prodigyplace wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2018 6:58 pm
How can you moderate people of they are on your foe list? I thought you would want to see all postings.
Just curious.
Perhaps moderators are not supposed to have foes
When someone is on the Foe list (yours or mine or whatever) when they make a post there is a little message that can be seen that says that this person is on your Foe list and they posted...and I get a link to "display the post". If I click on that link I can then read what was said.
I call it sneaking a peek. Sometimes I peek and sometimes I don't.
I don't always thoroughly read each and every post here and I don't necessarily read OT stuff once I determine the topic doesn't interest me.
Probably 95% of the people on my Foe list are no longer active on the forum. I leave them there in case they come back and say something and I most likely have forgotten that they at one time pissed me off for some reason. These are people that I don't particularly want to interact with for some reason or other...so I choose not to. This way I don't forget that they pissed me off for some reason or other even if I have forgotten them. I may or may not choose to sneak a peek if they post something. Depends on my mood and what might be going on in the thread.
Why can't I have Foes? I didn't give up being human or my own personality.
Besides...if someone gets out of hand...someone will tell on them and send me a note to that effect.
99.99% of my moderator work has been spam patrol....justice is swift for real spammers.
The other 0.01%....I removed a couple of posts where there was so much profanity it turned my stomach and it takes a lot of bad words to turn my stomach and it was direct towards one person pointedly and not just general frustration bad words.
There's been a handful of threads where the discussion was warming up a bit and looked like it might go sideways so I just watched what was being said and things died down and I didn't have to pull moderator rank on anyone.
For the most part members are heeding the the "attack the message and not the messenger" thing and I really haven't had to do much except remove spam and block the offenders from at least coming back with that ID account.
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