :whistling:

[RaffTheSweetling]

Hi Thandal, thanks for the reply. Yes I did not see it, but in all fairness, that comment didn't name or address the person it was replying to, and I didn't know it was replying to me, mostly that was my own fault, I admit. I will pay extra attention in future. :)

No reply to the questions about Apocalypse Armory though...

 

[Renegadeof79]

now I see we have a Delete button for messages that needs me to be some Staff, idk who this guy is but I don't wanna see a button I coudn't use anyway. I want my own delete button [via with blackjack and hookers] I desperately need to abuse that power to fall to the dark side and become a Sith Lord [via lol] Edited November 26, 2012 by Renegadeof79

[NemesisTheWarlock]

Excellent, well thought out approach, thank you.

This site offers a service, for free if you wish, that I dare say we all find invaluable. What would we do if every Mod author had to suffer the torrents of abuse that some people seem to think is acceptable? I dare say there would be very few mods and not many people using them. Abusive behaviour tends to become cyclicle and I think that, without the moderation provision here, the site and service would very quickly lose it's popularity and appeal. A society needs to have a set of acceptable norms that it abides by in order to function, much as some of us, as individuals, may disagree with them, without them we have no society. In my opinion, we either accept these restrictions or, if we find them too objectionable, go off and set up our own society elsewhere. I would suggest that the popularity of Nexus is the best indication that you're getting the balance just about spot on.

[Deleted1082189User]

@ Nemesis: Nobody's making a "new society" online. The Nexus family of sites has essentially unintentionally monopolized the mod "industry" as it were, since no site that I know of is nearly as popular while providing mod upload/download services properly. This post was to say that the new system will handle gray areas where minor infractions would have originally constituted an instant ip-ban/everything ban from everything with the word "Nexus" in it, instead delivering visible warnings and measures to stop it from occurring again.

 

These "torrents of abuse" will always be dealt with here and in any reasonable site, strict, moderate, or otherwise. That's why trolls flock to 4chan/9gag. Those are the only sites that they can gather without being insta-banned for acting childish. An insta-ban policy is not necessary to deal with trolls, but since it is how the Nexus moderation team feels like doing it, we are powerless to stop it. It is completely viable to run this site with leniency and still be free of trolls, simply by relaxing the standards in which context is taken. Perhaps that is what this new system is meant to do. We'll see in time.

 

 

[Terra Nova]

Took me a while to read the whole thing haha.

 

Well, yeah really strict, but I've seen people make some really really really mean comments to mod authors..so...I think this has been necessary.